Mojo 4 Music — Yoko Ono and Patti Smith join Ornette Coleman's summer shows! more info

Here Comes The Flood — Confirmed dates for the European Summer tour by Patti Smith. 06/30 Les Nuits de Fourvihre, Odion, Lyon, France 07/01 Arezzo Art Festival, Piazza Libert, Arezzo, Italy 07/08 Piazza Matteotti, Sogliano al Rubicone, Italy 07/10 OFF-Fest 2009, ... more info

All About Jazz — Over the years, London's annual Meltown festival has had an impressive list of guest curators. They include Elvis Costello, Scott Walker, John Peel, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker, Lee Perry and Robert Wyatt. This June's festival will break new ground... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz genius Ornette Coleman will curate this year's Meltdown Festival, and it's set to be even more eclectic than usual. Neil Spencer spoke to himThe annual musical binge that is Southbank's Meltdown Festival has taken on a decidedly chi-chi quality... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - These three rocking 13 and 14-year old girls (Sophie, Izzy, and Jena) put together a punk band, naming Patti Smith and The Ramones as their influences (good taste, huh?) And their name, CARE BEARS on FIRE, says... more info

The Red Radio — The music of R.E.M. was celebrated last night in a tribute show at NYC's Carnegie Hall. Calexico took the role of the house band for the evening while Kristen Hersh, The Apples In Stereo, The Feelies, Fink, Marshall Crenshaw, and... more info

Rolling Stone — A wide assortment bands and singers including Patti Smith, Kimya Dawson, the Feelies and Darius Rucker turned out at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall last night to pay tribute to R.E.M. by reinterpreting songs from the band’s back catalog before th... more info

ContactMusic — Rockers PATTI SMITH, GLEN HANSARD and BOB MOULD will headline a tribute concert in honour of R.E.M. in New York next week (11Mar09). The singers are among a host of ... more info

Guardian Music — Robert Smith trades on past glories while the Franz boys stay perky and White Lies peddle hip gloom"Godlike Genius" is a slippery thing. These days the recipient of NME's annual award for services to tinnitus must be able to headline the O2 Arena. Th... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Shannon McClean Does Rufus Wainwright ever just play a show at a club? Like, 60 minutes onstage plus an "April Fools" encore and two opening acts? It seems like that guy's always staging operas or painstakingly recreating Judy Garland conc... more info