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Elliott Smith

April 2021

  • Revolution girl style now! ... Bikini Kill.

    ‘It reeked of hope and ambition’: 30 years of riot grrrl label Kill Rock Stars

    Born in the Pacific north-west scene that produced grunge – but often in opposition to it – Kill Rock Stars pushed women to the front of the stage, and also gave Elliott Smith a platform

August 2020

  • Elliott Smith on vacation, 1994.

    My best shot
    JJ Gonson's best photograph: a smile from Elliott Smith

    ‘There was this cult of personality around him – the dark, tortured figure – but this shows the tip of the hat, the sideways glance: that’s the actual person’

March 2017

  • Here is the first of 7 high res images of Elliott Smith who died yesterday. The credit is Wendy Lynch / Redferns and the picture is one of are most recent pics taken on 22/03/03.

    Needle in the hay: Elliott Smith's incomparable brilliance lives on

    A reissue of his mid-90s album Either/Or has divided his followers, but almost 15 years after his death the introverted songwriter is still fascinating new fans

December 2016

  • Jack White

    Literary Mixtapes by Electric Literature
    Literary mixtape: Teddy Wayne on songs of desire and obsession

    Pop songs often walk an uncomfortable line between romantic obsession and stalker-like pursuit. Author Teddy Wayne shares 10 songs that helped him write about a lonely freshman in his novel Loner

March 2016

  • Andy Shauf

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Andy Shauf (No 95)

    Canadian singer-songwriter whose forthcoming album of lush chamber-pop is full of awkward characters and lovely atmospherics

February 2016

  • Ends of the scale … Elliott Smith and Ed Sheeran.

    From Elliott Smith to Ed Sheeran: how acoustic introverts became stars

    The soundtrack to Elliott Smith’s Heaven Adores You is released today - illuminating an artist at odds with the new wave of confident singer-songwriters. Is it the end of the introspective male tradition that gave voice to our insecurities?

May 2015

  • singer-songwriter Elliott Smith in the documentary Heaven Adores You

    Heaven Adores You review – adoring Elliott Smith doc will purr for fans

    Nickolas Rossi’s documentary drifts past the late singer’s drug addiction and troubled life, but captures his fragile, romantic side

October 2013

  • Elliott Smith

    From Rock's Backpages
    Elliott Smith – 'I don't feel any sadder than anybody else I know': a classic interview from the vaults

    Elliott Smith killed himself a decade ago this month. Remember him with this 1999 interview from Spin, taken from Rock's Backpages, the home of online music writing

May 2013

  • John Grant Performs In London

    John Grant – review

    John Grant's tortured love affair is still inspiring superb lyrics, now matched by fierce Icelandic electronica, writes Kitty Empire

March 2010

  • Elliott Smith

    Elliott Smith reissue upsets fans

    Forthcoming 'remastering' of late singer-songwriter's debut album provokes complaints for correcting mistakes of original

May 2007

  • Elliott Smith, New Moon

    (Domino, two CDs)

April 2007

  • Elliott Smith, New Moon

    Ben Thompson on the late, sad-eyed troubadour who peaked before he was shortlisted for an Oscar, as these early gems reveal.

October 2004

  • Elliott Smith, From a Basement on a Hill

    (Domino)

March 2004

  • The mysterious death of Mr Misery

    No one was too surprised when Elliott Smith - a boozy, druggy Oscar-nominated folk singer who had talked openly about killing himself - was found dead. But then the coroner's report raised a chilling new possibility: murder. By Alexis Petridis.

October 2003

  • Elliott Smith

  • Elliott Smith dies, aged 34

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