About THE TUNNEL

Your favorite drinking songs are fierce and darkly romantic. Ragged, visionary tales of lust and loss. But you've already played all your Birthday Party, 16 Horsepower, and Swans records to death. You need some new drinking music.

Sam Black (bass/keyboards), Patrick Crawford (drums), and Jeff Wagner (vocals/guitar) have these intoxicating aims when they get together and play as THE TUNNEL. Their second album, FATHOMS DEEP (LP/MP3, out Spring 2011) was hammered out in various San Francisco dives and warehouses, but it draws its lifeblood from the darkness of the surrounding, still-remote Northern California coast. The sounds are akin to the art-damaged noise coming out of 1970s New York, 1980s London-via-Berlin, or an 1850s West Coast harbor-town damp with fog and whiskey.

Press from "Fathoms Deep" (2011) here. Press from "Carver Brothers Lullaby" (2009) here.
Read a manifesto for a minor revolution here. Read lyrics here. Read Jeff's blog here. Jeff's solo project.
See band photos here and here, and show flyer archive here. More art by the Tunnel here and here.