Magnet Magazine — 25 years ago today, Fiona Apple released When The Pawn … Thank dog for ellipses. Read our MAGNET Feedback with Robyn Hitchcock on Apple, Syd Barrett, Byrds, Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Feist, Kinks, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch, John Lennon, Nick L... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Fiona Apple. Remember that depth is the greatest of heights. Read our MAGNET Feedback with Robyn Hitchcock, writing about Apple, Syd Barrett, Byrds, Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Feist, Kinks, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch, John Lennon, N... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday John Zorn. What thou wilt. Read our review of the essential Ornette Coleman tribute album featuring Zorn, Patti Smith, Nels Cline, Thurston Moore, Laurie Anderson, Bill Laswell, Branford Marsalis, Cecil Taylor and more: The post Happy ... more info

Stereogum — Patti Smith recently thanked Taylor Swift for her namecheck on The Tortured Poets Department. Now, the punk icon expressed gratitude for another pop star: Lana Del Rey, whose 2012 hit “Summertime Sadness” she covered on Tuesday in Brighton and... more info

Magnet Magazine — 35 years ago today, the Patti Smith Group released Wave. Really, it was really wonderful. Read our Patti Smith live review from 2021: The post The Patti Smith Group Released “Wave” 35 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Stereogum — Last month, Taylor Swift released her latest album The Tortured Poets Department , which contained a lot of namechecks. Patti Smith, The Starting Line, and American Pie’s Alyson Hannigan reacted to their references, and now so has Charlie Puth. more info

Stereogum — Taylor Swift’s new double-album The Tortured Poets Department came out on Friday, and it’s full of namechecks. On the title track, the pop star mentions rock legend Patti Smith; on “The Black Dog,” she summons pop-punk band the Starting ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The New Eves—the Brighton-based quartet of Nina Winder-Lind, Kate Mager, Ella Oona Russell, and Violet Farrer—craft a rousing brew of post-punk, drone-folk, and avant-choral psych that evokes The Raincoats, Nico, Television, and Horses-era Patti... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — As mentioned in a recent Aquarium Drunkard Book Club, some of the most entertaining parts of Thurston Moore’s Sonic Life memoir come during his teenage years, way before Sonic Youth was even a twinkle in his eye. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A familiar face on early MTV, he fashioned his persona as a 'combination of John Lee Hooker, Hunter Thompson and Richard Pryor, with a little bit of Patti Smith.' more info