The late Tarka Cordell left behind a vast library of songs when he committed suicide in 2008, a body of work that counts many well-known musicians. A bunch of those famous Cordell fans including Evan Dando, Citizen Cope, and Lily Allen have covered his songs for a new compilation called Tarka & Friends: Life. Below, [...]

You know that moment where you’re playing Grand Theft Auto and you get bored, so you basically just commit suicide by shooting as many random things as you can, attempting to get your wanted level high enough and stay alive long enough that police are sending tanks to kill you? Justin Bieber appears to be [...]

Bruce Springsteen’s 18th album High Hopes is now streaming online. The 12-track LP is a collection of covers, outtakes, and rerecordings of old songs. It includes takes on the Saints’ “Just Like Fire Would,” Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream,” and Tim Scott McConnell’s &am...

For some fans, Nirvana’s concert album MTV Unplugged In New York is the definitive document of the band, partially because of the resonance it took on in the wake of Kurt Cobain’s suicide. The sound of Cobain cooing the desolate “Something In The Way” or howling Lead Belly’s harrowing “...

Mark Linkous, the man behind Sparklehorse, committed suicide in 2010, and now Box Of Stars, a nonprofit that raises mental health awareness, hopes to honor him with a new tribute album called Last Box Of Sparklers. If it reaches its world, the crowdfunded compilation will include Linkous admirers and contemporaries; right now, the lineup of [...]