With his spiky, greying mullet, Bob Dylan shades and hotel room drink in a plastic cup, Glenn Branca cuts a mean, iconic hipster figure, a pure punk aesthete who for 30 years has been taking music -- call it rock, call it classical, call it Post-Minimalist, call it Maximalist -- to places the most shreddingest of experimental shredders fear to tread. In an infamous spat in the ‘80s, even John Cage turned a deaf ear to Branca’s wall of dissonance.
Branca is in town for a performance of his
This is a very, very cool event St. Louis likely isn't going to see again for a long time: On Wednesday, September 2, Off Broadway is hosting the Sing for China tour, a four-band bill of indie-rock bands from China. These acts include New Pants, Rebuilding the Rights of Statues, P.K.14 and Hedgehog. The shows are a benefit for the China AIDS Orphan Fund; tickets are just $8. While these acts aren't hugely well-known here, in artistic circles, they certainly are well-respected. RTROS collaborated
