Iconic artist Patti Smith made a mark 50 years ago with her iconic first album, Horses, which mixed punk, poetry and performance. To celebrate the anniversary, she will take the stage June 3 at ...

Punk women changed music with loud voices, strong songs, and fearless acts, breaking rules and making space for others to ...

After Andy Warhol was shot, the artistic world of New York changed. With him no longer the ruler, his disappearance gave way ...

Talking Heads are revered as thoughtful art rockers. But the band's history is thorny, as explored in new book, "Burning Down ...

While rarely blessed with significant commercial attention, New York's original CBGB movement did see one key 1970s punk ...

Hallelujah the Hills made a quadruple album and then some. The Boston band’s “Deck” rolls out over four LPs of 13 songs each ...

Jonathan Gould's Talking Heads biography provides little illumination about the seminal band — and displays surprising ...

Exploring the centuries-old origins of the term punk in an attempt to uncover the very first song to feature the word that went on to define a music movement.

News about Patti Smith, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Patti Smith performed June 2 at a pop-up event at Second Presbyterian Church with her son Jackson, in the background. Credit: Mike Ledford.

At Spoleto Festival Charleston, Patti Smith performed at secret pop-up show before she took the stage at College of Charleston's Cistern Yard on June 3.

Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’ In her third memoir, the singer-songwriter, poet and author writes about her otherworldly experiences crisscrossing the country in 2016 ...