Elliott Smith, the poetic singer-songwriter of America’s indie scene, was found dead at home, stabbed multiple times. Police ...

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 ...

The expanded collection previously was released via digital formats in 2019 in honor of what would’ve been Smith’s 50th birthday. It features Figure 8’s original 16 songs, plus seven bonus tracks. The ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...