Last night, in remembrance of the 10 year anniversary of Elliott Smith’s death, several musicians gathered at Glasslands in Brooklyn to celebrate a night of his music. Performers included Cat Power, Sky Ferreira, Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz), Marissa Nadler, Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV) along with many others. Check out our photos from the...

There are lots of words to toss around when Elliott Smith comes up — brilliant, troubled, influential, tragic, one-of-a-kind) — each of which fit the music as much as the man. But if pressed for a single descriptor, I’d choose fragile. His early lo-fi works laid bare a burning core of pain and confusion, the [...]

Cat Power and The Low Anthem will also perform at charity show marking 10 years since singer-songwriter's suicide    

It feels like a swift kick to the stomach to say, but on 10/21 it will be 10 years since iconic singer/song-writer Elliott Smith passed away. On that day this year, Cat Power, Zachary Cole Smith with Sky Ferreira, and more will pay tribute to the singer at a concert at Brooklyn’s Glasslands. Other performers [...]

Here’s an interesting new mutation for Elliott Smith’s cultural legacy. Madonna’s got this new 17-minute short film called SecretProjectRevolution, which apparently functions as some sort of protest against the prison industrial. Last night, there was a launch party for the event at Gagosian Gallery in New York, and...