Bruce Springsteen

For Some Reason, Mayor Slay Wants to Know if You Like Justin Bieber

Every week, Mayor Slay's website runs a poll, taking the pulse of St. Louisans on a wide range of topics, such as genetically modified foods, the actions of Congress, and what it takes to deliver a good political speech. The raw data gathered is synthesized and used to custom-build the city of St. L ... More >>

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 >>

Gaslight Anthem

7 p.m. Tuesday, December 4. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

David Sanborn

8 p.m. Thursday, August 23. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2012: Music

Eric Church finds broad appeal by not looking

Norah Jones, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Do it Right: SXSW 2012 Day 3

Thursday, March 15, 2012 1 p.m. SXSW is time machine, not always dialed towards the future. Though the clubs change names every season, the gimmicks get more and more outrageous -- witness the skyscraper-sized vending machine stocked with minivan-sized bags of chemically-enhanced corn chips whose n ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Five Aborted Prequels To Kevin J. Anderson's Rush Novelization

People are going to think I'm making fun of this, and what I'd like to make clear in this disclaimer is that I'm not making fun of this: Kevin J. Anderson, noted author of a bunch of Star Wars expanded-universe stuff I read in high school, is going to create a novelization of -- and this is the part ... More >>

St. Louis is Still in Super Bowl XLVI, Even Though the Rams Suck

The Rams may not be taking the field on Sunday at Super Bowl XLVI, but someone from St. Louis will be: Nick Smarrelli, chief operating officer at St. Louis IT firm GadellNet Consulting Services. He'll be helping to escort Madonna on the field for her halftime show, as reported yesterday in an articl ... More >>

The 33 1/3 Series is Accepting Submissions

​Earlier this month, Spin announced that it is moving most of its album reviews to Twitter. Music writing is getting shorter, not longer, and yet the 33 1/3 Series, which has the gall to publish entire books on albums that aren't even current, soldiers on. There are 85 installments in print n ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen Tour Dates, E Street Lineup Announced

Bruce Springsteen's long awaited 2012 US tour dates are out and, at lest in this first batch, the closest he'll come to St. Louis is an April 17 show in Cleveland and an April 12 show in Detroit. A stop here could be announced at a later date -- there is a tantalizing week between the Cleveland show ... More >>

Homespun: This City of Takers

The Felt
Tower Groove Records

23 Musicians with Michele Bachmann Eyes: Horrifying and Hypnotic

Jeff Tweedy as the Queen of Rage​Michelle Bachmann's Newsweek cover, on which she stares out icily over the headline The Queen Of Rage, has provoked intense reaction, mostly because of Bachmann's rapidly ballooning public caricature, but at least partly because the look in her eyes is somethin ... More >>

Slaid Cleaves

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Clarence Clemons' Five Best Saxophone Solos with the E Street Band

wikimedia commons​Clarence Clemmons, longtime saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has suffered a stroke. We don't yet know the extent of it, but this is grave news regardless: The Big Man has been suffering from deteriorating health recently. Our most ardent well-wished go to him ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: April 22 to 24

Joy Formidible (Wikimedia Commons)​Flip a coin: there's no other way to choose which of the excellent shows to attend this weekend. Whether your betting tastes lean toward the Joy Formidable's melodic fuzz from across the pond, or Ha Ha Tonka's Bible-Belt punk from St. Louis' backyard, odds ar ... More >>

Interview: Max Weinberg on His New Big Band and Feeling "1000 Percent" After Heart-Repair Surgery

courtesy of ​The percussive power of legendary E. Street Band drummer Max Weinberg provides the backbone for an endless soundtrack of Bruce Springsteen classics, the results of a creative partnership that's spanned nearly 40 years. In the early '90s, Weinberg was introduced to a whole new gene ... More >>

AM Taxi

8 p.m. Wednesday, September 22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Homespun: The Pernikoff Brothers

On My Way
(self-released)

The Gaslight Anthem's Jersey-born American slang is finally resonating all over the globe

Recap: Record Store Day at Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records, Saturday, June 17

Dana Smith​As we stood in the slightly elevated perch of Vintage Vinyl's DJ booth, I asked store co-owner Tom "Papa" Ray if Record Store Day was his version of Christmas morning. He thought about it for a second and said, in his inimitable drawl, "You know, I think I like Record Store Day bett ... More >>

The Top Ten St. Louis Concerts of 2009

We reviewed a lot of shows this year -- nearly 100, judging by the number of posts in the "Show Reviews" archive. Deciding which 2009 concerts comprised the creme de la creme wasn't easy, to say the least. However, the following stood out from the pack. What did we miss? What were your favorites thi ... More >>

Ian McLagan

8 p.m. Tuesday, November 24. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. 21 plus: $15 in advance, $20 day of show.

Woodstock (or Altamont) in the Ozarks -- The 35th Anniversary

ozarkmusicfestivalexhibit.comThe Ozark Music Festival kicked off 35 years ago last Saturday, July 18, at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia. Concert promoters had assured Sedalians that they would be hosting a "soft rock" festival with 50,000 spectators.Instead, 160,000 people (and that's a c ... More >>

Alejandro Escovedo

8 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Cleveland Rocks! With the Hall of Fame Inductions, Bruce Springsteen Exhibit and Music History

Last weekend when I was visiting my parents, I had the pleasure of taking a music-centric tour of Cleveland and some of its music landmarks. The timing was fortuitous, because the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are taking place this Saturday, April 4, in the lakefront city. Those ... More >>

Garage, Inc.: Little Steven brings his garage-rock radio show back to the St. Louis airwaves

Marah

9 p.m. Thursday, February 19. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Top Nine Local Moments of the Year

(Words by Andrew Scavotto; photos by Annie Zaleski) After devoting a significant amount of time to exploring local music in 2008, moreso than in years past, I've decided to end the year by blogging about my favorite moments. This isn't necessarily a list of my favorite shows -- rather, it's a list ... More >>

Former GnR Bassist Says Mariners Could Have Had La Russa

Over the Weekend: Springsteen, Obama, Festival of Nations, The Lot Concert, South Grand Nightlife

Rumor Fact: Bruce Springsteen in St. Louis Saturday, August 23?

Review: High Fidelity at A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre at Washington University

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 6:

The Killers

Sam's Town (Island)

The Constantines

9 p.m. Tuesday, June 20. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Renewal from the Inside Out

Laumeier does it right

Finest Workshows

A Michael Stipe speech actually tugs some heartstrings

Patti Scialfa

23rd Street Lullaby (Columbia)

Seeing Double

Nelly's dropping two discs on the same day. And somehow, it works.

Dylan Friends

In which Radar Station meets some folks who kinda like Bob Dylan

Eire Japan Thinks Globally

And plays locally

Hammer of the Gods

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

Berlin Wall

The Living Things' Berlin brothers pull the wool over Radar Station's eyes

Red, White and Bleaaaah

If Radar Station ran the post-9/11 world, the playlist would change

Paperback Writers

The latest music books struggle to demystify pop culture's greatest enigmas

Penn Is Mightier

Nicholson makes a Pledge to find a killer, if there is one

Ode to Joy

The RFT music staff indulges itself by picking the best work of 2000

High Fidelity

Directed by Stephen Frears