THE SNEER OF THE MINUTE belongs to Justine Frischmann. At Tramps last Thursday, Elastica’s lead singer kept curling her lip upwards, fashioning a reliable gesture of witty defiance. Her band slammed ...

The newest addition to Lollapalooza ’95 this week is Elastica, the British band making waves with its self-titled debut album. The group will be filling the main-stage slot left open by Sinead ...

Since the release of Elastica's self-titled 1995 debut, virtually everything imaginable has gone wrong for the group: Initial sessions for the highly anticipated follow-up were disastrous and had to ...

The UK band Elastica released one self-titled album of ridiculously catchy, close-to-perfect new wave in 1995. Then, they took five years to record The Menace, the pretty-good follow-up, and promptly ...