



Elliott Smith: Either/Or: Expanded Edition By Alexa Peters Ma| 2:49pm.Elliott Smith's Unreleased Performance of "Pretty (Ugly Before)" Is a Must-Hear By Carter Shelter | 12:34pm.Remembering Elliott Smith: Hear the Singer-Songwriter Perform in New York Circa 1998 By Ellen Johnson Octo| 3:00pm.Elliott Smith’s XO and Figure 8 Receive Digital Deluxe Releases in Honor of His 50th Birthday By Marissa Matozzo Aug| 12:11pm.Elliott Smith Would've Turned 50 Today, Hear a Classic Live Performance from 1998 By Lizzie Manno Aug| 2:50pm.The Best Original Song Nominees that Didn't Win the Oscar By Steven Edelstone, Ellen Johnson and Lizzie Manno Febru| 1:08pm.Elliott Smith's Self-Titled Album To Be Reissued Via Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition By Danielle Chelosky | 11:35am.Listen to Elliott Smith Play "Some Song" on His Earliest Known Live Recording By Jack Meyer J| 1:03pm.10 Notable Album Reissues Coming Soon By Lizzie Manno J| 11:00am.Listen to Palehound Cover Elliott Smith's "Southern Belle" By Danielle Chelosky Aug| 10:16am.Elliott Smith’s Classic Self-Titled LP Is Revitalized on New Anniversary Edition By Jade Gomez Septem| 12:20pm.During this set, he offered a number of old favorites and soon-to-be canonic tracks, including “Waltz #2,” “Say Yes” and “Between the Bars,” although a noted exception was “Miss Misery,” the Oscar-nominated song he contributed to the Good Will Hunting soundtrack the year prior. In 1998, at the time of this recording, Smith had just released his fourth studio album XO. Just listening to the audio from that whole concert, though, he’s clearly already beloved. Right at the peak of his career in the late-‘90s, lauded lo-fi singer/songwriter Elliott Smith played a small room in New York City called Tramps. Every day, we’ll dig through the archive to find the coolest recording we have from that date in history. Did you know that Paste owns the world’s largest collection of live music recordings? It’s true! And what’s even crazier, it’s all free-hundreds of thousands of exclusive songs, concerts and videos that you can listen to and watch right here at, from Louis Armstrong to The Who to U2 to Wilco.
