Subject: Husker Du

• Groovy, Far Out and Monkee Business

  June 1, 2006

• You Gave Me What? Part 5: Reliving Husker Du

  December 21, 2007

• Last Night: No Age, Abe Vigoda and Infinite Body at The Loft

  July 1, 2008

• Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

  October 30, 2008

• Roger McGuinn, Legendary Frontman For The Byrds, Is Still Flying

  Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop canon have managed to convey the visceral thrill and unbridled experimentation that the song still communicates. Predictably, it was derided by the powers that be. “The record company representative liste

  November 20, 2008

• Last Night: Roger McGuinn at McDavid Studio

  Roger McGuinnMcDavid StudioNovember 22, 2008Better than: Watching one of those Time Life infomercials about reliving the '60s though a 10 CD compilation featuring the likes of Hermann's Hermits and Ten Years After.Starting promptly at 8:00, Roger McGuinn treated the packed house in Ft. Worth's McDavid Studio to a musical history lesson. The founding member, singer and guitarist of '60s icons The Byrds delivered 90 minutes of blissful memories for the crowd of lively octogenarians. The 66-year-ol

  November 24, 2008

• Roadshows

  January 5, 1995

• Gig Alert: Off With Their Heads, Over Stars and Gutters at Rubber Gloves

  Hailing from Minneapolis, Off With Their Heads continues the impressive lineage of Twin Cities punk rock that began with Husker Du, Soul Asylum and The Replacements back in the '80s. From the Bottom, the band's most recent effort, is packed full of spite and bile, just as good punk record should be. Singer Ryan Young is a manic-depressive mess (one of the album's best cuts, "Fuck This, I'm Out," basically typifies his mental state), but his caged animal yowling perfectly suits the Ramones-ish,

  January 7, 2009

• Listen: Will Johnson Plays Centro-Matic, Husker Du, New Material At A Recent Dan's Show

  Matt Pence The Captain's Dead blog, which, let's face it, is about as good a source on Centro-matic as any thanks to its incessant fanship of the band, has an awesome bootleg available for yourdownloading pleasure of frontman Will Johnson (pictured above) performing solo at a recent Dan's Silverleaf gig. In it, you'll hear some Centro-matic cuts ("I, The Kite"), a Husker Du cover ("Never Talking To You Again") and a whole bunch of new tracks, which the blog guesses (as well as anyone, I guess) t

  February 13, 2009

• Clearing Out the Mailroom: Tuesday, February 24, 2009

  We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take four or five at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it. Late of the Pier (Castle Donington, England)Fantasy Black ChannelDarryl Smyers obviously missed this gem when putting together his Worst Album Covers of 2008 list. Amazingly, the music sounds exactly like this picture looks: a hot neon mess of synthesizers, hard-rock gui

  February 24, 2009

• Ageless Spirit

  No Age's sound isn't quite punk—but that's still the simplest way to describe the band's attitude

  June 26, 2008

• North of the Dial

  June 5, 2008

• Bob Mould

  District Line (Anti-)

  January 31, 2008

• Making a List, Checking It Twice

  December 27, 2007

• Rock Gods, er, Gourds

  November 1, 2007

• Plain folk

  Roger McGuinn, still a Byrd man, doesn't wanna be a rock 'n' roll star

  March 30, 2000

• These Bands Are Your Bands

  Dan's Silverleaf hosts the ultimate tribute

  October 26, 2006

• Farsighted

  Brent Best and his longtime friends in the Drams don't have a bone to pick

  July 27, 2006

• Soul Asylum

  The Silver Lining ( Sony)

  July 27, 2006

• Hey, Paisano!

  Modern Machines deliver catchy irony by aping the Replacements' former glory

  June 29, 2006

• Mono, Pelican

  Monday, May 22, at Hailey's

  May 18, 2006

• Hold, Please

  How 34-year-old Craig Finn became famous singing about drug-huffing 20-somethings

  February 9, 2006

• Out of the Closet

  December 29, 2005

• Another Look at a Legend

  October 6, 2005

• Rain or Shine

  We drove to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in ponchos, but we left wearing surgeon's masks

  September 29, 2005

• Bob Mould

  Body of Song (Yep Roc)

  July 28, 2005

• Head Full of Beer

  The Slobberbone chronicles: An oral history

  March 10, 2005

• Young Gun

  Collin Herring hits somewhere between Merle Haggard and Husker Du--and that's a good place to be

  March 31, 2005

• Mono

  Walking cloud and deep red sky. Flag fluttered and the sun shined (Temporary Residence)

  January 6, 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

• Letters

  August 5, 2004

• The Gulf Between

  When these soldiers became writers, the pen turned into a very mighty weapon

  April 17, 2003

• All His Life

  Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

  April 17, 2003

• The Shins

  July 12

  July 11, 2002

• Hear Here

  Local music was better than ever in 2001

  January 10, 2002

• Dashboard Confessional

  November 29

  November 29, 2001

• The Who?

  Little Grizzly finds itself, and its new album, somewhere along the way

  October 4, 2001

• Band Aid

  Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson and Phil Collins ruled the charts, and a bunch of little rock bands were changing lives

  September 20, 2001

• Master of Puppets

  Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul, and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band

  September 7, 2000

• Punk You

  Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that proves there isn't always room for Jello

  July 8, 1999