So Spin magazine is interviewing David Lynch, Danger Mouse, and Sparklehorse mastermind Mark Linkous last summer about Dark Night of the Soul, their mysterious, disturbing multimedia collaboration.

LONGEVITY will do a lot for you. Stick around long enough, and all the shit that used to surround you will eventually fall away. And if you’re good enough, you’ll rise. Case in point: Sparklehorse. A ...

PJ Harvey teams up with her long-time producer John Parish on a new song entitled 'I'm Sorry for Your Loss'; a heartbreaking tribute to the latter's late friend Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, who died ...

Frederick Mark Linkous was born into a family of coal miners in Virginia in 1962, and in the ’80s he moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles in search of success in the music industry.

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Welcome to the strange and wonderful world of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous. Out of Richmond city limits on Route 60 the scenery slowly changes from strip malls and car dealerships to schools and ...

When Daniel Johnston, the famously unbalanced "outsider music" star, paired up with the famously troubled auteur Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, the result could have ended up twice as wispily alienated ...

The couple, who wed in 1989, share how a soundwave procedure has helped change Rebecca’s experience with the disease. 1 hour ago Danger Mouse has shared a new song he made with Sparklehorse (the late ...

"Dark Night of the Soul," an effort spearheaded by studio maestro Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, and the adventurous, rootsy surrealism of Sparklehorse, aka Mark Linkous, seemed destined to be a lost ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter from central Virginia who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was ...