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Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from May 20 to 26

Next weekend looks pretty awesome, though anything does when an extended weekend awaits most of us thanks to Memorial Day. Keep that extra sleep time in mind while slogging through the work week and affording yourself some time to enjoy visits from acts like Andrew W.K., Soundgarden and El Ten Eleve ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 1 to 7

Spring has sprung (supposedly)! Celebrate by checking out the spry variety of shows going on this week. There's plenty to see, including an assortment of traveling acts such as Useless Eaters, Night Birds, Deerhoof and Hot 8 Brass Band. Get hopped up on all that leftover Easter candy and see what re ... More >>

The Six Best Songs With Ridiculously Long Titles

Last week, Kieran Hebden from Four Tet announced a new single entitled "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix and Daphni Played on Boiler Room." It's an okay track with an awful title, but you have to give Hebden props for taking the plunge. Here a ... More >>

Reunited, And It Feels...Just Okay

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. Most of my favorite bands from high school are reuniting, either for one-off festivals or for total rebir ... More >>

The 10 Dumbest "Sports" of the Summer Olympics

This week thousands of international athletes will descend upon London to compete in 2012 Summer Olympic games. Some of the dozens of contests that make up the games are as old as ancient Greece; others are relative newcomers; and others are so incredibly inane that the International Olympic Committ ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From April 23 to 29

Did everyone survive Record Store Day weekend? Between the deluge of live music and the generous amounts of free beer -- not to mention the throngs of people -- we can understand how one might be tempted to take it easy this week. Please remember, though, that taking it easy is for square nerd loser ... More >>

An oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel in St. Louis

Matthew Sweet

9 p.m. Saturday, October 15. The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Matthew Sweet Is Coming To The Duck Room To Perform Girlfriend [Update: Sold Out!]

Update, 9/28:This show is now sold out. You've got a little over two weeks to dig through craigslist or buddy up with a ticket-having friend. Original post follows... Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend is twenty years old, and to celebrate, he's playing the album in its entirety at Blueberry Hill's Duck ... More >>

R.E.M Says Goodbye: The Great Beyond

Courtesy of R.E.M. ​One of the most important bands in rock music has broken up. After 31 years together, R.E.M. has announced its retirement on its website with a humble, thankful note. The declaration shocked fans, who immediately bombarded social networks and entertainment news stories with ... More >>

Matthew Sweet Is Coming To The Duck Room To Perform Girlfriend In Its Entirety

Henry Diltz ​Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend is twenty years old, and to celebrate, he's playing the album in its entirety at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room on October 15th. He'll also play some songs from Modern Art, his latest. Tickets are $20 and go on sale August 19th at 5 p.m.

Of Montreal at the Luminary Center for the Arts, 7/4/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Lee Harris​Of Montreal | Yip Deciever Luminary Center for the Arts July 4th, 2011 It seems as though Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal and Independence Day (the holiday, not the movie) shouldn't jive. July 4th is brimming with conservative values, and the band's transgender obsessed schizo-disco ... More >>

Tonight at Left Bank: Former RFT Writer Ben Westhoff Discusses New Book Dirty South

Ben Westhoff tonight at Left Bank.​Former RFT staffer Ben Westhoff is out with a new book exploring the artists who helped popularize the southern style of hip hop that has dominated airwaves for much of the past decade. Tonight at 7 p.m. Westhoff reads from his work Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayn ... More >>

Dirty South author Ben Westhoff on his time covering St. Louis hip-hop and the new book

​What y'all really know about the Dirty South? Enough to write a book, apparently. Congratulations are in order to RFT alum Ben Westhoff, whose second book will be officially released on May 1. The book, entitled Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinven ... More >>

The Riverfront Times' Best 31 Concerts of 2010: #31-21

Jon GitchoffAre the Drive-By Truckers on this list? ​After looking over the (very helpful) comments to my blogpost asking for the year's best concerts, I started perusing our show review archives. I got as far back as July before the archives ended -- which meant that in the past six months al ... More >>

Of Montreal mixes the organic and synthetic — and pushes recording boundaries on the new False Priest

Ten Things to Do This Weekend: October 8-10

While our music page has plenty of things to do this weekend, a quick note: The fun./Steel Train/Jarrod Gorbel show at the Firebird is sold out. Hope you bought tickets! Now on to some other options: All weekend: *Soulard Oktoberfest Drink. Listen to Brave Combo, Copper Box and Soulard Blues Band. ... More >>

Elf Power

8 p.m. Wednesday, September 29. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Dead Confederate finds its sweet spot with a new album, Sugar

New Release Highlights for August 24: The Sword, Usher and Everyone's Favorite "California Gurl"

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below. Post delayed a day due to server issues!) Apocalyptica 7th Symphony​*Apocalyptica, 7th Symphony Stream Apocalyptica's seventh album, which features guest voca ... More >>

Interview: Dead Confederate's Hardy Morris on The Band's Forthcoming Album, Sugar

Jason Thrasher​Considering the fact that modern bands summon plenty of varied musical and pop culture touchstones, it's silly to make declarations that a certain band is helping to foster the revival of a specific decade's sound. But in terms of aesthetic and fearless willingness to experiment ... More >>

Review Setlist: B-52s Shake St. Louis' Honey Buns With Their Funplex Under the Arch

Todd OwyoungB-52s memorabilia (See a slideshow of the B-52s' performance at the Gateway Arch.) ​Fair St. Louis is a somewhat unusual venue for artists, especially ones that aren't entirely mainstream. Much of the crowd is simply there to get a good view of the fireworks, and if they're at all ... More >>

B-52s Fred Schneider dodges hams with his new synthpop project, the Superions

Deer Tick Announces a Proper St. Louis Show

Travis HuggettJohn J. McCauley III, chilling like a villain this summer​In November 2009, Deer Tick did an impromptu show at Off Broadway after King Khan & BBQ Show canceled due to an arrest. Then, Deer Tick did a last-minute show in March at the Wedge, on the way to SXSW. But as of today, Dee ... More >>

Wussy

9 p.m., Friday, August 7. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Album Review: R.E.M.'s Murmur at 25

[R.E.M. released a deluxe, 25th anniversary edition of its debut album, Murmur, today. The two-disc set contains the original album remastered from original tapes and a live concert bootleg from Larry's Hideaway in Toronto from that era. Co-producer Don Dixon will be on my KDHX radio show on Mo ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Thaxton Speakeasy Opens, Little Joy and Dead Trees at Blueberry Hill, Vic Chestnut, Elf Power at Off Broadway, Family Affair at Gramophone, Ludacris and Tim McGraw on SNL

Good morning, St. Louis.If you were caught up in the fever for Twilight, watching movies about carnies or pondering the settlement between KWMU and its fiery, fired boss Patty Wente, here's what you may have missed.

Photos Review: Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power at Off Broadway, Saturday, November 22

(Words and photos by Keegan Hamilton)The Athens, Georgia-based groups Elf Power and Vic Chesnutt played a fantastic show last night at Off Broadway. Elf Power, which is part of the famed Elephant 6 Collective that includes Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal, opened with a quick set of its driving, t ... More >>

Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power

9 p.m. Saturday, November 22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Interview: Chunklet's Henry Owings, Author of The Rock Bible

Sing the Body Politic: Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping challenges and shocks listeners

Show Review Photos: The Kooks and the Whigs at the Pageant, Tuesday, October 7

Contest! Win Dead Confederate CD, T-Shirt, Tickets to Monday's Bluebird show!

MP3 Monday: Dead Confederate, Goldcure, The Yuppie Pricks

Dexter Romweber, Tonight at Off Broadway! Flat Duo Jets MP3s!

Bill Mallonee

8 p.m. Monday, June 2. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

Dark Meat

8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Fifteen things you might not know about the Bottle Rockets, on their fifteenth birthday

Feeling Gravity's Pull: R.E.M. hurtles toward the future on Accelerate

Leo Kottke

8 p.m. Friday, February 15. Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard

Stipe Hunting

Pet Smarts

Meet Be Your Own Pet, the Nashville group that carries on punk's young, loud and snotty tradition.

R.E.M.

And I Feel Fine The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (EMI)

Do the Bunny Hop

Bunnygrunt returns — on a tribute to UK cult figures the June Brides

This Is the New Year

A sneak preview of what local bands are up to in 2006

Bill Mallonee and the Vigilantes of Love

Wednesday, November 16; Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)

Now It's Overhead with R.E.M.

Tuesday, October 19; the Fox Theatre

Southern Gothic

The Drive-By Truckers are bruised, battered and almost famous

Licorice Lips

Not filth, nor broken glass, nor flames can slow these Black Lips

Mood Indigo

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, better known as the Indigo Girls, still strike the right chord