Bring Your Bills To Gang Of Four Show Tonight

Gang of Four is a great band. Did you not know that? If not, go get 1979's Entertainment! You won't regret it. And if you do, well, we're just going to delete your e-mail.

If you don't feel like sifting your way through all of the Corpe Bride swag at Tower Records, or the Pavement EPs at Spaceboy, you can always just check out the, um, gang at the Theatre of Living Arts tonight. Tickets are $25 and the show starts at 8 p.m.

The band will be playing all of those old favorites of yoursas they tour behind their next release, Return the Gift, which comes out a week from tomorrow. The artwork is pictured to the left, and that's not just a picture of a dollar: it's an actual dollar that's in all first-run copies of the album. You could totally take that out and buy the new Franz Ferdinand single on iTunes.

Or, you know, not. Here's what Gang of Four member Andy Gill has to say about the dollar:

"On the Original Entertainment cover there is a famous picture of a cowboy and an Indian shaking hands. At this point in their relationship the Indian is innocent and the cowboy innocently believes he can exploit him.

Many years later and the Indian is addled and all the cowboys hopes are dashed.

The common currency is cash, the liquor that flows through all our veins.

The advertisers call to us : sirens in the wilderness. we buy and sell. We are in it up to are necks.

Return The Gift

But we probably won't, will we?"

Gang of Four
Theatre of Living Arts (334 South St.)
8 p.m., $25