...I got this from my brother today. We're big fans of a wonderful band called Grant Lee Buffalo, so when I saw this, needless to say I flipped...

this just in:

"March 23, 1999

According to MuchMusic, Grant Lee Buffalo will appear on a tribute album for The Smiths.* Other bands to appear on the album include Radiohead, Oasis and Terrorvision.* The album is due out later this year, but no word of what tracks GLB will contribute."

I've found some interesting news on the 'green plastic radiohead', website:

"On the rumor front, it seems that Radiohead will be contributing to a Smiths tribute album in the near future. That is all the info that I have. The band are big fans of the Smiths and Ed has said in interviews that "the Smiths were the reason Radiohead formed."

You can find it in the news section.

Bret Easton Ellis' latest (and rather mediocre) novel is Glamourama. On page 267 there's a Smiths reference:

Bobby's face was there endlessly dead-eyed and poised. He was the boytoy in two Madonna videos, the "sad lost guy" in a Belinda Carlisle clip and shirtless in countless others because he had a set of breathtaking abdominals before anyone was really paying attention to the torso, and he was probably the major force in starting that craze. During his career he walked thousands of runways, garnering the nickname. "the Showstopper." He was on the cover of the Smiths' last album, UNFORTUNATELY.