here's what folks've said 'bout our man, Steve Gigante aka Dark Inside the Sun:

* "His performance goes to the extremes between 'INTENSE AS FUCK' and 'SO
HEARTFELT YOU WILL CRY'. His lyrics are better than Bob Dylan, and he is a
mean motherfucker on guitar and drums, which he sometimes plays at one and
the same time... you really owe it to yourself to get to know this man and
his music." - Arrington DeDionyso of Old Time Relijun

* "You sincerely owe it to yourself to see this tour. You are missing
something if you do not see it. What you are missing is that part of
yourself that has most likely become lost. Steve will free that part of you,
for the better of course. Steve Gigante lives the travelling American bard
life you always wanted to but never did due to its great level of
difficulty, hardship, and danger. He has the gift of creating beauty. Truly
a hero for our modern times, this DARK INSIDE THE SUN." - Rives of Old Time
Relijun

* "A great, itinerant performance artist." - Brother JT

* "Dark Inside the Sun encompasses delicate, harsh atonal folk blues at
hushed whispers to frenzied rants. It's the sound of bones being broken and
the marrow leaking out everywhere. The songs are inspired from the split
arteries that criss cross America's shadow. Dark Inside the Sun balances the
scratched folk side with deconstructed guitar and drum violence overlaid by
chants that is extremely brutal. Amazing one person experience of purity and
honesty. It's Charley Patton if he was in the Swans. America rolls around in
its own juices. Broken down cars and wicker couches on front porches.
Stranded in Kansas. Stranded in KANSAS!! The best part is when you get to
lick the spoon!"
- EYEDRUM, Atlanta

* "EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN meets Hasil Adkins." - some paper in Louisville,
KY

* "Somewhere between front-porch folk and avant-garde improvisation." -
some paper in Nashville, TN

* "Your performance was really powerful, had strong purity to it. In my
opinion, you understand the connection between folk music/blues with noise.
That's amazing!" - Matthew Proctor of Pony Law

* "Possibly one of the strangest musical experiences you will experience,
depending on how many da da-ist, one-man-bands you've seen." - some online
blurb

* "One man/cyclone from Knoxville, TN - watch out for flying drumsticks!" -
flyer fron Louisville, KY

* "Very weird performance, solo, guy played guitar and drums at the same
time, mostly playing the guitar with a drumstick. And then played some very
quiet acoustic songs that were...heartbreaking. So, if you can imagine
ridiculousness and then tender emotions at the same time, or later -
juxtaposed."
- DJ Scott, BSR88.1, Providence, RI

* "A fellow from 7 Year Rabbit Cycle playing guitar and telling you how it
Really is."
"Dark Inside the Sun just keeps getting better and better. A treasure,
no doubt."
"Steve rules. I love his songs. Do you?"
- Pilot Light site, Knoxville, TN

* BLASTITUDE REVIEW *
Dark Inside the Sun: So That I May Not Die, While I Am Still Alive
(Yeay! Cassettes)
"Heads up for this release, which kind of blew my mind. Dark Inside the Sun
is the solo performance project of a Knoxville, Tennessee resident named
Steve Gigante who has an interesting pedigree, having played with Brother
JT, Deerhoof, and 7 Year Rabbit Cycle. And, when he plays solo under the
name Dark Inside the Sun, he does this one-man tribal freak-punk explosion,
playing drums and guitar at the same time like he's trying to singlehandedly
recreate the Cromagnon album. Kind of inexplicable and invigorating. And
there's another side to his coin - some songs 'recorded in his van', a
fragile and haunting 'folk song' side, which sounds like one of the few
legitimate heirs to the Jandek throne. Dig it!"