The News Review:
- Nightlife Agenda
- Music Preview: At 60 Patti Smith hasn’t lost her passion for the…
- Police On My Back (And In My Garage)
- The Departed
Nightlife Agenda
Washington Post – Jul 26, 2007
The club closed in the early ’90s but its history of avant garde and punk music assures that it lives on in local lore. Thirty years after d. space first opened its doors its veterans are gathering for one more evening tonight at the.
Music Preview: At 60 Patti Smith hasn’t lost her passion for the…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 26, 2007
Smith was a central figure in the mid-’70s New York punkrevolution forging relationships with the likes of the VelvetUnderground Robert Mapplethorpe Tom Verlaine and Lenny Kaye herlongtime collaborator. She even had the good taste to marry theMC5’s Fred “Sonic” Smith who passed away in 1994. For the past 30 years she’s been an uncompromising outspokenand politically charged member from a scene that still impacts popculture. On Wednesday she makes her first Pittsburgh appearance since2004 and her first as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee at theCarnegie Music Hall in Homestead. What made you want to record this covers record?’Cause I felt like it… Michael has been so supportive of me. He helped me as a friend asa human being as an artist. And he’s written some of the bestmusic in modern popular music. At the time you were in midst of it did you think peoplewould still care about New York punk scene 30 years later?I don’t think of scenes. I met Tom Verlaine in’74 and I thought he was a great artist and I still think he’s agreat artist.
Police On My Back (And In My Garage)
Harvard Crimson – Jul 26, 2007
I was virtually deaf for the next four days and relations with the neighbors were for a few days delicate. But the summer concert spirit of carefree irreverence and youthful dereliction survived. We successfully instilled in the children an appreciation for punk music and misbehaving and from the cruel crush of core requirements adulthood and the appropriately fleshed-out tankini I would happily continue to run and hide. Rodriguez ?10 is a Crimson arts editor in Currier House.
The Departed
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 26, 2007
“We write stuff that affects our lives” says Michelle Lockneck who is the lead singer and guitarist. Lockneck started directing music videos while she was earning her film degree. While working on other film projects she realized that what she heard affected her more than what she was seeing as a filmmaker and viewer. She realized she had to be a musician.