Mark Linkous, the man behind Sparklehorse and one of the men behind the Dark Night Of The Soul record that this blog loves so much took his own life, Saturday, at the age of 47.  The New York Times has an informative obit here.

He will be missed.

In a bitter twist, we have also learned from this BBC article that the Dark Night Of The Soul album may finally be headed for record store shelves in June of this year. The unspecified problems with EMI have apparently been resolved. I’ll be sure to keep you posted.

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Update:

Great piece from Robin Hilton at NPR Music.