For Elliott Smith fans, his death 20 years ago was the loss of a friend they never met. His songs resonated so deeply in the way they revealed sadness with brutal honesty. With beautiful simplicity, ...

“Do you miss me, Miss Misery?” Elliott Smith asks, in a song made for the “Good Will Hunting” film soundtrack. I didn’t think he’d ever ask. But yes, I do, because Elliott Smith is gone. The ...

Rare and previously unreleased recordings from Heatmiser — Elliott Smith‘s ’90s band with Neil Gust, Tony Lash, and Brandt Peterson — have been collected for a new compilation, The Music of Heatmiser, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An expanded reissue of Elliott Smith’s seminal third album Either/Or will hit shelves later this year — and fans can hear one of ...

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 composer ...

Brad Mehldau Stuns With Emotional Elliott Smith Tribute on Jimmy Kimmel Live originally appeared on Parade. The greatest way to keep a musician alive long after their death is to continue to perform ...

Working as a music journalist means that some days you get to tell people, in breathless prose, about an incredible new record you've discovered. On other days, you have to tell people that an artist ...

Paying meaningful tribute to Elliott Smith is a tricky thing: his music is so quietly devastating, so pure in its sadness, that expressing the weight of his loss in words feels almost superfluous. If ...

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 pointedly, to get away from his abusive ...