Topics: A track by track review of ‘Red Light Fever’ from Darkness frontman Hot Leg. Listener emails, requests and a toast to Nick in Australia for the beer fund donation. Another toast to all of the donations for my SXSW fund. A Nashville Pussy show review. Music by: Ginger Hot Leg Nash...

Justin Hawkins was for the space of about a year the hottest man in British rock. Not in looks you understand, as unfortunately for him he is one of the ugliest men to have ever been in a band, although Shane MacGowan from The Pogues does make it a close-run thing. The Darkness were huge for the spa...

One of my favorite albums of 2005 was the Darkness' unheralded One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back. With the help of Roy Thomas Baker, the band had finally constructed an entire album of ridonkulous pop-metal moments—but it was tossed aside with minimum publicity thanks to internal meltdowns and...