Subject: Franz Ferdinand

• Gentleman Auction House Recording an Album at Silver Sonya Studios

  July 27, 2007

• SXSW: The Aftermath and the Comedown

  March 16, 2008

• Show Review Setlist: "Weird Al" Yankovic at Family Arena, Friday, August 8

  August 9, 2008

• Rock Math: Franz Ferdinand, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

  Band: Franz Ferdinand Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand Label: Domino Equation: Equation of an Ellipsoid       click image to enlarge

  January 27, 2009

• Pretty & Nice The Radical Sons

  April 15, 2009

• Cut Off Your Hands/Headlights/Pomegranates

  March 11, 2009

• Punk's Not Dead

  Against Me! Plays anarchist punk rock for the masses.

  November 21, 2007

• 100% Saxophone

  B-Sides bows down to the best bendy brass tube

  May 25, 2005

• Murder Most Fun

  We compare killers and Killers, look into The Source and learn about the final recordings of a rock legend

  May 18, 2005

• Best Laid Plans

  Michael Winterbottom delivers the sex, and not much else

  September 7, 2005

• The Cinematics

  June 13, 2007

• With A-list fans and loyal listeners around the globe, the Scissor Sisters continue to get its groove on with Ta-Dah.

  March 7, 2007

• Dejá Dance

  November 1, 2006

• Brandtson

  October 4, 2006

• Boy Kill Boy

  September 13, 2006

• Best-Laid Plans

  Death Cab for Cutie weathers their major label transition with grace

  March 29, 2006

• OK Go/She Wants Revenge

  Friday, November 11; Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

  November 9, 2005

• Sail Away

  B-Sides interprets Enya's cryptic language, scream alongside the vocal guru to the metal stars, and dream up some tribute bands we'd like to see

  February 1, 2006

• Pop Rocks

  Ten albums that'll snap and fizz

  in your ear buds all winter long

  December 21, 2005

• Guitar Hero

  Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11.

  November 23, 2005

• Sons and Daughters

  The Repulsion Box (Domino)

  November 2, 2005

• The Hand that Feeds

  B-Sides boogies with a member of ABBA, gets dramatic with Colin Meloy and talks to the funniest NIN fan around

  October 12, 2005

• Take Me Out

  We trace Franz Ferdinand's family tree, talk with Idlewild and dig the truth behind Brian Jonestown Massacre's St. Louis cancellation

  September 21, 2005

• Dyslexic Art

  The Long Winters, dusted off and deliciously nonsensical

  September 21, 2005

• Orange Juice

  The Glasgow School (Domino)

  August 17, 2005

• Teenage Fanclub

  Man-Made (Merge)

  June 22, 2005

• The Doxies with the Wormwood Scrubs

  Saturday, June 18; the Gearbox (1551 South Seventh Street)

  June 15, 2005

• Snideways

  A little comic, a little poetic, totally Clem Snide

  April 13, 2005

• Back to the Future

  We tell the Bravery's fortune, decode a rock opera and groan over Sting's intoxicated verbosity

  January 19, 2005

• Pattern Recognition

  Mapping out the trends of 2005

  January 12, 2005

• Marrying the Mainstream

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

  December 22, 2004

• Best Rock Radio Program

  Juxtaposition

  September 29, 2004

• Taking Office

  Bingenheimer and Hickenlooper discuss their rockin' doc, Mayor of the Sunset Strip

  April 14, 2004

• Let's Go to the Hop

  And, like, dance or something

  March 24, 2004

• Homespun: Target Market

  June 10, 2009

• Show Review Photos Setlist: Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, August 11

  Photo: Todd OwyoungFrom last night's show at the Scottrade Center. See more photos of Green Day last night.​ Caveat: I've been a Green Day fan since 1994 or so. And so I have a sneaking suspicion that last night's Scottrade Center show wasn't for me - even though the band ran through plenty of its bratty, jawing pop-punk hits. But then again, last night's show wasn't for new fans, either - at least, not the hordes of elementary-school-aged children there with their parents. How do I know

  August 12, 2009

• Review Setlist: Brendan Benson & Cory Chisel at the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, Friday November 13

  In the middle of his song "Spit It Out," Brendan Benson declared "for every bubble you blow, I'm gonna pop it." The line offered a pretty good insight into the singer-songwriter's methods. For all his unstoppable power-pop moves and clear-eyed, harmony-enhanced bubblegum tunes, a bittersweet current runs through his best work. Songs of busted love and romantic indecision get dipped in a chocolate so sweet that it's easy to miss the pathos: His songs are catchy but rarely fluffy. Last night's sho

  November 14, 2009