From time to time I like to check out the Billboard album charts to see what kind of music people are buying in mass quantities these days. This is one of those times. I’m mostly pretty detached from the “pop” world (most of my favorite new music doesn’t sell huge quantities) so this is my [...]

As a fan of Sparklehorse (in particular the 1998 album Good Morning Spider) I’m sad to share the news that Mark Linkous (who was Sparklehorse) committed suicide on March 6, 2010. He was 47. (I just found this post I made a couple of years ago on my three favorite albums of 1998 and I [...]

Dark Night Of The Soul is an interesting new album which is a collaboration between Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse (along with lots of other groovy folks*) that apparently won’t be given the usual release, instead the album is just a CD-R. But yes there is real music involved, it’s just that you’re encouraged to download [...]

As a report from Onion radio news recently pointed out, 1998 was 10 fucking years ago. I find it quite unbelievable. I thought today, how about taking a look back at the albums released in 1998 (10 fucking years ago.) Well I’ve done just that and I’ve picked out three of my favorites to talk [...]