We’re just a few months away from the release date of the Elliott Smith tribute album, Say Yes!. In advance of the album, American Laundromat Records has released Julien Baker‘s cover of “Ballad of Big Nothing” (from 1997’s Either/Or), and it is incredibly powerful. The cover is intimate and sorrowful, an excellent showcase of Baker’s […]
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LISTEN: Julien Baker covers Elliott Smith’s “Ballad of Big Nothing” for tribute album
April 4th, 2016 
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Elliott Smith Documentary ‘Heaven Adores You’ Screening Dates Revealed
March 25th, 2015 Nina Corcoran Last year, we reported that a new Elliott Smith documentary was on its way to reaching the public’s eye. The film, titled Heaven Adores You, is directed by Nickolas Rossi. For the first time, it features unheard tracks, interviews with Smith’s friends and collaborators, and more previously guarded. Today, Rossi’s team announced the film’s theatrical release. Starting on […]
Watch The First Four Minutes Of The New Elliott Smith Documentary, ‘Heaven Adores You’
June 14th, 2014 James Shotwell Prepare to feel all the feels. The organizers behind AFI Docs Fest have released the first four minutes to the upcoming Elliott Smith documentary, Heaven Adores You. The film, which director Nickolas Rossi spent some three years piecing together, has been making its way around the U.S. film festival circuit; the next stop comes June […]
Watch the Trailer for Elliott Smith Documentary ‘Heaven Adores You’
May 1st, 2014 Nina Corcoran Last year we took a moment to remember one of music’s most important icons, Elliott Smith, on the tenth anniversary of his passing with his best songs. With a mysterious personality and an incredible knack for songwriting, Smith’s work soon left Portland and became mainstream after “Miss Misery” (Good Will Hunting) got a Best Original […]
Download Elliott Smith’s Forgotten EDM Demos (Yes, Really)
January 28th, 2014 Nina Corcoran Way back in 1997 when Elliott Smith recorded the Oscar-nominated “Miss Misery,” he and ex-Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty were recording three songs that sliced Smith’s vocals over–wait for it–electronic beats. Doughty posted the tracks (“The Record,” “Dogs,” and “Burn (Aah Fuck)”) today under his UUL guise. Give them a listen after the jump. According to […]
UTG LIST: Ten Songs To Remember Elliott Smith
October 21st, 2013 Drew Caruso Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of famous singer/songwriter, Elliott Smith. In his short, but vastly influential career, Smith mastered the art of songwriting, creating beautiful piece after piece. In one of his most memorable candid statements, Smith claimed that he thought of songs as shapes, rather than pieces strung together. This aspect […]
Madonna Peforms A Dramatic Cover Of Elliott Smith’s “Between The Bars”
September 25th, 2013 Dan Bogosian Sometimes artists cover artists from other genres that we could never had expected. While Elliott Smith may have ended his time as a major label act (on the short lasting major label of Dreamworks), I doubt any of us could predict in 2013, Madonna would cover one of his most well known songs for the […]
WATCH: Elliott Smith And Brad Mehldau On ‘The Jon Brion Show’
January 18th, 2013 Dan Bogosian Jon Brion is best known as the guy who assembled some pretty awesome soundtracks – in addition to working with Paul Thomas Anderson on Magnolia (god bless you, Aimee Man) and Punch Drunk Love, he also worked on the music for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Apparently, in the year 2000, PTA and Jon pitched the […]
Elliott Smith Mural Restored for His Birthday
August 12th, 2011 Brian Leak For the first time in three years, the renowned memorial mural for the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith was updated on Saturday, August 6 for his birthday. (He would have turned 42). To celebrate the occasion, a group of anonymous artists touched up the mural and also added a stencil of Smith standing where he appears […]
Free unreleased Elliott Smith song
December 18th, 2009 James Shotwell In April, Kill Rock Stars are set to reissue Elliott Smith’s debut album Roman Candle as well as posthumous release From a Basement on the Hill. To celebrate the reissues, ThinkIndie is offering a free download of “Cecilia/Amanda,” a previously unreleased track written by Smith’s high school band Stranger Than Fiction. The track was rerecorded […]
REQUIRED LISTENING: Edward Cuozzo offers poignant, acoustic beauty on ‘The Silvia EP’
January 29th, 2016 Brian Leak Edward Cuozzo is likely an unfamiliar name, but if the Scranton, Pennsylvania singer-songwriter’s newest EP gains the traction it deserves, “Cuozzo” will be on the tongue-tips and turntables of every alt-acoustic music lover with a taste for everything from Elliott Smith to Brand New. Over the course of six tracks and 23 minutes, the former […]
UTG PREMIERE: Aaron Lee Tasjan – “The Dangerous Kind”
August 6th, 2015 Matthew Leimkuehler Aaron Lee Tasjan’s newest single, “The Dangerous Kind,” is a fine piece of blues rock ‘n’ roll music. The track—which comes off of Tasjan’s new record, In The Blazes—mixes everything from poignant storytelling to sleek and saucy guitar playing. “This love is the dangerous kind,” Tasjan sings. This song is the dangerous kind…dangerously good. In […]