Brooklyn Vegan — We need your help to raise $100,000 in four nights to help the victims of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake. No country in the Western Hemisphere has been battered more than Haiti in the last 500 years--the nearly complete annihilation of its... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Walking through the Chelsea Hotel, where they once lived, Smith remembers when the renowned artists were a couple of 'awkward,' struggling unknowns, days recounted in her new book. ... more info

The Music Fix — News Flash: Todd Rundgren, the legendary rock musician and record producer, who has worked with everyone from Patti Smith, Meatloaf and the New York Dolls, today announced that his February 2010 London and Amsterdam “A Wizard A True StarÃâ€... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Want to take Todd Rundgren home with you? The perfomances of A Wizard, a True Star in London and Amsterdam will be recorded by Concert-Online.com and will be available right after the show at the merchandise stand: Todd Rundgren, the legendary roc... more info

Pop Candy — Check out Whitney's mouth-watering pop-culture links for Wednesday, Jan. 13. more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Barnes & Noble is stepping up its game in the music department. They will be hosting three exciting musical guests over the next couple months: Patti Smith, Vampire Weekend, and Ozzy Osbourne. Patti Smith will be at the B&N in Union Square on Januar... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Playbill reports that a stage adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle will open on January 12th in New York City. Patti Smith talks to New York magazine about her new memoir, Just Kids. The Boston Globe interviews... more info

Guardian Music — Bad gal Courtney Love gears up for a one-off appearance with "a modified Hole" (17 Feb, Shepherd's Bush Empire, ticketmaster.co.uk) before the release of upcoming album Nobody's Daughter …More female guitar-slinging can be caught from Queen of ... more info

Rolling Stone — On July 3rd, 1967, Patti Smith — then 20 years old, a teachers-college dropout from New Jersey with shotgun passions for rock & roll and the French poet Arthur Rimbaud — boarded a bus in Philadelphia and, a couple of hours later, got off in New Y... more info

Stereogum — "A half-century ago we lost Camus and gained Stipe. The lord takes and the lord gives." - Patti Smith more info