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Conflict Zine Returns: Here Are Five Others We'd Like to See Come Back

I was as surprised as anyone when I clicked online and saw the message: there was a new product from an old favorite, now available for download. Given that this was the first such release since 1991, I wanted to check it out immediately. And indeed, I was not disappointed. There was enough of th ... More >>

The Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup Announcement Is Here [Updated With Complete Lineup]

[UPDATE: The complete lineup is now on page two of this post.] Right now, even as I type this, Weird Al Yankovic is in the midst of a three-hour long live streaming video announcement for this year's Bonnaroo Festival, a four-day event that takes place every year in Manchester, Tennessee. As one wh ... More >>

Jennifer O'Connor stops at foam 3/19/12

It's mid-March, which means it's once again time for South by Southwest. A couple of RFT scribes are currently soaking up the atmosphere (read: getting copiously drunk on Shiner Bock), but the rest of us are here in St. Louis, 900 frustrating miles northeast of the action. All we can really do is h ... More >>

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 >>

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Ten

Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

LouFest 2012 Dates Announced; Presale Tickets Available Now

LouFest 2012 is officially off the ground: Presale tickets for the two-day festival in Forest Park are now available. It's $50 for a two-day pass or $70 if you wait until the regular sale. Last year's presale sold out in two weeks. The third LouFest will be on August 25 and 26 on Forest Park's Cen ... More >>

Homespun: Morgan Nusbaum

Let It In

Morgan Nusbaum's Solo Record Comes Out Friday

Morgan Nusbaum, a former member of the 75s and front woman of the wailing garage outfit Bruiser Queen, will release her first solo album at a show this Friday at Foam. The album, called Let It In was the subject of this week's Homespun review, and Christian Schaeffer notes a departure from Nusbaum's ... More >>

Win A Pair Of Two-Day LouFest Passes! [Update]

​LouFest is a week away. The weather forecast is hot but manageable, though it's not like we much care given how great the lineup is: TV on the Radio, the Roots, Cat Power, Deerhunter, and plenty more. And you can go for free -- we've got a pair of two-day passes looking for a loving home. W ... More >>

LouFest Interviews: Lost In The Trees' Ari Picker On Classical Music And More

​ Ari Picker is as genuine and unfailingly heartfelt as his music would have you believe. His folk orchestra project Lost in the Trees is winsome and soft, but imbued with wrenching emotion and cathartic release. Picker composes symphonic ballads out of pure necessity, to deal with the tragedi ... More >>

Announcing The Official Before LouFest Party

​LouFest is just over two weeks, and our excitement is reaching unhealthy levels. You already know the headliners: The Roots, TV On The Radio, The Hold Steady, Deerhunter, !!!, Cat Power, etc. The local lineup is impressive as well: Jon Hardy & the Public, Old Lights and Troubadour Dali lead t ... More >>

Questlove And Deerhunter Will DJ The LouFest After Party

wikimedia commons​The official LouFest after party, to be held on Saturday, August 27th at the Gramophone, will feature DJ sets from the Roots' Questlove and members of Deerhunter. Advance tickets are $17 and on sale now. St. Louis' DJ Needles and 18andCounting will open the party -- doors op ... More >>

Sarah Jaffe: Too Young to Sound This Experienced

Photo by Chris Phelps​Sarah Jaffe looks like an elf and sings like a storm. The singer-songwriter comparisons to Cat Power are almost inevitable at this point, but her gender is a factor she remains almost aggressively tied to. The 25-year-old's first guitar cost $10 at a garage sale, and thou ... More >>

Seven events you can't afford to miss this summer

LouFest 2011 Schedule Announced, Tickets On Sale Now

​LouFest is back. We already told you about this year's steller lineup, which features TV on the Radio, the Roots, Cat Power, Deerhunter, the Hold Steady, and plenty more, including a solid batch of locals. Today, LouFest released its 2011 schedule; you can take a look at that below. You can a ... More >>

LouFest 2011 Lineup: The Roots, TV On the Radio, Cat Power and the Hold Steady Are Highlights

​Surprise! Happy Tuesday! LouFest just announced the lineup for the 2011 edition of the festival, which takes place in Forest Park on August 27 and 28. Hip-hop hotshots The Roots, indie darlings TV On the Radio, folkie chanteuse Cat Power, neo-shoegazer Deerhunter, bar-band bros the Hold Stead ... More >>

Lower Dens

9 p.m. Saturday, August 21. 2720 Cherokee, 2720 Cherokee Street.

Contest! Win a Boatload of Temper Trap/Warpaint Tickets!

Annie ZaleskiThe goods​Okay, so perhaps "boatload" is a bit of an exaggeration -- but not by much. We have three five-packs of tickets for Wednesday night's Temper Trap/Warpaint show at the Pageant. And we're going to give them to you! Leave your full name (first and last -- those without the ... More >>

Sleepy Sun

9 p.m. Thursday, March 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

St. Louis Is Getting a Lilith Fair Date

Stop smirking: The fact that St. Louis snagged a date on the being-routed Lilith Fair is kind of awesome. This year's list of artists playing some (or all) of the dates for the reactivated all-female-artists tour -- nothing's set in stone yet -- is bordering on the incredible: Heart! Cat Power! Lore ... More >>

Tomorrow! Dex Romweber Duo at the Fox Hole at Atomic Cowboy

Annie ZaleskiDex Romweber, July 2008 at Off Broadway​This one's flying a bit under the radar, unjustly so: The almighty Dex Romweber Duo is performing at the Fox Hole at Atomic Cowboy tomorrow night, making good on drummer Sara Romweber's July 2008 promise that they'd come back. Bob Reuter's A ... More >>

We made you a mixtape! 2008: The year in music.

Headlights, My Brightest Diamond Playing Cicero's; French Kicks, Office, more at Play:stl Fest

MP3: Land of Talk, "Some are Lakes"

Lollapalooza Photos

Photos: Lollapalooza Day 1 with Cat Power, Raconteurs, Jeff Tweedy, Gogol Bordello, More

Video Preview: Lollapalooza

Dexter Romweber, Tonight at Off Broadway! Flat Duo Jets MP3s!

B-Sides catches up with high-flying ex-Flat Duo Jet Dexter Romweber, and busts a move with throwback bluesman Pokey LaFarge

Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Leaked: Radiohead, NIN, Wilco, Kanye West, Explosions in the Sky, Love and Rockets, The National, Lupe Fiasco, more!

Various Artists

Juno: Music From the Motion Picture
(Rhino)

Missing Local Musician: Dora Magrath

2007: The Year in Song, MP3-Style

Flaming Lips play the Pageant, September 28

Alina Simone

8:30 p.m. Monday, July 23. Lemp Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

Last Night's Show: John Vanderslice

Amy Winehouse

Back to Black (Universal Republic)

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Punch-Drunk Love

Aimee Mann knocks out another pop jewel

Get Thee to a Winery

Grayson Capps discusses New Orleans as it is now, Willy Wonka talks to D4L about their "Laffy Taffy," and we pair wines with some tasty new releases

The Dirty Three

Cinder (Touch and Go)

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon youve been jamming and dig this years buried black-music treasures.

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Chan Reaction

Is Cat Power free at last?

Card-Carrying Geniuses

The Must ... Rock lineup looks pretty good on paper

Fiona Apple

When the Pawn (Epic)

Listening Post

Perfect Circles

The RFT music editor advises you on his favorite music of 1998

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