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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SETH AVETT AND JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD Revisiting Elliott Smith’s bright melancholy. THE ART of the cover song is often overlooked. It’s common to dismiss a cover version as an easy grab for the listener ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...