Elliott Smith

Indie Rock Rock 

Heatmiser: Back to Mic City

September 4, 2025September 4, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1996, 2025, Elliott Smith, Heatmiser, Mic City Sons, Neil Gust, No. 2, Sam Coomes, Third Man Records, Tony Lash

Neil Gust talks about reissuing the band’s classic final LP

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Indie Rock Rock 

LISTEN: Davey Harris Bids “Aloha”

September 10, 2024September 12, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Aloha, Animals Vol. 1, Davey Harris, Elliott Smith, T.Rex

New solo EP, Animals Vol. 1, out now

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Indie Rock Rock 

WATCH: Matthew Heller Channels Ukraine with “NO ABSOLUTES”

August 24, 2024August 24, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Cass McCombs, Elliott Smith, Matthew Heller, Oregon, Portland, Ukraine

New album, Criticism, Judgement, Heartbreak and Peril, out September 20

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Folk Indie Rock Rock 

Elliott Smith’s XO (Deluxe Edition) Released on Vinyl

August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1998, DreamWorks Records, Elliott Smith, Interscope Vinyl Collective, Miss Misery, Universal Music Enterprises, Universal Music Group, XO

Physical version of the digital reissue now available as part of Interscope vinyl subscription service

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Art Pop Indie Rock Rock 

WATCH: Soft Punch Shares “My Aim Is True”

September 6, 2023September 8, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Bad Friend Records, Bjork, Elliott Smith, Frank Ocean, music video, My Aim Is True, Paul McCartney, Rye Thomas, Soft Punch, Sparklehorse

New album, Above Water, due out September 15th

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adblock Music Journalism Remembrance 

There Go Our Heroes

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Angela Denk 6 Comments Alice in Chains, Andrew Wood, Andy Wood, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Taylor Hawkins

From Andrew Wood to Taylor Hawkins, Generation X has experienced an insurmountable level of rock hero loss

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Britpop 

I’m Hoping I Don’t Freeze Here: The Hour of Bewilderbeast at 20

July 11, 2020July 11, 2020 Ian King 0 Comments 2000, 20th Anniversary, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, Damon Gough, Doves, Elliott Smith, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, Travis

How the first Badly Drawn Boy album set the scene for 21st Century Post Britpop

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Pop Rock 

Hour to Hour, Note to Note

September 1, 2018September 1, 2018 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1998, 20th Anniversary, Dreamworks, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, The Beach Boys

Twenty years on, XO remains Elliott Smith’s magnificent requiem

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