Email Author Randall Roberts

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 25, 2009

  "On the Road to Burma"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Bon Iver at Hollywood Forever Cemetery"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 12, 2009

  "Katy Perry Unpeeled"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2011

  "The Day the Music Died"

• 2008 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published April 25, 2007

  "Chinatown Confidential"

• 2006 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 1, 2005

  "It Was Just Like Beverly Hills"

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1999 Stories by Randall Roberts

• Rollin' on the River

  published December 29, 1999

  The evening begins with a phone call. It always does. The voice on the machine at the other end, excited after months of anticipation, finally... More >>

• DEAR PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE

  published December 29, 1999

  We have way more music than you think we did at the end of 1999. Really. Because you haven't found much proof, you're probably thinking that 1999... More >>

• Critical Mass

  published December 29, 1999

  As anyone who's read Nick Hornby's High Fidelity knows, music critics -- especially that species known as Criticus hiparawkasauraus... More >>

• SHUTTERED ROOMS

  published December 22, 1999

  One of those freaky shifts is occurring in the Washington Avenue club district, an evolutionary weeding-out that seems to happen regardless of... More >>

• POST-CORPORATE COLONIZATION

  published December 22, 1999

  Any regular reader of "Radar Station" knows how we feel about the major-label system, but every once in a while it's good to hear our opinion... More >>

• DIGITAL BLUES

  published December 15, 1999

  While all of us trendies move from genre to genre lapping up the current craze with the attention span of a litter of kittens, the St. Louis blues... More >>

• CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC

  published December 15, 1999

  The media event that was staged at Blueberry Hill last Tuesday resulted in few revelations that we haven't been reporting for the past... More >>

• SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

  published December 15, 1999

  If you're at a loss as to where to hear great progressive electronic music on a Saturday night, and don't feel like going to the Washington Avenue... More >>

• Kid 606

  published December 15, 1999

  Although an unfortunate many of the city's drum & bass/jungle/breakbeat heads don't even know what Mississippi Nights is, let alone... More >>

• BROOM ROOM

  published December 8, 1999

  Is there anything less exciting than reading about a guy and his basement studio? Really. There's a basement. There's a guy. There's gear. Combine... More >>

• QUICKIES

  published December 8, 1999

  It's dangerous to debut your band with a live album; really, no good can come of it. Live music and recorded music have two distinct... More >>

• De La Soul, Pharoahe Monch and Biz Markie

  published December 8, 1999

  As a member of the incredibly influential New York duo Organized Konfusion, rapper Pharoahe Monch tossed off bumpy, rough-and-tumble rhymes and... More >>

• LUKE SLATER

  published December 8, 1999

  It's only fair that the word "funky" is closely associated with black culture; after all, while Whitey was chasing Bread and Terry Jacks, superior... More >>

• TOY STORY

  published December 1, 1999

  Margaret Leng Tan hits the ground running as she answers her phone in her Brooklyn home, and within moments she's on a verbal roll that, over... More >>

• THROB, THROB

  published November 24, 1999

  You couldn't help but tingle if you were in the audience at last week's Backstreet Boys concert at Kiel Center. The energy was palpable, the... More >>

• STARR TIME!

  published November 24, 1999

  Local roots/pop/country/rock band Belle Starr have been churning out their roots/pop/country/ rock for three or four years now, gigging... More >>

• CLUB FOOTING

  published November 24, 1999

  Rumors have been flying around town for a while now about the fate of two of St. Louis gay nightclubs -- the venerable Magnolia's, 5 S.... More >>

• QUICKIES

  published November 24, 1999

  It never hurts to send "Radar Station" early Christmas presents in exchange for space within, especially when the gifts are empty boxes; old,... More >>

• EASTERN PASSAGE

  published November 17, 1999

  At this point, is it really necessary to invent a new musical instrument? What can be expressed on something new that couldn't be expressed... More >>

• ST.LOUIS SCENE REPORT

  published November 17, 1999

  The Conformists bash out dumb punk rock, and they do it quite well. At a recent Hi-Pointe gig, the band showed that it's still possible to... More >>

• SPACE BLAST

  published November 17, 1999

  Yes, the party is now history, but it deserves pointing out that "Spooks in Space" a few weeks back in Columbia, Mo., presented by St. Louis'... More >>

• LATE FRAGMENT

  published November 17, 1999

  Jamaican reggae legend Sister Carol gigs Wednesday, Nov. 24, at the Venue on the Landing, presented by local rasta-pushers Jah Man... More >>

• Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers

  published November 17, 1999

  When jazz moved away from its dance-hall roots in the 1950s and started getting all cerebral on us, it lost something magical (and, in the... More >>

• Lullaby for the Working Class and Frogpond

  published November 17, 1999

  It's tough to tell what's accomplished through the omission of all apostrophes from the lyric booklet of Lullaby for the Working Class' most... More >>

• SOLDIER'S JOY

  published November 10, 1999

  If the hipster in you had absolutely no time for the Greater St. Louis Marching Band Festival last week at the Trans World Dome, well, you... More >>