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Country: Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2013 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is this weekend! Think of it as St. Louis music's own official holiday and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music have been working hard to make our cases for all 130 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year in 26 categor ... More >>

SXSW 2013: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phosphorescent, Natalie Maines, Richard Thompson, China Rats and More: Review and Photos

This happened: Laura Cantrell, a New York-based country singer and songwriter, shared a stage with two friends, Rosie Flores and Kristi Rose, backed by Fats Kaplin and Mark Spencer, two of the finer musicians in a town that, on this or any week, affords some stiff competition. The trio of voices fil ... More >>

Son Volt Returns with release of new album, Honky Tonk

The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: January 7 to 13

Monday mornings are weird when you have to share your home bathroom with nine or so near-strangers. Such was the case today after housing a couple of bands from a particularly noisy and awesome show last night. I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but officially as of today, my life is shows, shows ... More >>

Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart

7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 24. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles.

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From June 18 to 24

According to my new calendar, the word of the day is "volant," and it is defined as "moving lightly" or "nimble." I'm not really sure how to incorporate that into a post recommending shows for this week, but I'll do my damnedest. Legendary metal monsters Corrosion of Conformity play the Firebird to ... More >>

Birdman & Mystikal, The Walkmen, Naked Raygun and More in This Week's New 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 with which you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new ... More >>

Yay, We Can Read! St. Louis is the Nation's Eighth Most Literate City

It's that time of year again, the only time of year when anybody outside New Britain, Connecticut, pays any attention to Central Connecticut State University. This morning the college released its annual ranking of the Nation's Most Literate Cities, and the results are heartening: St. Louisans may n ... More >>

The Trip Daddys The Life We Chose is Out Tomorrow: Listen

​The Trip Daddys have a new album: The Life We Chose. It gets an official release tomorrow night at Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue, 314-773-3363). The album was also the subject of this week's Homespun column. "Pigeonhole the band as a one-shot, one-note act, and guitarist, singer and head Da ... More >>

The Trip Daddys

The Life We Chose
self-released

High Places' Rob Barber and Mary Pearson on Moving West and Ditching Nostalgia

hellohighplaces.blogspot.com​ High Places' Rob Barber and Mary Pearson are sonic soulmates who finish each others sentences and have found a common ground despite their disparate backgrounds--Pearson grew up in rural Michigan playing the bassoon, and Barber came up in the urban desolation of P ... More >>

Social Distortion at the Pageant, 5/4/11: Photos Setlist

Social Distortion. Photo by Jason Stoff​Taking the stage to 2Pac's "California Love," Social Distortion brought its California hustle and flow to The Pageant Wednesday night and treated the packed house of rowdy punks, jocks, skaters and auto mechanics to almost two hours of unadulterated punk ... More >>

St. Louis Ranked Eighth Most Toxic City

​A report out yesterday ranks metropolitan St. Louis as one of the most "toxic" (i.e. polluted) cities in the nation. The study by Forbes.com looked at cities based on five factors: air quality, water quality, the number of nearby Superfund sites, amount of days when the air-quality index (AQI) ex ... More >>

The Zac Brown Band

7 p.m. Friday, November 5. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Carrot Vending Machines Arrive at Schools

The baby carrot takeover marches on, with schools receiving carrot vending machines. The Middletown (Ohio) Journal reports that Bolthouse Farms in Bakersfield, California, is test marketing the machines in Mason, Ohio, and Syracuse, New York, for two months. Seventy New Yorkers made a pizza run in ... More >>

Homespun: The Rockhouse Ramblers

Lies & Damn Lies
(self-released)

Raul Malo

9 p.m. Saturday, April 3. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Show Review: John Doe of X at Off Broadway, Tuesday, March 16

Founding member of X, a benchmark Los Angeles band that redefined punk in the 1980s. A solo career that has stood astride country and rockabilly and folk rock. In person, an ideal combination of sweetness and light. And, as a working Hollywood actor, bartender at the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missour ... 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 >>

James Intveld

9 p.m. Tuesday, January 20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

What Do Bakersfield and Charleston Have That St. Louis Doesn't?

Men's Health and Women's Health magazines have come out with their ranking of the 100 best -- and worst -- cities in America for healthy living. St. Louis ranks as the second-worst city in both Men's Health and Women's Health, with only Bakersfield, California, and Charleston, West Virginia, respect ... More >>

The Educated Guess

Beautiful Strangers
(self-released)

Cards Blog: A Cautionary Tale for Anthony Reyes

Cards Blog: A Cautionary Tale for Anthony Reyes

2007: The Year in Movies and Music

A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

The Few, The Proud, The Shattered

Tina Richards' son returned, suicidal, from Iraq battlefields. Now, the Missouri woman is waging her own war in Congress.

Unreal's Local Blog O' the Week

Potter Mouth

Unreal behaves like the consummate Muggle, examines a possible correlation between geography and fidelity and plucks a bitter blogger from the 'osphere.

Deke Dickerson

9 p.m. Saturday, November 25. Beale on Broadway (701 South Broadway).

Beep Beep, Yeah!

B-Sides explores the van woes of Cars Can Be Blue, talks to Split Lip Rayfield's Kirk Rundstrom about conquering cancer for one last tour and downloads some screaming Sleater-Kinney.

Gary Allan

8 p.m. Saturday, June 24. UMB Bank Pavilion (14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights)

Haggard Glory

Country’s hardcore hard-ass is still bringin’ it.

They Did What?

2005's Top WTF? moments

Out Riding Vinces

A ten-gallon tour de force

Hillbilly Redux

Dwight Yoakam rolls into Mississippi Nights 'Almost Alone'

Joia to the World

It's all fun and games for St. Louis' favorite Brazilian percussion ensemble

Red Rum! Red Rum!

Apathetic audiences and media nailed the coffin shut for innovative techno night

Slew's Next

A Wash. U. grad, a legend and some Missouri shitkickers team up to form a great little label

Blueground Undergrass and Yonder Mountain String Band

Saturday, Nov. 11; Mississippi Nights

Blast Furnace

Neko Case's new album, Furnace Room Lullaby, generates real heat

Johnny Dilks and His Visitacion Valley Boys

Thursday, March 2; Off Broadway

Dwight Yoakam

Last Chance for a Thousand Years (Reprise)

News of the Weird

Bidart and Life

Frank Bidart's poetry embodies life's beauty and horror