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Ask Fan Landers: Will My Band Always Be Broke?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Best Part About The Mars Volta Was Their Hair

The Mars Volta was a rock band from California, which a place where rock bands are frequently formed. Other rock bands formed in California include Van Halen, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the band that spawned the Mars Volta, At The Drive-In. At The Drive-In is best known for once having a song ... More >>

The Class War Between Food Culture and Music Culture

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship I'm a sucker for the Food Network. Chopped is my jam, I have strong opinions about specific Iron Chefs, an ... More >>

Bluefish

5 p.m. Sunday, September 2. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From August 27 to September 2

Did everyone survive LouFest? Surrounding this post is our extensive coverage; be sure to read up. Rain be damned, the whole thing seemed to go off without a hitch. More big outdoors shows populate this week's post, for those of you that didn't get enough over the weekend. Tonight Verizon Wireless ... More >>

The Glee Treatment: "Fuck That Shit" and Five Other Rejections From Bands

Regardless of what anybody thinks about the actual program, there's no disputing that Glee has become an absolute juggernaut in the music industry. As of October 2011, songs from the show have been downloaded 36 million times. And during that same time period, 11 million physical albums that have be ... More >>

That Willie Nelson-Coldplay Chipotle Ad During The Grammys? Gut Check Aired It in August

Gut Check didn't watch the Grammys, but we certainly noticed when those live-snarking the event on Twitter started talking about Chiptole...and Willie Nelson? and...Coldplay? That rang a bell.

Sorry, Gwyneth: Eight Actresses Who Actually Can Sing

In the old days, just being an actress wasn't enough. Everyone had to be a double threat just to keep up with singing actresses like Julie Andrews, Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland. But then musicals fell out of fashion and we find ourselves asking, "Why the hell is Gwyneth Paltrow singi ... More >>

Homespun: Dropkick the Robot

Join the Club
(self-released)

Aqualung

9 p.m. Thursday, May 6. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Homespun: Jailbox, One for Each of Us

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Jailbox's new CD, One for Each of Us. He had this to say: Jailbox may rep for Perryville, Missouri, but the quartet stakes a sonic claim to the melodic and sensitive British rock made popular by Coldplay, Doves and Starsailor. While Coldplay took cue ... More >>

Homespun: Jailbox

One for Each of Us
(self-released)

Elsinore

9 p.m. Saturday, February 27. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Caption This: Rockabye Baby!, Lullaby Renditions of Journey

The Rockabye Baby!: Lullaby Renditions of... series is self-explanatory. Each release focuses on making tunes from one rock band palatable enough for the naptime set. Past volumes have featured Metallica, Tool, Beach Boys, Coldplay, the Pixies and the Beatles. However, the latest one to cross my des ... More >>

Ben Folds and Robert Smith Owe Steve Jobs a Drink

Robert Smith isn't smiling. But he should be.​So, if you've been on the Internet at all today, you'll know that Apple unveiled its tablet iPad this morning. The excellent blog Slicing Up Eyeballs posted the promo video for the device and pointed out that at 1:15 or so, the background music is ... More >>

Fall Out Boy

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Last Night: Toad the Wet Sprocket, El Ten Eleven, Gil Mantera's Party Dream

Toad the Wet Sprocket played at the Pageant last night -- and boy, what a treat. Toad's my Coldplay, a band I'm almost embarrassed to say I love. But my first time seeing the Santa Barbara quartet (which also featured a great pedal-steel player) was a real treat. ​The set started off shaky, w ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Coldplay, Art of Food at Mad Art Gallery, London Calling, Bon Bons Burlesque at Atomic Cowboy

Coldplay at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Photo: Kenny WilliamsonChris Martin of Coldplay on Friday nights. See more photos and read the concert review.​Music editor Annie Zaleski ventured out to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights to see Coldplay. Read her review here. We also have ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: Coldplay, Amadou & Mariam and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, July 24

Last night at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Coldplay delivered exactly the type of set you would want from it - and then some. That's not snark, either: For nearly two hours, the British quartet unleashed hit after hit after hit with little self-indulgence and plenty of spectacle. In fact, th ... More >>

In Defense of Coldplay

So, Coldplay is in town tonight at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. And anyone I've talked to who's going to the show is -- shall we say -- sheepish. The phrase "guilty pleasure" has been thrown around quite a bit. Embarrassed blushes and giggles are the rule, not the exception. It's as if liking ... More >>

Coldplay

7 p.m. Friday, July 24. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Today! LiveNation.com Has No Service Fees On Everything

After the success of last week's "no service fees on lawn tickets" promotion, LiveNation.com is doing it again today until midnight -- only better. Grab tickets to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at any level -- reserved or lawn -- with no service fees. What a deal! Some of the choicest bargains ... More >>

Jenny Lewis, Santigold to Play Pageant in June

Is there a better way to spend a hot summer weekend in St. Louis than at the Pageant? Perhaps, but not a weekend in mid-June: Santigold is performing there on Saturday, June 13 (a show which appears to be something different, because it was billed as "Barcardi B Live" [sic] in the note I received) a ... More >>

Open Comment Thread: The 2009 Grammy Awards

Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Curre ... More >>

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

B-Sides catches up with Lou ex-pat Black Spade and finds out how Black Moutain manages to rock so hard

Martin, Mosaic and More

Tonight's Show: Ben Folds with John Mayer

Johnette Napolitano

9 p.m. Thursday, May 31. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Mew

And the Glass Handed Kites (Sony)

Eisley

Wednesday, April 12, at 8 p.m. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

Shirock

Saturday, February 4; the Billiken Club (20 North Grand Boulevard)

Talkin' Baseball

Matching the playoff-rockin' Cardinals with some appropriate tunes

Coldplay with Rilo Kiley

Saturday, September 17; UMB Bank Pavilion (14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights)

Critical Fatwa

Week of September 14, 2005

The Perishers

Wednesday, September 7; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Marjorie Fair

Thursday, August 4; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Coldplay

X&Y (Capitol)

Teenage Fanclub

Man-Made (Merge)

The Music

Thursday, March 3; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Best Cover Band

Paint the Earth

Murs

Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition (Def Jux)

Elbow

A Cast of Thousands (V2)

Something Corporate

Friday, December 12; Mississippi Nights

Turin Brakes with David Gray

Friday, August 1; American Theatre

Made With Love

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

Cold Comfort

Coldplay reinvigorates the power ballad for the MTV2 generation

Various Artists

Maybe This Christmas (Nettwerk America)

Starsailor

Love Is Here (Capitol)

The Doves with the Webb Brothers

Thursday, June 21; Galaxy