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frank_adrian314159 writes "David Lowery, musician (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven), producer (Sparklehorse, Counting Crows), recording engineer (Archers of Loaf, Lamb of God), and geek (programmer, packet radio operator, ex-CBOT quant) talks about the economics of the music business and how the "old boss" — the record labels — have been replaced by the new boss — file downloading services, song ...

Sparklehorse cover - Toronto’s METZ are very good at being very loud, and they do just that on this Sparklehorse cover. It’s not much of a departure from the blistering original , but a welcome tribute to Sparklehorse and their late, great frontman Mark Linkous.

Four tracks that you can listen to sheepishly while your roommates do your dishes in front of you. Turn up your speakers: The late Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous gets a brash, balls-to-the-wall tribute courtesy of Toronto post-hardcore outfit METZ.

The album entitled Crazy Clown Time is out on November 7 in the UK and is his first offering on his own after collaborations with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (to name a few).

Continuing our series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Ally Carnwath finds a spark in this stunning debut album "Louder than a dirtbike" was how Mark "Sparklehorse" Linkous described an early musical epiphany – his first encounter with The Animals' The House of the Rising Sun. And when I first heard Sparklehorse's ...

Few artists have put together more engaging, one-of-a-kind musical endeavors over the past decade than Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton. Start with his landmark “The Grey Album” mash-up, then consider his own groups (Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells), team-ups (“Dark Night of the Soul” with Sparklehorse) and productions (Black Keys, Gorillaz) and he’s collected a resume that you figure has to plateau at ...

The Knoxville, TN trio Royal Bangs have come a long way after playing an old soccer arena and coffee shops as teenagers. After starting their band in high school, growing to a five-member band that played SXSW in 2009, they decided to downsize their band to the current three piece. In recording their latest effort, "Flux Outside" the band enlisted the help of Scott Minor of Sparklehorse to ...

Royal Bangs downsized from a quintet to a trio during the interim between 2009's "Let It Beep" and the new "Flux Outside," its debut for Glassnote Records.

It's understandable that two artists who performed at the Mark Linkous tribute chose to play the same song, "Sad and Beautiful World."

How could you resist listening to an album called Dark Night of the Soul ? It’s the title of the last recording by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse , and, although it’s hardly news now, the album has an even deeper and darker shadow cast upon it due to the recent deaths of Sparklehorse singer and bandleader Mark Linkous and singer/songwriter and contributor to the album, Vic Chesnutt. [ more › ]

-- The Associated Press reports that Marvelettes lead singer Gladys Horton died last night in a Los Angeles nursing home, where she'd been recovering from a stroke. She was 66. Horton co-founded the Detroit group that recorded hits like "Please Mr. Postman" for Motown. -- Reunited Saddle Creek duo Azure Ray have released the new single " Silverlake ". The B-side is a demo version of the same ...