Interview with Johnny Marr of (Modest Mouse/Smiths/The Cribs)
Even though the Smiths are an eighties band, they are alive and well in California. Every other weekend there's a "Smiths night" at some bar. The Smiths are also HUGE in the Chicano community, there's a famous thesis some phd chick wrote about their influence on the chicano community as well as a documentary.
