Rolling and crawling like thunder under your skin. The harshness only serves …

Tullycraft have spread their endearing, rough-cut pop songs far and wide over…

If there ever was an album cover more telltale of a band’s sonic approach, Fi…

I saw The Places on accident one night. I was at a show to see a friend’s ban…

Wooden Stars

Among the upper echelons of ska and reggae masters, perhaps only the late Bob…

It’s late, where the hell is Buddy? The Crickets are more than just annoyed, …

“Let’s see what pushing this BIG RED BUTTON will do…”

Who says in heaven there is no beer? James Mann reveals why the world will never end at the Star Bar, and how the wrong woman can become the right woman in the right circumstances.

Though the musical arrangements here are as numerous as the number of tracks,…

When a gas is released into an area, it immediately diffuses throughout. It f…

drew West takes William S. Burroughs’ Discipline of DE (“do easy”) to the extreme. Here he expounds on his personal doctrine of Selfish Me.

Very organic-sounding electronic excursions that owe as much to the manipulat…

Surrender yourself to Marah (ma-RAH). It’s really the only way to fully appre…

Unfavorably compared to Belle and Sebastian, this Australian trio is far more…

A hybrid of genres with an eclectic flare for pop, Sumack classifies themselv…

The packaging drew me to this first. Black-streaked, burgundy vinyl housed in…

Lyrics that hardly ever rhyme infused with lost love’s yearning while pop pun…

Chris Connelly, Jah Wobble, Geordie Walker, and Martin Atkins fill the Damage…

Dark’s Corner :: The Good, The Bad And The Painful - June 14th, 2000 :: Wednesday, June 14th, 2000