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The Great MP3 Compromise: Credits Where Credits Are Due

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. For the average music listener, Mp3s are a compromise. Sound quality is traded for portability. For the ... More >>

Undead Format: Dissecting The Cassette Revival

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. My first musical memory involved a cassette tape of Michael Jackson's Thriller. I was in the backseat of ... More >>

The Illusion Of Volume: Understanding Compression

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. The CALM Act was enacted two months ago, causing television commercials to maintain the same or lower vol ... More >>

How Has Streaming Changed the Way Albums are Made?

In this week's feature, Dan Moore talks about the way our music-listening habits have changed over the past century, all the way from live performance to instantaneous streaming of 99% of all recorded music. He asks a number of good questions. Among my favorites is this one: "Why listen to the worst ... More >>

Does Spotify Mean the End the iPod and Your Music Collection?

When I bought my first iPod--this was the first iPod, when the scroll wheel actually spun around--it was a severe blow to my nerd-cred, which I guarded pretty jealously at the time. (It was the only cred I had.) Relying on iTunes and its untouchable database to maintain my MP3 collection, instead of ... More >>

Go for Baroque

The Six Gayest Songs That Might Be On Chick-Fil-A COO Dan Cathy's iPod

Chick-Fil-A Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy made controversial statements recently in defense of marriage - which is Conservative speak for "anti-gay." But if he ever listens to music that isn't made by Michael W. Smith or Steven Curtis Chapman, he probably runs into - and unknowingly enjoys - son ... More >>

Listen Like You Mean It

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. If I could pick one attitude of mine that would look sweet on a T-shirt or tattoo, possibly in metal font ... More >>

Rodney King and The Psychotic World We Live In

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

World Series 2011: The Fucking Chris Carpenter Fly Out Song

BLEEEEEEP​So, you think you're the best fucking fans in baseball, huh? Well fucking prove it! Download this fucking .mp3 file, stick it on your goddamn iPod and fucking memorize the fucking thing. Then, when the fucking guy who runs the PA system at Baseball Fucking Heaven tries to get you p ... More >>

Steve Jobs' Six Best Music Innovations

Apple (the Beatles record label) once sued Apple (the computer corporation). After initial squabbles over the right to name their companies after the same fruit, the two agreed that all was good as long as Steve Jobs and crew never entered the music business. As you can probably guess, as you likely ... More >>

Ten shows, concerts and benefits to attend between December 23 and 29

Ten Things To Do in St. Louis: December 23-29

Wikimedia CommonsA scene from Christmas Holidays at Merryvale​For local clubs, the week after Christmas can be rather dead. Out-of-town touring acts take a break for the holidays, while locals tend to rest up, spend time with family and save their energy for New Year's Eve. (The exception to t ... More >>

Sleigh Bells

9 p.m. Thursday, October 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Last Collector Standing: Jean Haffner of the Record Exchange on Audiophiles and His Near-Miss Playing with Buddy Holly

The number of chain record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops as well as for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' recor ... More >>

iHelp for Autism: The iPad opens up new worlds for autistic children

Last Collector Standing: Nicole Peterson on Bowie, Beatles and Bands Who Love Vinyl

Jon ScorfinaNicole Peterson, this week's Last Collector Standing​Nicole Peterson has worked in many facets of the music industry, including retail at Slackers CD's and Games and (currently) at Suite 100 at the Pageant handling merchandise and ticket sales. After looking through her modest reco ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: COR(E)YOGRAPHY on DJ Culture, Urban Outfitters' Role in New Music, and Club Shenanigans

Jon Scorfina​DJing under the pseudonym COR(E)YOGRAPHY, Corey McCarthy has become a vital part of the city's vibrant club scene - as a DJ and as someone helping to bring national acts to St. Louis. A former retail manager at Urban Outfitters, McCarthy now focuses his full attention on his Propa ... More >>

Cool Term for the Smash-and-Grab Break-ins Last Weekend Downtown: "Car Clouting"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thievingjoker/ / CC BY-SA 2.0This car got "clouted," fools.​Gather 'round, word nerds, we got a new one.Many outlets reported the smattering of car break-ins that plagued Soulard and Downtown over the weekend (here's KTVI and the AP). According to KMOX.com, fans at the ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Webster University's Andrew Allen Smith on Combining Record Collections with His Girlfriend, Movie Soundtracks and the Pixies

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' record a ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Freezerburn's Ben Stegman on Album Reviews, New Bands and How Consuming Music Has Changed

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this new weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' reco ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Matt Harnish, of Bunnygrunt and Vintage Vinyl Fame

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this new weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' reco ... More >>

Survey: What's the Loudest Restaurant in St. Louis?

Image via​The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story that restaurants -- new ones, specifically -- are getting louder. Not the kitchens, but the dining rooms. Everything from iPods pumping out music to open kitchens contribute to the dining din.Coincidentally, Ian Froeb's review this week of Bra ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Latte, Foam Coffee and Beer

Nicholas Phillips​The word "foam" connotes something insubstantial, ephemeral. It conjures up images of once-trendy foam parties at neon-lit nightclubs and poufs of carrot foam on top of elaborate plates at very fancy restaurants. This Foam, a new coffeehouse at Jefferson Avenue and Cherokee Stre ... More >>

Revolution 9.9.9: Will New Media Formats Bring the LP and The Beatles into Digital Age?

Photo by Crabchick via Flickr​Record companies have been dragged kicking and screaming by consumers (and Apple) into the digital age in the last ten years. And predictions are that 2010 will mark a tipping point where music purchased digitally via download will account for more than half of all mu ... More >>

A Table for How Many? at BBC Asian Cafe & Bar

Stefani Pollack is the author of the food blogs Cupcake Project and Food Interviews. She is also a member of the St. Louis Dinner Club. She blogs about her large-group dining experiences twice a month for Gut Check.BBC Asian Cafe & Bar243 North Euclid Avenue314-361-7770"I'd go back.""I'll be ba ... More >>

Will We Travel the Spaceways?

Rave On! (Silently) at Union Station on Saturday, February 28

Wikimedia CommonsRaving it up old-school.Some old folks who have vivid memories of the nineties may think that 4:30 in the afternoon is a little early to start raving, and Union Station is kind of a strange locale when there are so many abandoned warehouses in St. Louis, but those folks are just sho ... More >>

'90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Jay-Z featuring Ja Rule and Amil, "Can I Get A..."

That iPod "name the first line of the song" meme is going around Facebook, and one of the few tracks I guessed was this one. 

Stream, Buy and Download a New Ring, Cicada Album, History's End!

Here's something I never expected to see: Semi-dormant post-rockers Ring, Cicada have finally put their new album, History's End, up for download right over here. You can stream the entire LP at that link (and below), although the band is dropping some NIN-style science on anyone who ponies up $10 f ... More >>

Bryan Adams plays songs from his new album, 11, (and plenty of hits!) on Monday night at the Sheldon — acoustic!

aPop Records Exhibits Its Wares at the Contemporary Art Museum

Face the Nation

We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.

All the Whirl's a Stage

Daily Web Crawl

Just Do It

Just Do It

Oscar Mayer Fast Franks
Beef Frank In A Bun

$2.99
Schnucks
6600 Clayton Road
Richmond Heights

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

MC Lars

Wednesday, February 22 at 8 p.m. at the Gargoyle (on the campus of Washington University, Forsyth and Skinker boulevards)

Lemonata

Boogaloo, 7344 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-645-4803.

Sweet and Lo-Fi

Bill Streeter's vlog is how others see us

Living on Video

The Buggles were so, so wrong

Danse Macabre

We explore the wacky world of Phosphorescent, rile up Henry Rollins and venture into weirdness with Murder by Death

Love Park

Mr. Night and Ms. Day grab iPods for an iPopping tour of Forest Park

Serengeti

Friday, September 23; the Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

Head Over Feet

We sip java with Alanis, investigate podcasting and figure out what those concert tickets are really worth

Wonk Jams

A St. Louis rocker is laying down the Democratic soundtrack. Is that a good idea?

iPod, youPod

Digital music lets us carry our personalities in our pockets

Best Radio Station for Music

The one you program yourself