Call it the Sharon Jones effect: Funk bands are no longer able to make waves based solely on instrumental prowess and stone-cold groovesmanship... More >>
Back in 2008, the Educated Guess released two fine, grandiose albums, Beautiful Strangers and West Skyline Drive, that paired big-sky Americana with well-orchestrated arrangements that called to mind ...
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Few other talents have been as rewarding to watch develop and evolve as Morgan Nusbaum's. She's played in bands since high school but came to... More >>
A jazz singer's trajectory from crooner to artist almost necessarily follows this path: Start out with standards to prove yourself, judiciously... More >>
Adult Fur's RAN remix album will have its official release at a listening party this Saturday, May 12 at Brennan's. It starts at 9 p.m., admission is free, and you'll be able to buy posters and downlo...
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Joseph Raglani is one of St. Louis' pre-eminent synthesists, an instrumental musician whose releases, under various guises, recalls elements of ambient sound-scapes, minimal krautrock rhythms and head...
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Cross-promotion has become a form of survival for mid-level indie bands given shrinking record sales and dwindling returns on regional touring.... More >>
Anthony Gonzalez was either born twenty years too late or ten years too early. He's been the force behind M83's synth-and-shoegaze symphonies... More >>
Science Won Release Show. 8 p.m. Saturday, April 21. The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Boulevard. $10. 314-726-4707
Through fate, musical kinship or blackmail, Jeff and David Lazaroff landed perhaps the m...
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For a certain stripe of one-time high school jock, a Mucca Pazza show must look like a reunion gone awry: In this punk-rock marching band, the... More >>
Through fate, musical kinship or blackmail, Jeff and David Lazaroff landed perhaps the most enviable backing band in town for their roots/rock... More >>
Rough Shop Beneath the South Side Bridge Release Show: 9 p.m. Saturday, April 14. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10 to $13.
Rough Shop has always been a band of old souls. Its three principles -- g...
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Van Dyke Parks | Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra
April 5, 2012
The Luminary Center for the Arts
Van Dyke Parks embarked on his first-ever tour this year at the age of 69. It has been a limited...
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Van Dyke Parks doesn't give interviews; he speaks in pull-quotes and aphorisms. If Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker had spent their formative years among rock & roll royalty, as Parks did as an arranger,...
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James Bishop is a beatmaker and a producer, a calling that is inestimably vital though often invisible to casual hip-hop listeners. He won last... More >>