<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Women rock musicians — United States — Biography."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Women rock musicians — United States — Biography."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/orl/rss/search?query=%22Women%20rock%20musicians%20%E2%80%94%20United%20States%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:09:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Bread of Angels]]></title><description><![CDATA["A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids "God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with tortoises and turns pennies into gold. The most intimate of Smith's suite of memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us from her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and records such as Horses and Easter, Dancing Barefoot and Because the Night. Then she leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a mystical life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She creates a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith loses those around her, grief, loss, and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again. The one constant in a life driven by artistic fire and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C711313</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C711313</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/711313111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345815484/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this tough, tender memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplthorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C166661</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C166661</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/166661111</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>From Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel: A Life of Art and Friendship</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062008442/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking to My Angels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings-- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her livelihood; she was diagnosed with breast cancer; and she endured two contentious breakups, all under the scrutiny of the public eye. Then she lost her son Beckett to opioid addiction. Here Etheridge dives into how both joy and sorrow serve as catalysts for growth. In this memoir she creates a rich portrait of success and survival-- and an inspiring story of healing.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C661672</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C661672</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Etheridge, Melissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/661672111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063257450/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tina]]></title><description><![CDATA[An intimate and revealing look at the life and career of Tina Turner, charting the queen of rock 'n' roll's rise to early fame, lifelong personal and professional struggles, and improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. Shining a light on an immensely talented performer who has courageously spoken her truth about domestic abuse and refused to let age, gender, or a difficult past stand in her way, the feature documentary is a celebration of Turner's awe-inspiring journey to stardom and ultimate embrace of her status as a beloved and respected survivor.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C615622</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C615622</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/615622111</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=883929776153</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[M Train]]></title><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C270320</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C270320</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/270320111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345815453/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year of the Monkey]]></title><description><![CDATA["Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C449510</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C449510</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/449510111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735279285/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl]]></title><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C272424</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C272424</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brownstein, Carrie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/272424111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594486630/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Flame]]></title><description><![CDATA["The authorized biography of the quintessential '80s pop band The Bangles, who scored massive hits with "Manic Monday," "Walk like an Egyptian," "Hazy shade of winter," and more"--Page 2 of cover.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C694640</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C694640</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bickerdike, Jennifer Otter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/694640111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Authorized Biography of The Bangles</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306833342/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread of Angels]]></title><description><![CDATA["A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids "God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with tortoises and turns pennies into gold. The most intimate of Smith's suite of memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us from her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and records such as Horses and Easter, Dancing Barefoot and Because the Night. Then she leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a mystical life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She creates a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family. As Smith loses those around her, grief, loss, and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again. The one constant in a life driven by artistic fire and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live."--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C718505</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C718505</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/718505111</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345815507/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fetishized]]></title><description><![CDATA["A deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women-from Kaila Yu, former pin-up model and lead singer of Nylon Pink"-- Publisher.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C702802</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C702802</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yu, Kaila]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/702802111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593728017/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions, Dreams & Rumours]]></title><description><![CDATA["Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks is a musical visionary, a poet and an enduring style icon with a truly phenomenal life story. The Omnibus enhanced Dreams, Visions & Rumours is a celebratory examination of this tale, tracing Stevie's life from her Arizona childhood, the magic moment when she joined Fleetwood Mac and the hedonistic turbulence that followed. Crowned 'The Reigning Queen Of Rock And Roll' by Rolling Stone, and with gold and quadruple platinum solo albums under her beaded belt, Stevie Nicks has enjoyed the ultimate in rock 'n' roll success in her life as a recording artist - but this charmed life has come as a result of grit, self-belief and a devotion to creativity above all; hers has been a journey of intense highs and lows." -- Publisher. ]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C711558</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C711558</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Howe, Zoë]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/711558111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Portrait of Stevie Nicks</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781917274074/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harder I Fight the More I Love You]]></title><description><![CDATA["Neko Case has long been revered as one of music's most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl "raised by two dogs and a space heater" in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Case shows readers what it's like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art. The Harder I Fight The More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face"--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C694532</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C694532</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Case, Neko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/694532111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538710500/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harder I Fight the More I Love You]]></title><description><![CDATA[For readers of Carrie Brownstein's  Hunger Makes the Modern Girl  and Brandi Carlile's  Broken Horses  comes a profoundly moving portrait of a remarkable life forged through trial and error, unlikely inspiration, and hard work, from critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Neko Case.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C695000</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C695000</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Case, Neko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/695000111</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538710524/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Angel]]></title><description><![CDATA[The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and her early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C678466</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C678466</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/678466111</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>The Genius of Judee Sill</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=738329266059</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheryl]]></title><description><![CDATA[A documentary portrait of the singular storyteller who's lived it all and seen it all but never told it all, until now. From humble beginnings to sold out world tours Sheryl Crow's life has been nothing short of extraordinary. Whether battling sexism in the music industry, mourning ill-fated romances or surviving a well-publicized battle with breast cancer, Crow has always found a way to turn even her darkest experiences into captivating, timeless work, creating a legacy that continues to inspire and influence generations.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C644756</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C644756</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/644756111</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=810103684751</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometime in the '60s in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to release an LP with a major record label. Despite releasing five critically-acclaimed albums over five years, touring with famed bands from Slade to Chicago, and amassing a dedicated fan base of music legends including David Bowie, Fanny's groundbreaking impact in music was written out of history ... until bandmates reunite 50 years later with a new rock record deal. With incredible archival footage of the band's rocking past intercut with its next chapter releasing a new LP today, the film includes an interview with a large cadre of music icons, including Def Lepard's Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, The Go-Go's Kathy Valent, and more. Fighting early barriers of race, gender, and sexuality in the music industry, and now ageism, the incredible women of Fanny are ready to claim their hallowed place in the halls of rock 'n' roll fame.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C638195</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C638195</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/638195111</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>The Right to Rock</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=850021115708</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Reputation]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit "I Love Rock n Roll," but that's only part of the story. This documentary gives a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning's 70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C420145</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C420145</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/420145111</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=876964016377</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Like A Runaway]]></title><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C282923</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C282923</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ford, Lita]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/282923111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062270641/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[M Train]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world. M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café; where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant multiplatform artists at work today.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C295115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C295115</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/295115111</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101923016/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work—from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C364291</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C364291</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Patti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/364291111</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062111678/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebel Girl]]></title><description><![CDATA["An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya" are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna's raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes clear, being in a "girl band," especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination. But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her-including with her bandmates, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Johanna Fateman; her friendships with Kurt Cobain and Ian MacKaye; and her introduction to Joan Jett- were all a testament to how the punk world could nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful-and how it continues to fuel her revolutionary art and music"--Publisher.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C670657</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C670657</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hanna, Kathleen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/670657111</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>My Life as A Feminist Punk</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062825230/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indigo Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, "the Indigo Girls saved my life." Still, Amy and Emily battled misogyny, homophobia, and a harsh cultural climate chastising them for not fitting into a female pop star mold. With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily-alongside decades of the band's home movies and intimate present-day verité.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C688960</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C688960</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/688960111</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>It&apos;s Only Life After All</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=850010804996</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebel Girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.   Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want   Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya" are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?  In Rebel Girl, Hanna's raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumul­tuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows. As Hanna makes clear, being in a punk "girl band" in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.  But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her, including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman. And her friendships with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett reminded her that, despite the odds, the punk world could still nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its exclusivity.  In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful-and how they continue to fuel her revolutionary art and music.]]></description><link>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C678791</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S111C678791</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hanna, Kathleen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://orl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/678791111</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>My Life as A Feminist Punk</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062825360/MC.GIF&amp;client=okanaganrl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>