The world lost a singular artist on March 6, as Mark Linkous passed away from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 47 years old. The singer-songwriter had produced six albums with his band Sparklehorse, and over the past fifteen years played and worked with an amazing array of icons, such as Radiohead, Tom Waits, the Flaming Lips, Cracker, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, Daniel Johnston, Julian Casablancas, Frank Black, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson, the Brothers Quay, and Guy Maddin — and no doubt, Linkous stood deservedly tall among these fellow talents. More recently, he collaborated with David Lynch and Danger Mouse on the Dark Night of the Soul project, which we profiled previously and will be released this summer.