The birth year of punk rock
The movement that caused a rupture in the musical genre was born 50 years ago, and even then it had a tendency to become bloated
Patti Smith: ‘I’ve never seen a world so driven by power and money’
This year, the singer-songwriter celebrates the 50th anniversary of ‘Horses’, the album that made her famous, and releases her memoir ‘Bread of Angels.’ Her voice, steadfast in its commitment to the world’s just causes, continues to resonate through her writing and performances
Rosalía: ‘I’ve been preparing for this all my life’
In ‘Lux,’ the singer and songwriter journeys toward spirituality through the lives of different women who inhabit the symbolic worlds of religions such as Catholicism and Islam. In this in-depth interview with EL PAÍS, she discusses her life at this point in time — as well as Palestine and ‘Euphoria’
From Rosalía to Pamela Anderson: How Substack revived blogging
The platform, which also counts Patti Smith and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among its users, has become an online refuge where people go to write and read texts away from the frenzy of social media
Patti Smith, the poet who became a rock legend
Celebrating 50 years of her first album ‘Horses,’ with which she revolutionized music and literature while remaining true to herself
Lynn Goldsmith, the photographer who shot Patti Smith like no one else: ‘She was a breath of fresh air’
New compilation ‘Before Easter After’ features portraits, many of them previously unpublished, taken of the singer in the 1970s
Gang of Four, the last dance against nostalgia from the band that redefined post-punk
Kurt Cobain imitated them, R.E.M. supported them, the Red Hot Chili Peppers would never have existed without them. The most indefinable group of the English scene of the 1970s says goodbye: ‘We were never commercial. We never participated in that big spectacle’
Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: ‘If you don’t come, I’ll be with a guy’
‘Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?’ she asked the artist, hoping to escape another man. That night, they stopped pretending. They shared a dazzling love story, marked by excess and art
A year according to Patti Smith: 366 ways to say hello on Instagram
Iñigo López Palacios / Patti Smith|
The American artist has published ‘A Book of Days’, a photographic compilation of 366 entries from the personal to the universal
Why the ‘70s was the best decade for popular music
It saw the birth of punk, new wave, hip hop, funk and electronic music, as well as the rise of legends like David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elton John and Tom Petty
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