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Bill Streeter Unleashes Lo-Fi Cherokee: Fourteen Bands, Fourteen Videos, One Day

Bill Streeter's acclaimed Lo-Fi St. Louis unveiled an ambitious new project earlier this week: A collaboration with Tower Groove Records that showcases fourteen artists playing at Cherokee Street businesses. Even more impressive? Streeter's crew managed to film fourteen different musical acts in on ... More >>

Those Darlins Ticket Giveaway!

​We'd like some of whatever's in the water in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Recent (incredibly welcome) visitors from the college town include King Arthur and the Features, and tomorrow night Those Darlins makes three. Jessi Darlin, Nikki Darlin, Kelley Darlin and drummer Linwood Regensburg have be ... More >>

The RFT Music Party Is This Saturday

​This is happening two nights from now. Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra will start playing an original score to Buster Keaton's The High Sign at exactly 8:30 (really). We'll be announcing a change or two at this thing, but the best reason to come is clearly the bands -- your $6 cost of ... More >>

Tosh.O Lampoons St. Louis Brick Documentary, Pleases Filmmaker

stlbrickfilm.comSt. Louis Brick: No laughing matter, see?​After nearly two years of work, Bill Streeter is finally concluding his documentary on St. Louis architecture, Brick By Chance and Fortune. And before its release, the the film is getting a lot more coverage than anticipated. The national w ... More >>

Hear The New Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three Album On NPR's First Listen

Jo Mccaughey ​In case this was still unclear: The world, and NPR in particular, has officially embraced Pokey LaFarge. Just a couple months after posting a Tiny Desk Concert featuring LaFarge & the South City Three, everyone's favorite dulcet-toned public news outlet has posted the band's upco ... More >>

Point & Clique: The 2011 RFT St. Louis Web Awards

Jo Mccaughey ​In case this was still unclear: The world, and NPR in particular, has officially embraced Pokey LaFarge. Just a couple months after posting a Tiny Desk Concert featuring LaFarge & the South City Three, everyone's favorite dulcet-toned public news outlet has posted the band's upco ... More >>

RFT Web Awards: Meet the Judges

​The finalists have been chosen, the party planners are toiling away and the suspense is mounting: Who will be winning one of RFT's first-ever Web Awards?We're not answering that just yet. (You'll have to stay tuned for the complete list of winners!) But we are ready to introduce our esteemed pane ... More >>

RFT Web Awards: Meet the Judges

​The finalists have been chosen, the party planners are toiling away and the suspense is mounting: Who will be winning one of RFT's first-ever Web Awards?We're not answering that just yet. (You'll have to stay tuned for the complete list of winners!) But we are ready to introduce our esteemed pan ... More >>

RFT Web Awards: Meet the Judges

​The finalists have been chosen, the party planners are toiling away and the suspense is mounting: Who will be winning one of RFT's first-ever Web Awards?We're not answering that just yet. (You'll have to stay tuned for the complete list of winners!) But we are ready to introduce our esteemed pan ... More >>

Catching Up With Pokey LaFarge: A New Album, New Label and New Countries to Conquer

Bill Streeter​Tonight at the Sheldon Ballroom, it's Christmas with Pokey -- LaFarge, that is. He and the South City Three are performing as part of KDHX's Sheldon Sessions along with the Western Satellites. Tickets are $10, and the show starts at 8 p.m. In addition, he'll be on the MetroLink's ... More >>

ForwardSTL.net Aims to Give Greater Voice to St. Louis Liberals

​A group of St. Louis progressives this week launched ForwardSTL.net, a new website designed to inform and rally local Democrats.The site, officially unveiled last Saturday, aggregates content from local blogs and mainstream media. Adam Shriver, of St. Louis Activist Hub, is the brainchild behind ... More >>

Introducing the Sheldon Ballroom Series

Bill StreeterPokey LaFarge and the South CIty Three do a holiday show​November 10's May Day Orchestra release show at the Sheldon Concert Hall functioned as the inaugural concert in the Sheldon Ballroom Series. In an interview with Michael Dauphin, organizer Ryan Harris explained the aim of th ... More >>

Who Knew That Wal-Mart's Logo Might Be Somewhat Scandalous?

image via​(H/T to Bill Streeter for the find.) Art Chantry -- the one-time St. Louisan who designed the 2010 RFT Music Showcase poster -- posted the above photo on Facebook today, with the following note: i study a lot of design history. i'm fascinated by this visual language we all speak -- ... More >>

Five New Local Songs to Hear: Pokey LaFarge, Tef Poe, Illphonics, Dots Not Feathers, Jon Hardy & the Public

In recent weeks, a bunch of local musicians unleashed new tunes on the masses. Here's a brief round-up. Know of anything else? Leave a comment. Tef Poe​ Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three, "Brick Thieves" Occasional RFT contributor Bill Streeter is making a documentary about the city's uniqu ... More >>

Clownvis Presley to Be On America's Got Talent Tonight

Clownvis Presley​(Via Bill Streeter, via Craig Mayhem) Clownvis Presley -- the city's beloved burlesque maestro/wedding officiant/Elvis impersonator -- is going to appear on the season premiere of America's Got Talent, which airs tonight at 7 p.m. on NBC. The TV show features average Joes doin ... More >>

Video: Trailer Released for Documentary on St. Louis Brick

Videographer (and occasional Daily RFT tech blogger) Bill Streeter is nearing completion of his documentary looking at how brick has influenced the architecture -- and soul -- of St. Louis. Earlier this week Streeter released a short trailer of the film below: Find out more about the project by visi ... More >>

Party at Ground Zero -- Er, the City Museum -- With Fishbone on June 3

According to the City Museum's twitter, the adult-kiddie playground is presenting ska-punk-funk legends Fishbone there on Thursday, June 3. Local rockers LucaBrasi are opening. No details yet; more information forthcoming as we know it. FIshbone has played the City Museum before, in 2007. Bill Stree ... More >>

The Popular Click: Daily RFT's Biggest Posts of 2009

This is a medium-sized post, so it wouldn't make the cut.​We began 2009 with a new name for this blog (it used to go by "Stlog" if you remember) and yada-yada-yada now we are in December, looking back on, oh about 2,391 posts. Here -- in no specific order -- are the ten most popular posts of '09. ... More >>

Photos from Last Night's St. Louis Social Media Club Meetup

Last night about one hundred members of the Social Media Club of St. Louis gathered for another monthly meeting this time with guest speaker David Siteman Garland at Moulin Events on Chouteau. Garland gave a talk about how to measure your reach and influence in the social media world. Dail ... More >>

Photos from Thursday Nights Tweet-up with Tara Hunt

photo by: Bill StreeterTara Hunt (second from right) meets with St. Louis fans and admirers at the Royale on Thursday​​Michael Tomko was so excited when he learned that one of his social-media heroes -- Tara Hunt -- was making a rare appearance in St. Louis yesterday, he decided to throw an impr ... More >>

Woot! Woot! A Local Company that's actually GROWING in this Economy!

​Woot.com can brag about doing something not many businesses are doing these days: they're growing. In fact the online retailer is growing so much that last week their St. Louis- based creative wing made the move from a cramped storefront on South Kingshighway to a custom-built space on the second ... More >>

Upcoming St. Louis Tech/Social Media Events

The Beatles, Digital Albums, Apples, Vintage Vinyl and 9/9/09

Earlier this week over at the Daily RFT, Bill Streeter penned a great, thought-provoking post about several issues concerning digital music now. Among other things, he discusses the competing versions of a new digital album -- one dreamed up by Apple and the other dreamed up by the Big 4 major label ... More >>

Photos: Making the World's Longest BLT at Iron Barley, 8.9.09

The fifth-annual Tomato Fest at Iron Barley in South St. Louis wrapped up Sunday with owner Tom Coghill and a crew of 90 volunteers working to create the world's longest bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, at 179-feet, two-inches. (That's a lot of bacon -- 500 pounds of savory, crispy, delicious baco ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Journo Offers Solutions to Nasty Commenters; But Will Company Brass Listen?

Note: Daily RFT tech blogger Bill Streeter offers an addendum to our earlier post this morning about stltoday.com's Comment section.Stltoday.com poll shows that the majority of its readers don't like their own comments. You've likely heard by now that the Post-Dispatch last week polled its readershi ... More >>

Photos: Social Media Club of St. Louis July Meeting

Photo by Bill StreeterPanelist assembled for a rivetting discussion of the law and Social Media ethics (click for larger view)The Social Media Club of St. Louis had their monthly networking event and panel discussion last week at Moulin. I have to give the organizers credit. They seem to consistentl ... More >>

Geeks Leave Home, Upcoming Social Media Events in St. Louis

Photo by: Bill StreeterCraig Mayhem performs at the Nuclear Comedy Tweetup last month.Some people say that people who use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook never leave the house. Well this lineup of events might prove otherwise. That is, if anyone actually shows up.Nuclear Comedy Twe ... More >>

Art, Music and Technology Make for a Fun Evening at Contemporary Museum

Photo by: Bill StreeterContemporary Art Museum attendees enjoy drinks and snacks as they watch art in the making.The Contemporary Art Museum hosted an interesting event last night in which it invited people to listen to tunes (spun by DJ Thomas Crone) and watch as artist worked on various projects. ... More >>

Readers are mad for (and about) St. Louis' most famous Hungarian

Photo by: Bill StreeterContemporary Art Museum attendees enjoy drinks and snacks as they watch art in the making.The Contemporary Art Museum hosted an interesting event last night in which it invited people to listen to tunes (spun by DJ Thomas Crone) and watch as artist worked on various projects. ... More >>

Get Your Geek On! Upcoming Social Media Events, Tech and Assorted Geekery Around The STL!

Photo by: Bill StreeterNuclear Comedy at Atomic Cowboy!When: Wed, June 10, 7pm - 10pm TONIGHT!Where: Atomic Cowboy 4140 Manchester Girls Guide to the Galaxy Relaunch PartyWhen: Thu, June 11, 5:30pm - 10:00pmWhere: The Royale - 3132 South Kingshighway Feraro's Pizza TweetupWhen: Thu, June 1 ... More >>

Twitter, Schmitter -- Tony La Russa Sues Unreal!

Unreal has spent all of June breathlessly tracking the Tony La Russa v. Twitter brouhaha. OK, so we've actually just quickly spent the past few minutes skimming our columnist colleague Bill Streeter's two dispatches about the lawsuit, and also the one by Kristen Hinman. And even though those two are ... More >>

The Dive Bomber: Social Networking at Jodi T.'s

In the course of a week, I attended two meetings at bars concerning social networking. Bill Streeter documented the first one in his new tech blog. The second meeting was inadvertent."Did you know that Ellen's got over two million people following her on 'the Tweeter'?" a woman asked the man next ... More >>

Good Luck, La Russa! Media Attorney Says You'll Need It

Daily RFT's tech blogger Bill Streeter has already shared the news that Tony La Russa is suing Twitter over a fake Twit who was tweeting under "The Skipper's" likeness. (The Twitter account was suspended after the lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California.)La Russa is likely to face a s ... More >>

Upcoming St. Louis Internet/Tech/Social Media Events

Photo by: Bill Streeter I would really like to make this a weekly feature, but to do that and to make this feature as comprehensive as possible you need to help me out. So send your events to me via email at bill.streeter at gmail dot com.  So, to the best of my knowledge these are the upcomi ... More >>

When the Social Media Club throws a Par-Tay, You Better Believe there will be Panel Discussions, Baby!

The Social Media Club of St. Louis recently threw their relaunch party at Atomic Cowboy in the Grove. I didn't realize that there was a social media club in St. Louis so, for me, this might as well have been their launch party. It was actually a fairly impressive turnout, which either says the event ... More >>

Bill Streeter: LoFiSTL Guru, and Now the RFT's Tech Blogger

I know not everybody reads the Daily RFT, so I figured I'd alert everyone to the fact that LoFiSTL/LoFiSessions guru Bill Streeter is the paper's new technology blogger. Huzzah! Congrats to Bill! His inaugural column is here; follow along with all of his posts here.

Phonocaptors Doing a Reunion Show at Deluxe, Friday, June 5

Oops, been sitting on this one: Yes, the rumors are true -- beloved local rockers the Phonocaptors are doing a reunion show on Friday, June 5, at Deluxe, with the Sex Robots. The band pre-dates my tenure in St. Louis, but judging by this clip below, I see why everyone is excited. Ran into head 'Capt ... More >>

Lo-Fi St. Louis, HOME Nightclub Nominated for National Awards

Congratulations go out this Monday morning to HOME Nightclub and Bill Streeter of Lo-Fi St. Louis. The latter was nominated for "Best Reality Web Series" in the Streamy Awards, which honor -- what else? -- the best in web television. Lo-FI's competition is rather stiff, though: He's up against Penn ... More >>

Bill Streeter's Lo-Fi Sessions: iTunes Featured New Video Podcast

Congratulations go out this Monday morning to HOME Nightclub and Bill Streeter of Lo-Fi St. Louis. The latter was nominated for "Best Reality Web Series" in the Streamy Awards, which honor -- what else? -- the best in web television. Lo-FI's competition is rather stiff, though: He's up against Penn ... More >>

What's Going on Around St. Louis Music Blogs/Web Sites

Congratulations go out this Monday morning to HOME Nightclub and Bill Streeter of Lo-Fi St. Louis. The latter was nominated for "Best Reality Web Series" in the Streamy Awards, which honor -- what else? -- the best in web television. Lo-FI's competition is rather stiff, though: He's up against Penn ... More >>

Video Ethics

Should there be rules about who gets credit for discovering popular online video clips?

It's So Many Dynamos Week on A to Z

Should there be rules about who gets credit for discovering popular online video clips?

Thor Axe: Behold the Sweet Riffs of So Many Dynamos' Triumphant Metal Side Project

Should there be rules about who gets credit for discovering popular online video clips?

Building a Better Blog

Now with new venues! New shows! New beefs!

Lofistl.com's The Circuit: Social Networking with a Technological Twist

Now with new venues! New shows! New beefs!

It's Showtime

From Q&As to film debuts, your guide to the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

RFT Music Showcase Video by the Most Excellent Bill Streeter

From Q&As to film debuts, your guide to the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

RFT Music Showcase Video by the Most Excellent Bill Streeter

From Q&As to film debuts, your guide to the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

And the DJ-spinoff finalists are...

Come out and support your favorites at Atomic Cowboy.

Sweet and Lo-Fi

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