Artist of the Week: Patti Smith

The one and only Patti Smith was the last artist to play at CBGB...and now, just in the week after the passing of the owner of that institution, Patti Smith will be the first artist to play at what some people hope is a new institution in Williamsburg. As if the larger Luna Lounge wasn't enough, the Bowery Presents folks have opened a several-hundred person capacity venue on the remains of the old club NorthSix. The Music Hall of Williamsburg may have an oddly formal and unhip name but the line-up is shaping up to be quite the feast and it all starts off with the woman who wrote one of the greatest opening lines in rock history: