Van Conner, co-founder and bassist of Screaming Trees, dead at 55

The Screaming Trees portrait

Van Conner, co-founder and bassist of the Pacific Northwest band Screaming Trees, died Tuesday. He was 55. His brother, Gary Lee Conner, took to Facebook Wednesday to announce the musician’s death, which he said was […]

‘A truce with the trees’: what the centuries-old instruments of the Kronos Quartet can tell us | Kronos Quartet

From left: David Harrington, Sunny Yang, John Sherba and Hank Dutt of Kronos Quartet.

For the last 50 years, David Harrington, the founder and artistic director of San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet, has been playing what he calls “pretty athletic music” on a violin made in 1721. I’ve heard him […]

Mark Lanegan, laconic Screaming Trees frontman, dies at 57

Mark Lanegan, laconic Screaming Trees frontman, dies at 57

Shared from www.latimes.com Mark Lanegan, the gruff-voiced singer and songwriter who led Screaming Trees to fame during the Seattle grunge explosion of the early ’90s before going on to play as a member of Queens […]

Mark Lanegan dead: Singer of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age member dies aged 57 | Ents & Arts News

Mark Lanegan during his concert in Lucerna Music Bar in Prague, Czech Republic, on 20 March, 2012. Pic: AP

Shared from news.sky.com Mark Lanegan, singer of rock band Screaming Trees and a member of Queens of the Stone Age, has died aged 57. The musician, who was also a member of The Gutter Twins, […]

Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age singer dies as fans pay tribute

Shared from www.the-sun.com THE lead vocalist for the grunge band Screaming Trees has died at age 57. Singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan passed away Tuesday morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland according to a statement posted […]