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Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend One

Editor's Note: Coachella Music Festival split into two weekends for 2013. Read on for the best of Weekend One, from writers at our sister paper, the LA Weekly.Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor ... More >>

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

Ian Fisher & the Present
www.ianfisheronline.com

Euclid Records' 50 Best-Selling Albums of 2012

Euclid Records -- one of several excellent purveyors of music in this town and our 2012 winner for Best Record Store -- has just released its top 50 sellers of 2012. It's an interesting list for several reasons. It bears almost no resemblance to Billboard's list, of course. But it also speaks to the ... More >>

Gift Guide for Musicians we Love (and Love to Hate)

Last week, I received a surprising call from the North Pole. Apparently Santa Claus has become a fan of my column and wanted some musical selections to play in his sleigh on the big night. "Anything but 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus', I was told. "Mrs. Claus always looks askance at him when they ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From October 8 to 14

Before we get into it: I am sure you are all already aware that White Rabbits is playing in town this week. And I am sure you've all seen this ubiquitous press photo, wherein all the members of the band are sprawled lazily on the floor, haphazardly surrounded by their hopelessly-tangled instrument c ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2012: Highlights from A to Z

The team: six 40-year-old men, leaving behind six fairly respectable jobs, five wives and 14.9 children for four days. The tools: a 32-foot RV, VIP tickets, comfortable shoes and enough beer to take down a small fraternity. The task: to do and see as much as physically and logistically possible at ... More >>

Win a Pair of Bonnaroo Passes

Update: And our winner is Alex Fritz, because we love it when our food writer makes sex jokes about bands. Instructions are on their way via Twitter. Thanks, everyone. Yep, that's right. Looking to make some last minute plans for a trip down to Tennessee this weekend? We've got a pair of Bonnaroo w ... More >>

The Moral Dilema of Reverb

Some believe that all recorded music is a lie. There is truth to this extreme opinion - there is a massive difference between experiencing music as it is created and listening to a document after the fact. This is why so many artists fall into the category of "better live." Negotiating this differen ... More >>

Six Best Coachella Death Matches

You may know that the Coachella festival begins this weekend, in which Indio, California is overtaken with every type of person from hippies to people who like watching bands outside and camping yet deny being hippies. The impressive lineup has a few notably similar acts who may not be rivals but st ... More >>

Other Lives

9 p.m. Tuesday, February 7. Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue.

Coachella 2012 Lineup: Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Headline

Coachella has just announced its 2012 lineup. The festival, which will take place over two weekends in April, will feature the Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg as headliners, and it doesn't exactly drop off from there: Pulp, Cat Power, M83, the Shins, Bon Iver, Noel Gallagher, Feist, Jeff ... More >>

Alabama Shakes

8 p.m. Sunday, December 18. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: September 16 to 18

What do you mean those mushrooms were "medicinal"? ​It seems like just yesterday we were welcoming the return of fall and trying to find somewhere to stand in the Pageant for Bon Iver. But another week has come and gone, and you, as usual, have no excuse to be bored this weekend. DJ Lance Roc ... More >>

Bon Iver At The Pageant, 9/11/11: Review, Photos and Setlist

Photo by Jason Stoff​Bon Iver The Pageant September 11, 2011 Let's take some responsibility for the Bon Iver emerges from a cabin mythmaking. It does not belong in the vacuum we have assigned it -- Justin Vernon is considerably more complicated and less exciting than that. And while he may h ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: September 9 to 11

The Features play tomorrow night at Old Rock House​The short week has ended and there's plenty of live music to get your ears ringing through the start of fall. Javier Mendoza is releasing a CD tonight at Old Rock House, Bon Iver brings the woodsy yacht rock (we guess?) to the Pageant on Sunda ... More >>

Bon Iver

8 p.m. Sunday, September 11. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Too Hot To Live Winter Music Mix: Ten Songs To Lower Your Temperature

Refreshing! ​Finally, we seem to be on the other side of this week's bout of soul-shredding heat. Summer's all well and good, but the Beach Boys weren't singing about an endless summer where it feels like 115 degrees. Their summers were a good 30 degrees cooler than what we've been experiencin ... 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 >>

Pitchfork Music Festival 2011: What to Expect, What to See and More

​Sometimes the Iternets can put on one helluva flesh-and-blood show. Pitchfork Music Festival is run by the music blog of the same name, which just announced it's expanding to Paris this fall with an overseas version of the festival to be curated by (Everybody Loves) Bon Iver. The American b ... More >>

Bon Iver Tickets Will Be Gone Very Soon Are Gone

​Update: And it's sold out. If you would like to see Bon Iver at the Pageant in September, you should act quickly. The Pageant's Advertising and Marketing Director, Jesse Raya, says he thinks they'll be sold out by the end of the day today or tomorrow morning and that there's only "a handful ... More >>

Bon Iver, Erasure, Mountain Man Lead This Week's Show Announcements

What a beardo.​Synthpop pioneers Erasure are heading out on a world tour (!), and it's their first time stateside since Bush was in office (shudder). Amazingly enough, another Mountain Man date--the ladies are at the Firebird in early August, but if you can't wait to steep yr weary country sou ... More >>

This Week's New Releases: Bon Iver, Jill Scott, Weird Al Yankovic

​Each Tuesday, record store clerks unpack boxes of albums and re-stock shelves with this week's newest music releases. There's a whole bunch of good stuff, so we've gathered a few notable albums as a starting. This batch includes parody craftsman Weird Al Yankovic, Grammy-winning singer Jill S ... More >>

Bon Iver is Coming to the Pageant

​Woodsy folkster/hook man Justin Vernon (a.k.a. Bon Iver) is coming to the Pageant on September 11th. Tickets go on sale this Friday, the 24th, at 5 p.m. It's $32.50 for general admission and $35 for reserved balcony seats. You can buy them through the box office or Ticketmaster, as per usual. ... More >>

William Fitzsimmons

8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Review: S. Carey at Off Broadway, Monday, April 4

Cameron Wittig​It's hard to imagine vocals so beautiful and delicate could come out of a man resembling the Brawny Paper Towel guy. But the vocals of Sean Carey (a.k.a. S. Carey) slowly hummed to life and melted over the audience who came out to Off Broadway Monday night. Carey made one final ... More >>

S. Carey

8 p.m. Monday, April 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Show Announcements: Week of February 24

image viaS. Carey, classically-trained percussionist for Bon Iver, just finished road testing his debut album, All We Grow, on his first headlining tour with Yann Tiersen. Catch him at Off Broadway April 4.​ 2720 Cherokee *Great American Taxi, March 4 BB's Jazz Blues and Soups *Bart Walker B ... More >>

Ten Songs Colder Than Old Man Winter

Wikimedia Commons​While the Snowpocalypse largely missed the St. Louis metro area, the aftermath of the sleet-storm lingers, in the form of frigid temperatures, bitter wind chills and icy roads and pavement. This is the perfect time of year for hot tea, wool blankets -- and cold, cold music. T ... More >>

Grizzled country-rockers Bottle Rockets and power-pop songsmith Marshall Crenshaw form an unlikely touring alliance

Win Tickets to See Nathaniel Rateliff and JBM, Playing Tonight at Off Broadway!

Nathaniel Rateliff hails from Bay, Missouri. As Roy Kasten said in this week's preview, "The sound of small-town quietude and sly complexities percolating below a placid surface still defines the Denver songwriter's mostly spare, acoustic concept. With his ripe and worn baritone, pick-and-scratch gu ... More >>

It's a Canadian Invasion! Islands, Dan Mangan Announce St. Louis Shows

Nichole TorpheaIslands at Off Broadway in March 2008. More photos.​The last time Islands played in St. Louis, at Off Broadway in March 2008, the Canadian kaleidoscopic pop-weirdos "showcased their diverse influences and tastes," said Keegan Hamilton. From that review: The set opened with a ha ... More >>

Matt Pond PA hunkers down to release The Dark Leaves and tour with Ben Folds

Top Sellers At Area Record Stores for 2009

Who says the record store is dead? Not us here in St. Louis, where both Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records sold a lot of tunes. Below, please find the top selling albums from both stores, including a separate top vinyl list from VV. Enjoy! Vintage Vinyl: Top CDs ​1. Murphy Lee - You See Me 2. ... More >>

Tonight! El Ten Eleven, Julie Peel

Benjamin Wahiche/myspace.com/juliepeel​ Julie Peel Where: Off Broadway With: Joe Purdy Sounds Like: The crispness of autumn. Songs from Peel's debut, Near the Sun, sigh with winsome acoustic guitars and soft-glow percussion -- and are the perfect gentle accompaniment for her husky alto voice. ... More >>

Tonight! Brookville, The Postmarks, Pretty Little Empire and Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps at Off Broadway; Nico Vega at the Firebird

Monday, Schmonday: Tonight's a great night for music in St. Louis, if you're feeling adventurous.First, at Off Broadway is a pretty dynamic quadruple bill featuring the Postmarks, Brookville, Pretty Little Empire and Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps. The latter act hails from Minneapolis and ... More >>

The Antlers

9:05 p.m. Thursday, September 17. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Sunday! Megafaun at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center MP3s!

The members of Megafaun have better beards than you. That's just a fact of life, something to accept that's as true and solid as death and taxes. But the hirstute band doesn't let its facial hair get in the way of fantastic musicianship. Since forming after the split of DeYarmond Edison (the band th ... More >>

Tonight! The Rosebuds and Megafaun at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Head to the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center tonight to catch pure-pop 'heads the Rosebuds along with friends-of-Bon Iver, Megafaun. In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer says: In Annie Hall Woody Allen's character Alvy Singer notes that a romantic relationship is like a shark: It has to keep movi ... More >>

Beach House at the Billiken Club/The Rosebuds at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, Friday, April 3

Sheesh, as if having the Ting-Tings in town on April 3 isn't enough, two other cool shows have just been announced for the same date. Earlier this week, the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center announced that Megafaun (a folkish group with ties to Bon Iver -- the band members played with Justin Vernon in t ... More >>

Fitter, Happier, More Productive: Bon Iver, "Blood Bank"

(Tuesdays can be a trying day here in Club Land at the RFT. It's deadline day for the show/concert listings, and this fact hangs over my head just like all of those foreboding elementary school (and high school and college) homework assignments that I would inevitably put off to the l ... More >>

Interview: Land of Talk Vocalist Elizabeth Powell Info on Broken Social Scene Show

MP3: Land of Talk, "Some are Lakes"

Ludo Charts on Billboard with "Love Me Dead," Debut CD, Appears on Arizona Tea Label (?)

Pitchfork Music Festival Schedule Updated

Review: Bon Iver at the Billiken Club, Tuesday, April 8

St. Louis Gigantic Concert Calendar, April 7 through August

Bon Iver at the Billiken Club, Tuesday, April 8

Inspiration: For Justin Vernon, it comes from solitude. For others, Morrissey

Bon Iver at the Billiken Club, April 8