Mark Linkous, also known as Sparklehorse, shot himself in the heart on Saturday in Knoxville, Tennessee, taking his own life.
Linkous recently collaborated with Danger Mouse on Dark Night of the Soul, one of the best records of last year. Above, the bittersweet “Don’t Take My Sunshine Away” sort of takes on a new meaning - [...]

According to Drizzy (last name: Ever, first name: Greatest) Drake’s official blog, he will be dropping the new single entitled “Over” tonight at midnight from his upcoming major label debut, Thank Me Later. Keep an eye on October’s Very Own and be sure to check back tomorrow for the download on My Poproks. This is [...]

Behold, MGMT’s cover art for their upcoming sophomore album, Congratulations. Some thoughts on this? Here are the facts:
-It’s colorful
-it’s retro?
-it was done by this guy
-[insert 90's video game reference here]
-Dude has, I dunno, 8 eye balls?
This cover…well, It’s hideous, but It’s MGMT. What did you expect? The internets seems pretty up in arms about this, [...]

Radiohead is officially [certified and verified accountness] on Twitter. 15,513 followers in one day. 1 Tweet: Testing the Twitter. I will be Tweeting @Radiohead daily.

San Diego’s The Soft Pack (formally The Muslims/formally a Poproks Songoftheday post) are celebrating the release of their first official full length with a string of 10 shows in the Los Angeles area tomorrow (I have my eye on 8pm @ Vacation Vinyl). The self titled record (due February 2) was recorded in NYC with [...]

Some footage of Wyclef Jean in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, calling the situation on the ground there “apocalyptic,” and urging people to text 501501 to automatically donate $5 to his foundation, Yele Haiti. His voice is a bit shaky, and this is a little hard to watch, but as the reporter noted, this is equivalent to Bruce [...]

R.I.P. Jay Reatard.

Above, the cover art for Nas and Damian Marley’s Distant Relatives collaboration, due in early March 2010. This does, indeed, look epic. Tracklisting at OS.

Kanye, if any other invention ever wins a Best Invention Award, I give you permission to jump on stage and rip that sh*t right out of their hands.
Above, Snoop Dogg offers his voice to GPS, “adding some flavor” to the driving directions tool. Guessing this is a “Rated G” version, as there is also an [...]

Four albums in, Athlete (or as I have often referred to them, the poor man’s Coldplay) have announced a ‘Best of’ compilation for March 2010 entitled, Wires: The Best of Athlete. I’m amused by the title, as the track “Wires” from 2005’s Tourist is by far the ‘best of Athlete.’ I never did come around [...]