Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist and music writer from Manhattan, best known for his long tenure in the Patti Smith Group. In 1972 he compiled "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era", the anthology that documented 1960s garage rock. He also wrote for Rolling Stone and Creem, worked on R.E.M.'s "Collapse into Now" (2011) and released the solo album "Goin' Local" in 2026.