Music in the 1990s

"...all, we could probably blame the whole thing on Lenny Kaye...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Gung Ho

Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.

"...-- not really. This is a real classic Patti Smith/Lenny Kaye song, because the music is so much like..."

March 31, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Psych Fest Synchronicity

"...was fuzzy, I spied original Patti Smith Group guitarist, Lenny Kaye, walking the grounds. Struck by the immense synchronicity..."

April 29, 2013 Postmarks

You Call It Madness

Sheet music

"...You Call It MadnessBy Lenny Kaye..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Review by Kate X Messer

SXSW Music: Lou Reed Tribute

March 14, 2014. 61 photos.

"...Alejandro Escovedo, Tony Shanahan & Lenny Kaye..."

March 15, 2014 Photo Gallery

SXSW Profiles

Jody Denberg talks to Patti Smith

"...not, not really. This is a real classic Patti Smith/Lenny Kaye song, because the music is so much like..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Whit Smith's Hot Jazz Caravan

The soundtrack of Django Reinhardt lounging in the back of Bob Wills' Airstream

"...Hot Jazz Caravan founder. "I'm sitting between my friend Lenny Kaye and producer Malcolm Burn. Lenny was like, 'Yeah,..."

March 3, 2006 Music Feature by David Lynch

Carmine Street Guitars

Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon

"...shoot the breeze. Chatting with Patti Smith's longtime guitarist Lenny Kaye on the subject of Fender Telecasters and musicianship..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playing for the People

More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

"...AC: Lenny [Kaye, Smith's longtime bandmate and co-songwriter] isn't in the..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

In Her Own Time

Haunting the dark corners of Karen Dalton

"...shamanistic introduction from Patti Smith guitarist and music scholar Lenny Kaye – and a "poem" from Devendra Banhart –..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

One Two Three Faw!

A brief history of Texas garage rock.

"...the Sixties after the Fab Four, because that's how Lenny Kaye defined the golden era of garage rock with..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Seeing “(California) Stars” at Austin City Limits’ Hall of Fame Induction

PBS perennial fêtes Alejandro Escovedo, Lucinda Williams & Wilco

"...stood next to Patti Smith wingman and rock archivist Lenny Kaye. Singer-scion Rosanne Cash huddled with Jason Isbell prior..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...her wildly oscillating free verse over pioneering rock journalist Lenny Kaye's protean guitar work at various poetry events. The..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Patti Smith and Bikini Kill in One Weekend

Lighting strikes twice in Austin, and Pleasure Venom opens

"...drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, and bassist/keyboardist Tony Shanahan, guitarist Lenny Kaye led a medley of the Rolling Stones' "I'm..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Patti Smith: “I don’t claim to be a progenitor of any particular movement – I just did my work”

Ever-evolving singer, writer, & artist communes at ACL Live Saturday

"...While Smith and her musical cohorts – guitarist Lenny Kaye (also a pioneering rock journalist who defined the..."

May 2, 2022 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Ballroom Dancing

SXSW panels

"..."the Cobain of our generation." Meanwhile, Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, a minor-key legend in his own right, spoke..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Por Vida All-Star Tribute Concert

Last week's Por Vida All-Star Tribute to Alejandro Escovedo turns into 'The Last Waltz.' Not literally, of course.

"...rock & roll scholar, author, and Patti Smith axe-grinder Lenny Kaye, whose street hustle on Escovedo's "Sacramento & Polk"..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...mainstream indifference. Compiled by future Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, Nuggets mixed 27 forgotten Top 40 hits, regional..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...fame. Fellow scribe (and future Patti Smith Group guitarist) Lenny Kaye then applied it to the groups featured on..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music Review: Terminal Mind

Austin punk trio reboots Seventies relevancy

"...lank hair, Marsh unwittingly resembled Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye. Even so, Terminal Mind has re-established their footing..."

March 13, 2018 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

Blues Lessons with Eve Monsees

Guitarist starts at Jimmy Reed and ends up in New Orleans

"...backed up Billy Boy Arnold, P.F. Sloan, Augie Meyers, Lenny Kaye, and Roy Head...."

Dec. 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Music DVDs

"...the glam guitarist and punk icon. NYC cultural maven Lenny Kaye then dubs him "the essence of rock &..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Live Shot: Lou Reed Tribute

‘Real Good Time Together’

"...a stellar band, including New York greats Clem Burke, Lenny Kaye, Ivan Julian, and Tony Shanahan and prized local..."

March 15, 2014 Music Post by Michael Toland

Playback: Sound Bleed

As Interactive kicks off SXSW, its bookings merge with Music

"...Voidoids' Ivan Julian on guitar, and Tony Shanahan and Lenny Kaye from Patti Smith's band. Look also for longtime..."

March 7, 2014 Music Column

SXSW Lou Reed Tribute Gathers Steam

Richard Barone enlists Alejandro Escovedo for star-studded show

"...be enough to get people interested: Patti Smith bandmembers Lenny Kaye and Tony Shanahan being joined by Blondie drummer..."

March 5, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Hey Ho, Let’s Go!

Thumbs up for Joey Ramone's new solo disc

"...fill in the blanks. Steve Van Zandt, Joan Jett, Lenny Kaye, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos, Holly Beth Vincent..."

July 18, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

Alpha Rev goes Hollywood, Book of Shadows pen a few new chapters, and Alejandro Escovedo meets a Man From Plains

"...first time they came to L.A., Patti Smith with Lenny Kaye, worked with John Cale and Tony Visconti," he..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Welcome to Hazleweird

Lee Hazlewood

"...liners from Patti Smith power source and pop historian Lenny Kaye tag as a “more traditional singer-songwriter album,” incorporates..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

General Lee and Me

My life and dirty times as a Jam & Jelly Girl with Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

"...do, precious few ever achieve the status of, say, Lenny Kaye with the Patti Smith Group, in which the..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996

In box

"...Lenny Kaye's 1972 Nuggets compilation embodied the garage-bred, acid-tinged one-hit..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

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