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2012 Stories by Kiernan Maletsky

• Alabama Shakes is Coming to the Pageant [Update: SOLD OUT]

  published Oct 08, 2012

  Update, 10/8: One day before the show, it has sold out. Not the kind of instantaneous ticket grab the Pageant often sees, but it's still an impressive leap for Alabama Shakes. Original post follows...... More >>

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  The Readers vs. RFT Music: Who Had Better Picks for the Best of St. Louisr

  published Oct 04, 2012

  Hopefully by now you've enjoyed perusing our annual Best of St. Louis issue, which hit the stands a week ago today. We had some truly tough decisions to make this year, and we'll agonize over them in ... More >>

• The Union Electric is On the CMJ Chart This Week [Update: And Climbing!]

  published Oct 03, 2012

  Update, 10/3: Time is Gold is no one-week wonder. The UE jumped a couple dozen spots to 170 this week, putting it ahead of Beach House, Antony and the Johnsons and the Corin Tucker Band. You can see t... More >>

• What do Karen O, Passion Pit and Robert Smith Have in Commonr They All Really Want You to See the New Tim Burton Movie

  published Oct 03, 2012

  The new Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie, comes out this week. It's about a boy and a zombie dog, and actually our reviewer says it's a damn good time. But more than the movie itself, we are intrigu... More >>

• Rue 13's Final Hour: Body Paint, Green Drinks and Goodbyes [Photos]

  published Oct 02, 2012

  Among Washington Avenue's roomy, full-contact bars, Rue 13 was unique. Not least because of its ties to the punk community, which it welcomed every week with a rowdy night of in-house music. It also h... More >>

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  Stars

  published October 4, 2012

  There is almost no one we'd rather have whispering in our ears than Stars' Torquill Campbell. He and the rest of his steadily excellent Canadian... More >>

• Win Hood Internet Tickets

  published Sep 28, 2012

  Tonight, Chicago good-time master the Hood Internet will be at the Gramophone. Tickets are $15 at the door and the show starts at 10 p.m. Do some weird shots beforehand. Last time the duo came to to... More >>

• The Union Electric is On the CMJ Chart This Week

  published Sep 27, 2012

  Great news this week for St. Louis' the Union Electric: The band's debut full-length has landed on the CMJ Top 200 chart after gaining steady airplay at community and college radio stations around the... More >>

• Win Tickets to the Psychedelic Furs and the Lemonheads at the Pageant

  published Sep 27, 2012

  New wave legend the Psychedelic Furs is returning to St. Louis on October 12. The Lemonheads (!) will open, and tickets are $27.50 in advance. The show's at the Pageant, a little over a year after the... More >>

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  The Best of St. Louis 2012 Music Winners

  published Sep 26, 2012

  The Best of St. Louis issue is out today -- 185 pages filled with the things that make us proud to be in Mound City. Get yourself a copy and find something new to eat, drink, see or argue about with f... More >>

• Five Years of the Best St. Louis Song: Listen Here

  published Sep 25, 2012

  Our yearly giant love letter to St. Louis -- the Best Of issue -- comes out tomorrow. We've encountered some confusion out there, so this seems like as good an opportunity as any to explain that this ... More >>

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  Tower Groove Records' Seven-Inch Subscription Series: Lineup and Fall Launch [Update]

  published Sep 24, 2012

  Update, 9/24/12: Your first chance to sign up for this thing will be at a "Fall Informal" at Apop Records on Saturday, October 20. Few details are available at the moment, but we have been promised "m... More >>

• Win Tickets to Alabama Shakes at the Pageant

  published Sep 24, 2012

  Alabama Shakes has had about as meteoric a year as any band this side of, I don't know, Carly Rae Jepsen. Riding a wave of the neo-soul revival, the Shakes differentiate itself from the pack with a ro... More >>

• Kanrocksas Early Bird Tickets on Sale at 10 a.m. Today

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Kanrocksas (a festival at the NASCAR Speedway just west of Kansas City, so named for...never mind) debuted big in 2011, going toe-to-toe with Lollapalooza and featuring many of the same names (includi... More >>

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  Nobody Cares About the St. Louis Rams: The Song

  published Sep 20, 2012

  Peter Hughes, who now plays bass with the Mountain Goats, had a band called DiskothiQ in the '90s. It was, in Hughes' words, "semi-competent indie-rock with bad singing." Together with his brother Kev... More >>

• Mumford & Sons Babel Test Pressing: One of Twelve in Existence Will Be at Vintage Vinyl

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Mumford & Sons second full-length, Babel, will be out on September 25. Many things characterize the British band: Banjos, sheepskin, Jesus and crescendos, for example. But It is also a a group that ha... More >>

• LouFest Joins with Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Producer: What Will it Meanr

  published Sep 18, 2012

  The confetti has barely settled on LouFest year three: Despite some uncooperative weather, this year's incarnation, featuring headliners Girl Talk and the Flaming Lips, was its biggest yet, with some ... More >>

• Tell Us Your Favorite Record for Romance, Win Washed Out Tickets [Update: We Have a Winner!]

  published Sep 16, 2012

  Update, 6 p.m.: And @medoolah is our winner with any Depeche Mode album or "More than Words" by Extreme. Thanks for playing, everybody. Now go get busy. Ernest Greene (aka Washed Out) released his f... More >>

• The Paul McCartney St. Louis Presale is Happening Now!

  published Sep 13, 2012

  Paul McCartney has just announced a St. Louis show -- it's on November 11 at the Scottrade Center. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster, BUT the presale start... More >>

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  How Violent Idiot Chris Brown Continues to Play the Victim: A Timeline

  published Sep 12, 2012

  As a reader of music blogs, you have by no doubt by now heard that violent idiot Chris Brown has done (another) stupid thing by getting a tattoo on his neck that looks suspiciously like a battered wom... More >>

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  YOB

  published September 14, 2012

  The lord of Pacific Northwestern doom metal, YOB has been howling and trudging since the mid-'90s. Spinning apocalyptic rattles with alarming... More >>

• Want to Hang Out with Robert Earl Keenr

  published Sep 06, 2012

  Robert Earl Keen is a singer songwriter corroborated by nearly every measure we've got: Beloved by critics, canonized repeatedly in his native Texas and capable of putting his last seven albums in inc... More >>

• Langhorne Slim Cancels St. Louis Show Due to A Blown Transmission

  published Sep 06, 2012

  We've just learned that Langhorne Slim will not, in fact, be appearing this Friday at Plush. According to the venue, the band ran into "vehicle trouble" and will not be returning this year. A 2013 sto... More >>

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  Six Songs for the Doomed Albino Hummingbird

  published Sep 05, 2012

  Last week, our cohorts at Daily RFT brought you the story of an albino ruby-throated hummingbird, or maybe a pair of them, seen in northeast Missouri. The exceptionally rare species is easily spotted ... More >>

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  An Under Cover Weekend

  published September 6, 2012

  In case, after five years, you are coming into this unprepared: Ten St. Louis bands each don the guise of a different group it is inspired by... More >>