Conor Oberst

The Drug Cocktails That Might Fuel Five Of Our Favorite Musicians

Big Boi mugs for the camera.​Did you hear the one about the rapper who got busted for Ecstasy and Viagra? Earlier this week, Outkast rapper Big Boi got pinched for MDMA powder, Ecstasy pills, and an illegal prescription of the little blue pill for his disco stick. Which got us thinking -- what ... More >>

If Harry Potter Characters Had Bands: Twelve We'd Like To See

​If Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton's promise (which turned out to be a joke/hoax) to become a white rapper was just one more sad reminder of a series you used to love, we don't blame you -- but we would like to discourage you. Harry Potter, as I'm sure you will remember, is after all a little m ... More >>

Bright Eyes and Dawes at the Pageant, 6/6/11: Review, Photos, Setlists

Chrissy Wilmes​Bright Eyes/Dawes The Pageant June 6, 2011 It's not every day (or every year, or every decade, even) that Bright Eyes stops in St. Louis. The last tour date (in November of 2005) was moved to Columbia, MO after Conor Oberst realized that the scheduled venue, the Pageant, had a ... More >>

Bright Eyes

8 p.m. Monday, June 6. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

My Morning Jacket is Coming to the Pageant

Danny Clinch​My Morning Jacket, whose new album Circuital is scheduled for a May 31 release date, is coming to St. Louis on August 2nd, when the band will play the Pageant. Tickets go on sale June 3rd at 5 p.m. at the Pageant box office or through Ticketmaster. Frontman Jim James' most recent ... More >>

Bright Eyes Playing at the (Clear Channel-Free) Pageant?

Image via​Gather 'round A to Z, children. Old Lady Zaleski has a story to tell you. Back in fall 2005, Bright Eyes had a show scheduled at the Pageant. The gig was on sale, people were weeping with delight and tickets were flying out the door. But then, suddenly, a dark cloud fell over the cit ... More >>

LouFest, Day One: Bottle Rockets, stephaniesid, Airborne Toxic Event

Jason StoffBottle Rockets kick out the jams. Check out our entire slideshow of LouFest Day One.​​"These are the first musical notes of Loufest!" Brian Henneman crowed, and the members of the Bottle Rockets were off, igniting the first set of St. Louis' inaugural LouFest. The BoRox wasn't on ... More >>

She & Him's M. Ward talks about the creative process on his latest collection of timeless pop

Blood Pony

7:30 p.m. Friday, January 8. Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Interview MP3: Star & Micey, Playing at Cicero's and MoKaBe's This Week!

​Star & Micey are not a duo; they're not even Star and Micey. The young trio of Joshua Crosby (24), Geoff Smith (25) and Nick Redmond (26) took their name from a random encounter with a homeless man who inspired Crosby to get his shit together, form a band and turn his talent into more than ju ... More >>

The Best of 2009 in Music

Interview : A.A. Bondy, Playing Tonight at the Gargoyle

​From television to the radio to the internet, indie-folk newcomer A.A. Bondy has been popping up everywhere lately. In addition to touring with Bon Iver, the Felice Brothers and Conor Oberst, he's appeared at Bonnaroo, recorded a session for Daytrotter.com and performed for Conan O'Brien (to name ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of June 15-21

Here's a new feature on A to Z: Every Monday, we'll publish the best-selling releases from area independent record stores for the preceding week. And so without further ado: [Update, 4 p.m.: Apop's top sellers are also below now!] Euclid Records' Top Ten 1. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Big Whiskey & the Gr ... More >>

Little Brazil

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

Joe Buck Yourself

9 p.m. Friday, January 9. Deluxe, 2733 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood.

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic F ... More >>

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

Second Spin: Jackson Browne, Hold Out

The Whiskey Ring

Better than Some, Worse than Others
(self-released)

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

8 p.m. Wednesday, May 7. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue

Cursive

8 p.m. Sunday, April 6. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards

The Ike Reilly Assassination

9 p.m. Thursday, June 21. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Bright Eyes

Four Winds EP (Saddle Creek)

Little Brazil

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 21. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Whether they’re playing all-ages venues or arenas, indie superstars the Faint make their fans dance, dance, dance.

Join them, won't you?

Jenny Lewis

Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Poison!

B-Sides lays down the law with Criteria, contemplates potential rock-star deaths and plays a rousing game of Tic-Tac-DeVoe

Living on Video

The Buggles were so, so wrong

Bright Eyes

Motion Sickness (Team Love)

Good Advices

We have an intervention for An Angle, talk baseball and Moz with Joe Pernice, and learn some rock rules by which to live

Slow Dazzle

The View from the Floor (Misra)

Built to Last

Doug Martsch runs the biggest little band on Earth

James Curd

Friday, March 11; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Boulevard

Magnolia Electric Co

Trials and Error (Secret Canadian)

Bright Eyes

Lua/Take it Easy: Love Nothing (Saddle Creek)

The Faint

Wet from Birth (Saddle Creek)

Letters

Week of September 15, 2004

The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock

(Besides Sting)

Ultimate Rock Fantasy

Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

Play the Horn

The Unicorns strike it rich with their unique brand of sloppy pop

Yo La Tengo

Thursday, June 10; Mississippi Nights

Cursive with Neva Dinova and Low Skies

Sunday, January 19; Hi-Pointe

Glorious Glut

Could '02' mean "Oh, too many records?"

Bright Eyes

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek Records)

Bright Eyes with Phut and Grandpa's Ghost

Thursday, July 29; Side Door