Top St. Louis Music Stories

Music Features

• 
  DIYnamic Duo: Meet Steven Houldsworth and Graham Matthews, St. Louis best music fans
  By Cassie Kohler

  What if St. Louis music fans never missed a live concert? Imagine if every single sold-out Saturday at the Pageant, every DIY basement mosh pit or soundtracked park picnic was available online... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Al Holliday, Made It Through the Mill, Again
  alhollidaymusic.com
  By Christian Schaeffer

  Al Holliday is a 25-year-old, white, Collinsville, Illinois-bred pianist and singer who makes his debut with twelve original songs on Made It Through the Mill, Again. We might as well get the... More >>

• 
  Emotions Run High: Electronic artist Parisian garners international attention through dark themes
  By Evan C. Jones

  It's a dreary St. Louis afternoon. Overcast skies are cloaked in a gray and dark blue coat as a steady rain punishes the pavement. A coffee shop masquerades as an out-of-control library, filled... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Max Load
  By Christian Schaeffer

  It's no stretch at all to think of BDR Records as St. Louis' very own Numero Group. That Chicago-based imprint quickly became the king of archival reissues, resurrecting long-forgotten and barely... More >>

• 
  Deep Covers: Bhi Bhiman re-imagines rock favorites on Substitute Preacher
  By Tom Finkel

  A native St. Louisan and the son of first-generation Sri Lankan immigrants, Bhi Bhiman writes and sings country-tinged songs in a keening tone guaranteed to grab the unsuspecting listener by the... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Mvstermind, A.D.D. (Artistically Day Dreaming)
  mastermindmme.bandcamp.com
  By Christian Schaeffer

  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... More >>

• 
  Victim of Love: Charles Bradley has no time to dream
  By Roy Kasten

  When Charles Bradley sings, the promise of something we call America becomes real. That promise may be broken, bleeding, scarred, but it's undeniable. To call the 64-year-old New York native a... More >>

• 
  RFT Spring Arts Guide 2013: Music
  By RFT Writers

  Love Lost and Never Found For its nineteenth season, Union Avenue Opera tackles one of life's most painful mysteries: What does love become when it goes bad? Puccini's Madama Butterfly (July 12... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Grace Basement, Wheel Within a Wheel
  By Christian Schaeffer

  Biblical prophets, Irish poets and American songwriters have all used the image of a wheel inside a wheel to speak toward some larger unity — of many moving parts operating in a unified... More >>

• 
  Rock & Roll Whirlwind: Nikki Hill never phones it in
  By Roy Kasten

  It's a late Thursday afternoon at Blues City Deli in the Benton Park neighborhood, and the room is so packed no one can move, but everyone moves anyway. Nikki Hill and her band are playing two... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Tone Rodent
  By Christian Schaeffer

  Guitarist/vocalist Adam Watkins and bassist Matty Coonfield have been the anchors in the member-shifting Tone Rodent, a band that swerves from psych to shoegaze to no-wave without losing a... More >>

• 
  Trooper Stupor: Jay Chandrasekhar's tireless work ethic
  By Kelsey McClure

  Jay Chandrasekhar has a work ethic that borders on multiple personality disorder. Alongside the rest of his Broken Lizard comedy toupe, the multitasker wrote, directed and starred in Super... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Prairie Rehab, Weights & Measures
  prairierehab.bandcamp.com
  By Christian Schaeffer

  The fateful Craigslist ad that brought songwriter and guitarist Lacie Mangels into the company of ex-Linemen Scott Swartz (guitar), Greg Lamb (bass) and John Baldus (drums) continues to pay... More >>

• 
  At Odds with the Modern World: Widowspeak chronicles its nostalgic struggles on Almanac
  By Mike Appelstein

  Before smartphones and Google, before printed encyclopedias, before even Gutenberg, there was the almanac. This was an annual compendium of weather forecasts, important dates and useful facts and... More >>

• 
  Homespun: Everything's Fine, America
  www.lasttoshowfirsttogo.com
  By Christian Schaeffer

  You probably won't need a particularly heightened sense of sarcasm to figure out that Last to Show First to Go isn't playing it straight with the title of its new EP, Everything's Fine, America.... More >>