The well-trodden narrative about Elliott Smith is this: he was an icon of Portland’s late ‘90’s-post-grunge scene. After his music appeared in “Good Will Hunting,” he secured an Oscar ...

Elliott Smith, the soft-spoken folk ... police are investigating the incident for signs of foul play. Smith emerged from the indie-rock scene in Portland, Ore., in the mid-’90s.

Elliott Smith loved to write ... and writing his new biography of Smith, whose downbeat albums were the soundtrack to Portland's emerging cultural scene in the 1990s. Smith graduated from Lincoln ...

Elliott Smith ... comparisons between Smith and Kurt Cobain in the coming days; they are easy, and, perhaps, inevitable. Like Cobain, Smith sprang from the indie-rock scene of the Pacific ...

The Life of Elliott Smith" was recently released, called Portland "the site of his artistic flowering." "It was all part of this really happening, vibrant, creative Portland scene," Schultz said.