Tag: The Smiths

Linkage: The Smiths visual discography; plus The Fall, Peter Buck, Chrissie Hynde

Today’s assortment of online odds and ends includes a great new Smiths/Morrissey visual discography, a podcast of The Fall’s best Peel sessions, the first taste of Peter Buck’s and Steve Wynn’s second Baseball Project album, and an interview with Chrissie Hynde.

Linkage: Lou Barlow, Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Gang of Four and New Order

Today’s collection of interesting stuff, including interviews with The Smiths’ Andy Rourke, Lou Barlow of Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr and Gang of Four’s Jon King, plus some stripped-down, a capella New Order.

Vintage Video: The Smiths’ third-ever concert, 28 years ago today at The Hacienda

Vintage Video: The Smiths’ third-ever concert, 28 years ago today at The Hacienda

Exactly 28 years ago today, The Smiths took the stage for only their third concert — and only their second with the final Morrissey/Johnny Marr/Andy Rourke/Mike Joyce lineup — opening for Factory Records funk band 52nd Street at New Order’s infamous Manchester club The Hacienda.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 1/2/11

Highlights of tonight’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include some lesser-aired tracks by Depeche Mode (‘Shame’) and The Smiths (‘I Don’t Owe You Anything’), plus a bunch of live Bauhaus.

Hear The Smiths’ reggae version of ‘Girlfriend In A Coma,’ other rare studio outtakes

Hear The Smiths’ reggae version of ‘Girlfriend In A Coma,’ other rare studio outtakes

Fans of The Smiths are reveling in an unexpected Christmas gift this week with the appearance of a bootleg LP featuring 16 unreleased studio outtakes, including the scrapped original recording of ‘Sheila Take a Bow,’ a reggae-like take on ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’ and two previously unheard instrumentals.

Video: British PM David Cameron, MP Kerry McCarthy use The Smiths to debate tuition

Video: British PM David Cameron, MP Kerry McCarthy use The Smiths to debate tuition

The ongoing brouhaha over British Prime Minister David Cameron’s liking of The Smiths — something both Morrissey and Johnny Marr, in a rare show of public unity, have forbidden — spilled over onto the floor of Parliament yesterday during the always-entertaining Prime Minister’s Questions.

Morrissey joins Johnny Marr in ‘forbidding’ David Cameron from liking The Smiths

Morrissey joins Johnny Marr in ‘forbidding’ David Cameron from liking The Smiths

In a rare show of public unity, Morrissey today threw his support behind Johnny Marr after the guitarist ‘forbid’ conservative U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron from liking The Smiths — although in typical fashion, Moz used the occasion to pen a 1,200-word screed against animal cruelty that also takes shots at Prince William and ‘his fiasco (fiancée) Kate Middleton,’ Bryan Ferry and David Beckham.

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 11/28/10

Highlights of tonight’s episode of ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave include more deep Depeche Mode album cuts, a double dose of The House of Love and a triple serving of The Smiths.

Video: Arcade Fire covers The Smiths’ ‘Still Ill’

Video: Arcade Fire covers The Smiths’ ‘Still Ill’

Out on tour in support of their chart-topping third album ‘The Suburbs,’ indie-rock breakthrough act Arcade Fire whipped up a special treat for fans at their Mexico City concert on Oct. 13: a cover of ‘Still Ill,’ the classic track from The Smiths’ 1984 self-titled debut album.

Contest: Win Freebass’ ‘It’s a Beautiful Life’

Contest: Win Freebass’ ‘It’s a Beautiful Life’

The folks at 24 Hour Service Station, who are putting out Peter Hook’s Freebass project here in the U.S., will provide three lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers with a copy of the band’s debut CD, ‘It’s a Beautiful Life.’

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 11/14/10

This week’s ‘Dark Wave’ on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave featured less-played selections from The Smiths (‘I Know It’s Over,’ ‘Barbarism Begins at Home’ and ‘Meat is Murder’), as well as a welcome dash of Die Warzau (‘Funkopolis’) and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult (‘And This is What the Devil Does’).

Playlist: Sirius XM’s ‘Dark Wave,’ 11/7/10

Heavy on The Cure and The Smiths, tonight’s episode of “Dark Wave” on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave also featured lesser-played artists such as Acid Horse and Vicious Pink, plus an excellent one-two punch of Nitzer Ebb’s ‘Lightning Man’ and Martin Gore’s ‘Compulsion.’

The Smiths ‘Extra Track (and a tacky badge)’ MP3 blog launches with ‘Hand in Glove’

The Smiths ‘Extra Track (and a tacky badge)’ MP3 blog launches with ‘Hand in Glove’

Whether intending to launch on Johnny Marr’s birthday or not, the crew that brought us the extraordinary Recycle: Joy Division & New Order — The Factory Years blog picked an appropriate date to kick off its next sonic restoration project: The Smiths: Extra Track (and a tacky badge).