{"id":14644,"date":"2013-01-14T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2013-01-14T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:57:01","slug":"watch-johnny-marrs-new-video-for-upstarts-off-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/watch-johnny-marrs-new-video-for-upstarts-off-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Johnny Marr’s New Video for “Upstarts” Off New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well what took ya so long?\u00a0 With songs as strong as we’ve heard from his first solo album, The Messenger<\/strong>, we can’t help but wonder why former Smiths’<\/strong> songwriter and guiding-guitarist Johnny Marr<\/strong><\/a> has taken decades to put out his own album.\u00a0 Following The Smiths’<\/strong> demise, however, Marr became a songwriting, guitar-playing gunslinger of sorts, working with Kristy MacColl, Billy Bragg, Oasis, The Pretenders, The The, Electronic<\/strong> (with some of the New Order<\/strong> orderlies),\u00a0Modest Mouse<\/strong> (Marr’s guitar playing and sound at the band’s 2007 Santa Barbara Bowl<\/strong> show are still deeply embedded in our minds), and countless other projects.\u00a0 All of which served, in our ever-so-humble opinion, to mar Johnny’s personal endeavors.\u00a0 Marr did pull together a couple of bands (The Healers<\/strong> and The Cribs<\/strong>), but is only now getting ’round to recording and releasing a personalized record.\u00a0 If the new albums’ first two songs (the title track<\/strong><\/a> and now Upstarts<\/strong><\/em>) are any indication, The Messenger<\/strong> could very well end up on our Best Albums of 2013<\/strong> list.\u00a0 Time will tell.\u00a0 Check it out below.<\/p>\n