ContactMusic — Actress Evan Rachel Wood has extra special memories of her recent trip to Venice Italy - she hung out with singer Patti Smith and sang lullabies with the punk rock icon The Wrestler beauty was in Europe to promote her new movie The Ides of March in A... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Well-executed and extensive BBC documentary entitled Once Upon a Time in New York – The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco & Punk. Making the point that by the 1970s most pop music in the USA was dominated by West Coast artists and that NYC – despite being... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Suzanne Moore gets caught up in the music of Millie JacksonIf loving you is wrong, as the opening track on Millie Jackson's fourth album states, then I don't want to be right. I could have picked ... more info

Topix — Last night at Justine's Brasserie on East Fifth Street, punk godhead Richard Hell read from a rock & roll memoir picked up this month by Patti Smith's Just Us Kids publisher Ecco. more info

ContactMusic — Singer Patti Smith will show off her photography skills at a new art exhibit in Connecticut The Because the Night hitmaker will display over 70 black-and-white snaps at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford The still-life photos were tak..... more info

Gigwise — Featuring Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith... more info

ContactMusic — Depeche Mode and Patti Smith are among the acts who will feature on a new U2 tribute album commemorating the 20th anniversary of the groups Achtung Baby album Jack White and singersongwriter Damien Rice will also revamp tracks from the groundbreaking... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Patti Smith has launched an art exhibition inspired by the 911 terrorist attacks The Because The Night singer unveiled her 26-strong collection titled Patti Smith 9 11 Babelogue in New York on Wednesday 07Sep11 four days ahead of the 10th an..... more info

NME — Bono also admits band's new doc 'From The Sky Down' is 'excruciating' to watch more info

Guardian Music — As a new compilation, Outside Society, brings together the best of their work, the guitarist recalls life in the Patti Smith GroupPatti Smith first met Lenny Kaye in 1971, seeking him out after reading an article he wrote in a magazine named Jazz And... more info