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On the Subject of Music and Sound and Air and Science

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. Last night while disassembling a crude table to repurpose its boards for a drum riser-slash-sandbox (lon ... More >>

Six Tips For Hosting Dirty Vagrants (Also Known as Touring Bands)

Editor's note: This post is half of a two-parter! Please read its companion post as well, Six Tips On How To Be an Awful House Guest: Musician Edition. Musicians, much like regular humans, need sleep to survive. In unfamiliar cities, a stranger with a squishy place to nap for a night can help out t ... More >>

Should My Band Hire a Publicist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

For Christmas, What do you Get the Music-Loving Acquaintance who Already has Nothing?

Deep inside Spotify headquarters, at this very moment, some poor marketing team is tasked with the idea of making Spotify gift accounts sound like a good idea for a Christmas present. I know this because I am too cheap to pay to make the Spotify ads go away. So far they've been wise enough not to ... More >>

The New Cold War: On the frontlines of the costliest battle in the high-tech world

Homespun: Various Artists

Site/Sound
erichall.bandcamp.com/album/site-sound

Group Claims Chick-Fil-A Will End Anti-Gay Donations

Love Chick-Fil-A (multiple locations), but conflicted by the anti-gay rhetoric spouted by its president and COO Dan Cathy, and by the donations that its WinShape Foundation has made to such anti-gay organizations? Today might be your lucky day. See Also: - A Beef With Chick-Fil-A - Anti-Gay Chick ... More >>

Meet Escalade: the Foul, Thoughtful, Party-Starting Rapper from Noise Band Catholic Guilt

Escalade represents a foul mash-up of noise and rap music. Not rhythmic static or choreographed feedback, Escalade's songs shows a keen ear for tonality where songs have become occupied spaces of thought. We're not talking about hyper produced hip-hop or hardcore ghetto-spit, but pop songs coming fr ... More >>

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Seven

​Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sl ... More >>

The Last Space Shuttle Launch And Obsolete Music-Delivery Systems

​Friday morning's scheduled space shuttle launch, the last of 135 missions flown by the orbiters, marks the exact moment at which a space-travel technology from 1981 finally becomes obsolete. That's right: If you'd just overbuilt your music collection like NASA did with Atlantis, you could s ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Last Collector Standing: Les Aaron of the Point's New Music Sunday on T. Rex and His DJ History

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 >>

Featured Art Review: Ryan Thayer's Timemachines

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Stereo, a new high-end audio store, brings out the best in music

Last Collector Standing: Helen Petty on Rock & Roll Hair and Dance Parties With Her Son

Jon Scorfina​The cultural importance of records extends beyond the music within their grooves. Generation after generation has defined itself by its vinyl aesthetic. From Elvis Presley to The Beatles, The Sex Pistols to Madonna, the album cover has become a cultural landmark that encapsulates ... More >>

Espresso con Panna, the Mud House

​We live in a noisy world. The trilling cell phones, the talking heads, the status updates; distractions clamor and follow us around like Pig Pen's dust cloud. Just checking your e-mail requires slagging through all the crap you're not interested in for the few messages that matter to you. The ... More >>

The Ponys

8 p.m. Friday, October 1. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Last Collector Standing: DJ Power Couple Nick Openlander and Brittany Browers Talk Skinny Jeans, Vinyl Scores and If Gender Affects Their Craft

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 >>

Last Collector Standing: Jimmy Winkeler of the Conformists on Recording New Tunes with Steve Albini, Vinyl Fidelity and His Crush on Louise Post

(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: Thomas Crone

(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 >>

Zing Go Those Strings

Cannonball Re-Run: A screwball crew of gearheads retool the outlaw cross-country car race

Many Arms

8 p.m. Thursday, November 5. The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

9.9.09 Beatles or Not? Apple's Big Announcement is Today

​Today is the day when we find out if my prediction that Apple will be the first to release digital versions of the Beatles catalog at the "iPod event" comes true. I'm sort of leaning against my prediction since Apple named the event for a Rolling Stones song; "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" Whe ... More >>

Ten Tech Releases to Look for this Fall

Photo by Marcin Wichary via Flickr​It's August. The economy is bad. Things are slow, but technology marches on. In spite of the global economic slowdown, there will still be plenty of new high-tech products to look forward to this fall. A lot of them will actually be cheaper (even Apple has lowere ... More >>

Tune In and Turn It Up

Java Enabled: Is Coffee Recession-Proof?

Zach Dyer is a writer living in Saint Louis. He did his thesis research on coffee farmers in Southern Mexico. Since then, he has visited coffee plantations in Costa Rica and Mexico as well as roasters and cafés across the U.S. He blogs about coffee for Gut Check every Wednesday.Is coffee recession ... More >>

Chairlift

8 p.m. Monday, March 16. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards.

Coyne on The Contender, Week 6

Finally!Last night's "Contender" featured a great match-up, a more technically attractive bout than any before, and a hot-damn-holy-SHIT-he's-DOWN knock-out.Here's the deal: With three fights left in Round 1, the gold team was ahead, 3-2, going into this episode. Our town's Ryan Coyne, of the blue t ... More >>

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. G ... More >>

Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, August 15-17, 2008

Beth Bombara

Abandon Ship
(self-released)

Gaming for Good

John & Yoko & Joseph & Susan

Gentleman Auction House Robbed at Gunpoint!

Jason Isbell

Sirens of the Ditch (New West)

Spittin' Images

Unreal finally understands how to operate our fleet of Mercedes Benzes. Plus: A fashion update for a local hero and a de-gumming of STL sidewalks.

Clouds on the Horizon

Robbie Lee

Sleep, Memory (I and Ear)

World Beat

Appleseed Cast

Thursday, February 23 at 8 p.m. at the Gargoyle (on the campus of Washington University, Forsyth and Skinker boulevards).

We Want the Funk

Underrated local talent Eddie Fisher finally sees his work released on CD, while KWUR celebrates its own week

Gone Phishin'

We gush over Trey Anastasio, get some cowbell advice from Blue Öyster Cult's expert and administer a headphones fidelity test

Lindsay Lohan

Speak (Casablanca)

Song of the STL

On Saturday, September 4, we tuned in to local musical frequencies in their vast and varied incarnations. What we heard, all day and all night:

Whiskey-Ouzo Fix

Arthur Clay's, 7266 Manchester Road, 314-645-0300

Jukebox Hero

Radar Station battles with too many choices

Old News

Reissues of classics are the gifts that keep on giving