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‘It made me wish I had made more records’: Natalie Merchant on returning to music after losing her voice

Emergency surgery on her spine led to months of enforced silence for the former 10,000 Maniacs singer-songwriter. But rather than take it easy, she’s been raising her teenage daughter, campaigning against fracking and has a new album out

The Guardian - UK

I showed Bruce Springsteen my Bruce Springsteen tattoo. He said he didn’t like it

In the first of her nine weekly columns, the author and screenwriter looks back on a life shaped by her icons, from Tim Curry to the Beastie Boys

The Guardian - UK

Watch the trailer for Flea’s new podcast series

First guests on the show will include Rick Rubin, Patti Smith and Thundercat

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Tom Verlaine of proto-punk band Television dies at 73

‘He was the best rock and roll guitarist of all time,’ tweets Mike Scott of The Waterboys.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tom Verlaine obituary

Visionary frontman of Television whose 1977 debut LP Marquee Moon is considered one of the most influential albums of its era

The Guardian - UK

‘One of the greatest’: Flea leads tributes to Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, who has died at 73

Guitarist and the main songwriter of rock band Television has died after a ‘brief illness’

The Independent UK

Tom Verlaine, innovative guitarist and frontman of punk pioneers Television, dies at 73

Fellow musicians pay tribute to Tom Verlaine, who died on Saturday after a brief illness, and was revered by generations of rock guitarists for his jaggedly inventive playing.

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Music legend Tom Verlaine, who delivered one of rock’s greatest album, dies at 73

Tom Verlaine, the acclaimed vocalist-guitarist whose experimental art-rock band Television helped define the New York City punk scene in the ’70s, reportedly died on Saturday.

Tribune News Service

Tom Verlaine, frontman and guitarist of US band Television, dies at 73

New York group, which broke up in 1978, best known for Marquee Moon and whose singer-songwriter also worked with Patti Smith

The Guardian - UK

Margo Price: Strays review – a magic mushroom-fuelled trip that packs a lyrical gut-punch

The Nashville star brilliantly rattles through country, psych and Patti Smith-style poetic rock’n’roll on a fourth album that creates a feeling of wild landscapes

The Guardian - UK

Rolling Stone hails Aretha Franklin as greatest singer of all time

DETROIT — Rolling Stone ranks Aretha Franklin No. 1 in its list of the "greatest singers of all time" on Sunday.

Tribune News Service

A visual feast: 6 favorite coffee table and gift books of 2022

This year's selection of visual delights highlights the work of artists and designers who have made an enduring impact, including Lucian Freud, Elsa Schiaparelli and Patti Smith.

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‘It made me a pop star – and I’m crap at being a pop star’: KT Tunstall on Suddenly I See

‘I looked at Patti Smith on the cover of her album Horses. There’s no makeup, no glam, no plastic surgery – she’s not a famous pop star with lots of money. And I thought, “That’s what I want to be”’

The Guardian - UK

Joan Didion’s in the details: The author’s estate sale turned me into a literary voyeur

When the stylish and formidable writer of ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ and ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ died last year, she left behind a Manhattan apartment brimming with intrigue, writes Amanda Whiting

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Patti Smith: ‘I am who I am with all my flaws’

At 75, the punk poet, singer, artist and author talks candidly about life, loss, loneliness and her acclaimed new photography project

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Punk poet Patti Smith says writing is her 'essential' art form

Chicago (AFP) - Her Godmother of Punk Rock icon status made her a household name, but for Patti Smith, it's writing where she finds her true artistic voice.

The Guardian - UK

Country star Margo Price on her memoir: ‘My editor said whiskey is basically a character’

Price survived alcoholism, hardship and tragedy to become a star, as she recounts in her brutally honest new book. ‘I had panic attacks, thinking about all of this being out there,’ she says

The Independent UK

Hundreds gather for Joan Didion tribute Wednesday night

Joan Didion, a master of rhythm and of the meaning of the unsaid, was remembered Wednesday as an inspiring and fearless writer and valued, exacting and sometimes eccentric friend

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The Independent UK

Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favorites

Anticipation has been growing all year for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers, Colleen Hoover's “It Starts With Us.”

The Independent UK

The 30 greatest album covers of all time, from Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe’ to Patti Smith, ‘Horses’

Over the decades, artist and musicians have worked together to create albums where the cover art is as memorable as the music itself

The Guardian - UK

‘We always bring a teapot’: readers share the unusual items they take on holiday

From potato peelers to portable record players – the creature comforts readers won’t travel without

Evening Standard

Higher Ground at the Palladium review: Patti Smith led a celebration of punk’s past and future

The legendary songwriter and poet was joined at the Palladium by Nadine Shah and Connie Constance

Daily Record

Amy McDonald suffered abuse from football fans after marrying ex-Rangers star Richard Foster

Ahead of her headlining Doune the Rabbit Hole she also calls men who shout out derogatory comments to female musicians at gigs "strange"

The Conversation

Friday essay: grey-haired and radiant – reimagining ageing for women

Ageist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise insist on political correctness, will open their mouths and deliver a hurtful, hateful judgement.

Bangkok Post

Punk laureate Patti Smith granted France's highest honour

As a child, punk-poet icon Patti Smith was instructed never to accept anything from strangers -- which meant one day she was forced to decline a campaign button she coveted and everyone else had.

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