This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...

While fans of Swift try to unpack the secrets hidden in her new album, Smith shared her surprise at Swift mentioning her. Looking at “The Tortured Poets Department”, the lyrics read, “I laughed in ...

Patti Smith is weighing in on The Tortured Poets Department. After Taylor Swift released her highly-anticipated 11th studio album on Friday, April 19, Smith—an author, singer-songwriter and ...

Break It Up’ is a brilliant, classic rock ‘n’ roll song, taking Jim Morrison’s tragedy and reimagining it through the lens of ...

The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in ...

“Because the Night” was recorded in 1977 while Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were working on Darkness On the Edge of Town. However, it was simply the melody with some mumbled lyrics over top ...

Patti Smith got a shout-out from Taylor Swift on the song “The Tortured Poets Department” and she is touched by the mention. “This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great ...

"She is benediction, she is addicted to thee..." Thus begin the opening strains of the theme song to Daisy Jones and the Six, a show set in and about the making of 1970s California soft rock. The ...

Patti Smith is no stranger to covering songs by artists who she helped pave the way for (like Nirvana), and she did that again in Dublin last night (6/27). She did a faithful cover of Lana Del Rey‘s ...

Easter, the third album from the Patti Smith Group, came out in 1978, and it included a song called “Rock N Roll N****r.” Smith co-wrote the song with her guitarist Lenny Kaye, and in its lyrics, she ...