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

What Is Even the Point of Karaoke, Anyway?

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

Lance Armstrong, the Robber Baron of the Sporting World

I want to play a game. Just real quick, okay? It won't take but a second, I promise. Oh, quit frowning. Seriously, it will be super fast and over before you know it. (No jokes about my sex life, please.) We're going to play a word association game. Just one round, one word. I want you to say th ... More >>

The Fourteen Best Forgotten Woody Guthrie Covers

No American songwriter has produced a more malleable, sing-able and shareable body of work than Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. Decades after his death, his archives continue to yield sweet, unfinished fruit for the likes of Jay Farrar, Billy Bragg and the Klezmatics (for starters) and his songs continue to ... More >>

Bill Burr

8 p.m. Saturday, November 5. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Comedian Bill Burr on Carnegie Hall, Breaking Bad, and Losers Who Think New York is the Shit

Photo by Brian FriedmanStandup Bill Burr, coming to the Pageant this weekend​Nobody personifies wise-ass East Coast standup quite like the Boston-born Bill Burr (he once told an entire crowd of heckling Philadephians, "I hope your mother has herpes in the center of her asshole"). Yet he's schedule ... More >>

Rosanne Cash On Her Career And Memoir, Which She Is Signing Tonight In St. Louis

​Rosanne Cash has endured some seriously heavy blows over the last decade. She lost her father and step-mother (Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, respectively) over the course of a few months in 2003. Six weeks after her father's passing, her step-sister was found dead on bus in Tennessee. A c ... More >>

The Ten Most Effective American Protest Songs

This one doesn't make the cut, unfortunately.​It's Fourth of July weekend, and in the haze of the heat, barbecue, domestic beer, and red-white-and-blue buntings, it's easy to get caught up in ranting-chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" The founding fathers and a lot of musicians might not agree with ... More >>

Bob Reuter of Bob's Scratchy Records Discusses 45s, Bob Dylan Going Acoustic and -- What Else? -- Scratchy Records

The number of chain record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops as well as for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' recor ... More >>

SLSO Youth Orchestra Earns Kudos from New York Times

Image source​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra made a triumphant New York debut last Tuesday, June 8, at a benefit performance in Riverside Church, earning a rave review in today's New York Times. "Significant collective and individual preparation had clearly gone into their ... More >>

Symphonic Bliss: Urban Alchemy Concert Series

Perform Like the SLSO in Your Very Own Bathtub

Over the weekend, the Saint Louis Symphony gave a preview of Powerful Percussion, the concert it will be performing at Carnegie Hall in New York this season. The highlight of the show was undoubtedly the second number, Tan Dun's Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra, in which percussioni ... More >>

Last Week's Most Popular Daily RFT Posts, June 29-July 5, 2009

If you missed any of these items posted last week on the Daily RFT -- or were like some of us and just checked-out for the holidays by Monday -- here's your chance to catch up before you have to do any real work this morning.Michael Jackson Watched Donald Duck to Fall Asleep, Exercised with Incredib ... More >>

Saint Louis Symphony Reports Increase in Revenue, Audiences in 2008-'09 Season

flickr.com/photos/bottleofbluesThe SLSO onstage at Powell Hall.This past season has been a banner one for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Not only did music director David Robertson make his singing and kazoo-playing debut at Carnegie Hall and management negotiate a three-year labor agreement wi ... More >>

Let's Finnish

The Song Remains Insane

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scene ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out local theater.

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Face the Nation

We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Unfinished Symphony

The arrival of a brilliant conductor was drowned out by labor discord. Now the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra begins a new season -- with some strings attached.

Domo Arigato!

We talk Japanese-style and chat with L.P.

Comings Back

It's homecoming week for two St. Louis-born theater luminaries

Opening Nights

Hilton Ruiz

Wednesday-Saturday, May 14-17; Jazz at the Bistro

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11

Ragbag

Tom McDermott left the Lou for the Big Easy eighteen years ago, but he's holding our musical traditions deep in his heart

J.J. Cale with Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart

Friday, June 28; Pageant

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Bang the Drum Repeatedly

Composer Philip Glass and timpanist Jonathan Haas move the kettledrums to the front of the Powell Hall stage

Dawson's Peek

A look at the long career of rock & roller Ronnie Dawson

A Puff of Smoke

Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho

A Guest of Honor

Scott Joplin receives a celebratory homecoming with Opera Theatre of St. Louis' revival of Treemonisha

The Wild Ones

Like many great artists, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has an inner fire, but all some critics see is smoke

Symphony Overtures

A great orchestra at great risk, the SLSO seeks major donors to close the endowment gap between their $28 million and the $100 million of their competitors

Rambin' Boy

Singer/songwriter Tom Paxton is still just folk

STANDUP GAL

Comedienne Lea Delaria brings her renowned cabaret act home to St. Louis

MESH HAPPENS

A Point-ed exchange with KPNT program director Allan Fee

Club Rules