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Sparklehorse Take Workmanlike Approach

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By Jamie Hunter (CHARTattack) February 26, 2007 5:30 pm
Typically when two quiet bands tour together, the experience can be somewhat of a snoozefest. While that certainly could've been the case with Sparklehorse and Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, after the final encore it was safe to say it was anything but. Before anyone could take notice, Sykes shuffled her way to the microphone and tucked...
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Sparklehorse — Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain

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By Vish Khanna (CHARTattack) September 26, 2006 9:15 am
Mark Linkous returns with a dreamy collection of star-studded psych-pop. With Stephen Drozd and Dave Fridmann hanging around the sessions, it's not surprising that tracks like "Don't Take My Sunshine Away" and "It's Not So Hard" have all the hallmarks of The Flaming Lips. "Shade And Honey" owes a debt to Pavement and...
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Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous Commits Suicide

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) March 8, 2010 2:48 pm
Mark Linkous, the founder of indie rock band Sparklehorse, died Saturday (March 6) from an apparent suicide. He was 47. Linkous shot himself in an alleyway outside a friend's home in Knoxville, Tenn., according to the New York Times. "It was with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous...
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Bad News For Dark Night Music

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By CHARTattack Staff May 15, 2009 10:51 am
While Dark Night Of The Soul was only going to get a limited release, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous and film director David Lynch's brainchild now won't come out commercially at all because of what an unnamed spokesperson for the project calls "an ongoing dispute with EMI." While the book of Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Blue...
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Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Present...

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By CHARTattack Staff April 1, 2009 11:40 am
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous were rumoured to have been working on new music together under the tentative names of either Danger Horse or Sparklemouse, but it now appears their collaboration involves lots of other people, too. A poster that says "Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse present Dark Night Of The Soul" is making the...
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Cult Favourite Sparklehorse Return After Five-Year Absence

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By Max Hayman (CHARTattack) July 7, 2006 5:00 pm
Sparklehorse, the alt.country/indie rock brainchild of singer/songwriter Mark Linkous, are set to release a guest-laden fourth album. Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, the long-awaited follow-up to 2001's It's A Wonderful Life, is due out on Sept. 25 via Astralwerks. Linkous wrote many of the record's songs at his farm in Bremo...
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