The Smiths are the band that Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher grew up listening to, and their influence can still be heard in the 21st century work of The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys.

Includes eight albums and 25 7" singles. As the Morrissey fan site Morrissey-Solo points out, Rhino is preparing to release a gigantic box set containing basically everything the Smiths ever did ...

The Smiths have announced the deluxe reissue of their seminal album The Queen is Dead.The double-disc set and CD/DVD box are due October 20 through Warner Bros. Records.Along with the remastered ...

Watch the Smiths play their third concert ever in 1983. Most major singles and every Smiths album is noted on the timeline, complete with Spotify embeds so you can listen to them right away.

Taken from the 1984 singles, B-sides and radio sessions compilation Hatful of Hollow, ... 'Paint a Vulgar Picture' from The Smiths’ final record, Strangeways Here We Come, ...

Strange as it may seem, the greatest hits are a poor place to start. Every Smiths best-of feels underwhelming, since their singles are for the most part self-contained statements, rather prickly in ...

I actually got into the Smiths via a collection called Singles. I think many people who discovered the Smiths in the ’90s, it was through that compilation.

The Smiths' bassist, Andy Rourke, has died after a long illness due to pancreatic cancer. He was 59. ... playing on his first few solo singles but over the years, ...

Andy Rourke, who played bass for The Smiths on all four of the English band’s albums, died today of pancreatic cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 59.

The Smiths’ leaders – the relentlessly misanthropic Morrissey and the exhaustingly upbeat Johnny Marr ... and it can certainly be claimed that they were the last great singles band.

If it was a test of taste, Marr was thrilled to take it: the singles were heavy on the 1960s girl pop that he himself had been busy accumulating on recent trips to secondhand stores, the sort of ...

After the Smiths’ breakup, Andy Rourke and Smiths drummer Mike Joyce played on Morrissey’s first few solo singles, and Rourke played on the Sinéad O’Connor album I Do Not Want What I Haven ...