Late last year, Morrissey threw a prolonged tantrum after a German news site had the gall to publish some truly terrible things he said in an interview about sexual assault, the Holocaust, and refugees, with the former Smiths frontman accusing the outlet of editing his comments specifically to make him look bad. The…
Morrissey’s debut solo studio album, Viva Hate, celebrates its 30th anniversary today. In honor of the occasion, comedian and Morrissey’s biggest fan Chris Gethard gives Morrissey newbies a crash course on the artist’s 40-year catalog (including his time with The Smiths).
A complete Smiths reunion remains as unlikely as a bipartisan healthcare deal in the U.S., so the news that a partial gathering was in the works with three of the original members (though not the ones with the most name recognition) was mildly surprising. But that’s what the Manchester Evening News reported earlier…
Ever since L.A. declared November 10 to be Morrissey Day, it seems that the former Smiths frontman has been doing everything he can to disprove the idea that he’s worthy of such an honor. First there was the interview with German news outlet Spiegel Online, in which he expressed some suspiciously Trumpian views on…
While maintaining his new, no-print-media rule, Morrissey has still managed to break the news of his denial regarding some shitty comments he made to a Spiegel Online interviewer last month. In mid-November, the Smiths frontman spoke with the German outlet about a variety of subjects, including the still-cresting wave…
Turns out Morrissey actually carrying out a tour has its drawbacks—namely, all the press that the former Smiths frontman is invited to do to promote his latest trek. Interviews with Moz usually result in some prickly bullshit, whether he’s weighing in on Brexit or some other international tragedy. But now that the…
Given Morrissey’s recent comments on the sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein, it’s starting to feel like the lead singer of The Smiths has always been a vacuous trash receptacle. But now, thanks to the serendipitous forces of the universe, we can see what it would be like for a literal…
These days, it should be generally accepted that getting Morrissey’s take on current events is a bad idea for everyone involved, since he usually ends up saying something bad and we’re all left to try and parse his weird political takes. So, it should be wholly unsurprising that a recent interview Morrissey gave to…
Morrissey hasn’t made it easy to be a Morrissey fan in recent years, delivering multiple foot-in-mouth political proclamations, a puzzling debut novel, and sporadic, underwhelming new music. 2014’s World Peace Is None Of Your Business felt like a death knell—a listless, uninspired album that veered from attempted…
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
The city of Los Angeles is taking a gamble this week by assuming that Morrissey will be there tomorrow, Friday, November 10, to celebrate Morrissey Day. “Morrissey Day honors the man who put the ‘M’ in Moz Angeles, an icon whose music continues to touch and uplift countless people across the globe,” Councilwoman…
If every day is like Sunday, that might explain why Morrissey plays so few shows, despite being on tour and all. The mopey troubadour’s latest absentee antics played out in California, as Slicing Up Eyeballs reports Moz’s Paso Robles concert was postponed due to those chilly 40-degree temps—never mind that that…
As 2017 winds to a close, after a year that’s seen the release of thousands of albums—an unusually large number of which are quite good!—it seems almost unthinkable that November would still have more to give. But with new records from the likes of Björk, Angel Olsen, Shamir, Sharon Jones, and more still in the…
All the signs have been there—the album announcement, the Twitter account, the not-so-cryptic tweet with the initials of states. But Morrissey’s now shared the complete list of dates and venues for his tour in support of Low In High School, his 11th studio album. The tour kicks off on Halloween and wraps before…
After briefly popping up on Twitter yesterday to tease a new song (or maybe just to embrace the inherent frivolity of social media with a nod to lazy days), Morrissey has jumped straight to promoting his upcoming full-length album Low In High School. The album, which will be Morrissey’s first since World Peace Is None…
Twitter is a writerly platform, and as such can sometimes provide a bit too much transparency into the way our favorite (and least favorite) celebrities behave. Nothing kills the allure of fame like seeing that famous person retweeting unfunny self-promotion alongside a crying emoji. But if ever there were a public…
Perhaps hoping to eclipse the release of other Pope Of Mope-related projects, Morrissey’s just announced a new album. The singer, activist, and alleged Smash Mouth fan will drop his 11th studio album, Low In High-School, on November 17 through BMG, which he’s also partnered with on his own label, Etienne (the French…
In the grand scheme of pop culture, Morrissey and The Smiths are undoubtedly influential, but still questionably household names at this point. That makes the appeal of England Is Mine a shaky proposition: It’s a biopic that ends before its subject’s life-changing work even really begins, so those without the…
As revealed in a new Stereogum interview with Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell, legendary mopester Morrissey is a fan of Harwell’s brand of largely inoffensive Shrek music. Morrissey apparently said that to Harwell himself after he and Smash Mouth both appeared at The Roxy Fest in Mexico, with Harwell telling …
There’s nothing new about Morrissey canceling tour dates—by this point, it’s as much a part of his signature arsenal as “Suedehead,” “Everyday Is Like Sunday,” and complaining about meat—but the attendant drama rarely extends very far out of his head and into the real world. Today, though, Rolling Stone reports that…
