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Fittingly the best decade for music reached its pinnacle ... but not mine,” New York priestess of punk Patti Smith sings in one of the most famous opening lines in music. And with that stunning ...

This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Fellow New Jersey music diehards, this is it — the ultimate Garden State music bucket list: 51 Jersey albums that wholly define our ...

While most artists are in it for the money, it takes a true artist like Patti Smith to encourage people not to buy one of her ...

On another day in another week, I’d welcome them on my list for a “Best ... Patti Smith sings — or, to be more precise, snarls — on “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo,” It’s the first song ...

The 1950s saw the birth of rock and roll, but not all the great songs were made by men. The women could rock, too.

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This buildup has led to Slowly, It Dawns on which Canal worked with Eg White (Sam Smith) and Tony Berg ... Ironically, some ...