Smiths-style US bands highlighted by the Guardian:
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Stop me if you've heard this before
Dave Simpson
Friday July 21, 2006
Guardian

Excerpt:

A Rickenbacker guitar strikes up a mournful chime. A distinctive wail bursts in: "I'd be dead ... but there's nothing worth dying for." This isn't some rediscovered lost Smiths obscurity but a song by a new band called the Isles. Their debut album, Perfumed Lands, sounds like a collection of Smiths demos from 1983. Meanwhile another band, Voxtrot, have a song, The Start of Something, that sounds eerily like an early attempt at This Charming Man.

There's nothing new about bands borrowing from the Smiths - British groups were at it a decade ago. What's different about the latest lot is that they're American. The Isles hail from New York; Voxtrot are from Texas.