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It's good to see Brian Wiegert leading a band again. He was at the center of the foursome Team Tomato, a band that made mostly solid records, gained some national attention and then went kaput. He was a binding force for the Red Headed Strangers, the country project of the Sullivan family, but with ... More >>

The Top Ten Douchiest Guitar Players of All Time

By Nate Jackson Hey, we can all appreciate a quality guitar god. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of music knows the joy of watching their favorite axe man/woman go on a tear and destroy the crowd with their fast-fingered prowess, signature style and lush mane of flowing hair. It's the textboo ... More >>

Romantic Misadventures and Song Selections for Karaoke Virgins

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 >>

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Elsinore At The Firebird, 11/4/11: Review And Setlist

Roy KastenSTL still loves you SSLYBY​ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | Elsinore The Firebird November 4, 2011 The perfect pop song is out there, forever out there, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin may never find it, but on some nights getting to share in the search is more tha ... More >>

Centro-matic and Sarah Jaffe, 7/5/11: Review, Setlist, Photos

Christian Schaeffer​Centro-matic | Sarah Jaffe Off Broadway July 5, 2011 In a perfect world, the makers of Auto-Tune - the vocal pitch-correction software that makes starlets sing like robots - would come out with a Will Johnson Sound-Alike module. The singer and guitarist for Centro-matic ha ... More >>

Interview: Cheap Girls Singer/Bassist Ian Graham on Writing New Music and Keeping Touring All in the Family

Lance Nelson​There's something about guitar-based, pop-oriented rock music that has allowed it to stand the test of time. Big Star, Cheap Trick, the Replacements, the Lemonheads, Gin Blossoms, Superchunk... the list goes on and on. None of these acts felt obligated to rely on over-the-top inst ... More >>

Review: Marshall Crenshaw with the Bottle Rockets at Off Broadway, Wednesday, January 19

Kholood EidMarshall Crenshaw (middle) with Bottle Rockets, last night at Off Broadway​Prior to last night's show at Off Broadway, Bottle Rockets guitarist John Horton stood in the lobby and expressed nervousness about the impending concert -- which was the first show in a series of gigs backi ... More >>

Eleven local bands and artists to watch in 2011

Power-pop cult heroes Ultimate Fakebook are back together playing shows, but it's strictly for fun

Eleven Local Artists You Need to Know in 2011

​The life cycle of a local music community goes something like this: Bands form, play out, record music, play out more and (eventually) break up. There's plenty of variation in this sequence of events, of course, but in St. Louis, the local-band turnover tends to be rather high. Keeping track ... More >>

Interview: Blackpool Lights' Billy Brimblecom on the New Okie Baroque and How the Band Got Back Together

​Blackpool Lights -- the project featuring drummer Billy Brimblecom and the Get Up Kids' Jim Suptic -- will be doing one of its first shows in years tonight at the Firebird. The Class of '98 opens. The show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $10. Earlier this week, BPL released a stellar new EP, ... More >>

Michael Stipe in Waffle Country: Here's The Real Scoop, According to Sylvain Sylvain and Others

They didn't airbrush his face here.​This week, R.E.M. reissued its 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction as a two-CD set, which includes a disc of demos. The band also announced that it had finished recording its new studio album, which is set for release sometime next year. Perhaps in tribu ... More >>

Interview Outtakes Free Music: Early St. Louis Punk Band The Welders Talks Reuniting, Raymilland and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe

The Welders, back in the day​In the current issue of the dead-tree RFT, writer Mike Appelstein constructed an oral history of early St. Louis punk band the Welders. The quartet briefly got back together in December to play the reunion show of post-punks Raymilland (who we featured back in Dece ... More >>

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 >>

Tonight! The ACBs, Justin Ripley and the Blind Eyes at the Firebird

Pop music fans have a reason to leave the house tonight, for the excellent triple bill at the Firebird. From Kansas City, fantastic power-pop group the ACBs -- think XTC meets Cheap Trick meets Todd Rundgren -- will be returning to the venue; its last gig there was performing at  the Blind Eyes ... More >>

Show Recap Photos: Bottle Rockets at the Pageant, July 26

Annie ZaleskiBottle Rockets at the Pageant​ First, good news for anyone who missed the Bottle Rockets opening for the Wallflowers last night: The band announced after the show that it's playing two nights at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room in October (the 9th and 10th, to be exact). Those are in additi ... More >>

Photos Review Setlist: Chris Isaak at the Pageant, Friday, July 17

Forty years ago in July, eight years before his death, Elvis Presley began a stand of 57 shows at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, a concert run that restored the King to a throne he'd spent most of the previous decade abdicating. Yet, the image of Elvis in Vegas is largely misunderstood; ove ... More >>

SXSWow: In the weeks leading up to and after SXSW, St. Louis draws some of music's biggest talents to town. This year is no exception.

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week of March 10

Off Broadway *Marshall Crenshaw, Thursday, April 2 *Lydia, Wednesday, April 8 *Michael Jonas, Sunday, April 12 *Hot Panda, Monday, April 13 *Joy Bus, Wednesday, April 22 *Richard Buckner, Sunday, May 3 *KRISTEENYOUNG, Tuesday, May 5   Pop's *Dragonforce, Friday, April 24 *Twiztid, Saturday ... More >>

I Need a Hero: In honor of Smashing Pumpkins' twentieth anniversary, a list of Billy Corgan's top ten guitar heroes

Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Supergrass at Scottrade Center, Sunday, July 20

Review: Hold Steady, Stay Positive First Listen and Track-by-Track Analysis

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

8 p.m. Wednesday, October 10. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards.

2007 RFT Music Showcase

Week of May 31, 2007

"Without the Nights, the musical landscape of St. Louis would be drastically different."

Week of February 15, 2007

Win Lose Die

Belleville racketeer Thomas Venezia goes out with a bang

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

B-Sides finds other Franken-guitars to match Junior Brown's creation, earns some holiday cash on eBay and discovers that Milemarker and My Chemical Romance have more in common than you'd think

Magnetic South

We fatwa Magnet, chat up Ken Bethea and wonder what exactly is going on with Todd Rundgren's Web site

Oppression Rock

We speak out against democracy, worry about Snoop and let Team Tomato give themselves a hand

The Donnas

Gold Medal (Atlantic)

Two Tickets to Paradise

We chat with Eddie Money, get all Punjabi on you and fatwa all over Robert Downey Jr.

Moustache-free to Be You and Me

We chat with a fresh-faced John Oates, pick the brain behind M.O.T.O. and play a scary game with Burnt by the Sun

Golden Oldies

We talk with the Old 97's, turn up the freedom rock and marvel at Wilco's PR machine

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of June 30, 2004

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of November 19, 2003

Mars Attacks!

Retro-purists be damned! The Boss Martians are breaking out of the garage.

Sounds Around Town

Week of February 19, 2003

SheBron's Wrong

Week of February 19, 2003

Gravity Killed

Are you hotty-hot-hot enough for the big time? The notorious Black Panel reconvenes for another local-release roundup.

Team USA

Monday, March 18; Frederick’s Music Lounge

The 2001 RFT Slammies

Homeboy superstar Nelly tops the list of readers' favorite local musicians

Critical Mass

RFT music critics offer a cut-and-paste compendium of the year in music. Everyone's wrong. Everyone's right.

TRADE SECRETS

Cashing in your CDs

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