Patti Smith & Kevin Shields
The Coral Sea

Despite being crowned the godmother of punk, Patti Smith?s music can be frustratingly conservative. In particular, her guitarists tend to get faded in...

At this point, it's almost redundant to note that Patti Smith was a poet before becoming a singer/songwriter. Her "transformation into a rock icon" (a...

At her core, she was and always has been an earthly figure, something confirmed by her excursions into beat poetry, her professed influences from Jim ...

In retrospect Patti Smith’s decision to spend the eighties bringing up a family was a masterstroke. For a start, after dealing with the music industry...

Don’t get too carried away by the billing, my bloody valentines: The Coral Sea is most definitely a Patti Smith record. Comprising two separate live p...

Patti Smith isn’t ready to bury the memory of her former friend and lover Robert Mapplethorpe. Not at all. The Coral Sea was originally a book that pa...