Subject: Elbow (Musical Group)

• Gimarc Has Another Alternative

  September 18, 2006

• Gang of Four’s Now Back To A Gang Of Two

  May 7, 2008

• Echoes and Reverberations: The Photography of Vern Evans

  September 24, 2008

• Bonus MP3: The Semifinals -- "Yr Fists"

  In my review of the debut EP from local rockers The Semifinals in this week's print edition of the Observer, I applauded Andrew Strickland and crew's efforts fuse cute Emo with some old-school post-punk a la Gang of Four--and the results are pretty damn cool. Here's "Yr Fists," the best song from the new EP.Bonus mp3: The Semifinals -- "Yr Fists"The Semifinals perform at the Prophet Bar on Saturday night and I, for one, am anxious to hear songs such as "Yr Fists" in a live setting. Oh, and if yo

  February 5, 2009

• PVC Street Gang Pipes Up

  April 2, 2009

• The Semifinals

  The Semifinals EP (Self-released)

  February 5, 2009

• The Rapture, Shiny Toy Guns

  Thursday, May 17, at the Granada Theater

  May 17, 2007

• Jihad Jerry

  Devo's founding guitarist is still pissing on--and then Swiffering--the worst in society

  August 17, 2006

• Odds & Ends

  How Gang of Four's Dave Allen found a music partner in Jayson Bales

  July 13, 2006

• Falling Forward

  Not even middle age can slow the tongue of Mark E. Smith

  May 4, 2006

• Arctic Monkeys

  Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino)

  February 23, 2006

• Calla

  Collisions (Beggars Banquet)

  October 13, 2005

• Great Men

  Gang of Four return, and all pretenders should watch their arses

  October 13, 2005

• The Dead 60s

  The Dead 60s (Epic)

  June 16, 2005

• Detached Youth

  The Futureheads ignore their post-punk contemporaries--and their buzz

  March 17, 2005

• Marrying the Mainstream

  White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

  December 30, 2004

• Spoon

  Friday, December 3

  December 2, 2004

• Free to Download

  How can you steal music you can't even buy?

  March 11, 2004

• Thanks Again

  Rhino assembles the definitive '70s punk collection. Pretty much.

  November 27, 2003

• Crunk and Disorderly

  Timbaland and Organized Noize are making the music go bang, and rap radio's never sounded so good

  December 20, 2001

• Adam and the Ants

  Antbox (Columbia Records, UK)

  April 5, 2001

• Folk Implosion

  On her latest album, Eddi Reader stays true to her Simple Soul

  March 1, 2001

• The sound of Deep Ellum

  Or: How I went to London to find the next Jam, and found Rhett Miller instead

  June 22, 2000