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

Guardian Music — American singer-songwriter acclaimed for his raw, uncompromising lyricsThe singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, who has died aged 45 after an overdose of muscle relaxants, was a veteran presence in the independent, rather than the mainstream, music charts... more info

Guardian Music — I had been looking for a voice to capture how it felt to hear that Vic Chesnutt had died, when I realised that voice was his ownI first heard Vic Chesnutt one Saturday morning in Dublin, many years ago now. Lying in bed in early summer, gulls cawing ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist. Following Smith's personal reflections over a decade, the film expl... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Slate reviews Zadie Smith's essay collection, Changing My Mind. At first glance, Smith's collection looks like a bizarre menagerie: A dispatch from Liberia abuts a study of Obama's language; elsewhere are essays about Forster and Kafka and—stu... more info

Pop Candy — Tonight PBS' excellent documentary series, POV, airs Patti Smith: Dream of Life, a  film that took director Steven Sebring more than a decade to make. It's certainly worth watching/recording, and fans may also want to hear Smith and Sebring discus... more info