Patti Smith and Lynn Goldsmith, courtesy. Patti Smith will speak next month at friend and photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s launch of her new book that captures the punk icon and poet. The two will chat with moderator Emma Silvers of KQED about the acclaimed photographer’s coffee table book “Before Easter…

Patti Smith performs during Stern Grove Festival at Sigmund Stern Grove in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 2023. Photos: David Jones. SAN FRANCISCO — After 50 years of making records, touring and raising a ruckus as a punk icon, you’d forgive Patti Smith for taking it easy here and…

Following up 2019’s The Peyote Dance and Mummer Love, Soundwalk Collective maintains its experimental sound to accompany the methodical poetic writings of Patti Smith on Peradam, the third entry in a series of joint-effort albums. Peradam Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith Bella Union, Sept. 4 4/10 The artist cite literary…

Seemingly timeless songstress Patti Smith’s 11th studio album, her first original material since 2004, is a mixed bag. “Banga,” (June 5, Columbia Records) is sometimes contemplative, with soft melodies; sometimes hard-driving, with lyrics chanted to enforce Smith’s message. Spoken word meditations on life and dreams bridge the two extremes…