The poet became a pioneering punk artist with the release of her debut album, a collection of both literary sophistication ...

The sound engineers on 'Horses', old friends and more, recall the making of Patti Smith's debut album and define its power, ...

Punk godmother Patti Smith‘s landmark 1975 debut album, Horses, is getting the golden jubilee treatment. The John Cale-produced classic that introduced the world to Smith’s signature poetry-meets-punk ...

The indomitable punk poet — who was born in Chicago and briefly lived in Logan Square when she was young — dedicated “People ...

For half a century, the quintessential punk poet has mingled her own brand of magpie religion with the church of rock ‘n’ ...

As Patti Smith walked back onto the stage for her encore on Saturday, Nov. 15, she smiled and waved to the cheering crowds on all four sides of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. “I don’t usually have the ...

NPR Music intern and classic rock fan Charlie Kaplan listens to Patti Smith's 1975 masterpiece for the first time. Note: This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to ...

But it would be wrong to attribute that entirely to misogyny. Smith may have provided a template for a new generation of musicians, but musically she existed in a category of her own; you might call ...