Hip-hop has been cranking out living-it-up bangers for decades, but the average historian is (or should be) aware that dark thoughts aren’t a foreign concept for the genre. After all, Grandmaster ...

There were more than enough films in the '90s which made you cry. I'm talking those blatantly morose, tear spewing, uncontrollable-sobbing-in-the-cinema films which embarrassed you in front of friends ...

In the postmodern landscape full of witty self-acknowledgement and sincerity undercut with cynicism, Christmas movies have undergone a critical reevaluation. Holiday films with heartwarming messages ...

Need a few depressing rock songs to get into your feelings? These five tracks are some of our favorites. And the stories behind a few of them are heartwrenching. Few depressing rock songs from the ...

"And they all lived happily after" just isn't good enough. Happiness doesn't last forever (sorry to break it to you), and there are an ample number of movies which agree. Their final scenes might ...

Radiohead have always had a special gift for making glitchy sad bastard music sound warm, inviting, and irresistibly catchy. But no matter how much you love to dance to "Idioteque" or rock out to ...

You needn't be an expert in psychology to pinpoint January as one of the least enjoyable months of the year: the excitement of the holidays has concluded while related bills begin rolling in, the ...

Well Rochester, it’s been fun. On Saturday, two years after throwing down the gauntlet, the Rochester Red Wings hosted me at their “Grim & Depressing Night,” named after my unthinking swipe in a ...

Is the midwinter weather wearing you down? Are you sinking in debt after the holidays? Angry with yourself for already breaking your New Year's resolutions? Wish you could crawl back under the covers ...