All Songs Considered
This Week's Show
All Songs Considered previews 20 discoveries from this year's South by Southwest festival.
SXSW 2010
Mark Linkous, A Flawed Hero
All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton reflects on the loss of Mark Linkous, the imaginative mind and voice behind the music of Sparklehorse. Linkous killed himself this past weekend, two months after the loss of another artist to suicide, Vic Chesnutt.
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Mountain Goats: Tiny Desk Concert
Laura Veirs: Tiny Desk Concert
The songs on Laura Veirs' latest album, July Flame orbit around her acoustic-guitar playing and voice. But it's her idiosyncratic lyrics and melodic flourishes that imbue her music with sun-dappled warmth.

The 50 Most Important Recordings: A-C
We begin our 50 most important recordings of the decade with composer John Adams.
















