Holiday Gift Guide: ’80s college rock CD and vinyl box sets, reissues, multi-disc sets
Tweet For music fans of a certain stripe, Christmas — and its Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping splurges — is a great time of […]
Tag: The Smiths
Video: Johnny Marr and The Cribs perform on ‘Late Show with David Letterman’
Tweet When he’s not working with Modest Mouse, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has been writing and recording with The Cribs, and, on Thursday, Marr and […]
Video: Morrissey returns to stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall, 3 nights after collapse
Three nights after collapsing on stage and being rushed to the hospital, Morrissey resumed his fall European tour tonight at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall […]
Update: Morrissey released from hospital, Monday’s Bournemouth concert postponed
Morrissey was released from a British hospital today after suffering breathing difficulties and collapsing on stage just one song into his concert Saturday night in […]
Morrissey collapses on stage during U.K. concert, hospitalized in stable condition
Morrissey collapsed on stage one song into his concert tonight in Swindon, England — the second date of his fall European tour — and was […]
Vintage Video: Radiohead covers The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order
With Radiohead and Thom Yorke each releasing new songs recently — and Yorke debuting his new solo band, featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea […]
Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Stone Roses’ Ian Brown planning to record album together
Turns out Peter Hook’s Freebass may not be the only Stone Roses/Smiths collaboration afoot: Ex-Roses vocalist Ian Brown this week told the BBC he’s planning […]
Peter Hook’s Freebass finishes first album, preps debut EP ‘Two Worlds Collide’
Former New Order bassist Peter Hook’s long-gestating Freebass project — which also features the four-stringed talents of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke and Gary “Mani” Mounfield […]
Morrissey’s U.S. tour dates: West Coast concerts planned in November, December
It’s been a busy 2009 for Morrissey — canceling tour dates, prepping a b-sides comp, posing nearly nude, lashing out at ex-Smiths, telling fans not […]
Morrissey ‘irked’ at Andy Rourke’s claim he was fired from The Smiths via postcard
Although most of Morrissey’s Smiths-related rancor is reserved for litigious drummer Mike Joyce, the singer today lashed out at bassist Andy Rourke for claiming once […]
New releases: New Prefab Sprout album, reissues from The Feelies and The Fall
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: Prefab Sprout RELEASE: Let’s Change the World […]
New releases: The Smiths vinyl reissues, new Fall live CD, New Order re-reissues
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday. ARTIST: The Smiths RELEASES: The Smiths, Meat is […]
Morrissey: Don’t buy my new box sets, Smiths reissues — I’m not making money off them
Morrissey is asking fans not to buy a pair of just-announced box sets of his solo 7-inch singles — in addition to recent singles boxes […]
