L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Elliott Smith wall is still — sort of — standing on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake. The red, white and blue swirl outside the old Solutions speaker repair shop served as a backdrop for Smith’s 2000 album “Figure 8â€... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Elliott Smith wall is still — sort of — standing on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake. The red, white and blue swirl outside the old Solutions speaker repair shop served as a backdrop for Smith’s 2000 album “Figure 8â€... more info

DrownedInSound — A glimpse of Smith as a world-beating songwriter who'd been elevated one step closer to where he rightly belonged, with the greats more info

Stereogum — Orange County twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears released haha, their debut album as the Garden, in 2015. Now they've joined forces with producer Rob Schnapf (Joyce Manor, Elliott Smith, Beck) for a new EP called U Want The Scoop? The enigmatic new sing... more info

Stereogum — Death becomes Elliott Smith. His music is so fragile, so biting yet subtly sweet, that he fits especially well into the tortured genius narrative often imposed on musicians who take their own lives. Our cultural understanding of the legendary singer-... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Haruki Murakami's new novel Killing Commendatore went on sale today in Japan. The Asahi Shimbun collected readers' early reviews. Pitchfork took a closer look at Elliott Smith's Either/Or album, first released 20 years ago. Buke and Gass covered PJ H... more info

Uncut — Happy/sad? A misunderstood masterpiece, revisited Happy/sad? A misunderstood masterpiece, revisited The post Elliott Smith’s Either/Or: Expanded Edition appeared first on Uncut. more info

Stereogum — For the latest installment of the Talkhouse Music Podcast, Pavement's Stephen Malkmus sat down for a conversation with Emil Amos of Om, Grails, and Holy Sons. Their discussion touches on everything from Elliott Smith's love of recording gear to indie... more info

Stereogum — Jessica Dennison and Jessica Jones (no relation to the Marvel hero -- that we know of) are a pair of Portland musicians specializing in gently charming indie-pop with traces of classic pop and country. Or at least that's the vibe I'm picking up from ... more info

Consequence of Sound — First episode features Kevin Devine, Sadie Dupuis, and Jessica Lea Mayfield. more info