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

It’s rare that a place like MZ that hears literally hundreds of new songs by hundreds of new artists every month, encounters something this good, that it hadn’t known about before. But it’s really that good. Humbodlt Lagoon, for those of you too fickle, ADD or otherwise, to listen, is pulsing, breathing, stream of consciousness, mind-bending, intellectual, visceral and totally rocks.

Tags: Artist of the Month, best new indie artist, Chi-Town, chicago, Deftones, Fugazi, His Name Is Alive, Humboldt Lagoon, Jesus Lizard, LA music blog, Mercury Rev, Obama, Pavement, Phleg Camp, Shudder To Think, Soundgarden, Sparklehorse, Tool, Tricky

Top Twelve Music Spins for the week of June 14th, 2009

Tags: Color Bars, Danger Mouse, Great Perhaps, Harlem Shakes, Jason Lytle, Jeremy Enigk, King Creosote, Leisure Society, Radio Dept, Salim Nourallah, Silver Seas, Sparklehorse, Throw Me The Statue, Top Ten, wayne coyne