Riot Fest 2024 Day 2 photo highlights: St. Vincent, Dat Boy Zach, Verböten, The Hives, and more
Drummer Zack Kantor and vocalist Tracey Bradford perform with Verboten on day two of Riot Fest in Douglass Park, Saturday, ...
Chicago's Verböten reunites for Riot Fest gig — their first show in 41 years
The quartet are stepping out of their various day jobs to return to musicmaking, with a new album set for release on October ...
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Morrissey started something he couldn’t finish (signing trademark documents)
Johnny Marr has “taken to Twitter,” as people once said, to correct the record on Morrissey’s inflammatory blog post “The Plot Thickens.” After Marr declined a Smiths reunion tour ...
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Johnny Marr Responds to Morrissey’s Claims About Smiths Reunion Tour, Name Ownership: ‘It Was Left to Me to Protect the Legacy’
With decades of unpleasant words between principal members Morrissey and Johnny Marr, the Smiths have long been one of the classic rock groups least likely to reunite, and it seems even less ...
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Morrissey fires management team after Johnny Marr refutes claims of “ignoring” The Smiths reunion offer
He wrote on September 19: “Morrissey has severed all connections with Red Light Management/Pete Galli Management.” It’s the latest move Morrissey has made following a string of claims he ...
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Morrissey claims Johnny Marr now owns all The Smiths trademarks
According to a post on Morrissey’s website, The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has successfully applied for the trademark and intellectual property rights to the band. For optimistic fans of ...
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Johnny Marr And Morrissey’s Feud Over The Smiths Trademark And A Reunion Tour Took Another Ugly Turn
Morrissey and Johnny Marr are the thorns in each other’s sides. On Monday, Morrissey wrote in a blog post titled “THE PLOT THICKENS” that his former The Smiths bandmate “successfully ...
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Oasis may have buried the hatchet, but Morrissey and Johnny Marr of The Smiths are still fighting, trade barbs over 2025 tour offer
Morrissey alleges his former bandmate, Johnny Marr, “ignored” an opportunity to reunite. While contentious Oasis bros Liam and Noel Gallagher have buried the hatchet to launch a wildly ...
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Morrissey Says Johnny Marr Has Acquired The Smiths Trademark, Can Replace Him As Band’s Vocalist
This action was done without any consultation to Morrissey, and without allowing Morrissey the standard opportunity of ‘objection’. Amongst many other things, this means that Marr can now tour ...
Riot Fest opens, back in Douglass Park with headliners Fall Out Boy and The Marley Brothers
Inside and outside of the festival grounds, music fans and residents reflected on its return to the West Side park. The ...
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Johnny Marr Fires Back at Morrissey’s Trademark & Tour Claims: ‘It Was Left to Me to Protect the Legacy’
Johnny Marr's management took to Instagram to refute a series of claims made by Morrissey over the past few weeks. By Rania Aniftos The tension is continuing to rise between Morrissey and his ...
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Morrissey claims Johnny Marr now owns “100 per cent trademark rights and Intellectual Property” of The Smiths name
Morrissey has claimed that Johnny Marr now owns all of the “trademark rights and Intellectual Property” of The Smiths, and can tour as a band without him. The band’s former frontman made the ...