Dave Grohl

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from May 13 to 19

You'd think that having jobs like our's would grant us innate superpowers to recall the goings-ons of any particular day at the blink of an eye, but the reality of it is that staring at the dozens and dozens of new shows that roll in weekly can become somewhat disorienting (luckily, this here concer ... More >>

The Best Shows at SXSW 2013

This year, our sister papers at the Houston Press music blog Rocks Off and Dallas Observer music blog DC-9 at Night teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. See Also: -The Scene at SXSW: Here's What You Are Missing -SXSW 2013: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spai ... More >>

The 20 Most Overused Terms In SXSW Band Bios

By Craig Hlavaty Before I take any trip to Austin and SXSW, I always take more than a few days to peruse the schedule and check out a few of the hundreds of names on the roster and read their bios. Some years there are more bands with "wolf" and "space" in their monikers than usual, and some year ... More >>

Dave Grohl's Movie Sound City is Playing at the Tivoli Tonight Only: Read Our Review Here

Here's something you don't get to say too often: It's a shame when Paul McCartney turns up. Before McCartney arrives, rasping, puppy-eyed, and eager to have a go at the hot new grunge sound of 1993, Dave Grohl's Sound City is an exciting, sometime illuminating documentary about how a squad of techni ... 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 >>

The Six Sweetest Riffs of 2011

​There's no precise way to define a sweet guitar riff, much less a criteria for such categorization. A sweet riff is, like love or God or truly excellent barbecue, something only realized upon experience. This, the second year of the second decade of the twenty first decade of the modern calen ... More >>

Nine Albums Overshadowed by Nevermind

​Tomorrow, Nirvana's Nevermind turns twenty years old, leaving Gen Xers questioning where their lives have gone, just as they questioned where their lives were going to the strains of Smells Like Teen Spirit. While Nevermind marked a victory for the underground in a stellar year of albums, th ... More >>

The Joy Formidable At The Firebird, 9/21/11: Review and Setlist

Photos by Diana Benanti ​The Joy Formidable | US Royalty September 21, 2011 The Firebird This is the time to see a band. The Joy Formidable is still pie-eyed and loving it, and there's a new single around every bend. The band is still in love with its luck, and there is no way to not fall in ... More >>

The Year Punk Broke Finally Gets Reissued: Where The Featured Bands Are Today

​About twenty years ago, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore asked his friend, filmmaker Dave Markey, to document the band's short European tour, including its performance at the massive Reading Festival. Markey (best known for his underground classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls) left with his passp ... More >>

The Foo Fighters' Favorite Ice Was Not Enough To Prevent A Blues City Deli No-Show

The Foo Fighters: "We squeal like six-year-old girls with skinned knees when we see this ice!"​Foo Fighters' superfan and Blues City Deli kitchen worker James Washburn received a letter in June that said the band might make an appearance in his place of work. The letter, which he threw in the ... More >>

Foo Fighters at Scottrade Center, 9/17/11: Review and Setlist

Photo by Jon Scorfina. Read why we had no professional photos here. ​Mariachi El Bronx | Rise Against! | Foo Fighters Scottrade Center September 17, 2011 It's been a huge year for Dave Grohl. His band, Foo Fighters, began 2011 with its most reliable line-up of the group's existence. That was ... More >>

Foo Fighters

7 p.m. Saturday, September 17. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

America's Got Talent Winner Runs for Missouri Office: Eight Musicians He Should Learn From

Neal Boyd's American dream includes serving in Missouri House of Representatives.​Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston has already won lots of American votes. Enough to win the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, when he wowed audiences with his pop opera skills. Before finding reality-show fame, Boyd ... More >>

Foo Fighters Coming to the Scottrade Center [Update with ticket prices]

image courtesy of Live Nation​The Foo Fighters has just announced its fall 2011 tour dates, and we get one! Saturday, September 17th at Scottrade Center. Rise Against, who was here just eight days ago, will open. Update: Tickets are $49.50 for GA Floor ticket, and reserved tickets range from ... More >>

What Do the Beastie Boys Have in Common with Mixed Martial Arts?

Chrissy Wilmes​Every week, we'll ask your local record store clerks to advise you on which new releases are worth your hard-earned pennies. Today, Vintage Vinyl employee (and drummer for the Humanoids and Doom Town) Shaun Morrissey fills us in on some of his favorite recent releases and reissu ... More >>

Kaki King

8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Foo Fighters are Going to Hell in a Custom Limo -- and Lemmy's Driving

​Motorhead is playing at Pop's this Sunday, February 20. We'll have an interesting feature -- an interview with the codirectors/producers of a new Lemmy documentary -- in this week's paper, so stay tuned. Lemmy is popping up everywhere these days, it seems. Just yesterday, Foo Fighters posted ... More >>

Video: Dave Grohl Mock-Sues Scissor Sisters For Jake Shears' Peek-A-Boo Balls

(Via BIllboard) During a recent show, Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears apparently exposed his testicles. Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl was in attendance, and filmed a hilarious video in which he discusses a mock-lawsuit he's filed against the band, Ticketmaster, the venue and others. The fallo ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend, Night One: Blind Eyes and Troubadour Dali

As the Blind Eyes is an-all male trio, there was some question as to who was going to play the all-important role of Stevie Nicks in its Fleetwood Mac cover set. The solution to this quandary was as simple as it was brilliant: Get every noteworthy female vocalist from St. Louis' indie-rock scene to ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Jimmy Winkeler of the Conformists on Recording New Tunes with Steve Albini, Vinyl Fidelity and His Crush on Louise Post

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and 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' record a ... More >>

Review Setlist: Foreigner at the Bottleneck Blues Bar, Thursday, January 21

myspace.com/foreignermusic​Kelly Hansen, vocalist of Foreigner since 2005, is a frontman. He wields the mic stand like a sword -- or a young Steven Tyler. He struts around the stage wearing sunglasses without looking like a tool. When singing tender moments, he frames his face with clasped fis ... More >>

Lemmy Entertain You: Twenty questions With Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister

Them Crooked Vultures Release New Music. Slowly.

Them Crooked Vultures sure do like to tease. The supergroup -- featuring Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones -- keep posting only snippets of songs via its Twitter account. Today comes 30 more seconds of the studio version of a song called "Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I." I'm not sure capi ... More >>

Telekinesis

8 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

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 >>

Xmas Jams: A roundup of 2008's best Christmas albums

Heart & Soul: The Whigs pledge allegiance to old-fashioned, barnstorming rock & roll

Austin City Limits Day Three Review: Foo Fighters, AA Bondy, Silversun Pickups, Gnarls Barkley, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Stars

Foo Fighter Dave Grohl on Nirvana at Mississippi Nights Nirvana Videos, Thoughts

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

2008 Grammy Awards: The Liveblog

Clash Tribute, with Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, More

AA Bondy reinvents himself as an indie-folk artist

The Livers

9 p.m. Tuesday, December 25. Way Out Club, 2525 South Jefferson Avenue.

With A-list fans and loyal listeners around the globe, the Scissor Sisters continue to get its groove on with Ta-Dah.

Who even needs America?

Film Openings

Week of November 23, 2006

Pete Yorn

9 p.m. Saturday, July 1. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Glenn Kotche

Mobile (Nonesuch Records)

Tokyo Rose

Sunday, November 20; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Three's Company

B-Sides sees triple with Alkaline Trio, crunches numbers with Son Volt and gives Billy Idol some career advice

Foo Fighters

In Your Honor (RCA)

Ursha Speaks

We sit in on an Usher wank-fest, chat with Evanescence and watch the Dems pull out their magic stick

Probot

Probot (Southern Lord Records)

All His Life

The Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age and the Mars Volta

Wednesday, May 7; Savvis Center

Chan Reaction

Is Cat Power free at last?

Number One With a Bullet

You know you're right -- you can't lose with rare Nirvana

Queens of the Stone Age with ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Peaches

Friday, September 20; Pageant

STORM WARNING

The Stormtroopers of Death return to set heavy metal straight

Sound Checks