Subject: Greil Marcus

• Good Old Oy

  Twenty-eight years later, Randy Newman is still America's last great grumpy songwriter

  September 19, 1996

• Graham Parker Perks Up

  Rock's premier tough-but-tender songwriter flips on the tough switch again with Acid Bubblegum

  November 7, 1996

• Forever Young

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

  October 15, 1998

• Taking Liberties

  Elvis Costello's recent collaboration with Burt Bacharach restores order to his maddening decade

  June 3, 1999

• Gotta Serve Somebody

  On the Tracks publishers build a career on the relentless intensity of Bob Dylan's fan base

  June 24, 1999

• Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

  By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the

  December 28, 2008

• Anatomy of a Murder

  As stylized as it is insane

  October 11, 2007

• A Pack of Mutts

  Music's "designer dogs"

  January 5, 2006

• Mother Tongue

  Clearer and more fearless than ever, Sleater-Kinney is ready to wail

  September 12, 2002

• Paperback Writers

  Latest music books struggle to demystify pop culture's greatest enigmas

  December 20, 2001

• Desolation Row

  Bob Dylan's career has only begun to recover from a slump that started 22 years ago in Tempe

  August 16, 2001

• Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta

  By Chuck Klosterman
  (Scribner; 288 pages; $23)

  May 10, 2001

• Critical Mass 2000

  Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

  December 28, 2000

• Greil Marcus

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

  November 30, 2000

• Lou Reed

  Metal Machine Music (Buddha Original Masters Series)

  November 16, 2000

• The Band

  Music From Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright, Cahoots (Capitol Records)

  August 31, 2000

• A Heartbreaking Work of Death and Embarrassment

  Eels front man E plants some Daisies of the Galaxy and, finally, drives away from the graveyard

  March 23, 2000

• Accidental Genius

  Bomp! Records celebrates 25 years of personal and creative craziness

  November 18, 1999

• RIFF AND READ

  November 18, 1992