Black Sabbath

Deep Covers: Bhi Bhiman re-imagines rock favorites on Substitute Preacher

Healing Powers: Music therapy provides more than just entertainment for sick kids

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 >>

Getting Bored and Angry at Lamb of God: Review and Photos

Lamb of God | Hatebreed | In Flames | Sylosis The Pageant November 7, 2012 Before I start trashing one of the most popular metal bands on the planet, let me offer my credentials: In 1989, I saw Sepultura at the Bridgeton Soccer club at just nine years old. I got in trouble for spray painting the S ... More >>

The Six Best Non-Metal Songs About Heavy Metal

Songwriters love riffing on folklore, be it nursery rhymes or Biblical parables. Over the years, heavy metal has developed its own brand of legend, so much so that stylistically disparate musicians have used it as a springboard for creatively disparate songs. Here are the six best non-metal songs ab ... More >>

Six Best Bass Solos In Rock

First, a joke: A man visits an Indian reservation. The tribe's chief leads him on a tour, and the man hears drums in the distance. "What are those drums?" he asks. The chief replies, "When the drums stop, bad things happen." They continue the tour, but the man keeps getting distracted. "Excuse me, w ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 2 to 8

In case you hadn't heard, fireworks displays are cancelled all over town this year because everything is on fire. Fair St. Louis is just about the only game left in town, which is convenient for our music-related purposes since that's also where Heart will be playing this Wednesday. Other than that, ... More >>

Punk: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is two weeks away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Throughout May, we've been making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year, introducing the nominees from one or more o ... More >>

Lollapalooza Schmallapalooza: The Best Off the Radar Music Festivals

The Lollapalloza 2012 lineup is here, anchored by Black Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys and Jack White. Pretty cool, right? And a three day pass will only cost you two hundred thirty dollars. So yeah: Maybe this year it's time to look for alternatives to the big-name, bigger-ticket su ... More >>

The Vijay Iyer Trio combines math, diplomacy and dancing

The Six Best Bass Lines Of All Time

Bass has many forms -- electric, upright, synthesized. Whatever its shape, it is a crucial element to popular music. Most songs don't need good bass lines, but the ones that have them are propelled into greatness. Here are the six best bass lines. Please note that bass parts that parrot guitar par ... More >>

Webster Records Shutters After 58 Years

After 58 years of slinging wax and compact discs, Webster Records is closing its doors on January 31. Owner Jennifer Graves Bellm has been the proprietor for five years, and she said the current climate of the music industry is the impetus for closing the small shop that's been operating since 195 ... More >>

The Six Best Drum Fills

​In rock and roll, singers get the attention, guitarists get the glory and bass players usually just have to show up. It's the drummers of the world who often put in the most effort for the least return, lugging ten times the equipment and playing twenty times as hard as the rest of the band. ... More >>

Kids These Days: The Six Least Impressive Music Careers Of Respected Musicians' Children

​By now you've probably heard about Pablo Dylan, Bob Dylan's grandson's aspiring rap career, which, if you're like us, probably made you cringe, especially if you've listened to any tracks from his mixtape, 10 Minutes. After we wiped the blood from our ears, we started to think about other o ... More >>

The Get Up Kids at the Firebird, 7/15/11

Forrester Michael ​The Get Up Kids The Firebird July 15, 2011 "Remember when we used to play here all the time?" asked Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic before the band moseyed into "Overdue." Its closing line "You're a few years overdue, I spent them waiting here for you" neatly summed up th ... More >>

Deftones' Frank Delgado on Changing Perceptions and Chi's Current Health

​A scant seven months after serving as the meat in an Alice In Chains/Mastodon sandwich at Scottrade Center, the Deftones will be headlining a very sold-out show at the Pageant with the Dillinger Escape Plan and Funeral Party. We caught up with Deftones turntablist Frank Delgado via phone from ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne

7:30 p.m. Friday, January 14. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Review: The Bad Plus at Jazz at the Bistro, Wednesday, January 5

Cameron WittigThe Bad Plus​Perhaps best known previously for their sometimes radical re-imaginings of rock and pop songs, The Bad Plus appear to have entered a new phase with last year's release of Never Stop, their first CD of all original compositions. Their St. Louis performance Wednesday n ... More >>

The Crystal Method's Scott Kirkland talks about the duo's New Year's Eve DJ plans in St. Louis

Interview: St. Louis Drummer Chad Smith Ready to Reunite with Geezer Butler's GZR

​Last week, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler announced he's ready to reconvene his band GZR. The latest lineup, he said, will "probably" feature Chad Smith -- the veteran St. Louis drummer, not the Red Hot Chili Peppers percussionist of the same name. Smith has been all over the local scen ... More >>

Listen to This Hilarious, Entertaining Ozzy Osbourne Interview

​Ozzy Osbourne is performing at the Scottrade Center tonight, Friday, December 10. Halford (the band fronted by Rob Halford of Judas Priest) opens. Tickets are $27 to $72.50, and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. A few weeks ago, KSHE DJ Favazz had the chance to interview Osbourne. The results, pre ... More >>

Carl Newman on the rhythms of the New Pornographers

Show Review: Fishbone Brings its Unstoppable Punk-Funk Circus to the City Museum, Thursday, June 3

Last night's Fishbone concert at the City Museum was a reminder that there hasn't been a band quite like the California septet before or since. Certainly the band has some pretty obvious forebears; Sly Stone's multicultural rock & roll, Toots & the Maytals' slinky ska, and Funkadelic's paranoid groo ... More >>

The Dive Bomber's Worlds Collide at Stan's Bar

"When are you going to Keith's? Keith's is perfect for 'Dive Bomber!'" Except it's no longer Keith's. Now it's Stan's Bar, as of January 1, anyhow, when bartender Stan took over ownership. Such is the nature of neighborhood bars, being bought by patrons or employees to continue the lineage when the ... More >>

Review: Retribution Gospel Choir at the Firebird, Tuesday, February 16

Cameron Wittig​When Duluth, Minnesota's Retribution Gospel Choir last came to St. Louis -- as the opener for Wilco's three-night stand at the Pageant in 2008 -- the big stage swallowed its elasticized guitar textures and glacial tempos. Last night's show at the Firebird, however, was another s ... More >>

Lemmy Entertain You: Twenty questions With Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister

Show Review Photos Setlist: Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, August 11

Photo: Todd OwyoungFrom last night's show at the Scottrade Center. See more photos of Green Day last night.​ Caveat: I've been a Green Day fan since 1994 or so. And so I have a sneaking suspicion that last night's Scottrade Center show wasn't for me - even though the band ran through plenty of ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: Smashing Pumpkins at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Wednesday, November 26

Setlist and words from Shae Moseley. Can anyone help with the question marks? Photos by Todd Owyoung.Slide ShowPink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" has been a setlist staple on this fall's Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary Tour. But Floyd's influence was actually quite easy to s ... More >>

Second Spin: REO Speedwagon, Nine Lives

Danzig with the Stars

The coolest guy you know named Glenn finds Lost Tracks.

Jazzercise

B-Sides covers, well, the covers repertoire of the Bad Plus and learns about Todd Mosby's newfangled imratgitar.

Slide Away

Lock up your family pictures, here come the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players!

Turn It Up, Mr. Prez!

B-Sides unearths some tight presidential tunes, finds the softer side of the Simpsons' notorious bully and knows way too much about the Spin Doctors

Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr.
You're Living All Over Me
Bug (Merge)

Strike Me Lucky!

The Wiggles rock St. Louis

Stag Party

Radar Station discovers obscure link between rock music and alcohol

Best Cover Band

The Skulls

Metal Alchemy

Alex Skolnick changes thrash to jazz

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative

Fine for Littering

St. Louis loves its Litterthugz

The 2002 RFT Music Awards Showcase

The name has changed, but the song remains the same

Les Savy Fav with the Apes and Dirt Nap

Monday, Dec. 3; Rocket Bar

Wylde At Heart

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

Tony Iommi

Iommi (Divine Recordings)

Best Pop Hooks

Adam Reichmann, Nadine

Almost Famous

Written and directed by Cameron Crowe

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT

Christian rock combines the Lord's message with the devil's beat. Sometimes the result is exhilaration. Sometimes it's god-awful confusion.

Night & Day

June 30 - July 1, 1999

Listening Post

Inspiration & Obligation