Lenny Kaye is making his solo debut at 79 with a brand new album known as Goin’ Native. The longtime Patti Smith Group member and all-round punk paragon—whose resume contains curating the very first Nuggets compilation—enlisted Smith herself to co-write a tune known as “Solstice,” and labored with jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone, the Jayhawks’ John Jackson, and David Mansfield elsewhere on the LP. Hearken to the title observe beneath, forward of Goin’ Native’s July 17 launch by way of Yep Roc.
Kaye mentioned in a press launch, “I really feel like I’m a brand new artist. I believe this album will shock those that assume they know me from what I’ve finished beforehand.” Of the title, he added, “I’ve at all times liked the native, its intimacy and camaraderie.… I really feel that the truest ‘Goin’ Native’ is the privilege to go inside my very own head and listen to how I sound to me.”
Goin’ Native follows Kaye’s 2022 memoir-cum-rock-chronicle Lightning Putting: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll. He’ll carry out alongside Smith on the 2026 CBGB Competition later this 12 months, after wrapping up his personal U.S. dates with Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, which you’ll find beneath.
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Lenny Kaye:
04-25 Easton, MD – Avalon *
04-26 Annapolis, MD – Rams Head *
04-27 Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere *
04-29 New York, NY – Metropolis Vineyard *
04-30 Ardmore, PA – The Ardmore *
05-02 Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios *
05-05 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse *
05-06 Shirley, MA – Bull Run *
05-08 Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace *
05-09 Bellows Falls, VT – Opera Home *
06-26 Carrboro, NC – Dex Fest
06-27 Carrboro, NC – Dex Fest
* with Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore
