
Morrissey will be making two late night TV appearances as part of his highly anticipated North American tour. On Wednesday, November 23 he will stop by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and he will also appear on TBS' Conan on Tuesday the 29th. The tour begins November 10 in Chicago and concludes December 13 in Guadalajara, Mexico. He will be performing songs from throughout his unparalleled catalog including new unreleased tracks. Morrissey is often recognized as the most important British...

"Call me Ishmael." "Four score and seven years ago..." "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Do I have your attention now? Good. Ah, the power of famous first words. They do more than reel in an audience. They live forever, in books, in speeches and in music , where an album's first impression might not always stick, but a powerful opening statement -- Track 1 to both the iTunes and CD generations -- grabs your attention and gives you reason to believe that [...]

What says doo-wop more than Morrissey ? Well, okay maybe the Moz doesn't quite feel it. But Brooklyn throwback trio The Bandana Splits think he can. So they've covered his classic "Everyday Is Like Sunday" Download the track here . Mr. Sam Presents The Bandana Splits , the debut album from the group, is out now.

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Uma banda já vem fazendo os fãs sofrerem com confirmações não concretizadas há tempos, a outra atração é uma das figuras mais idolatradas da história do Indie Rock e o último cancelou uma apresentação recente no Brasil. É esse line-up de respeito, pronto para acelerar os corações dos desavisados, que foi anunciado pela agência XYZ para um possível novo evento em território brasileiro, o Live Music Rocks: Arcade Fire , Morrissey e Prince . O Live Music Rocks foi anunciado em um evento dedicado à executivos de marketing, mídia e planejamento, realizado na cidade [...]

The former Smiths frontman is set to appear on two US late night talk shows this month.
Dawn Landes, Annie Nero, and Lauren Balthrop cover Morrissey's 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' in their new girl group the Bandana Splits.
So Judge Tugendhat has allowed Morrissey to bring the four year old racism spat before a London jury. Morrissey is excited: In a written statement issued by his solicitor after the hearing, Morrissey said: "In 2007 the NME viciously attacked me and labeled me a racist and a hypocrite. "Last week they sought to avoid facing me in court to settle the matter once and for all. "I am delighted that the NME's attempt to stifle my claim was unsuccessful and that as a result I will be able to [...]

La larga y amarga batalla de Morrissey contra la revista NME por una presunta difamación luego de una polémica entrevista realizada en 2007, será llevada a la corte de justicia el próximo año. El miércoles pasado el Tribunal Supremo de Londres le concedió al ex líder de The Smiths el deseo de audicionar su demanda por difamación, luego de ganar una audiencia previa al juicio en contra de Conor McNicholas -ex editor de la revista NME - y la [...]
Theophilus London discusses mixing indie rock with indie rap, how the internet has changed the game, and much more before hitting the stage at the Rickshaw Stop.
The high court has given Morrissey the go-ahead to pursue a libel case against the British weekly music ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ morrisseys-libel-case-against- the-nme-to-go-ahead/57871/
A legal judgement today gave Morrissey the go-ahead to sue the NME for libel. The case refers to an interview the singer gave to the magazine in 2007, which he claims wrongly portayed him as having racist views on the subject of immigration. "The NME viciously attacked me and labelled me a racist and a hypocrite. Last week they sought to avoid facing me in court to settle the matter once and for all," Morrissey said in a statement. "I am delighted that the NME's attempt to stifle my claim was unsuccessful and that as a [...]
Seriously, how much do you LOVE the LA music scene and going to concerts? Enough to go 51 shows over the month of November? Our pals over at Goldenvoice want to hook you up with tickets to see every single show they're throwing in the Los Angeles area next month. Their Showvember Contest wants to [...]
Joey Barton is trying to reunite The Smiths. He's a big Smiths fan. Obviously, both those sentences can't be true. Gordon reckons Barton is working on an attempt to piss on yet another memory : [T]he QPR skipper has been working on the musical equivalent of the Middle East peace plan. Now The Stone Roses have patched up their differences, Joey has taken it upon himself to reunite one of Manchester's other legendary bands, The Smiths. This is akin to the drummer from Cud popping up trying to insist that [...]
The High Court rules that the singer can take the mag to court over racism allegations...

These Things Take Time: documentário obrigatório pra quem gosta de The Smiths e os rumores de um possível revival da banda Mais um resgate histórico a partir da reedição da obra completa dos Smiths . O documentário These Things Take Time , produzido em 2002 pela Granada Television de Manchester, traz [...]
Orange County's own Young The Giant return for a headlining show! Young The Giant is one of Morrissey's favorite new acts and will be returning for a tour date in Southern California at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana on...

happy friday peoples! i think i may have posted portions of this before, but didnt realize it until i had uploaded everything and the links in place. oh well, if you missed it the first time around, here's your chance. everyone have a loverly weekend. 1-3 are from the peel session of 12.17.86 4-14 are from the troy tate sessions 1. is it really so strange 2. london 3. sweet and tender hooligan 4. reel around the fountain 5. [...]
Morrissey - The National Front Disco Morrissey is a racist and haven't you heard it? It's in everything he writes (in the papers, too), and most noticeably here, amongst the noise and crashes of Alain Whyte's structured hysteria, amongst the forever unplaced inverted commas in the chant-like "England for the English." And that was his first fault. Trusting the listener to hear the quotation marks in "England for the English", trusting them to hear a voice not of Morrissey's but of the countless Davids and their cat calls. Who writes like this anymore? Who [...]
The Guardian is reporting that Morrissey is suing NME Magazine for libel under claims of the magazine portraying him as a "racist and a blatant hypocrite". The Guardian reports: Britain's most senior libel judge [...] Mr Justice Tugendhat is expected to decide within weeks whether the former Smiths frontman should be set a high court date for his long and bitter battle against NME over the article, first published four years ago. Lawyers for the singer told the court on Tuesday that he is willing to be cross-examined as a [...]