Everything looked bad but the weather. I crawled through traffic in parts of Cahokia and Sauget that will never make a John Mellencamp small town video. I stared at the lines snaking around the GCS Ballpark half an hour before... More >>
I just got off the phone with a spokesman for Major League Baseball, and he clarified that Elvis Costello is not opening for Sheryl Crow next Saturday, July 11, nor is he doing an entirely separate set of his own... More >>
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This old adage was proved true last night in the parking lot outside the Judas Priest/Whitesnake show at Family Arena in St. Charles, as this slideshow here proves.Steve TruesdellA Judas... More >>
This is slightly off-topic from music, but still worth mentioning: Citygarden, a sculpture garden between Market and Chestnut and 8th and 10th streets downtown, opened yesterday. It's very cool -- I suggest you check it out. Here's a story I... More >>
Greg Anderson laughs a great deal. He chuckles while talking about wearing ceremonial robes, he chortles while making a passing reference to the... More >>
It seems like the world can't shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to more than 25 million users, what with... More >>
The irony of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp touring minor-league ballparks is as rich as their combined estates. It's not like... More >>
"Sorry, Mr. Swift, but you're much too fat/and could I convince you to wear a cap?" So begins Richard Swift's "Artist & Repertoire," a song in... More >>
9 p.m. Saturday, July 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Christian Schaeffer
Wednesday, July 01
Named after Willie Nelson's best album, local group the Red-Headed Strangers knows something about classic country songwriting and even more... More >>
8:30 p.m. Monday, July 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Todd McKenzie
Wednesday, July 01
There are few bands as grotesquely madcap as Philadelphia's Man Man. On record, the experimental five-piece band dabbles in jittery jazz dirges... More >>
The announcement of No Doubt's first tour since 2004 was met with the kind of warmth reserved for reconnecting with long-lost family members. But... More >>
The boys in the Radical Sons are pretty smart. Before you can harp on the just-post-teenaged quartet for being a shameless throwback to nervy,... More >>
It's lunchtime, and Hodak's in south St. Louis is jumping. Jeff and Dave, the Brothers Lazaroff, are having fried chicken, cod, beets and iced... More >>
Soul prodigy John Legend played the piano at age 4, started the University of Pennsylvania at 16, and, at age 30, took home his sixth Grammy and... More >>
8 p.m. Thursday, June 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Christian Schaeffer
Wednesday, June 24
The Avett Brothers aren't exactly a hard sell: Seth and Scott, two handsome, bearded brothers from North Carolina, play sweetly ragged folk songs... More >>
10 p.m. Friday, June 26, The Foxhole in the Atomic Cowboy, 4140 Manchester Avenue.
By Calvin Cox
Wednesday, June 24
Raise your hand if you're familiar with the rap scene in Columbia, Missouri. No? Well, if Indyground Entertainment has its way, you'll soon know... More >>
9 p.m. Friday, June 26. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Shae Moseley
Wednesday, June 24
The Features' perpetual status as the "next big thing " has most likely become a point of sarcastic comic relief for its members by now. The... More >>
8 p.m. Friday, June 26. The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.
By Todd McKenzie
Wednesday, June 24
Julie Doiron, the former bassist and vocalist of Canadian indie group Eric's Trip, has been releasing a steady stream of austere and intimate... More >>
8 p.m. Saturday, June 27. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Annie Zaleski
Wednesday, June 24
We locals can be forgiven for feeling mighty proud of So Many Dynamos right about now. After all, we've seen the post-everything quartet grow... More >>
8:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Annie Zaleski
Wednesday, June 24
Had Plushgun existed 25 years ago, one suspects John Hughes would have found every excuse to put the band's sensitive-artist synthpop in his... More >>
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 1. The Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles.
By Shae Moseley
Wednesday, June 24
Judas Priest and Whitesnake playing a place called the Family Arena is good for a chuckle, but otherwise the bill sounds like a perfect match,... More >>
Chords to Live By is a clever title for B&E's first full-length, but it's a bit misleading: There's only one type of chord this quintet knows,... More >>