Guardian Music — From Mozart to the Mars Volta: opera star Renee Fleming tells Jamie-James Medina about her new covers album, featuring songs by Arcade Fire, Willy Mason and Death Cab for Cutie
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Guardian Music — Patti Smith, Steve Albini and Radiohead's Colin Greenwood have paid tribute to the late singer, who took his own life on SaturdayNews of Mark Linkous's death has led to an outpouring of tributes, including remembrances by Patti Smith, Steve Albini an... more info
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This weekend, we learned the sad news that Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous had taken his own life. The New York Times reports that Linkous shot himself in the heart in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was 47.
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Here Comes The Flood —
Want some free music and climate change? USA citizens are encouraged to write to their senators to make it happen. And there is a free Best of Bonnaroo album up for grabs after entering some information at musicforaction.org. You don't have to ca... more info
Rolling Stone — Superstar soprano Renee Fleming is reinterpreting the term “rock opera” this spring with her new album Dark Hope. The Grammy-winning opera singer will take on songs by Arcade Fire, Muse, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen and many ... more info
Live Daily — With a catalog that's now a decade deep, creating a set list isn't easy for Canadian folk-rock act/twin sisters Tegan and Sara [ tickets ].
"Oh my god, I've been sitting here all morning," Sara Quin said via telephone while preparing a set list fo... more info
411 Mania — Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter, Beth Thornley, has been compared to Aimee Mann, Beth Orton, Tegan and Sara, and Death Cab for Cutie. But does her third album, Wash U Clean, warrant such praise? more info