Banga is Patti Smith’s first collection of original material since 2004′s critically-acclaimed Trampin’. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City and produced by Patti Smith and her band: Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty and her long-time collaborator Lenny Kaye. Featured guests include Tom Verlaine, Jack Petruzzelli, Smith’s son Jackson and…

Musician, poet and artist Patti Smith has recently released her memoirs in the book “Just Kids”. One of the founders of the New York punk movement, the book chronicles her life from her formative years as a book obsessed teenager in Pennsylvania, it follows her journey to New York in the early 70s where she…