Austin (Texas)

From Sun Studios to Greg Ginn to Parliament: Meet Jay Brook Lipe

On a particularly frigid January afternoon this year, I stumbled upon an interesting scene in the Delmar Loop (where RFT Music HQ is located, for those unaware). Moving up and down the streets was an enthusiastic man with an acoustic guitar strapped on his back, flanked by another fella, pointing a ... More >>

The Worst Things About SXSW 2013

This year, our sister papers at the Houston Press music blog Rocks Off and Dallas Observer music blog DC-9 at Night teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. See Also: -The Scene at SXSW: Here's What You Are Missing -SXSW 2013: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spai ... More >>

SXSW 2013: Critically Important Questions Raised By This Year's Event

Editor: We have so many questions here in Austin. Here are 50 of them. 1. Will I like the pedicab costumed as The Hulk if he gets angry? 2. Are we all really just in New York? 3. Is this t-shirt rad? 4. Do you want to get some 'za, which is now absolutely the slang for pizza? 5. How far can yo ... More >>

The Best Concerts in St. Louis this Week: February 4 to 10

Between the Superbowl, Mardi Gras and Valentine's Day, there's no shortage of excuses to celebrate something somewhere sometime soon lately, or even retroactively. Find a place to party this week from a varying list of tasty shows -- just choose your flavor. This week's recommendations await after t ... More >>

The Movies to Know from Sundance and the Year Ahead

Joe Ely Maps Out the Flatlanders, Songwriting and Recording With Uncle Tupelo

Of all the clichés of sex, drugs and rock & roll (and any other genre you could name), chemistry is surely greatest, but it has the advantage of being true. There's really no other way to explain what happens with the greatest of bands, and the Flatlanders -- featuring the three distinct voices and ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From September 10 to 16

Under normal circumstances I despise inane small talk and "how's the weather" chatter, but for the purposes of filling these show-pick-posts' opening paragraphs with content, its a consistent fallback. That said, I wore a jacket outside this weekend! WHOA HOLY SHIT. Sometimes I think I could write ... More >>

Beaver Nelson

8 p.m. Monday, August 13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Breastaurant Owner Buys Texas Town on Craigslist, Renames It Bikinis

Some day in the not too distant future, a young child in Bikinis, Texas, will ask his or her parents how their hometown came to acquire its name. Mom and Dad will hem and haw and try to change the topic before one of them finally blurts out the truth. Boobs.

The Best of SXSW Music: Wednesday 3/14/2012

​If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>

The Six Best (And Six Worst) Band Names at SXSW

If you turned on the Internet recently, you may have seen that South By Southwest is this week. The highlight of the annual Austin, Texas, festival is seeing great bands and discovering new favorites. Inversely, many of the thousands of artists who cram into the state capital are horrible. With good ... More >>

10 Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend (That Do Not Involve Air Supply)

​Just in case you haven't nearly wrecked your car staring at Lumiere Place's toweringly monolithic billboard off I-70 recently, we'll start out by informing you that yes, the legendary Australian wuss-rock powerhouse known as Air Supply will be playing in town this weekend. Hard core soft-rock ... More >>

Rabbi James Stone Goodman and Brothers Lazaroff Record Eight Nights for Havey Kronblum Jewish Food Pantry

​Last week, Brothers Lazaroff threw its first Hanukkah Hullabaloo after the Kinky Friedman show at Off Broadway. Performing with Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Will Soll's Klezmer Conspiracy and the Vaad, the group recited poetry, improvised in traditional European folk style and even cooked latk ... More >>

The Pageant Has The Fourth Most Ticket Sales Of Any Club In The World So Far This Year

Photo by Todd Owyoung.Some of the Pageant' s 119,416 so far in 2011. ​Pollstar has just released the ticket sales number for the first three quarters of 2011, and the Pageant has once again sold the fourth most tickets of any club venue in the world. Our hometown venue has seen more people ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Would Mexico have been better off if the American Southwest remained Mexico?

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears at Off Broadway, 6/16/11: Review and Setlist

Roy KastenBlack Joe Lewis gets down at Off Broadway​Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Off Broadway Thursday, June 16, 2011 My first encounter with Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears was 2008 in Austin. The band played outdoors at one of those warm-beer free parties at SXSW. The young Austini ... More >>

Nato Caliph's "Revel," Featuring Black Spade, Gets a Documentary-Style Video

Image viaNato Caliph's intellectual lyrics and Black Spade's soulful hooks on Revel now have images to accompany them.​Almost ten months after dropping his mind stimulating and head bobbing REACH EP, Nato Caliph has released a video for it's lead-off track, "Revel" featuring Black Spade and pr ... More >>

Citizens For a Stronger St. Louis: Pro-Tax Group Spent $417K

Rex Sinquefield: Billionaire spent $11 million, apparently to help a few Dems make a quick buck.​Rex Sinquefield may have been hoping to kickstart a discussion about whether the city's earnings tax is a good thing -- a discussion Mayor Francis Slay has indicated he's willing to have. But in the me ... More >>

Fifteen Bands Keeping the Spirit of American Music Alive, As Chosen by Pokey LaFarge

Jo MccaugheyPokey LaFarge​(Editor's note: This weekend, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three is celebrating the release of a seven-inch, "Pack It Up" b/w "Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County." The record is being released by Third Man Records, the label founded by Jack White. In fact, ... More >>

Review Setlist Photos: Eli "Paperboy" Reed Delivers at Off Broadway, Tuesday, March 22

Katie Moulton​Did Eli "Paperboy" Reed strike a deal with the devil? How else could this 27-year-old Massachusetts native sing like a soulman's screamin' dream, with all the sexy swagger of Wilson Pickett? Last night's performance at Off Broadway demolished all doubt: If you want music of the h ... More >>

Tef Poe Releases "Out the Kitchen" Single, Filming a Remix Video with Kanye West Pal GLC

The other day, Tef Poe released a new single and video, "Out the Kitchen." The latter is found below; as you can hear, it's a measured, forceful song. A remix of the tune (which you can also snag below) has a featured appearance from GLC, who's part of Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label. While Poe an ... More >>

Twangfest/KDHX SXSW Day Party Lineup features the Baseball Project, Viva Voce, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, more

​KDHX presents two Twangfest day parties at SXSW every year. In past years, this event has included artists such as Deer Tick, Calexico, Carolina Chocolate Drops and David Bazan playing in a space tinier than Off Broadway. This year's model of the party, which takes place on March 17 and March ... More >>

The Heavy Anchor Opening in the Former Antarctica Space

​Antarctica (5226 Gravois), the underground venue you probably never went to, is rising from the ashes as The Heavy Anchor, a new bar and venue that co-owner Jodie Whitworth says will open sometime in April. "It's a really cool spot," she says. "For probably the last two years we've been con ... More >>

Return to Sender: What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got moving?

Concert Review: Band of Heathens and Deer Tick Scare Up Bluesy Rock at Off Broadway, Sunday, October 31

Kate McDanielDeer Tick @ Off Broadway​At first blush, a Band of Heathens and Deer Tick double bill at Off Broadway seemed a strange pairing. First blushes, however, are no match for good guitars, good songs and a damn good Halloween party.

Illinois Attorney General's Office Investigating Lollapalooza's Blackout Policies

On his new blog, former Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis broke some interesting news: Lollapalooza's sponsor, C3 Presents, and their partners are being investigated by the office of the Illinois Attorney General for what DeRogatis terms "anti-trust issues stemming from the radius clauses that th ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: NOFX's Fat Mike Talks Cokie the Clown, Playing at Pop's and His Lyrical Evolution

courtesy of Fat Wreck ChordsNOFX returns to the St. Louis area for the first time since 1998.​In this week's paper, Michael Dauphin scored a rare interview with NOFX figurehead Fat Mike. The band will be performing at Pop's on Saturday, May 1, its first local club appearance since the late '90 ... More >>

An exclusive excerpt of author Steve Almond's new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

Who Is Responsible for YouTube Video Sensation iamamiwhoami?

Few viral campaigns have so successfully captured the attention and imagination of the increasingly hard-to-shock Internet public like the recent iamamiwhoami sensation on YouTube. The series of hypnotic videos -- the latest of which was released on Sunday -- feature a disguised, blond-haired woman ... More >>

St. Louis: Sixth Drunkest City

Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?​Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. F ... More >>

Shocking Revelations in MovieMaker Magazine's List of Top 10 Cities for Filmmakers

Surely the people behind a magazine called MovieMaker would have seen Up in the Air. Surely those same people, if they were compiling a list of the ten best cities in the U.S. for moviemakers (or MovieMakers), would have taken note of how well St. Louis plays Omaha and several other middle-American ... More >>

St. Louis Needs a Beach Not Named "Times" or "Pontoon"

The Post-Dispatch story yesterday on the race riot 60 years ago at the old Fairgound Park swimming pool stirred up some horrid memories of St. Louis' not-so distant past. It also left open a question about the city's future. Namely, how come this city with its insufferable summers (the heat index is ... More >>

Shawn Colvin

8 p.m. Wednesday, December 10. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears turn soul on its head, while Boyz II Men's St. Louis show spawns two views of vintage R&B

B-Sides makes sense of Iron & Wine while Lemuria continues to Get Better

Show Review: Madball, M.O.D., Shai Hulud at Pop's

Centro Standard Time

Missouri and Texas meet in Centro-matic

Gimme Shelter

MapleHood Rekkids will rock for food; R.I.P., Mike Blake.

Spoon

Thursday, June 24; the Duck Room

Waves of Fascination

Shortwave radio: Where the lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes

Orthrelm with Brain Transplant and the Commons

Wednesday, June 5; Lemmons Basement Bar

Guarding Angel

Week of January 16, 2002

Riddle of Steel with Rhythm of Black Lines

Friday, Aug. 10; Rocket Bar

We Like Ike

The true confessions of über-pimp, badass mother and rock & roll legend Ike Turner

Gunn-Play

St. Louis native Russell Gunn returns home for a much-anticipated gig at Bistro Europa

Meat Puppets

Wednesday, Dec. 6; Duck Room

Loose Connections

Allison Downey's performance piece fails to engage emotionally

Brother 'Hood

South Philly produces more than just mobsters

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