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No bad dream fucker’s gonna boss Momma around. The beloved alt-rock hook-slingers are riding high off the release of their recent Welcome To My Blue Sky, one of 2025’s very best albums so far.
We're talking Syd Barrett Pink Floyd, Twink, and The Pretty Things. Their second album, Speed of Light is out September 7 and it includes a space-folksy take on Smith. In fact, Smith and the band had ...
The late Elliott Smith’s songs moved a whole lot of people, and they continue to pop up in unexpected places. This summer, we’ll get an album of Smith covers from the Florida-born pianist and ...
At Largo, Martin and Menne played a lovely cover of “The Biggest Lie,” from Elliott Smith’s self-titled 1995 debut. Menne also did his own 2023 solo song “ Kill Me .” Check out some ...
Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his father—or perhaps more p ...
In high school, Smith began to go by a first name that he felt suited him more, Elliott, and recorded […] Every Elliott Smith Album, Ranked Skip to main content ...
At 16 songs long, Smith has ample room on the album to explore ways to deliver his point. He by no means abandons his gentler side on Figure 8.. “Somebody That I Used To Know” and “Easy Way ...
There’s no such thing as a bad Elliott Smith album. They’re all somewhere between “really good” and “era defining.” Figure 8 holds special significance, however, as it was the final ...
"I respect DeShon Elliott," Smith said on "First Take". "I like him on the Steelers, but he might need to keep his mouth shut. Leave that to Mike, to let Mike Tomlin say that.
The new remaster comes from a digital transfer from Rob Schnapf and Joanna Bolme's original 1/4-inch tape mixes. Elliott Smith’s From a Basement on the Hill Reissued for 20th Anniversary Jonah ...
Amanda Altarejos ’26 has collected songs that spin around love and melancholia for the Mr. Misery of the 90s indie scene — Elliott Smith, in her second column installment.