Subject: Blur (Musical Group)

• 1997 New Times Music Awards Showcase

  April 17, 1997

• This Year's Sport Model

  After tinkering with its original mod design, this hard-rocking foursome is ready to cruise off the showroom floor

  June 5, 1997

• American Without Tears

  Blur trades its status as Britpop laureate for a dose of Amerindie messiness

  October 2, 1997

• Calendar for the week

  October 2, 1997

• Dandy Lions

  Novelty single aside, Portland's Dandy Warhols should have more than 15 minutes of fame awaiting them

  December 4, 1997

• Recordings

  December 11, 1997

• Critics' Choice

  A year-end recap of the albums that made it worthwhile to own a stereo in 1997

  January 1, 1998

• Well Respected Man

  With The Storyteller, Ray Davies finds a new way for rock to age gracefully

  April 30, 1998

• Recordings

  November 19, 1998

• Suicide Squeeze

  Squeeze's messy career might require a scorecard, but few tunesmiths can rival the band's catalogue

  February 4, 1999

• Recordings

  March 25, 1999

• Grist From the Mill

  Music Awards Showcase once again makes a virtue of excess

  April 22, 1999

• Bis

  Return to Central (spinART)

  October 18, 2001

• Spacemonkeyz vs. Gorillaz

  Laika Come Home (Astralwerks)

  August 8, 2002

• Vile With a Smile

  Bright Young Things illuminates novel

  October 7, 2004

• Blur

  Band finds focus on new album

  June 5, 2003

• The Romantic Fence

  Idlewild may mix post-Brit Pop identities, but the tension helped the Scots make one of the year's best albums

  June 5, 2003

• Blur

  Think Tank (EMI)

  May 15, 2003

• Rocking Maniac

  Where there's a Willis, there's a schizophrenic cult icon who can whup all of rock's mad geniuses

  January 24, 2002

• Air

  10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)

  June 7, 2001

• Let's See Action

  Mogwai mouths off, shuts up, and releases its most rewarding album yet

  June 7, 2001

• SWAG

  Catchall (Yep Roc)

  March 15, 2001

• Fresh Ground

  Stephen Malkmus leaves Pavement behind with a slanted and enchanting solo debut

  March 8, 2001

• She Writes the Songs

  Boston-based singer/songwriter Melissa Ferrick lets Freedom ring on a new recording

  August 31, 2000

• Paperback Writer

  Trashman pours his beer-fueled soul into a saga of Guns n' Mooks

  February 24, 2000

• Recordings

  February 26, 1998