Matt Johnson
From Billy Bragg to Billie Eilish: 22 great Johnny Marr collaborations that aren't The Smiths
One of the great team players of the last 40 years, Johnny Marr elevates any project he’s apart of, be it Talking Heads, Modest Mouse, Pet Shop Boys or The The.
Tour news: The The, Gov't Mule, Metal Allegiance, more
Plus: Guns N’ Roses, Seth Herzog’s SWEET, Sick New World 2024, Jorja Smith, Zach Bryan, and more tour and festival news.
Read Sinéad O'Connor tributes from U2, Peter Gabriel, The The, Massive Attack, Phoebe Bridgers, Janelle Monae, Michael Stipe, more
You can also read tributes to O’Connor from Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn, Chuck D, The Pogues’ Spider Stacy, Boy George, Valerie June, Ice-T, Margo Price, Tegan and Sara, Kimya Dawson, Susanna Hoffs, and more.
The The's Matt Johnson undergoes emergency throat surgery after "a close shave with the grim reaper"
“A throat infection took an unexpected and freakish turn that could easily – if I wasn’t in the right place at the right time – have concluded with me checking-out a few days after the unfortunate Florian Schneider.”
Bill's Indie Basement (5/8): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Mark Lanegan, I Break Horses and Melenas, plus The The reissue a rare early cassette, and new UK shoegaze band bdrmm.
THE THE talk vintage guitars, The Donald and other tour bus conversation topics
Matt Johnson and the rest of The The tell us about touring again after 16 years and what they talk about on the bus. The North American leg of the “2018 Comeback Special” is underway.
tours announced: The The's new live lineup, Grizzly Bear, Decemberists, more
Plus: Poptone, Oh Sees, Jon Hopkins, Hop Along (opening for The Decemberists), XPoNential Fest additions and more.
The The announce North American tour, working on new LP too
North American dates on the tour — The The’s first in 18 years — include NYC, L.A., Chicago, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco and Toronto.
The The releasing 'Radio Cineola' box set, announce first live shows in 16 years
The box set includes new single “We Can’t Stop What’s Coming” as well as performances, readings and interviews from Johnson’s ‘Radio Cineola’ webcasts. Live shows happen in 2018…
listen to The The's first single in 15 years, “You Can’t Stop What’s Coming”
The song features The The members Zeke Manyika on percussion, James Eller on bass, as well as onetime member and longtime friend Johnny Marr on guitar. It’ll be out as a one-side Record Store Day 7″.
