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2009 Stories by Annie Zaleski

• Jason Ringenberg

  published April 15, 2009

  In the '80s beanpole-thin Jason Ringenberg and his band the Scorchers turned Nashville on its tail with their brash cowboy-punk.... More >>

• Jacks Mannequin

  published April 8, 2009

  The arrival of spring — a time when the wistfulness of winter gives way to the promise of warmth and rebirth — is the perfect... More >>

• Meg & Dia

  published April 1, 2009

  Mainstream music had a plethora of ferocious female musicians as role models in the '90s. But the days when the Breeders, Throwing Muses,... More >>

• I Hope You're Happy Now: R.I.P. Jamie Foehner, Lemmons booker and trivia cohost extraordinaire

  published April 1, 2009

  Jamie Foehner loved many things fiercely and passionately, but one of his longest-standing obsessions was with the music of Elvis... More >>

• Rural Alberta Advantage

  published March 25, 2009

  As might be expected from their band's name, the members of the Rural Alberta Advantage grew up in the Canadian province of Alberta.... More >>

• Garage, Inc.: Little Steven brings his garage-rock radio show back to the St. Louis airwaves

  published March 25, 2009

  Steven Van Zandt wears many hats. (OK, if we're being technical, he wears many bandannas.) The man better known as Little Steven has a lengthy... More >>

• The Whigs/Dead Confederate

  published March 11, 2009

  It's going to be strange seeing the Whigs in a tiny club this weekend; after all, the last three times the trio was in town last year,... More >>

• Cut Off Your Hands/Headlights/Pomegranates

  published March 11, 2009

  Three different permutations of pop — four if you count the joyful noise of locals Gentleman Auction House — will be at the... More >>

• The Modern World: How the Blind Eyes evolved from metalhead kids and orchestral geeks to the city's tightest rock trio

  published March 4, 2009

  The Blind Eyes' debut CD is called Modernity. As its snappy name implies, the album is sleek and to-the-point, and full of the trio's... More >>

• Hostage Juliet/Martin Bisi

  published February 25, 2009

  Hostage Juliet's MySpace page cheekily describes the band as "Chigaze." But this descriptor perfectly sums up the Chicago (ah!) shoegaze... More >>

• Ne-Yo

  published February 25, 2009

  Shaffer Chimere Smith — a.k.a. the R&B superstar known as Ne-Yo — has a knack for empathizing with the female psyche. How... More >>

• Hope and Therapy

  published February 18, 2009

  The members of Alton's Hope and Therapy are no strangers to the local music community. Drummer Drew Mader has also played bass with... More >>

• The Take Action! Tour

  published February 4, 2009

  Most dismiss mainstreamo as nothing but stupid haircuts, whiny vocals and self-obsessed lyrics. But for each of the last eight years, the... More >>

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

  published January 21, 2009

  It's easy to take Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin for granted. For starters, the quartet plays St. Louis quite often (probably... More >>

• Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis tells B-Sides how not to be a douchebag at his sold-out Pageant show, while hip-hop producer D Scorch'd of the Bakery Productions reveals what he's cooking up

  published January 7, 2009

  Girl Talk's pop-music mashups have spawned the type of highfalutin analysis that keeps Ph.D. programs humming — which is fitting, because GT... More >>

• Lil Wayne's "I Am Music" Tour

  published January 7, 2009

  Kanye West's braggadocio has nothing on Lil Wayne's boasting: The New Orleans rapper's latest victory lap around the country is dubbed... More >>