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  Watch Elliott Smith Cover John Lennon and Big Star in Vintage 'Jon Brion Show' Footage

  January 17, 2013 – It was too good to be on TV. Circa 1999 or 2000, director Paul Thomas Anderson oversaw a pilot for a musical VH1 variety show that would have starred his frequent musical collaborator Jon Brion. …
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  Elliott Smith's 'Figure 8' Mural Inventively Restored in Los Angeles

  October 22, 2012 – Elliott Smith died nine years ago, on October 21, 2003. …
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  Hear Elliott Smith's Alternate Take on 'Ballad of Big Nothing'

  August 23, 2012 – Elliott Smith's former label home, Kill Rock Stars, has offered up another glimpse into the late singer and songwriter's legacy. An alternate take on his 1997 album Either/Or's gut-punching "Ballad of Big Nothing" shows how Smith's much-loved lyrics were ever-changing rather than static. …
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  Listen to Elliott Smith's Bare-Bones Version of 'Angeles'

  August 16, 2012 – As Elliott Smith kept expanded his instrumental palette from album to album, a certain contingent of fans still longed for the hushed intimacy of his earlier recordings. From his 1997 landmark Either/Or, "Angeles" always fell into the latter category, with Smith's wounded yet evocative lyrics set atop busily folk-flecked acoustic guitar figures. But the album track also includes double-tracked vocals and an organ-like hum. …
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  Hear Elliott Smith's Uptempo Take on 'Punch and Judy'

  August 9, 2012 – Elliott Smith's former label home, Kill Rock Stars, is celebrating the late singer and songwriter's legacy all month in honor what would have been his 43rd birthday on August 6. Last week, the label shared a subtly different, previously unreleased take on broke-your-own-heart strummer "Alameda," from Smith's classic 1997 album Either/Or (No. 48 a few years ago on SPIN's 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years). …
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  Hear Elliott Smith's Unreleased 'Alameda (Alternate Version)'

  August 2, 2012 – Elliott Smith would turn 43 on August 6 if not for his horribly sad death almost nine years ago. In the late Portland singer and songwriter's honor, indie label Kill Rock Stars is unveiling a set of previously unreleased tracks, Pitchfork points out. First up is an alternate take of "Alameda," which appears in its finished form on 1997's stark, masterful Either/Or, which ranked at No. …
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  R.E.M.'s Next LP, Rare Elliott Smith Song + More

  July 11, 2011 – R.E.M. are already back in the studio working on a follow-up to Collapse Into Now, which was released in March. Michael Stipe revealed the news in a post on Jane Pratt's new site XOJane. No details about when new music will be released, but the group are free agents after completing their contract with longtime label Warner Bros. Check out a previously unreleased Elliott Smith song titled "The Real Estate" over at Pitchfork. …
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  SPIN Remembers John Lennon

  December 8, 2010 – It's a monumental and devastating anniversary in rock history: John Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment building in New York City on December 8, 1980, 30 years ago today. While SPIN didn't print its first issue until 1985, missing out on the opportunity to cover the Beatles or John Lennon in their heyday, we did take time over the years to admire Lennon's legacy and his influence on cutting-edge, provocative rock'n'roll.  …
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  Career-Spanning Elliott Smith Collection Due This Fall

  August 11, 2010 – The first-ever "greatest hits"-style compilation of Elliott Smith's music, An Introduction..., will arrive November 2, and includes 14 tracks, culled from each of the late artist's seven albums. Intended as a sampler of the rest of Smith's catalog, the album contains obvious entries -- the Academy Award-nominated "Miss Misery," "Say Yes" from Either/Or (No. …
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  Roger Waters Tour Ad Defaces Elliott Smith Mural

  May 5, 2010 – Roger Waters messed with the wrong wall. To publicize his upcoming The Wall tour, in which the Pink Floyd mastermind will play his former band's 1979 rock opera to celebrate its 30th anniversary, Waters' label launched a guerilla marketing campaign, hiring street artists to cover hip locations in New York and Los Angeles with projections, wheat pastings, and chalk drawings of an anti-war quote from President Dwight D. …
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