Read part three of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue with appearances by George Clinton, Can, Suicide, Patti Smith and more. 21. TIM ROSE Drunken bad boy of the Greenwich Village folk scene, known for the version of ‘Hey Joe’ which blueprinted Hendrix’s first hit. During 1967’s summer of love, the alcoholic Rose roared murder ballads and desperate love laments, taking folk to new levels of intensity, but blowing his career with drunken behaviour and patchy albums until resurrected by Nick Cave in the ’90s. 22. GEORGE CLINTON George Clinton and his Parliafunkadelicment ...

Sinead O'Connor has opened up about her decision to cancel all her remaining 2012 dates. In an open letter on her website, O'Connor suggests that the cancellation may have even prevented a suicide attempt, as she clashed with her former manager Fachtna O'Ceallaigh over what she refers to as his "unreasonable" and "inhumane" expectations. O'Connor confirmed her January 10th suicide attempt, also revealing she had considered taking her life yet again while in New York earlier this year. "I actually contemplated jumping out of a moving taxi because of the way in which I was being ...

Filed under: News John Shearer, WireImage Sinead O'Connor 's story took another turn this week when the singer posted a lengthy letter on her website describing her current mental condition, severing ties with her manager Fachtna O'Ceallaigh, acknowledging a suicide attempt on January 10, 2012, and saying that if she hadn't cancelled her recent tour she'd have probably attempted suicide again. Before O'Connor's European tour was to commence, she says was prescribed a medication which can "make bipolar symptoms worse." "If I had not come home [cancelled the tour] there was a very high ...

What does it mean to be the “Remainder”? Are these the people left behind after a suicide…the victims of an untimely death…the one who is gone? Or is it the ones left to search their souls for answers, suffer the guilt, and push themselves forward? With haunting shots of the band members trying to cope [...]

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Recommended Show: MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 CLANG QUARTET @ KNITTING FACTORY 361 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $15, 8PM If someone says noise is a religious experience, they are likely either speaking metaphorically or talking about Clang Quartet . That being said, this is only one of many great shows on a shining Monday night in the City. Lower Dens @ TBA Pure Horsehair @ Zebulon Rev Vince Anderson @ Union Pool The Shins & Chairlift @ Terminal 5 Zammuto & Lymbyc System @ Glasslands Santigold & Theophilus London @ Bowery Ballroom Hilly Eye, Alexander Trust, & Big Ups @ Cake Shop Pontiak, Guardian Alien, & Yvette @ Mercury Lounge Sister Spit with Michelle Tea ...

On Monday, 33-year-old Tommy Marth, the saxophone player who worked with The Killers since 2006′s Sam’s Town, was found dead in his Las Vegas home. The cause of death was ruled to be a suicide. The Killers issued a statement to Las Vegas Weekly: “Last night we lost our friend Thomas Marth. Our prayers are [...]

From The Chicago Tribune : A saxophonist for rock band The Killers died earlier this week at his Las Vegas home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, a spokeswoman for the Clark County Coroner said on Thursday. Thomas “Tommy” Marth, 33, who played saxophone on live tours with The Killers between 2008 and 2010 and on their albums “Sam’s Town” and “Day & Age,” was found dead on Monday. His death has been ruled a suicide by officials in Clark County, Nevada, where Las Vegas is located. “Last night we lost our friend Thomas Marth. Our prayers are with ...

Thomas Marth, who recorded and toured with The Killers as a saxophonist for 2008's Sam's Town and 2010's Day And Age , was found dead Monday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Las Vegas home. The county coroner has now officially ruled his death a suicide. Marth, 33, is survived by his parents and two siblings. Via Twitter , the band expressed sorrow for "our friend," adding that "there's a light missing in Las Vegas tonight. Travel well, Tommy." [via Reuters ]

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photos by Erik Erikson "While Bad Brains sound has shifted from hardcore and punk to dub and reggae, they still mix it up for the audience coming to see them. Opening with a pounding set of their signature aggressive sound,...

On April 29th and 30th, The Bowery Electric will be holding a benefit concert to raise funds to benefit the children of Lucinda Gallagher, a super music fan and Jersey resident who tragically took her own life last year as well as The Samaritans of New York. The two-night concert will feature Jesse Malin, HR of Bad Brains, Marah, Tommy Stinson, Alan Vega & others as well as an auction & raffle of items from Fender, Mary Louise Parker, Danny …

On the eve of the Hoodoo Gurus invitational Dig It Up!, AARON CURRAN talks to Died Pretty’s Ron Peno about Appalachian vocal melodies, European tours and potential set-lists – just don’t expect ‘Doughboy Hollow’ in full. Photo by ROBERT CARBONE . Dig It Up! celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Hoodoo Gurus’ debut recording. I thought that gives us an excuse to look back to the very earliest days of the Died Pretty too? Well sure, but it’s not 30 years for us yet. Not quite, I believe 2012 marks 29 years since Died Pretty first started playing. Is ...

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futurejournalismproject : Massoud Hossaini won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for this photograph that appeared in newspapers around the world last December. The image is from the aftermath of a suicide attack at shrine in Kabul attended by Shiites taking part in a religious ceremony. Via the New York Times Lens Blog , which spoke to Hossaini in December after publishing the photo: “Women were asking me, ‘Help, help, help,’” Mr. Hossaini said. “I couldn’t. I was recording and I was taking pictures.” One of the women who was holding a baby, called out for help — her other child ...