LargeHeartedBoy — The Times Literary Supplement interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin. Stereogum reconsidered LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver album 10 years after its release. Granta shared an excerpt from Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West. All Songs Considered reconsidered El... more info

Consequence of Sound — Featuring several unreleased tracks, rarities, and live recordings. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Hurray for the Riff Raff's The Navigator is one of the year's finest albums. I can also recommend Laura Marling's Semper Femina and Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. A remastered and expanded edition of Elliott Smith's Either/Or is also... more info

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