Eagles of Death Metal is a loose super-group engineered for rock fans with a sense of humor. Formed in the late '90s by swarthy mustache pioneer Jesse Hughes and Queens of the Stone Age's ginger powerhouse, Josh Homme, EoDM plays hooky, guitar-driven jams with the same tongue-in-cheek attitude... More >>

w/ Franco-Hill, Atm, Black Spade, J'Demul - From Homespun: Mvstermind, A.D.D.: North-side native Muhammad Austin may have a hard time paying attention, but his work as Mvstermind has no trouble paying dues. You can probably guess from the title of A.D.D. (Artistically Day Dreaming) that Austin... More >>

w/ Thin Dimes, Red Headed Strangers - You might know Kevin Russell from the Gourds (or, briefly, Kev Russell’s Junker). You may even have been subjected to a closing-time airing of the Austin-based band’s take on “Gin & Juice.” But Russell bides his time between Gourds... More >>

St. Louis is chock-full of urban legends and ghost stories: The Lemp Mansion is haunted by a cadre of family ghosts, the spirit of Molly Crenshaw lingers in St. Charles county, and "Zombie Road" spooks generations of teens in West County, just to name a few. Decide for yourself if its... More >>

Denver's Speedwolf plays ripping thrash metal with heaps of Motörhead influence, from the gravelly vocal delivery down to the dirty thrash-rock riffage. Speedwolf is no tribute band, however; d-beat-style intensity and impressive technicality set Speedwolf apart from the cookie-cutter... More >>

It's hard to believe, but Bob Kramer's Marionnettes are celebrating 50 years of pulling the strings in this town. To mark the occasion, the group teams up with Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris for a special night of music and puppetry, The Poor Puppets of Paris. Kramer and company have... More >>

“I’ve been away for too long,” growls Chris Cornell on Soundgarden’s 2012 album King Animal. It’s certainly been too long since Soundgarden has visited the Gateway to the West. Sure, Cornell has been here a few times with Audioslave, as well as on his own, but... More >>

Neither blues nor Southern rock, neither a jam band nor a bar band, the ensemble of Austin, Texas songwriters, singers and guitar-slingers known as the Band of Heathens have drawn buckets of inspiration from all the wells of American music. Its two core songwriters, Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist... More >>

w/ The Fuck Off and Dies - From "Andrew W.K. is Coming to the Firebird May 22:" It has been years since W.K. came to St. Louis on a non-Warped Tour stage. His appearances at Pop's in the early aughts were rather rambunctious affairs -- at that time his debut album I Get Wet had just been... More >>

Much like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes, Walter Mosley apparently killed off his iconic detective, Easy Rawlins, almost six years ago in the novel Blonde Faith. And much like in Doyle's case, Rawlins' fans were not pleased with this final development. Mosley wasn't quite done... More >>

English Premier League clubs Chelsea (never met a trophy they didn't try to buy) and Manchester City (also-rans for years until they married a billionaire) meet for a friendly here in St. Louis at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Busch Stadium (Broadway and Poplar Street; www.cardinals.com/soccer).... More >>

The Gypsy Caravan may be St. Louis' most reliable tradition. Every year since 1973, the Saint Louis Symphony Volunteer Association has staged the Gypsy Caravan as a fundraiser for the symphony; how many other summer traditions (excepting baseball -- which missed 1994, by the way) can you think... More >>

Featuring high-tech planes flying at 500 miles per hour (twice the speed of your typical NASCAR race!), the Unlimited Gold Championship Air Racing finals in Reno, Nevada's, Valley Of Speed is the fastest race on Earth. Actor Paul Walker knows a thing or two about high stakes/high speed racing,... More >>

Burlesque dynamo Lola van Ella always gives the people what they want, so it's not surprising to see the return of the Show-Me Burlesque and Vaudeville Festival (Thursday through Saturday, May 16 to 18). Burlesque performers from across the country give their all at the fest, which spans three... More >>

Bedford, Massachusetts, was once the whaling capital of the world. It's still a town that depends on the sea, with a thriving port that launches more than 500 fishing ships a month. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, filmmakers from the Harvard University Sensory Ethnography Lab, joined... More >>

History runs deep between St. Louis and New Orleans, two cities connected, divided and built on the banks of the Mississippi River. This spring, Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road, Sunset Hills; 314-615-5278 or www.laumeier.com) teams with New Orleans art gallery Longue Vue House for the... More >>

China is a large country with an even larger history. You could spend a lifetime studying just one province and still have more to learn. This Saturday and Sunday (May 18 and 19) the Missouri Botanical Garden's Chinese Culture Days offers a convenient serving of the arts and customs of this... More >>

Frontenac couple Harry and Edna Grossman lived long, quiet lives until their deaths in the 1980s. During their 80-odd years on Earth the Grossmans traveled the world, capturing their adventures and everyday experiences alike in hundreds of photographs. Several years ago, collector Jeff Phillips... More >>

Had Doc Brown used his time-traveling DeLorean to explore the Triassic period, the solar system or the ocean floor, maybe he'd have found a companion in Ms. Frizzle, the ambitious science teacher behind the wheel of children's book series, The Magic School Bus. Learn from his mistake and follow... More >>

apanese-born artist Hiraki Sawa's 2003 video installation Migration is set in Lilliputian scale, and is simply delightful. Seven minutes of itty bitty people, horses, elephants, and camels cross the oversize terrain of Sawa's London apartment while airplanes roam through the air. The movement... More >>

As the beings at the top of the food chain, with language, law, the biggest brains, etcetera, we humans tend to dwell on ourselves a bit too much. Ask most folks their definition of "high drama" and they'll restrict it to the trials and tribulations of people -- exclusively. What about the... More >>

Color, or lack thereof, is a constant contemplation in all works of art. Artists often have complicated relationships with and views on the presence of each hue, and American sculptor and painter Donald Judd certainly considered elements of color throughout his 40-plus-year career. His later... More >>

Long before Dan Brown's half-baked conspiracy theories sullied his good name, Leonardo da Vinci dazzled people with his knack for invention and skill as an artist. The touring exhibition DaVinci Machines II brings the maestro's creations to the people once again. This show is different than the... More >>

The art world loves to categorize artists by their style or "school," particularly if the artists all hail from the same part of the world in the same era. But that's simplistic at best; art is an individual endeavor, and no two people go about creating in the same way. Contemporary German Art:... More >>

As work on the new wing of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park (314-721-0072 or www.slam.org) nears completion, art that's long been in storage reemerges for public viewing. The first sighting of these archived works is Mantegna to Man Ray: Six Explorations in Prints, Drawings and... More >>