Tag: The Smiths

Video: Johnny Marr plays ‘What’s In My Bag?’ at Amoeba Music in Hollywood

The latest installment of indie behemoth Amoeba Music’s web series ‘What’s In My Bag?’ asks Johnny Marr the titular question during his recent visit to the chain’s Hollywood store.

Linkage: Johnny Marr preps two solo albums; plus Talk Talk, Gang of Four, The Pogues

Linkage: Johnny Marr preps two solo albums; plus Talk Talk, Gang of Four, The Pogues

This latest round of links and such includes a story on Johnny Marr’s plans to record two solo albums, a look back at Talk Talk, a podcast featuring an interview with Gang of Four, and news that the Pogues’ U.S. tour will be their last.

Built to Spill's Doug Martsch, The Wedding Present, Tanya Donelly on Smiths tribute

Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, The Wedding Present, Tanya Donelly on Smiths tribute

Indie imprint American Laundromat Recordings this fall will issue a brand-new tribute album to The Smiths featuring newly recorded covers by the likes of Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch, The Wedding Present and its spin-off Cinerama, and former Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly.

Pre-order Janice Whaley's The Smiths Project 6CD box set — vocal-only covers of 71 songs

Pre-order Janice Whaley’s The Smiths Project 6CD box set — vocal-only covers of 71 songs

Janice Whaley is releasing the fruits of her ambitious The Smiths Project — vocal-only covers of all 71 songs The Smiths ever recorded — as a lavish 6CD box set. Fans can pre-order the collection through March 1.

Morrissey releasing new ‘Very Best Of,’ will issue 2 ‘Viva Hate’ outtakes as B-sides

Morrissey in April will release a new greatest-hits collection — the 18-track ‘The Very Best of Morrissey’ — featuring an unreleased, Siouxsie-less version of ‘Interlude,’ and will precede the set with a single backed by two unreleased ‘Viva Hate’ outtakes.

Photo: Billy Bragg and Morrissey — in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt — circa 1985

Now here’s something you don’t see every day: A snapshot of Billy Bragg and Morrissey — clad in knee-bearing shorts and some sort of floral or Hawaiian shirt, with his tongue jutting out — at Canada’s Wonderland amusement park in Toronto while on tour with The Smiths in 1985.

Slicing Up Eyeballs marks second anniversary

Hey, what do you know: Turns out exactly two years have passed since Slicing Up Eyeballs: The Legacy of ’80s College Rock launched, and here we are — 1,276 posts and 1.7 million pageviews later — still chugging along.