Everybody is starting a Substack! Or griping about Substack! Or both! The buzzy newsletter platform is home to all kinds of publications, including some that are basically music blogs. It has also become a favored destination for prominent writers who’ve either jumped ship or been forced out from more established media outlets, some of...

Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Joan Baez, and many more have come together to perform Smith's "People Have The Power" for a new video in support of Pathway To Paris, the climate change organization co-founded by Smith's daughter. The video doubles as an encouragement to get out and vote.

My phone call with Patty Smyth is cut off just as the former Scandal singer starts talking about living on the same East Village street as her name-doppelgänger Patti Smith in the '70s. "I was getting Patti Smith's mail, and I didn't know who that was at that time," she says before the line abruptly…

The 50th annual Earth Day took place on Wednesday of last week, but the celebration of our planet is not over yet. Today, Pathway To Paris -- a charity founded by Patti Smith's daughter -- is hosting a livestream over on Instagram Live. It'll be happening from 4PM to 8PM EST over on Instagram Live,…

Patti Smith is being honored with the 2020 PEN America Literary Service Award, as Rolling Stone reports. The legendary musician also has a great many books of both poetry and prose to her name, including the popular memoirs Just Kids, M Train, and the recently releasing Year Of The Monkey.