The Smiths (music group)

Raise Your glass, Hairdresser on Fire at Fleet Street Kitchen

2013-01-22 12:36:00

Hairdresser on Fire. You see that on Fleet Street Kitchen's craft cocktail menu and you're immediately intrigued. That's not a question. So you continue on to the ingredients. Mezcal? Smoky and potent. Check. Campari? Classic bitters — this is...

Johnny Marr focuses on new work at Metro with a nod to the Smiths

2013-04-26 07:22:00

Johnny Marr sometimes bristles when people bring up the Smiths. It was, after all, nearly 30 years ago that Marr, then only 23, left that group, and the guitarist has spent the past decades busy with a fruitful series of new bands and projects. Still,...

Johnny Marr interview: A guitar hero who serves the song

2013-04-18 14:32:00

As guitar heroes go, Johnny Marr is a fairly unassuming one. His riffs, fills and solos – usually exceedingly terse and to the point – have helped shape countless indelible songs over the last 30 years for the Smiths, The The, Electronic (with...

Coachella 2013 feels something like a British re-invasion

2013-04-15 06:00:00

Ten minutes into his band's performance Friday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, singer Damon Albarn of Blur realized he hadn't introduced himself. So after a hard-driving rendition of Blur's song "There's No Other Way," the...

Coachella 2013: Amid the maelstrom, simple advice from Blur

2013-04-13 10:15:00

On Saturday morning, the collected moments from the night before linger, glistening in the memory, refusing to be snuffed by a long, dusty walk back to the car, a shower, sleep or coffee. You’d think that the sheer volume of notes, beats, measures...

Album review: Johnny Marr delivers with 'The Messenger'

2013-03-01 15:54:00

Fans of the Smiths have more to occupy them this week than at any point in recent memory. Dominating the conversation in his usual fashion, the outspoken frontman Morrissey — who co-founded the hugely influential (and now defunct) English band...

Food fight: Jimmy Kimmel ribs Morrissey for 'dumb statements'

2013-02-27 15:45:00

Morrissey may be the man with a thorn in his side, but Jimmy Kimmel has a message for the tortured British singer: Come make your "dumb statements" on my show. Morrissey — former frontman for 1980s rockers the Smiths — canceled an...

Burger review: Kuma's Too

2013-02-28 00:00:00

Burger review: Kuma's Too 666 W. Diversey Parkway 773-472-2666 Rating:�!!!! (out of four) It is a widely held belief that the best burgers in Chicago are found in a heavy metal bar on the far northwest neighborhood of Avondale serving patties named...

Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week

2013-01-17 04:26:29

Morrissey adored by audience at Reading's Sovereign Performing Arts Center

2013-01-19 16:24:29

The fabled Morrissey memoir: How soon is now?

2013-01-17 16:00:00

Beloved singer Morrissey has been teasing fans for close to two years with news that he's penned a 660-page memoir. The catch is, it doesn't seem to have a publisher -- or didn't, until an exchange at a concert this week. Is the Morrissey memoir...

Less Is Morrissey: Fans Continue to Embrace One of Pop Music's Great Enigmas

2012-10-02 12:40:00

Morrissey Sat., Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. $42. Palace Theater, 100 East Main St., Waterbury. (203) 346-2000, palacetheaterct.org. � Last week, pop singer and lyricist Morrissey was in the news when he rushed to the assistance of an elderly woman who had...

voted the vegetarian of record? First came the dust-up with Jimmy Kimmel over "Duck Dynasty," now Moz has harsh words for Beyonc� about her handbag line. As delightfully weird as that last sentence is to consider, just imagine if he were to channel that sniping into a new album.

2013-03-11 15:37:22

Digital: Spotify subscription, $9.99 for a month ($119.88 for a year), available at spotify.com European music streaming site Spotify arrived to much fanfare in America this year, and much of its praise is deserved.

2011-11-22 16:03:24

British playwright Shelagh Delaney, best known for her debut work "A Taste of Honey" from 1958, has died aged 71, her agent said on Nov. 21, 2011. Her words were a major influence on Morrissey, lead singer of indie band The Smiths, who also grew up in Manchester.

2011-11-22 13:53:07