Def Leppard

Punching Out the Overhead Lights During a Karaoke Song: What to Do Next

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 >>

Here's Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as un-awful in Rock of Ages

Snoop Dogg, Unknown Hinson, El Monstero and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded Youtube videos with which you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new ... More >>

Drake Darrington Will Don his Massive Bulge for One More Metal StudZ Show

Metal StudZ​Will Lackey's double life is the stuff of superheroes. He manages the video production team LumiVid in the daylight, but when the sun goes down he becomes Drake Darrington, lead singer of the spectacle act Metal StudZ. Or, at least he will channel his inner Def Leppard for one last ... More >>

The Six Best Statutory Rock Songs

​November is national Child Safety Protection Month. Part of protecting the young, naturally, is raising awareness of stranger dangers. We do that through warnings about taking candy and rides from unfamiliar people. As kids approach dating age, the advice sometimes includes "Stay away from mu ... More >>

'Just Like A Pear': The Madonna Baby Food Recipe

​A few weeks ago, we received Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Def Leppard in the mail, along with the recipe for "Pour Some Peaches on Me," a healthy snack idea for your infant regardless of how many arms it has. The newest installment of the series, a lullaby tribute to Madonna, will b ... More >>

Def Leppard Baby Food To Go With Your Def Leppard Lullabies

So, this exists.​We were the proud recipients of the latest entry in the Rockabye Baby! franchise, which turns classic (read: geriatric) rock into lullabies for, you guessed it, babies. This one renders Def Leppard in vibraphones and vibraslaps, which on principle has to be one of the last thi ... More >>

Tom Huck On His Roots Phrenology Cover and Motorhead

Photo by Jon Scorfina​Many artists have used the album cover as a vehicle for greater mass exposure. Robert Crumb transitioned from the obscurity of underground comics to mainstream consciousness with his cover of Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills. Derek Riggs made his mark o ... More >>

Summerfest 2011: What to Expect, What to See and More

​Billed as the "World's Largest Music Festival," Summerfest in Milwaukee is more like an epic feel-good concert series. The festival has the same good-natured and down-to-earth vibe of a city fair, packed with tens of thousands of people proud of their city. Make the half-day drive not for a t ... More >>

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: April 29-May 1

Bunnygrunt​After last weekend's total insanity, things are a little calmer in the 'Lou. As usual, however it wasn't hard to find ten things you could be doing with your time: Kinky Friedman plays tonight at Off Broadway, the Incurables are releasing an EP at the same place tomorrow and Bunnygr ... More >>

John Gradley explains how he became the karaoke master

Richard Fortus Joins Thin Lizzy for Summer Tour Dates

Congrats to St. Louis native/Guns 'n Roses member Richard Fortus, who will be filling in for guitarist Vivian Campbell in Thin Lizzy this summer. (Campbell is also in Def Leppard, and that band has a busy summer touring schedule set, including a date in St. Louis with Heart on August 10.) According ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of March 3

image viaMatt and Kim bring their spastic hyperactivity back to St. Louis on June 23 at The Pageant. ​2720 Cherokee *MathGames, March 18 *This Must Be The Band, March 11 *Zoogma, March 12 Chaifetz Arena *Charlie Wilson, May 6

Def Leppard and Heart Tour Reportedly Coming to St. Louis

​The summer 2011 tour dates are starting to trickle in. (Warm weather? What's that?) Anyway, Def Leppard let it slip on its website that its warm-weather tour with Heart is ostensibly coming to St. Louis on August 10 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. The venue hasn't announced this date, a ... More >>

Update: That Def Leppard Tribute Band Found Its One-Armed Drummer

Last week, we told you about Pyromania, the Def Leppard tribute band looking for a one-armed drummer. See:​Well, according to our sister paper, the Dallas Observer -- the band found its man.

Def Leppard Tribute Band Seeks One-Armed Drummer

Tribute bands are serious business. The moves, the fashion, the vocal tics, the hair -- for a tribute band, these elements must all be in place if it wants to become successful. Authenticity is so prized, in fact, that a Dallas-area Def Leppard tribute band is allegedly looking for a one-armed drumm ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Sleepy Kitty's Paige Brubeck and Evan Sult on Art, Vinyl and Budgie

Jon Scorfina​Sleepy Kitty is never short of crazy endeavors. Guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Paige Brubeck and drummer Evan Sult's next gig is following the sold-out Flaming Lips show at the Halo Bar tomorrow night. In celebration of the Lips gig, the pair has also come up with a clever plan of ... More >>

New Release Highlights for August 24: The Sword, Usher and Everyone's Favorite "California Gurl"

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below. Post delayed a day due to server issues!) Apocalyptica 7th Symphony​*Apocalyptica, 7th Symphony Stream Apocalyptica's seventh album, which features guest voca ... More >>

Setlist Review Photos: Adam Lambert Transcends American Idol at the Pageant, Sunday, August 8

American Idol's taken a beating this year. Besides the usual drama with its judges, interest in the show appeared to be dwindling. In fact, its results-show finalé drew its lowest ratings ever. Perhaps what Idol again needs is a personality like Adam Lambert. The season eight runner-up lived up to ... More >>

Show Review: Torn & Frayed Channels the Rolling Stones, May 18 at Off Broadway

​To celebrate the reissue of the Rolling Stones' revered album, Exile on Main St., a hodge-podge band of local musicians calling themselves Torn & Frayed convened to pay tribute to the dirty, swaggering, heroin-fueled, Southern-fried boogie of the '70s Stones. To call it a "supergroup" may be ... More >>

Observations: Titus Andronicus at Vintage Vinyl, Sunday, March 14

RFT freelancer Todd McKenzie posted a few Tumblr observations about the Vintage Vinyl in-store performance from the New Jersey working-man shoegaze band Titus Andronicus. To wit: *Despite a barrage of three noisy guitars, the loudest and most aggressive part of the Titus Andronicus sound has to be ... More >>

Show Review Setlist: Kelly Clarkson at the Family Arena, Saturday, October 31

Dear Ms. Clarkson, After finally getting a chance to attend one of your concerts last night at the Family Arena in St. Charles, I finally understand why I think you're such a fantastic pop songstress and performer. From the first slow-burning, disco-infused chorus of "All I Ever Wanted," your voice ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlists: Def Leppard, Poison and Cheap Trick at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Monday, July 20

Def Leppard, Poison and Cheap Trick played at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater last night for an appreciative, packed house. The show was overall satisfactory and fun -- although the sheer amount of Rock on a Monday night left me a little tired. So here are my random highlights/lowlights and truism ... More >>

Virgina Kerr's Wedding Song: Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me"

beloblog.com/KMOV_Blogs/offtherecordKerr: So hot. So sticky sweet.A story we reported back in January about the love lives of certain KSDK (Channel 5) personalities, prompted several commenters to ask about KMOV (Channel 4) anchor Virginia Kerr. Specifically, readers wanted to know if the blond morn ... More >>

Twitter, Schmitter -- Tony La Russa Sues Unreal!

Unreal has spent all of June breathlessly tracking the Tony La Russa v. Twitter brouhaha. OK, so we've actually just quickly spent the past few minutes skimming our columnist colleague Bill Streeter's two dispatches about the lawsuit, and also the one by Kristen Hinman. And even though those two are ... More >>

A Countdown of the Top Ten Power Ballads of All Time

MP3 Download: Rewind, the '80s Covers Project from Buffet Libre

Rock of Ages

B-Sides gets rocked with Def Leppard, while local rock & rollers the Trip Daddys return with a new CD after a cancer scare

St. Louis Concert Calendar: June 19

St. Louis Concert Calendar: June 15, 2007

Hot Summer Music

Your guide to St. Louis music — from now till Labor Day.

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Def Leppard/Journey

8 p.m. Friday, July 21. UMB Bank Pavilion (14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights).

Sail Away

B-Sides interprets Enya's cryptic language, scream alongside the vocal guru to the metal stars, and dream up some tribute bands we'd like to see

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz

in your ear buds all winter long

The Darkness

One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back (Atlantic)

La Russa Palooza

Five nights in November with the "Card-Carrying Rocker"

Scream to a Whisper

With City of Life, Avenged Sevenfold embraces its indoor voice

Take Me Out

We trace Franz Ferdinand's family tree, talk with Idlewild and dig the truth behind Brian Jonestown Massacre's St. Louis cancellation

Idiot Savants

Green Day's politicking is simple but effective

Rock Opera of Ages

Introducing Pyromania!, the show-stopping, arm-severing Def Leppard musical

Rock On and On and On and On

Make Sweet Meat proud in the KSHE 95 March Bandness: Tournament of Rock; plus, give us your juiciest Berger Bite, check out some cranky public art and a Branson Idol hopeful -- and don't pack heat in Dierbergs

Repent, Sinner!

And your love of punk-pop may be forgiven

Shania Twain

Friday, November 28; Savvis Center

Glorious Glut

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

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a rock star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it

What Is Your Favorite Excuse When Pulled Over for a Moving Traffic Violation?

Week of April 4, 2001

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