In St. Louis, there's nothing novel about established musicians reconfiguring into new bands when their old ones die. But when singer/guitarist/banjoist Tim Rakel started playing with guitarist Glenn Burleigh in a new band dubbed the Union Electric, nobody had any idea what to expect. How would the dark rusticism of Rakel's old band, Bad Folk, work with the tightly wound, swerving post-hardcore of Burleigh's old band, the Adversary Workers? Would Burleigh's instinct for complexity and surprise mesh with the more populist, straightforward songwriting values of... More >>>