Patti Smith on why Lou Reed was the “friend of New York City”
Everything the city’s supposed to be.
From The Vault Archives: 06/2025
The band that gave Geddy Lee hope for progressive music: “There will always be something new”
The purest form of musicality.
The song Johnny Cash said was too strange for him to sing: “This isn’t working”
Not worth the extra effort.
The jazz musician Bob Dylan identified with: “They didn’t understand it”
“He was doing something so new, so groundbreaking…”
The artist Robert Plant called a master of wordplay: “The master of that thing”
Just the right word every time.