Subject: Elbow (Musical Group)

• Q&A with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants

  March 6, 2008

• Last Night: The Slits and Friends at Numbers

  March 11, 2008

• Sympathy for the Angel

  Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

  March 25, 1999

• Playbill

  August 12, 2004

• Rock and Roll Dream Team

  Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

  August 26, 2004

• Ume

  January 29, 2009

• Turkey Trot

  Artists choose the songs that rocked their 2008 worlds

  November 27, 2008

• Wilderness: (k)no(w)here

  November 27, 2008

• Balaclavas: Inferno

  September 18, 2008

• Byron Dean's Matagorda Island Discs

  (In which locals sound off on the ten records they would take to Matagorda Island, the nearest major unpopulated sandbar to Houston.)

  April 17, 2008

• Plastic Idols : Singles, Demos & Live: Houston Punk '78-'80

  March 6, 2008

• It's "Anarchy" at the Meridian

  January 26, 2006

• The Rapture

  The Rapture performs on Wednesday, May 16, at Warehouse Live, 813 Emanuel, 713-225-5483. Shiney Toy Guns also perform.

  May 10, 2007

• Jet Stream

  Chris Cester on Jet's new CD, Shine On

  September 21, 2006

• The Raw Power of Really Smooth Music

  Climb aboard the Yacht Rock revolution at this week's Michael McDonald/Steely Dan show

  July 13, 2006

• Where You Been?

  Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors

  March 30, 2006

• The Dead 60s

  The Dead 60s appear Sunday, October 30, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717. Social Distortion is also on the bill.

  October 27, 2005

• Oh No! I Left It in My Other Suit!

  Gang of Four rematerializes to show the kiddies how it's done

  October 6, 2005

• Oneida, with Ume and the Jonx

  Friday, August 12, at Rudyard's, 2010 Waugh Drive, 713-521-0521.

  August 11, 2005

• Those Damn Kids

  In Pasadena, it's those damn adults

  June 2, 2005

• Playbill

  February 24, 2005

• Pattern Recognition

  Can defunct German bands become the sheezy in '05? Ja, they Can. We explore these and other of this year's trends.

  January 27, 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 23, 2004

• 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 23, 2004

• Local Rotation

  December 9, 2004

• Playbill

  September 30, 2004

• Playbill

  June 3, 2004

• Hang the Airwaves

  Danseparc, Substance and Stereo Bar reinvent the steel wheels

  May 6, 2004

• //Radiotakeover Tour, with the Beautiful Mistake, Anatomy of a Ghost, Emery and the A.K.A.'s

  Friday, April 30

  April 29, 2004

• The Rapture and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

  Sunday, April 18

  April 15, 2004

• Franz Ferdinand

  Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

  April 1, 2004

• Nashville Star

  The voice that wooed George Clooney comes to town

  March 4, 2004

• The Shins

  Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)

  November 13, 2003

• Guilloteens II: Electric Boogaloo

  A legendary Houston garage punk band comes back with a new singer and the old one, too

  April 10, 2003

• Flannel File: Pearl Jam's Ten Redux

  In my last Flannel File entry, I asked if there was any file more flannel-y than that of Screaming Trees. Well, embarassingly enough, that rhetorical question has an answer: yes, and that file belongs to Pearl Jam. Let's step in the time machine and go way, way back to one month ago, March 2009, when Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten, was released in a new edition. It included not just the mandatory remastered version of the original LP, but, more curiously, a remixed version courtesy of Atlanta's Br

  April 27, 2009