Email Author Diana Benanti

2010 Stories by Diana Benanti

• Video: Surprise Nelly Performance at Blueberry Hill

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Short n' sweet: Here's a video with some highlights from Nelly's performance at Blueberry Hill on Friday. The overwhelming bass is there, but you'll have to imagine the 200 screaming, sweaty fans. No... More >>

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  Show Announcements: Week of October 21

  published Oct 20, 2010

  BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups *Anthony Gomes Blues Project, November 7 *Charles Walker Blues Band, November 11 Blueberry Hill *Chuck Berry, November 10 *Tea Leaf Green, January 27 The Firebird *The Fo... More >>

• Photos + Recap: Nelly Plays a Surprise Show at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room

  published Oct 18, 2010

  Nelly treated 200 lucky fans to a free show at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room on Friday, in conjunction with a ceremony celebrating his star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The hip-hop superstar is the you... More >>

• Active Child

  published October 20, 2010

  Active Child, a.k.a. multi-instrumentalist Pat Grossi, is a former choir boy from Philadelphia. His parochial influences are blatant on... More >>

• Holy Fuck/Indian Jewelry

  published October 20, 2010

  Upbeat electronic riddims and dank drone confections may sound like a culture clash, but Holy Fuck and Indian Jewelry are... More >>

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  Show Announcements: Week of October 14

  published Oct 13, 2010

  Argosy Casino Alton *Max Weinberg and his Big Band, October 21 Cicero's *Bridges and Powerlines, November 13 *Dan Hubbard and the Humadors, October 28 *Neighbor Kid, October 29The Firebird *Blackp... More >>

• Review + Setlist: Menomena, The Globes and Tu Fawning Wake Up The Work-Week at the Luminary Center for the Arts, Monday, October 11

  published Oct 12, 2010

  Menomena packed the house last night at the Luminary Center for the Arts, with a three-act bill that was damned close to perfect. It's rare that two relatively unknown opening acts are treated with mo... More >>

• A documentary sheds new light on brain-raid masters Skarekrauradio

  published October 13, 2010

  It began with an ill-timed sneeze in 1988. Wiggpaw, the founding member of avant-weirdo collective Skarekrauradio, was riding the the El in... More >>

• Trifeckta Reigns Supreme at Red Bull Big Tune

  published Oct 08, 2010

  Twelve producers went head to head last night in front of a packed house at Pop's Nightclub in Sauget for the Red Bull Big Tune nationwide competition. Now in its fourth year, Red Bull Big Tune is the... More >>

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  VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino Becoming a Dueling Piano Bar on the Weekends

  published Oct 06, 2010

  Last week, rumors surfaced on Facebook that the VooDoo Cafe and Lounge at Harrah's Casino was changing its programming. As it turns out, score one for Facebook gossip hounds: At least on the weekends,... More >>

• Show Announcements: Week of October 7

  published Oct 06, 2010

  Cicero's *The Foot, November 6 *Ume, October 14 The Firebird *Fang Island, November 10 *The Entrance Band, October 20 *Forever the Sickest Kids, November 16 *Joan of Arc, November 3 *Tomorrow's Bad... More >>

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  Review + Setlist + Photos: Vampire Weekend, The Very Best and Beach House at Chaifetz Arena

  published Oct 04, 2010

  Click here for a full set of photos from the show.It's extremely difficult to write about a band that does everything right, as Vampire Weekend did last night at Chaifetz Arena. Even the band's ghastl... More >>

• Nelly and the St. Lunatics to perform together tonight on BET

  published Oct 04, 2010

  It seemed like an eternity we went without a peep from the Band-Aided one and his posse, but the past few months St. Louis has felt like Nellyville again. There was that awesomely sweaty show with Chu... More >>

• Afternoon Contest! Free Tickets! Joy!

  published Oct 01, 2010

  In honor of it being Friday, the first of October and nearly the end of the blessed work week, we've got freebies for music fans this weekend. Tonight, "Cooler than Me" singer and pop phenom Mike Pos... More >>

• Update: Paul Oakenfold Show Set for Europe Nightclub

  published Oct 01, 2010

  Paul Oakenfold, the world's most successful DJ, will play Europe Nightclub November 18, as B & W Productions confirmed in an exclusive interview with RFT this morning. "The good thing about Oaken... More >>

• Daydream Lullaby releases sleep | wake | delete EP at Fort Gondo

  published Oct 01, 2010

  It's not often that an artist sends in a press kit that makes us stop in our tracks. But a handcrafted, epically beautiful release landed in our laps recently, that of Daydream Lullaby's sleep | wake ... More >>

• Show Announcements: Week of September 30

  published Sep 29, 2010

  Antarctica *David Vandervelde, November 7 Cicero's *500 Miles to Memphis, October 21 *Banner Pilot, October 22 *Brandon Adams and the Sad Bastards, October 6 *Drew Andrews, October 7 *The Glorious ... More >>

• Beach House/Vampire Weekend

  published September 29, 2010

  In the past two years, Beach House's Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally have come full circle, from Carpark to Sub Pop, from dingy... More >>

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  Interview: Corle 2 Da on Being "So St. Louis" -- And Giving Props to Other Anthems with STL Pride

  published Sep 23, 2010

  You may have seen this excellent vid floating around the Interwebz in the past two weeks. "So St. Louis" is the work of one Corle 2 Da, a Belleville rapper looking to make his mark on this side of the... More >>

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  Show Announcements: Week of September 23

  published Sep 22, 2010

  Blueberry Hill *Dave Barnes, November 4 *Devon Allman's Honeytribe, November 6 *Jaron and the Long Road to Love, October 14 The Firebird *Hawthorne Heights, November 29 *Rehab, November 2 *Ultimate... More >>

• UV Race

  published September 22, 2010

  Austrailian outfit UV Race's proto-punk waxes nostalgic for the art-punk of the '70s without coming off as a pastiche of influences. The... More >>

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  Clownvis Presley Speaks! The King of Clowns on America's Got Talent, Winning Over the Goo Goo Dolls and His Next National TV Appearance

  published Sep 17, 2010

  It's a tale as old as time: Clown insults The Great and Terrible Oz(zy) to his wife and as a result becomes nearly infamous, by winning over the hearts and minds of Americans everywhere -- including, ... More >>

• Show Announcements: Week of September 16

  published Sep 15, 2010

  Chaifetz Arena *Bob Dylan, October 21 The Firebird *Kinch, October 25 *Kinetix, October 29 *Mayer Hawthorne and the County, October 12 *Sons of Black Mass, October 23 Fubar *The Defibulators, Octo... More >>

• Stan Chisholm sweats music and bleeds art. Won't you join him?

  published September 15, 2010

  Stan Chisholm's laptop sits under one of his pieces: a cartoonish foam carrot hanging from a log. The construction dangles above his work area... More >>

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  Show Review + Setlist + Photos: Wavves Gets High, Rages at the Billiken Club, September 11

  published Sep 12, 2010

  That's it. Summer is over, and Wavves sent it packing last night with an adrenaline- and pot-fueled rager. Crowd surfing at the Billiken Club isn't something you see every day, but Wavves is no strang... More >>