Berlin (Germany)

I'm a Musician: What Do I Do About Health Insurance?

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 >>

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

Ian Fisher & the Present Release New Video "Why Do I Go?"

Ian Fisher & the Present debut a new video today for "Why Do I Go?" off of the band's latest, self-titled effort. The video was shot in Vienna, Austria (half of the duo takes up residency in Germany) by Anna Kohlweis with assistance by Yavuz Odabas. In it, Fisher and Ryan Carpenter (aka "the Present ... More >>

Homespun: Ian Fisher & the Present

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The Movies to Know from Sundance and the Year Ahead

In the Galleries - Rosa Barba: Desert - CLOSES December 30 at CAM

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 16, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. Do you want to know what your fellow St. Louisans got for Ch ... More >>

Time for a Kit Kat: Wash. U. reminds us that life is a Cabaret

Are Child-Porn Cartoons Good for Society?

On Monday, a 36-year-old from southwestern Missouri named Christjan Bee pleaded-guilty to having some filthy porn inside his computer. His wife had discovered it, then tipped off the local police department in their hometown of Monett. According to news reports, police seized Bee's computer and ... More >>

Love, German Style

Desert -- Performed

Past Made Present: Creative history in the making

In the Galleries - Fuzzy Logic CLOSES August 18 at Good Citizen Gallery

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 15, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. Could it be that St. Louisans' Hunger Games lust has been sated? ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending June 24, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. How un-put-down-able is Gone Girl, the new thriller ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 20, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Publishers must be eternally grateful for the advent ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 6, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The Heart and the Fist, we think, would be a great ti ... More >>

Doom Town brings stories home from Europe

Five Scenarios When Minors Should Be Allowed to Drink Alcohol

Last week, the Illinois Senate approved the proposed "sip and spit" legislation that now moves to the House. If passed, the bill would make it legal for culinary students 20-years-old and younger to taste and spit alcohol (much like what you're suppose to do at wineries, but that rarely occurs). The ... More >>

The Music of True/False Film Festival: A Conversation with Music Director Amanda Rainey

As its title suggests, The True/False Film Festival is focused around a cavalcade of non-fiction motion pictures. In its ninth year, the scope of the festival has widened to feature prevalent artists in independent music such as Dark Dark Dark and Bramble. Based out of Columbia, True/False has becom ... More >>

Los Lobos at the Sheldon Concert Hall, 2/26/12: Review and Setlist

Roy KastenLos Lobos survive at the Sheldon​Los Lobos The Sheldon Concert Hall February 26, 2012 Rock bands and followers of rock bands, heed this advice from just another band from East L.A. Like these veterans, you'll be old soon enough, and your cool will fade. So start now: Work on your so ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Despite Amazon, e-books and the crappy e ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 27, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's that most wonderful time of the year ... More >>

"I Just Want To Do Things I Love": An Interview with King Khan

When I first reach Mr. Khan, he's somewhere in Florida, time zone unknown to him. King Khan: Do you know Chuck Berry? Roy Kasten: I've met him once. Do you want me to pass on a message? King Khan: Yeah. Tell him to come to our show. I didn't have the heart to say it: There have been nights whe ... More >>

Bo And The Locomotive's Endlessly Entertaining New Music Video

Image via.​And now, the most entertaining two minutes and 45 seconds of your day. Bo and the Locomotive, fresh off the release of its excellent full-length debut, On My Way, recently went on a tour that took the band to, among other places, Columbus, Ohio. There, they met with Thunder Down ... More >>

A Weill Evening

LouFest Interviews: !!! On Outlasting Fads And Having An Unpronounceable Name

Courtesy of !!!​When !!! vocalist, cowbellist, and hype-man Nic Offer spoke to us on the phone, he was waiting for a BLT. If the restaurant was spinning the Sacramento band's newest offering Strange Weather, Isn't It?, the bacon might fry itself and dance over to a bed of lettuce to make baby ... More >>

Possibly Swoon-worthy Leftovers from Southern Graphics Council

This weekend, in case you somehow missed it, St. Louis played host to the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, with an offshoot event on Cherokee Street as well as edgier programming by Tom Huck's Evil Prints. Brooklyn-based muralist Swoon was in town, putting up a mural on the side o ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Featured Review: Thea Djordjadze & George Maciunas

Living Things Releases a Free Mixtape, Malocchio

Living Things, which still proudly claims St. Louis as its home, yesterday released a new, free mixtape on its website. Called Malocchio, the release is "influenced by the sounds of Afrobeat and psychedelic-era Nigerian dub," according to a release sent out by the band's publicist. The genesis for ... More >>

R.I.P. Jay Landesman, Founder of Crystal Palace Nightclub, Mayor of Gaslight Square, Writer and All-Around Hep Cat

David Edmunds​Jay Landesman, who founded the Crystal Palace nightclub, which became the linchpin of the Gaslight Square hipster/entertainment district, and wrote the novel The Nervous Set, which became the basis for the world's first (and only) beatnik musical, died Sunday in London. He was 91 ... More >>

Celebrity living has its downside in Somewhere

Show Announcements: Week of December 9

It's too pristine to be glitch hop, it's too pretty to be dub, but the production duo Lazer Sword are hyphy as hell and have taken hip hop sample snobbery to new heights. The San Francisco via LA and Berlin team will undoubtedly bring their sickest to 2720 Cherokee on Thursday--it is 18andCounting' ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

A documentary sheds new light on brain-raid masters Skarekrauradio

Metropolis Rebuilt

Contest! Win Passes to the LouFest After-Party at the Gramophone, featuring Hey Champ

​After you've rocked all day in the sun on Saturday, cool off at night with London Calling's four-year anniversary party at the Gramophone. The night features Acid Kids (a DJ trio from Berlin) and Chicago electro-funkateers Hey Champ (Preview a song from them below.) DJ Clockwork, Nick O. and ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of August 5

Berlin's freaksters King Khan and the Shrines bring their retro psychedelic soul to 2720 Cherokee on October 3.​ 2720 Cherokee *King Khan and the Shrines, October 3 *Lower Dens, August 21 *Stanton Moore Trio, October 2 The Ambassador *The Ladies Anthem Tour with Lyfe Jennings, Dondria, Aloha ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the St. Louis theater scene

With All the Frills Upon It

Metropolis Screening Today With Extra Footage -- And St. Louisans Can See it, Too, Maybe

photo source​Update 1:41 pm: It works, right here! (It does help, though, if you know French.)-----------Today, February 12, is a historic day for film buffs. Valentine's Day, starring 21 semi-famous people, has arrived in theaters! Never before have so many semi-famous actors been assembled in a ... More >>

The Beertender: Extolling the Glories of Berliner Weisse While Stoked on Lou Reed

www.colnect.com​Lou Reed's 2007 concert film Berlin features the rocker performing in its entirety the 1973 album of the same name. More than 30 years later, the repertoire remains pure Reed: loss, hate, depravity, a sourness for this cold, cruel world that's most evident when he closes with an un ... More >>

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