Sweeping The Nation — In retrospect, something appears to be coming together around 1998. Three of the year's biggest music stories - George Michael's arrest, Elton John's knighthood, Geri leaving the Spice Girls - feel like the first stage of coalescing into ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Tonight The Paramount is filled with Northwest pride, a sense of growing up, and “WOOOOOO”s. Seattle band Sloucher is first to take the stage. They are quite the classic take on a Northwest pastime of mixing grunge with alternative rock a... more info

Stereogum — DIIV are playing an acoustic concert next month in Brooklyn, and they're making it sound pretty enticing today via a new cover released to promote the event. Zachary Cole Smith recorded "Cow" from Sparklehorse's 1995 debut Vivadixiesubmarinetransmiss... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Holly Miranda has a new covers EP titled Magic Trick which will be out May 13 via Dangerbird. It includes her takes on songs by Drake, Bon Iver, Morphine, Alphaville, Lhasa De Sela and Sparklehorse... Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — No good deed goes unpunished, right? Two years ago, Box of Stars, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting mental health through music, launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund a Sparklehorse/Mark Linkous tribute album called Last Box Of Sparkl... more info

Stereogum — Happiness is a great feeling; Happyness is a great band. The South London trio specializes in lush-yet-breezy indie rock that conjures all sorts of wistful feelings then takes the piss out of them with wry puns and punchlines. Think of it as Sparkleh... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Earlier this year, Bent Denim (aka the duo of Nashville's Ben Littlejohn and New Orleans' Dennis Sager) put out their debut EP, Epistolary, which is 7 tracks of downtempo bedroom pop that's gained apt comparisons to Sparklehorse and Youth... more info

Consequence of Sound — Off a Sparklehorse tribute album. more info

Impose Magazine — Last Box of Sparklers is the forthcoming tribute album dedicated to the late Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, featuring music from The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, and Califone, among others. It was put together by Box of Stars, a nonprofit that raises aw... more info

Consequence of Sound — Last Box of Sparkles benefits mental health awareness. more info