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It only took 38 years, but Michael Stipe of R.E.M. has shared the correct lyrics to the band’s 1987 hit, “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

Stipe, who seemingly had the time over the holiday weekend, hopped on Bluesky to correct a couple of lines from the song that features the singer’s famously under-enunciated lyrics coupled with a rapid-fire delivery.

On August 30th, Stipe posted a meme from The Simpsons where Homer Simpson claims to be able to sing all of the words to the song, just to be told, “No you can’t, Mr. Simpson. No one can.” The caption...

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Five decades have gone by since Patti Smith released her 1975 debut album Horses. The landmark 1975 studio project featured some of rock’s most classic cuts, including the opener “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo,” “Redondo Beach,” and “Break It Up.” This fall, Smith is set to embark on a 50th anniversary tour across the globe to celebrate her Seventies masterpiece. Shortly after kicking off the worldwide trek, Smith will drop...

For decades, aspiring musicians from across the country have dreamed about one day becoming so successful that they get to perform on Saturday Night Live. Meanwhile, one musician who played Studio 8H every week dreamed about another set with Al Green.

Ever since the first season of Saturday Night Live, which featured performances from such enduring legends as Abba, Gil Scott Heron and Patti Smith, the role of musical guest on SNL has always held slightly more prestige than the average late-night spot for an up-and-coming musician. Today, it’s practically a rite of passage that the hottest pop star of the moment should perform on SNL within a couple...

Patti Smith is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her pioneering debut album, Horses, with a new reissue featuring demos, outtakes, and other rarities. The expanded edition is out on October 10th via Legacy Recordings, and pre-orders are now available.

Available in either 2xLP or 2xCD packaging, the reissue features the original John Cale-produced album newly remastered directly from the original 1/4-inch master tapes. It also includes Smith’s 1975 RCA demo tape alongside four previously unreleased songs: “Distant Fingers,” “The Hunter Gets Captured by The Game,” and “Snowball.” Stream the latter track below.

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Accompanied by longtime guitarist and co-writer Lenny Kaye, Smith reminisces on “Snowball” with lyrics like,...

Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias’s Nova ’78 centers around the Nova Convention, a late ’70s avant-garde extravaganza that took place at NYC’s now defunct Entermedia Theater (Second Avenue and 12th Street) in honor of William S. Burroughs’s return to the U.S. after living more than 20 years abroad. It was also a great excuse to gather a who’s who roster of counterculture icons to perform in the presence of the postmodern wordsmith who’d profoundly impacted them all. That would include Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, Laurie Anderson and Julia Heyward, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Merce […]

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Nova 78’ is less a documentary and more an unearthed artifact, a grainy portal to a New York that exists only in memory. The film reconstructs the 1978 Nova Convention, a three-day gathering of the American counterculture to honor the writer William S. Burroughs.

Held in a Manhattan where punk’s energy still crackled in the air, the event was a convergence of artistic and intellectual ferment. Assembled from reels of lost footage shot by director Howard Brookner, the film has a raw, immediate quality.

It drops the viewer directly into the proceedings without explanation, capturing a moment when the lines between music, literature, and performance art dissolved completely. We are not watching a historical summary; we are attending the event itself, witnessing a culture defining itself in real time.

A Collision of the Avant-Garde

The convention unfolds as a chaotic spectacle of creative expression, a living document of an American avant-garde in transition.

Imagine going to a gig where The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards couldn’t make it, so Patti Smith stepped up to break the news, read you a poem, offered you your money back from her own pocket, and Frank Zappa filled in for him instead. Let’s go even further. Imagine it wasn’t really a gig at all, but a multimedia celebration of an author — William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) — a superstar counterculture writer whose shadow loomed large over the ’60s in ways that could never be replicated today. Compiled from original footage of the three-day event that took place in 1978 at Manhattan’s Entermedia Theater, Nova ’78 is an immersive time capsule that captures the arty essence of New York in the aftermath of punk and offers yet more proof that Burroughs was way ahead of anyone else in terms of political futurology.

Most animated sitcoms can’t claim to have had legit rock legends on the payroll. It’s not like Patti Smith ever worked on Bob’s Burgers, and as far as we know, Bob Dylan didn’t voice any of the Jetsons.

But, oddly enough, the great Tom Petty became a key fixture of King of the Hill in its later seasons. And although Petty died in 2017, the recently-released Hulu reboot still found a way to honor the Heartbreakers frontman.

Petty, of course, voiced Lucky Kleinschmidt, who was first introduced back in Season Eight’s “The Redneck on Rainey Street." While he wasn’t a huge part of that episode, Petty did get to deliver a lengthy monologue explaining that his nickname stems from a legal settlement he received from Costco after slipping on a puddle of piss in their restroom, which led to a back injury.

The following season,...

Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley relates Jeff Buckley’s meteoric rise and early death in the 1990s through the adoring and wounded voices of his family, friends, and bandmates. Berg leavens their wistful memories with personal and concert footage, along with Buckley’s notebook jottings, ramblingly funny and emotional voicemails, and jagged animations that are meant to simulate his manic and at times self-destructive mindset.

The latter sections featuring Buckley’s words hint at the suggestive alliterativeness used by Brett Morgen in his own documentaries but are shoehorned into an impactful but at times generic portrait of another gone-too-soon artistic genius. Skillfully woven into the narrative for heightened impact, songs like “Last Goodbye” and Buckley’s famous cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” say more about the singer’s vocal abilities than most of the film’s talking heads.

Born in 1966 and raised by his mother,...

You’d have to be very bad at interviews, or really just conversations, to not get something from Abel Ferrara, who’s the perfect combination of endearing and pugnacious, amenable to ideas while unable to entertain even a hint of bullshit. He’s especially verbose discussing Turn in the Wound, his most recent documentary, which premiered at last year’s Berlinale and is now streaming on the Criterion Channel and parallels the effect of Russia’s war on the citizens of Ukraine with, in a slightly opaque but ultimately wise manner, concerts conducted by Patti Smith. Like many of Ferrara’s documentaries––Mulberry St., Chelsea on the Rocks, or Piazza Vittorio––it mines pathos from people and the places they live. I was only too happy to talk with him about this film and its endless concerns.

I also want to note that myself and Instagram sensation Rohmer Fits will...

American virtual reality and generative AI pioneer Eliza McNitt will preside over the jury of Venice Film Festival’s Immersive section, which has unveiled its selection of 69 projects from 27 countries, 30 of which are in competition.

Highlights of the Venice Immersive competition include “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman’s upcoming Xr short “Asteroid,” which is “about a group of strangers who risk it all by taking an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at unimaginable wealth,” according to its synopsis. “Asteroid” will launch on Google’s Xr app later this year.

McNitt, who won the grand prize in the VR category at Venice in 2018, is the director of the groundbreaking VR experience “Spheres.” Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, the project featured Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain and Patti Smith. Her latest project, “Ancestra” — which uses a mix of live-action performances and AI-based visuals — recently premiered at Tribeca...

Bourne Identity director Doug Liman will unveil his upcoming Xr thriller Asteroid in the Venice Film Festival’s immersive showcase.

Asteroid, which is due to launch on Google’s Android Xr platform later this year, was among 69 works announced for Venice Immersive on Wednesday.

Produced by Liman’s 30 Ninjas Production, in association with Google’s 100 Zeros, a content initiative in partnership with Range Media Partners, the immersive short follows a group of strangers who risk it all by taking an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at unimaginable wealth.

Creators alongside Liman are Julina Tatlock and Jed Weintrob, who also take producer credits with Marty Schulman, Neil Parris and Jon Zepp.

Launched in 2017, Venice Immersive is dedicated to the immersive arts and media and includes all forms of creative Xr expression including immersive videos, virtual and mixed reality, virtual worlds and immersive installations.

Asteroid will be...

Exclusive: Unfolding in New York’s East Village in 1978, the Nova Convention has gone down in history as a legendary counterculture meeting headlined by Naked Lunch novelist William S. Burroughs, and also featuring Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Allen Ginsberg and Laurie Anderson.

Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias documentary’s Nova ’78 – which debuts out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival in August – revisits the three-day event which ran from November 30 to December 2, 1978 in the Entermedia Theatre, now the Village East by Angelika cinema.

It uses original newly restored and digitized 16mm footage shot at the Nova Convention by Aaron Brookner’s uncle Howard Brookner, Tom Dicillo, and Jim Lebovitz, with direct sound by Jim Jarmusch.

Howard Brookner originally started filming Burroughs for a NYU film project, which evolved into a long-term collaboration, culminating in the 1983 work Burroughs: The Movie, broadcast by BBC Arena and produced by Alan Yentob and the filmmaker.

Two titans of New Wave, the B-52’s and Devo, will team up this fall for the co-headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour.

Although the B-52’s embarked on a farewell tour three years ago — they’ve since confined themselves to a Las Vegas residency — the idea of joining the “Whip It” troupe on the road proved too enticing to ignore. The two bands recently linked up (alongside Fred Armisen) at the all-star SNL 50 concert and discussed the venture.

“In 2022, I swore I’d never get on a tour bus again, but...

After officially announcing a new partnership with Google DeepMind to produce short films with Gen-ai and some of Google’s newly announced tools last month, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has unveiled the first of three planned shorts created using generative AI.

Directed by Eliza McNitt and produced by Aronofsky, the short is entitled “Ancestra,” and it will premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Friday night. Per an official statement, the 8-minute short “blends live-action filmmaking from a crew of 200+ artists and technologists.”

The short was inspired by McNitt’s “own life-threatening birth, when doctors discovered a hole in her heart” and aims to “shed light on pregnancy challenges rarely seen in storytelling, breaking through technological barriers that once made these narratives impossible to visualize.” The filmmaker “transform[ed] personal family archives into a visually stunning experience, including images of her likeness in the womb.”

As IndieWire’s Brian Welk previously reported, “McNitt...

Actors don’t build the kind of eclectic careers enjoyed by Alan Cumming and Michael Urie without leaning into the unexpected.

Audiences are as likely to see them acting on the small screen, hosting the latest glitzy awards show (Cumming had the BAFTAs this year while Urie had the GLAAD Media Awards) or lighting up stages across New York, Los Angeles and London.

“I get to do this TV show, I just did a Broadway show, I’m producing a queer theater festival. If my life continues to be varied like that, maybe not quite as varied as Alan Cumming’s career, but if I get to go from a studio to a stage to a brain trust of people coming up with ways to expand queer theater, if I’m still doing that, I think that that would be fantastic,” Urie shared in the latest episode of “Visionaries,” TheWrap...

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Over the past year, we logged thousands of miles in the air and on the ground to find the best gear, destinations, and services that you need to know about. We explored the latest luxury resorts, found the ultimate getaways for music fans, pushed new noise-canceling headphones to the limit on flights, and even discovered...

Jake Sumner’s Ron Delsener Presents star, wearing a 99 Elvis Costello Armed Funk Tour badge from 1979 (presented to him by music producer/99 Records founder Ed Bahlman) with Anne-Katrin Titze at the Quad Cinema Photo: Ed Bahlman

Jake Sumner’s stellar Ron Delsener Presents (a highlight of the 2023 edition of the Tribeca Festival) on the great impresario features insightful remembrances from Billy Joel (Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin’s Billy Joel: And So It Goes was the Opening Night selection of this year’s Tribeca Festival), Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Steven Van Zandt, Cher, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (from Kiss), Jon Bon Jovi, Bette Midler, Verdine White, Jimmy Buffett, Lorne Michaels, Sparkie Martin (promoter), Lenny Kaye with Patti Smith and more.

Jake Sumner with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on The Clash at The Palladium: “David Johansen and Andy Warhol and obviously Ron and of course The Clash,...

Neil Young is a little over two weeks away from the launch of his Love Earth world tour. And in a new post on the Neil Young Archives, he’s inviting longtime fan Donald Trump to come and check it out.

“When I tour the USA this summer, if there is not martial law by then which would make it impossible, let’s all come together and stand for American values,” he wrote. “We will not be doing a political show. We will be playing the music we love for...

Focus Features has done a full takeover of the Angelika Film Center with The Phoenician Scheme on all six screens for filmmaker Wes Anderson’s latest. There’s a lobby and café redesign for full immersion, a jazz band, custom cocktails, t-shirts and totes as the film, which clocked a lengthy standing ovation at its recent Cannes world premiere (see Deadline review) bows theatrically in limited release at six locations including NYC’s Alamo Brooklyn and AMC Lincoln Square and AMC’s The Grove, Century City and Burbank in LA.

Around this time in 2023, Anderson’s Asteroid City, also from Focus, delivered a massive jolt to the arthouse and specialty world with a $790k three-day weekend, also at six theaters, including a takeover of the Landmark LA. That opening per-theater average of $132k was the biggest in years for a helmer known to energize the specialty box office. His Grand...

For music-loving New Yorkers who grew up in the pre-digital age, the title of Jake Sumner’s first feature-length film needs no explanation. Beginning in the 1960s, countless newspaper ads announcing the rock and pop concerts that were reshaping showbiz began with three words: “Ron Delsener Presents.”

What Sumner presents is an exuberant look at some of those shows and artists, and a chance to spend quality time with Delsener himself, who turns 89 this year. He officially retired in 2022, but, at least as of the 2023 completion date of the documentary, was still spry, in constant motion, and making deals. Like the impresario Sol Hurok, who was his inspiration — and whom he met, as it turned out, just in the nick of time — Delsener sees no reason to stop doing what he loves.

Delsener has done his share of networking and schmoozing, and his business acumen would ultimately have global reverberations.

Darren Aronofsky has launched a new generative AI storytelling venture in which he will partner with Google DeepMind to produce short films with Gen-ai and some of Google’s newly announced tools.

The venture is titled Primordial Soup, and its research team, along with three filmmakers, will produce short films integrating new tech and storytelling and has the mission statement of creating frameworks for AI’s role in filmmaking and putting artists in the driver’s seat of technological innovation.

“Filmmaking has always been driven by technology. After the Lumiere Brothers and Edison’s ground-breaking invention, filmmakers unleashed the hidden storytelling power of cameras. Later technological breakthroughs — sound, color, VFX — allowed us to tell stories in ways that couldn’t be told before. Today is no different. Now is the moment to explore these new tools and shape them for the future of storytelling,” Aronofsky said in an official statement.

Darren Aronofsky has launched Primordial Soup, a new venture he’s positioning as empowering filmmakers with AI-based creative tools.

Primordial Soup forged a partnership with Google DeepMind’s AI research team, and together they are working with three filmmakers to produce short films. Under the partnership, Google DeepMind is providing early-stage access to generative-ai video tools; conversely, the filmmakers are expected to provide feedback to the tech company on the new AI tools to help guide their development.

The first of Primordial Soup’s projects is Eliza McNitt’s “Ancestra,” which uses a mix of live-action performances and AI-based visuals, set to premiere next month at the Tribeca Festival. Primordial Soup’s two other films are in development. Details about those are Tba but both will use new applications of Veo, Google DeepMind’s video-generation model.

Aronofsky said his aim with the company is to ensure that AI serves as...

When Bono hits the road for a tour, he usually brings along about 200 trucks, a stage that weighs roughly 170 tons, hundreds of employees, and three high-school buddies named Adam, Larry, and Edge. But when he went out in early 2023 to promote his memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, he brought little else besides a table and chairs, a fake beer, and a keyboardist, cellist, and harp player.

The shows were a unique hybrid of rock concert and one-man Broadway-style production in which Bono paid loving tribute to his wife, Ali Hewson,...

Iggy Pop and Jack White will headline Cbgb Festival, which will take place at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn on Sept. 27 and features 21 bands performing on three stages. The event marks Iggy Pop’s first New York show in more than a decade, per the organizers.

Other punk stalwarts in the lineup include the Sex Pistols, Johnny Marr, Lunachicks, Marky Ramone, the Damned, and Melvins. They’re joined by hardcore acts like Gorilla Biscuits, Murphy’s Law, and Cro-Mags. The lineup also features new-gen punk purveyors such as the Linda Lindas,...

"He was the cornerstone. The beginning." Abramorama has unveiled an official trailer for Ron Delsener Presents, a documentary film from filmmaker Jake Sumner about one of NYC's famous concert gurus. This premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and finally opens in theaters later this month. For generations of New Yorkers, perhaps no three words are as intermingled with the most famous New York concerts as "Ron Delsener Presents' – the words that preceded the name of every major act that was playing New York in advertisements across the city. The film Ron Delsener Presents is equal parts all-access pass to New York's greatest gigs, as told by the legendary concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener, and a portrait of a relentless music business pioneer who can't stop Hustling. Even today. Featuring Billy Joel, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Bon Jovi, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Gene Simmons, Lenny Kaye,...

For more than a decade, heritage rock artists have been juicing their live shows by recreating their vintage albums start to finish. That list includes Neil Young (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere), Bruce Springsteen (The River), U2 (The Joshua Tree), Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation), and Steely Dan (every one of their records). This fall, Patti Smith joints the list when she’ll be playing all of Horses to mark its 50th anniversary. An entire Canadian company, Classic Albums Live, is devoted to this trend, with a group of largely unknown musicians covering all of Rumours,...

When Mariah Carey received her second nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, the institution’s foundation chairman John Sykes issued a statement celebrating the latest batch of nominees. “These remarkable nominees have each created their own musical style and attitude impacting generations of music lovers,” he wrote. Carey appeared on this year’s ballot alongside Phish, Outkast, Oasis, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Joy Division/New Order, Soundgarden, the White Stripes, Joe Cocker, Bad Company, Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, and Maná.

Carey was on the ballot in 2024, too.

The annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is a place where miracles regularly take place. Over the decades, sleeping rock giants like Led Zeppelin, the Police, Cream, the Byrds, the Velvet Underground, Simon and Garfunkel, and Talking Heads have briefly reawakened to play a few songs before returning to their slumbers. And even though Kiss and Journey with Steve Perry didn’t wind up playing, they still put aside their vast differences long enough to stand together one last time as they accepted the honor.

But the power...

Refresh for updates…Whoopi Goldberg, Russell Crowe and Patti Smith were among the first from the entertainment community to pay tribute to Pope Francis after the leader of the Catholic Church died today, Easter Monday, at 7:35 a.m. Unwell for some time, he recently was weakened after a serious bout of pneumonia. He was 88.

In an Instagram post this morning, Goldberg, who showed a picture of herself meeting with the Pope in 2023, wrote that “he was the closest in a long time that seemed to remember that Christ’s love enveloped believer and [non] believer. He felt more like Pope John the 23rd who made belief real.”

Russell Crowe, who met Pope Francis in 2014, wrote on X, “A beautiful day in Rome, but a sad day for the faithful. Rip Francis.”

Musician, poet and writer Patti Smith shared an Instagram post featuring a photo of a dandelion and the message,...

Martin Scorsese, Patti Smith, King Charles, and J.D. Vance are among those reacting to the death of Pope Francis, who died on Monday at age 88. Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced his death in a statement noting that the pope “taught us to live the values of the Gospel with faithfulness, courage, and universal love, especially for the poorest and most marginalized.”

“There is so much that can be said about the significance of Pope Francis and everything he meant to the world, to the church, to the papacy.

We’ve always loved setting trends at The Film Stage and are accordingly chuffed that, nine months after we screened a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski’s late-career triumph The Ghost Writer comes to the Criterion Channel in next month’s Coastal Thrillers, a series that does what it says on the tin: The Lady from Shanghai, Key Largo, The Long Goodbye, The Fog, and the other best film of 2010, Scorsese’s Shutter Island. It pairs well with Noir and the Blacklist featuring films by Joseph Losey, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and so on. Retrospectives are held for Terry Southern, Kathryn Bigelow, Jem Cohen, and (just in time for Caught By the Tides) Jia Zhangke, while Spike Lee gets his own Adventures In Moviegoing.

For recent restorations, Antonioni’s Il Grido and Anthony Harvey’s Dutchman appear. Criterion Editions include The Runner, Touchez pas au grisbi, Godzilla vs.

Patti Smith has announced Bread of Angels, a new memoir set to arrive on November 4th (pre-order here).

The book follows previous Smith memoirs Just Kids (2010), M Train (2015), and Year of the Monkey (2019). Described as her “most intimate” memoir in a statement, Bread of Angels covers Smith’s teenage years and early music career, including her relationships with MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith and her late friend/partner/confidant Robert Mapplethorpe, her foray into poetry, and the writing and recording of seminal albums like Horses and Easter.

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The synopsis reads: “As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again—the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope.

Patti Smith’s forthcoming memoir Bread of Angels took a decade to write, and captures “the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime,” according to the singer-songwriter.

In a statement, Smith said that with her new book she hopes “that people will find something they need.” According to a summary of the book, this will be the artist’s “most intimate” memoir yet and follows Smith through her teenage years, journey writing poetry and recording her iconic work such as Horses and Easter, and marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith as they...

Patti Smith performed at a New York City rally Tuesday as part of an effort to prevent a downtown park from being converted into affordable housing.

The Elizabeth Street Garden, located between between Spring and Prince streets, has long been a community gathering place for artists and city dwellers. However, the city — which owns the land — announced plans to transform the space into an “urban oasis,” a move that longtime SoHo icons like Smith, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese have previously lobbied against.

On Tuesday, a rally was held...

Do you feel the same? Well, if you do, you’re in luck: Susanna Hoffs has re-recorded her beloved Bangles ballad “Eternal Flame.”

The new version, which you can check out above, stays true to the 1988 original, which Hoffs co-wrote with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and released off the Bangles’ third album Everything. Hoffs’ vocals still sparkle like they did back then (you might say the sun still shines through the rain).

“I was inspired to sing it again!” Hoffs said in a statement. “As I stood before the microphone,...

If anyone doubted the ongoing relevance of Patti Smith’s work, that answer arrived at the next-to-last moment at “People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith,” a boldface-name-heavy tribute concert Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Over the course of two-and-a-half hours, a caravan of singers, musician and actors — some associated with her, some not necessarily — sang and read Smith’s words, an ongoing testament to the still hypnotic grip of her songs and poems.

The odds that Smith herself would participate were pretty high; after all, she was...

Patti Smith’s 50-year cross-generational musical impact was on full display Wednesday night, as artists both young and old came out to serenade the legendary artist during a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Flea, Sean Penn, Karen O, Scarlett Johansson, Maggie Rogers, Johnny Depp, Susanna Hoffs, Jim Jarmusch, Matt Berninger, Glen Hansard, Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett, Angel Olsen, Alison Mosshart, Michael Shannon, and members of Smith’s backing band were among the many names who turned out for “People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith.”

The concert doubled as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Smith’s landmark album, Horses, and a charity benefit for music education for underserved youth. Tony Shanahan, a frequent collaborator of Smith’s, served as the event’s musical director and led a house a band also featuring Flea, Steve Jordan, Charlie Sexton, and Benmont Tench.

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This coming Wednesday, a slew of all-star artists will gather at Carnegie Hall in New York City for People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith, a tribute to the work of (you guessed it) legendary songwriter Patti Smith. As if the lineup wasn’t stacked enough, The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, is now set to join in on the fun.

The tribute concert is the latest installment of City Winery founder and CEO Michael Dorf’s “Music Of” benefit series, with all net proceeds going to music education for underserved youth. Tickets for the event are currently sold out (except for select VIP tiers), though secondary tickets are available via StubHub.

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In addition to Springsteen, the tribute show will feature the likes of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Kim Gordon, The National’s Matt Berninger, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, Angel Olsen,...

The Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary celebration is moving from Rockefeller Center to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. On May 23, the new immersive exhibit “SNL: Ladies & Gentleman… 50 Years of Music” opens at the museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

Visitors will have the chance to walk through an elaborate recreation of the iconic Studio 8H stage; see costumes from iconic sketches like the Blues Brothers, Dick In-a-Box, and the Sweeney Sisters; revisit key musical moments by everyone from the Rolling Stones and Blondie to Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter, and...

Alchemy Of The Word writer-director Jessica Benhamou talks us through her period poet passion project.

This article first appeared in Film Stories issue 54.

Alchemy Of The Word, the brilliantly trippy short film about two (very real) 19th century French poets stuck in a Camden bedsit, has been a long time coming.

“I’ve been obsessed with Arthur Rimbaud since I was 17,” director Jessica Benhamou says. “He started writing poetry when he was 15 – some of the most celebrated poetry in France he wrote as a 15-year-old, and then he dramatically stopped writing poetry aged 20.”

“I remember being so upset when I finished his biography. I’ve only got three years left! This was a person that really followed their passions, went into things absolutely, and there’s something quite romantic about that.”

Though he might not be a household name in the UK, the legacy of Rimbaud’s evocative, esoteric and...

Just four days after his surprise reunion with R.E.M. at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, Michael Stipe performed at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall on a packed bill that also included Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Orville Peck, Allison Russell, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Angélique Kidjo, and Tenzin Choegyal.

Stipe delivered stunning renditions of David Bowie’s 1970 classic “The Man Who Sold the World” and “No Time for Love Like Now,” which he co-wrote with the National’s Aaron Dessner...

During Women’s History Month in March, Classic Rewind recognizes the Girl Power that makes the genre rock. But who are the top women voices in classic rock?

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We listed a bunch of possibilities, you cast your votes, and we tallied them up. Now it’s time to listen to the “Top 10 Women Voices in Classic Rock” countdown, premiering on-air March 6 just before International Women’s Day and available to stream on the SiriusXM app.

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Here are the possible artists you voted on for the countdown:

Ann Wilson

Annie Lennox

Bonnie Raitt

Carly Simon

Carole King

Chrissie Hynde

Christine McVie

Courtney Love

Debbie Harry

Ellen Foley

Grace Slick

Gwen Stefani

Janis Joplin

Joan Jett

Joni Mitchell

Kate Pierson

Linda Ronstadt

Lita Ford

Melissa Etheridge

Merry Clayton

Nancy Wilson...

R.E.M. just keep reuniting. Thursday night, Feb. 27, the band that has repeatedly insisted they’ll never do a full-fledged reunion, took the stage at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia to perform with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. cover band.

Near the end of the gig in R.E.M.’s hometown, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Bill Berry joined Shannon and Narducy for a performance of the Reckoning track “Pretty Persuasion.” Mike Mills completed the quartet about halfway through the performance when he jumped on...

Stephen Stills and Neil Young will perform together at L.A.’s Greek Theatre on April 26 for the biennial Autism Speaks fundraiser Light Up The Blues alongside special guests Linda Perry, Cat Power, Christina Applegate, Chris Stills, and Oliver Stills. Tickets go on-sale February 28.

The first Light Up The Blues took place in 2013 at L.A.’s Club Nokia with guests Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Don Felder, Jack Black, Lucinda Williams, and Ryan Adams. Over the past decade, everyone from John Mayer and Jack Black to Patti Smith, Joe Walsh, Willie Nelson,...

Carroll Guido Groffman Cohen Bar & Karalian has elevated attorneys Celine Hollenbeck and Jenna Akemi Kon to partner, the music and entertainment law firm announced Wednesday morning.

Hollenbeck, based out of the firm’s Los Angeles office, has been with the company since 2017. Kon, based out of its New York office, joined the firm in 2018. The firm welcomes the pair to its “expanding group of partners,” according to a release.

“We are thrilled to elevate Celine and Jenna to partners at Carroll Guido Groffman Cohen Bar & Karalian, Llp. Their exceptional dedication, vast experience across all areas of the entertainment industry, and enthusiasm and passion for music and artistry continue to impress the firm’s clients and partners alike,” Michael Guido, a founding partner at the firm, and Renee Karalian, managing partner of its L.A. office, said in a statement.

“We are incredibly proud to continue the firm’s long-standing tradition...

Patti Smith has announced a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of her landmark album Horses, during which she’ll perform the record in full across Europe, the UK, and the US in fall 2025.

Accompanying Smith on the tour will be guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on Horses. Her live band will also feature keyboardist/bassist Tony Shanahan and guitarist Jackson Smith.

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An artist ticket pre-sale is set for Wednesday, February 12th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a public on-sale following on Friday, February 14th at 10:00 a.m. local time.

The upcoming tour will mark Smith’s first time playing Horses in full in 20 years. “Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred,” she said in a press release.

Prior to the tour’s kick-off, Smith will be honored...

Patti Smith will perform her debut album Horses in full on tour to celebrate the LP’s 50 anniversary. The tour will feature feature guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on the original 1975 recording.

The anniversary trek will kick off on Oct. 6 at Dublin’s 3Arena, with dates in Madrid, Bergamo, Brussels, Oslo, London, and Paris. Smith will head to the U.S. the following month, with shows beginning Nov. 10 at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. The U.S. segment will also stop in Oakland, San Francisco,...

Jimmy Choo kicked off New York Fashion Week by hosting an exclusive dinner party!

The brand was joined by celebs like Justin Theroux and Oh, Mary! star Cole Escola at the dinner on Thursday (February 6) at Jean’s in New York City.

The event was held to celebrate the Jimmy Choo Spring 2025 campaign, which stars Chloe Sevigny. She was in attendance at the event and met up with creative director Sandra Choi.

Other notable guests included Martha Stewart, Jack Harlow, Lisa Rinna, Amanda Lepore, Cole Sprouse, Britt Lower, Ella Emhoff, Rahi Chadda, and Dree Hemingway.

The party featured a special performance by the brand’s longtime friend Patti Smith. The Grammy nominated music artist, The Dare, provided the soundtrack for the afterparty following the intimate dinner.

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Marianne Faithfull, the British singer who scored hits including “As Tears Go By” and “Broken English” as she went from a highly publicized romantic relationship with Mick Jagger to worldwide fame in her own right, died Thursday. She was 78.

Faithfull’s death in London was announced by her family in a statement to the BBC.

Faithfull also appeared in such films as I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname (1967) and The Girl on the Motorcycle (1968) and on the stage in Three Sisters and Hamlet, though her career was curtailed in the 1970s by heroin addiction, alcoholism and homelessness.

She forged a dramatic comeback in 1979 with the album Broken English, which landed her a Grammy nomination for best female rock vocal performance. In 2011, she was awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors.

Born on Dec. 29, 1946, in Hampstead, London, Faithfull was the daughter of...