This is a heavy one. Last year, Nell Smith, a prodigious young Canadian musician who’d collaborated with the Flaming Lips, died in a car accident. She was just 17. Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller knows about that kind of tragedy. In 2023, a car accident also took the life of Kweller’s 16-year-old son Dorian. Next month, on what would’ve been Dorian’s 19th birthday, Kweller will release his new album Cover The Mirrors, his first since he lost his child. It’ll include a song that Kweller wrote for Nell Smith and recorded with the Flaming Lips, Smith’s favorite band.
