For all its surface fury punk rock has always had a surprising metaphysical aspect. In New York in the mid Seventies when Tom Verlaine and Patti Smith were friends struggling to remake themselves as artists Verlaine with his band Television Smith as a poet their shared tastes in reading from Rimbaud to Paul Bowles helped shape a unified aesthetic with definite spiritual aims. The flowering of sonic punk in the last few years i...More > Read More Reviews on RollingStone.com