Greil Marcus

Rolling Stone Teases with Best Bootleg Ever (or Something), But We Actually Deliver

The rip-off artist

Rosalyn Bodycomb's paintings dance on the fine line between theft and originality

The artist formerly known as print

Our quarterly roundup of the latest in music books

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

In next week's paper, we'll unveil our national package on the best music of the year (the following week, we'll tackle the best in DFWd music). But, as a teaser, here's our paper's contribution to the national package: Noah W. Bailey's picks for the best Americana/folk releases of '08. Picking the ... More >>

Chocolate and cheese

1994 wasn't The Year of Anything--except great music

A new Lowe

The once and future Jesus of Cool reveals the beast in him

Roll over, Chuck Berry

In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'

Mekons, you Rhett

A rock great lends his support to the Old 97's

The Devil and Mr. Newman

America's greatest songwriter descends to hell and aspires to heaven in Faust

Farther along

Emmylou Harris has a new boxed set, but she won't be trapped by that cardboard tombstone

Divide and conquer

Robbie Robertson throws history into the bonfire

Forever young

Belated release of Bob Dylan's legendary Live 1966 brings it all back home

Into the groovy

Raving about Simon Reynolds' techno history, Generation Ecstasy

Maybe he's doing it wrong

But a new boxed set proves you can't keep Randy Newman down

The great divide

Levon Helm, the heart and soul of The Band, looks back in anger

This land is his land

Whether in The Band or solo, Robbie Robertson still searches for his America

'Assassination' Anatomy

Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in an epic movie that's as stylized as it is insane

A Pack of Mutts

Need a little alt in your country? These ten don't.

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Two Soldiers

Look Back, Don't Look Back

Greil Marcus

Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (Henry Holt & Company)

Critics' Picks

Warren Zevon

Book 'em

Separating the wheat from the chaff in this year's crop of rock-and-roll tomes

Leaves us dry

Robert Christgau's collected essays read like the day the music died

Combat rock

The Strafers tune in to rebel radio and the Clash's echoes

Come, come

The Go-Go's return - again - to finish what they began 15 years ago