Topic: Mark Linkous

Album reviews: A Camp, by A Camp

Helium - 465 days ago
This record is actually a solo project from Cardigans singer Nina Persson, working with producer Mark Linkous, also known as Sparklehorse, another one-man-band. Linkous says hello immediately with some sonic noodles that for once sound as warm as the prairie wind. Nina ...

Album reviews: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, by Sparklehorse

Helium - 465 days ago
Anybody who begins their recording career with the line "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse" has already got me in stitches before we've barely begun, and then he namedrops The Magnetic Fields, so I think we know what ...

Album reviews: It's a Wonderful Life, by Sparklehorse

Helium - 465 days ago
The economy has gone to hell in a hand basket and now the proletariat has to eek out a baleful existence hand to mouth in the gutter eating spiders and cat droppings. Curse you Mark Linkous, with your utopian poison rotting the ...

Album reviews: Good Morning Spider, by Sparklehorse

Helium - 465 days ago
Good Morning Spider by Sparklehorse (1998) Producer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous recorded most of this record himself, not long after his protracted recovery from a drug overdose that had him confined to a wheelchair for half a year. Linkous is extremely talented ...

Morning Roundup: Walt Baker Out as Hospitality CEO

Nashville Scene - 709 days ago
As the story goes national, the Tennessee Hospitality Association fires CEO Walt Baker over the email joke he sent implying First Lady Michelle Obama is a monkey. Full steam ahead for Eric Crafton as he mobilizes forces to sue the state for ...

Mark Linkous, leader of Sparklehorse, dies at 47

AP News - 710 days ago
Mark Linkous, singer-songwriter and leader of indie band Sparklehorse, dies in Tennessee Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee.Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said ...

Sparklehorse's Frontman Commits Suicide

About.com - 710 days ago
Mark Linkous, the frontman for the art-rock indie band Sparklehorse, committed suicide on Saturday, Rolling Stone is reporting. "It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today ...