Live Daily — Former Husker Du drummer Grant Hart [ tickets ] will hit the road next month in support of "Hot Wax," his first solo studio album in 10 years. The tour kicks off Nov. 5 in Des Moines, IA, with Hart visiting 16 cities on the trip, which extends thr... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Patti Smith @ The Met (more by Daniel Solomon) Patti Smith has announced her annual end-of-year run of shows at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for the three shows, December 29-31, will go on sale Friday at noon. All dates below...... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Daniel Solomon The songs [Patti] Smith chose to perform veered away from her own material. She only performed four original songs ("Trampin'," "Beneath the Southern Cross," "Ghost Dance" and "People Have the Power"), instead imagining what ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Patti Smith, who was celebrating her sometimes-bandmate Flea's birthday yesterday, is giving "A Salute to Robert Frank, Artist and Friend" tonight (10/17) at the Met. "PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. STANDING ROOM TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT... more info

The Quietus — Legend sings acapella - watch here more info

Chicago Tribune — The performance artist, with her revived Plastic Ono Band and a new album, is bent on exploding the barriers among music styles. Oh, and if it does well on the charts, all the better. ... more info

Live Daily — Son Volt's Jay Farrar [ tickets ] and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard [ tickets ] are paying homage to Jack Kerouac with an upcoming album, a series of concerts and a feature-length documentary--all scheduled to coincide with the 40th anniversary o... more info

Guardian Music — The author and poet was best known for writing The Basketball Diaries, but he was also an accomplished musician who combined primitive punk with prose-like lyricsJim Carroll was always more famous for his life than his work. The obituaries that have ... more info

Live Daily — Punk rock poet Jim Carroll died of a heart attack Friday (9/11) at his home in Manhattan, according to The New York Times. Carroll, who is best known in the music world for his cult hit "People Who Died," was 60. Years before launching a musical c... more info

Allmusic Blog — R.I.P. punk poet and Basketball Diaries author Jim Carroll, who passed on Friday at age 60 from a heart attack. Carroll’s account of his teenage addiction to heroin was published in 1978, earning him fans including Patti Smith, who inspired him to ... more info