Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his ...

There’s no such thing as a bad Elliott Smith album. They’re all somewhere between “really good” and “era defining.” Figure 8 holds special significance, however, as it was the final album Smith ...

Police in a city around 40 miles southwest of Atlanta have arrested 38-year-old Scotty Elliot Smith and charged him with murder and other offenses after officials said he had confessed to killing ...

With $500 and a dream, Elliott Smith and friend Larry Crane rented out a poky Portland studio that would eventually bear ...

Elliott Smith decided he wanted to make a career out of music when he first heard The Beatles’ White Album. In April 2000, he released an album called Figure 8 that seemed like his attempt to recreate ...

NEWNAN, Ga. — Nearly 15 years after Blake Tyler Chappell vanished after his homecoming dance, a man has confessed to the Coweta County teen's murder. Chappell was 17 years old when he didn't come home ...

The late Elliott Smith's songs moved a whole lot of people, and they continue to pop up in unexpected places. This summer, we'll get an album of Smith covers from the Florida-born pianist and composer ...