Brooklyn Vegan — Philadelphia punks The Menzingers announced a May/June headlining tour with excellent support from Chumped (who are on tour with Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Smith Street Band and Jeff Rosenstock right now and hit NYC a few weeks back at... more info

Stereogum — David Cameron is the conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain. He’s also a man with decent-if-basic tastes in indie rock. In the past, he’s incurred the wrath of both Morrissey and Johnny Marr by claiming that he likes the Smiths. (It’s not... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Chumped @ BK Night Bazar, 2014 (more by Mimi Hong) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Smith Street Band, Jeff Rosenstock, Chumped @ Warsaw... more info

Stereogum — For a new Record Store Day single, the former Smiths axe wizard Johnny Marr has recorded a version of Depeche Mode’s 1993 single “I Feel You.” The Marr version switches out Depeche Mode’s synth-throb for guitar crunch and turns it into a pret... more info

Stereogum — Back in 1992, Morrissey’s camp reached out to NME photographer Derek Ridgers about using his photo of skinheads as part of a montage during the Smiths singer’s stage show for an upcoming French gig. Long story short, not only did Moz use the phot... more info

Stereogum — There’s a special delicacy to love songs celebrating shy people. Maybe being shy used to be a more popular subject for songwriters — in the ’80s we got classic songs on the theme such as “Ask” by the Smiths and “Too Shy” by Kajagoogoo �... more info

Time — Sorry, N.W.A., Chic, The Smiths and Sting. Maybe next year! more info

Stereogum — WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf is about to launch a short southern US tour, and he’s marking the occasion with a limited edition covers tape called Snowjams. The project will be limited to 300 copies, and it contains Wolf’s characteristically quirky ren... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Te New York Times interviewed the author Elena Ferrante. Fresh Meat interviewed former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. 32 online "best books of 2014" lists were added to the master aggregation at Largehearted Boy yesterday (bringing the total number of... more info

Stereogum — Johnny Marr has put out a video for “Dynamo,” a track off of the former Smiths guitarist’s sophomore album, Playland, that was released earlier this year. The clip was directed by production studio Sitcom Soldiers and Max Bancroft and it featur... more info