Patti Smith memoir to become TV show

Showtime has secured Just Kids for the small screen.

Patti Smith at RHK

Patti Smith performing at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on June 1st 2015.

Patti Smith gig to be tented tonight

Due to the inclement weather, the legendary High Priestess of Punk will play under canvas tonight

Patti Smith Interview

"We're uncompromising. We're uncompromising to a fault I think. Because sometimes we're wrong. Sometimes we wind-up up blind alleys. You know. Maybe Radio Ethiopia sucks. I Don't know. Me and Patti are the only ones that like it in the world. But I don't care 'cos when we put that on we feel great." - Lenny Kaye [First Published in Hot Press Volume 2 No 7, September 1978]

Patti Smith to bring Horses to Dublin

Spiritualized and Ariel Pink will join her in The Royal Hospital Kilmainham this June.

I Sing The Body Electric

The stars were aligned and and the sun shone at Electric Picnic. It was the least we deserved at the end of a long, wet summer...

Portrait Of The Artist

Patti Smith is one of modern rock’s iconic figures. A poet, songwriter, visual artist, photographer and writer, she is at heart a revolutionary spirit. With a new album out and an appearance at Electric Picnic on the horizon, Hot Press is granted an audience…

Banga

Strong effort from punk's elder stateswoman

Patti Smith for the Abbey Theatre

She'll be joined by a famous actor...

Cork X Southwest - Saturday

New order bassist Peter Hook revisits the seminal Unknown Pleasures record

Rant in D Minor: That 70s Show

Patti Smith and Nick Kent have both penned flawed but nevertheless evocative memoirs, which make you pine for the degenerate rock ‘n’ roll days of yore

Patti Smith's The Coral Sea set for release

Spoken-word tribute to late photographer to be released in July

Patti Smith to play Dublin

Patti Smith gives her Twelve covers album a live airing when she visits Dublin’s Vicar St.

Discovering Patti

Patti Smith has been an avant-garde icon and punk poet idol for more than two decades. We thought it would be interesting to see what Cathy Jordan, the stylish singer with folk supergroup Dervish, would make of her recent performance in Jordan's hometown of Sligo.

Patti Smith exhibition opens in Sligo

Patti Smith is the subject of a major exhibition, which is taking place in the Model Arts and Niland Gallery as part of Sligo’s Critical Voices 3 season.

Vicar St., Dublin

Patti mightn’t be leading from the front anymore, but she does wear her own legend, like everything else she’s sporting tonight, with authority.

Patti Smith for Ireland [updated]

Christmas comes early for Patti Smith fans when the legendary songstress plays shows in Dublin and Belfast

Trampin'

Muscle gets stronger when it encounters resistance. On her ninth album, Patti Smith’s music is sounding buffer than it has in years largely because the singer has redefined herself in political and aesthetic opposition to the Bushwhackers.

Patti Smith

It’s the all-singing all-dancing Patti on duty tonight.

Remember this classic album: Patti Smith's Horses

Land (1975-2002)

Good as her word, Citizen Smith let the people have the power in selecting the track listing for this Best Of kiss off to/from Arista

Gung Ho

For those who feel that the music scene of today is in desperate need of both talent and substance, a dose of Patti Smith's own brand of intelligent individualism comes as a welcome relief.

Nigger with attitude

When Patti Smith came up with Rock N Roll Nigger in the 70s, she marked herself out as one of the most articulate and confrontational performers of her generation. On the eve of her visit to Ireland, the High Priestess of American Punk Poetry talks to Peter Murphy about art, music, the people she s lost and why she ll never give in to political correctness