“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 ...

Famously shy and reluctant to be placed in the spotlight, Elliott Smith being nominated for an Academy Award came with ...

Elliott Smith decided he wanted to make a career out of music when he first heard The Beatles’ White Album. In April 2000, he released an album called Figure 8 that seemed like his attempt to recreate ...

Today, we are pleased to debut the new song by The Silver Snails! It's an Elliott smith cover! The Silver Snails are the husband and wife duo Lucas Ward and Elisa Fantini and they make music that ...

More than two decades after his death, Elliott Smith has been immortalized with an asteroid named after him. The celestial honour came from a fan listening to his song ‘Shooting Star’...View on ...

Nobody handled sad songs any better than Elliott Smith. The late great singer-songwriter didn’t have to force the emotion. Both the tone of his voice and a natural tendency toward the melancholy made ...

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 album Smith ...

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 ...

There is no satisfying way to write about Elliott Smith because everything he did defied resolution. He played in deliberately ambiguous scales. His songs had no prevailing mood. He made music not to ...

Ten years ago today Elliott Smith passed away. Musician Marissa Nadler wrote a beautiful tribute to him ahead of playing a special commemorative (commiserative?) show tonight and here DiS' editor ...