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41. Critics' Picks

    The Orange Peels

    Tuesday, August 23; Way Out Club (2525 South Jefferson Avenue)

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: August 17, 2005

    Need a break from the oppressive heat and humidity that is St. Louis in the summertime? One could do worse than checking out the Orange Peels, who have practically made a...

42. Critics' Picks

    Red Pony Clock

    Saturday, August 14; Radio Cherokee

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: August 11, 2004

    This has been an exceptional summer for St. Louis' indie-pop fans. Over the past few weeks, we've seen Boyracer, the Owls, the Maybellines, Poison Control Center and Anna...

43. Rotations

    Magnetic Fields

    i (Nonesuch)

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: May 5, 2004

    So how do you follow up an ambitious, critically acclaimed triple-CD box set? This was Stephin Merritt's dilemma circa 1999. Merritt has been an admired songwriter on the indie...

44. Music

    Krautrock Reborn

    Stereolab took tragedy and turned it into Margerine Eclipse

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: April 7, 2004

    About ten minutes into Margerine Eclipse, the new album by art-rock legend Stereolab, something astonishing and strangely familiar happens. Right in the middle of the dreamy,...

45. Critics' Picks

    Mates of State with I Am The World Trade Center and The Thermals

    Saturday, October 18; Rocket Bar

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: October 15, 2003

    Touring in a band with your husband or wife is a double-edged sword. If the two of you aren't getting on, it can be the worst kind of hell. Just ask Richard and Linda Thompson,...

46. Critics' Picks

    The Human League

    Monday, August 11; Pageant

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: August 6, 2003

    The fact that this show is a co-production of 104.1 The Mall and VH1 Classic tells you everything you need to know about the Human League's current standing: '80s-nostalgia...

47. Rotations

    Essential Logic

    Fanfare In The Garden (Kill Rock Stars)

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: July 9, 2003

    Lora Logic entered the music world as X-Ray Spex's teenaged saxophonist. That's her discordantly wailing away behind "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" the Spex's signature song and the...