An essay on the untimely suicide of Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous.

Tags: Dark Night Of The Soul, Don't Take My Sunshine Away, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, Hesse, Laurel Canyon, Man on Wire, Mark Linkous, Mountain, Sad And Beautiful World, Schiele, Schopenhauer, Shade And Honey, Someday I will Treat You Good, Sparklehorse, suicide, The King, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

Tragic Josh is back to curate another list of goodness to stuff in your ear and eye holes. The January 14th, 2010 edition.

Tags: Angus and Julia Stone, best new music, Cold War Kids, Darwin Deez, Hockey Night, Lee and Willbee, Penguin Prison, Pixie Carnation, Small Black, The Da Vincis, Tragic Josh, Twin Berlin

Jesus Lizard is the unsung evil step twin, musically speaking, of The Pixies; wrapping devilishly rich poetry loaded with acerbic wit and grim post-modern fairy tales around a taut, sinewy and often sparse rock arrangements. They will share the opening night bill for the Chicago music fest with other 90’s alternative faves Tortoise, Built To Spill and Yo La Tengo.

Tags: back catalog, built to spill, chicago music, david wm, david yow, dirty three, duane denison, eleven years, fairy tales, faves, Girls Against Boys, hometown gig, Jesus Lizard, kurt cobain, mac mcneilly, music fest, pitchfork music festival, rich poetry, rock monsters, touch and go, yo la tengo