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Nelly, Cold War Kids, Michael Bublé, Adam Ant and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Last Night Blowfly Stole My Girlfriend and Called My Dick Puny

The Firebird. 2/6/2013. "Yo, this is fucked up. Listen." Blowfly shuffled on stage last night to spit his piece on pussy hell, incredible fucks and the real first rap. In a world with justice, it would have been shoulder-to-shoulder and cramped, but the Firebird was only half full, with enough roo ... More >>

Toward A Taxonomy Of '90s Pop Songs You Kind Of Remember

I should begin here: During the actual '90s, I was much too busy listening to Japanese videogame soundtracks (educate yourself) to actually enjoy '90s pop music. My first-hand memories of most of it are hearing it in a car, at a skating rink, on somebody else's Discman, and shaking my head in lonely ... More >>

2011 World Series: Demi Lovato and Joe (Singer), or, Baseball Doesn't Get Its Target Audience

This is the face of true baseball fandom. ​Say what you will about the Black Eyed Peas, but its appearance in this year's Super Bowl made perfect sense, in a lot of ways, because it is the Super Bowl of music acts -- incredibly loud and expensive, bombastic, followed out of a strange sense of ... More >>

Glee's Matthew Morrison: An Onstage Study Of His Musical Contradictions

Jon Gitchoff​Monday night's show at the Scottrade Center was a spectacle to behold on many different levels, but let's focus specifically on Matthew Morrison. The 32-year-old came out onstage with vengeance, a bowtie and two back-up seductresses who were not afraid of a little grinding. The au ... More >>

Hating On Matthew Morrison = Hating On Fun: Comment Of The Day

Jon Gitchoff​We find Matthew Morrison at an odd, disjointed point in his career: Catapulted from his serious acting gigs on Broadway to superstardom by his role in Glee, our intrepid hero how finds himself opening for the New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys as a poppy solo artist. Seemin ... More >>

NKOTBSB at the Scottrade Center, 7/19/2011: Reviews, Photos and Setlist

Backstreet's back, alright. Photo by Jon Gitchoff​New Kids on the Block | Backstreet Boys | Matthew Morrison Scottrade Center July 19, 2011 Last night's New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys show was an event full of glitter and pandemonium and mass hysteria. It was full of pelvic thrusting a ... More >>

James Franco Embarks On A Music Career, Confirms Plans To Do Every Preteen Dream Job

​When I was a small child I wanted to be a lot of things, mostly all at once; later on I grew up and had to choose one--subsistence-level blogger, ill-advisedly enough. If I had grown up into James Franco this would not be a problem. America's favorite MFA candidate, soap actor, regular actor, ... More >>

Matthew Morrison Cancels St. Louis Show to Join NKOTBSB Tour: Of Course He Does

wikimedia commons​Wet-eyed hair gel model/TV singer-songwriter Matthew Morrison has canceled his scheduled June 19th show at the Fox Theatre. Why? Because he was asked to join the New Kids On The Block/Backstreet Boys reunion tour, naturally. Incidentally, they're abbreviating that NKOTBSB, w ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of January 6

Dan Bejar, the indie maestro behind Destroyer's Euro blues sound and lyric poesy brings his erudite rock to the Luminary Center for the Arts with War on Drugs on March 28.​ Apop Records *Hush Arbors, January 26 BB's Jazz Blues and Soups *Chainsaw Dupont Blues Band, January 29 *Josh Vowell and ... More >>

New Kids on the Block Backstreet Boys Tour Coming to St. Louis

​Ladies, start practicing your bra-tossing skills: The New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys double bill (NKOTBSB if you're nasty) is coming to the Scottrade Center on Tuesday, July 19. (Your move, 'N Sync.) Tickets are on sale Saturday, January 15, at 11 a.m., and are $32, $52, $72 and $92. T ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Nick Jonas and the Administration, Diane Birch at the Pageant, Tuesday, January 19

Context is everything. Tell someone you're going to see Prince's band circa the New Power Generation, and the night's cred is through the roof. But tell someone you're going to see the same band - but fronted by teenpop heartthrob Nick Jonas -- and suddenly the show has a very different connotation. ... More >>

Ashanti, Chingy, Ginuwine, Nelly and Other Celebs with Two Names Set for All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball

On Sunday afternoon, July 12, celebrities and baseball legends will gather on the field at Busch Stadium for the Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game. Musicians scheduled to play include Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell, Nelly, Chingy, Ashanti and Ginuwine. (No word yet on if th ... More >>

Lost in the Supermarket: Jimmy Eat World, Lindsay Lohan, Enrique Iglesias

(Welcome to Lost in the Supermarket, an occasional blog recurring feature in which we discuss unexpected songs we've heard in unexpected places. This doesn't just have to be your local Schucks or Dierbergs, either; any weird pairing you've heard is fair game for the feature. Email the scenario to me ... More >>

"Weird Al" Yankovic dares to be honest about Straight Outta Lynwood and his songwriting process, while Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin takes B-Sides on a ride with his new album, The Glass Passenger

New Kids on the Block in St. Louis, Monday, November 10, at the Scottrade Center

SonyBMG Launches Platinum MusicPass Album Download Cards

Introducing Jay Farrar

With a talented rotating cast of characters behind him, the local hero has never sounded more rejuvenated.

Music Sounds Better with You

A wrap-up of the RFT's DJ spin-off

An Albatross

Tuesday, January 17; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Coping Mechanism

Citizen Cope turns hip-hop on its tail

Being There

We talk movies with Allison Moorer and pit the Moz against Nick Carter

Vanilla Fudge

Saturday, December 13; Pop's

Maroon 5

Wednesday, November 12; the Gargoyle at Washington University

Cold Comfort

Coldplay reinvigorates the power ballad for the MTV2 generation

X-mas Marks the Spot

A guide to new holiday discs, from surprise presents to Tannen-bombs

Channel Change

Hey, you! Stop calling it Riverport! UMB has dibs now!

Sugar, Sugar

A new book about bubblegum bands provides more than empty calories

Wylde At Heart

Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society bring their alcohol-fueled brewtality to Ozzfest

You Will Love It

Josie doesn't pussyfoot around: You're being brainwashed by pop

Hall Pass

Looking for influence, significance, development and perpetuation at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Backstreet Boys

Black and Blue (Jive)

The Pleasure Principle

Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide rates the music of the '90s.

Night Light

Fresh from a successful European tour, St. Louis' Nadine returns to showcase songs from the new Lit Up from the Inside

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Blues You Can Use

A new documentary captures "the last generation of authentic bluesmen" on film

Road Trip

Co-written and directed by Todd Phillips

Stadium Sale: The Name of the Game Is Deceit

Jungle Brothers

Tuesday, March 7; Vintage Vinyl

The Price You Pay

Getting Springsteen tickets will cost you, one way or another

Critical Mass

RFT music critics offer a cut-and-paste compendium of the year in music. Everyone's wrong. Everyone's right.

PATTON PENDING

Dark-horse boy-pop group Fantomas give teenybopper fans more than they're bargaining for

THROB, THROB

Herewith, a guide to the latest crop of musical heartthrobs

ASTROPUPPEES

Pet (Hightone)

OBVIOUSLY NOT A BREAST MAN

Post music critic Kevin Johnson makes a boob of himself

KIDS SING THE DARNEDEST THINGS!

Young songwriters pour out their psyches on local masterpiece Kids Alive!

PRINTS OF THE CITY

Locals who want to sell their used CDs to retailers in the city of St. Louis will be required to put their paws to the inkpad

LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE

The attractions of Magnetic Fields' three-CD 69 Love Songs

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Four new releases don't tell all of the Captain Beefheart story

Eat In, Carry Out

Even as the new Courtesy Diner welcomes its very first customers, Irv's Grill slings its last hash after a 50-year run