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Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 15 to 21

Record Store Day approacheth! I won't say much this week. I have to reserve as much energy as possible with these vinyl-skimming digits, after all. Outside of all the events and after parties revolving around dear RSD, there's plenty to get out and see all week. Click ahead for our recommendations, ... More >>

The Six Best Non-Metal Songs About Heavy Metal

Songwriters love riffing on folklore, be it nursery rhymes or Biblical parables. Over the years, heavy metal has developed its own brand of legend, so much so that stylistically disparate musicians have used it as a springboard for creatively disparate songs. Here are the six best non-metal songs ab ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From June 25 to July 1

Little-known fact: According to our style guide (the big book of grammatical do's and don'ts that provide the RFT with its immutable styyyyyyle), all band names are to be treated as singular, not plural nouns. For example, when referencing a band such as "The Beatles," we'd write "The Beatles is com ... More >>

Join Mustard Rob's Bass Guitar Jam Tonight At El Leñador

​Tonight, the bass guitar gets its muddy moment in the spotlight at El Leñador. Rob Severson, a.k.a. Googolplexia, is roughly halfway through a monthlong Monday residency at the bar that looks German but serves Mexican food, and tonight's entertainment features an open bass guitar jam. Ever ... More >>

The Humanoids' Hard Work Pays Off

Sarah Jaffe: Too Young to Sound This Experienced

Photo by Chris Phelps​Sarah Jaffe looks like an elf and sings like a storm. The singer-songwriter comparisons to Cat Power are almost inevitable at this point, but her gender is a factor she remains almost aggressively tied to. The 25-year-old's first guitar cost $10 at a garage sale, and thou ... More >>

Centro-Matic

8 p.m. Tuesday, July 5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Neon Indian and Asobi Seksu at the Firebird, 6/8/11: Review and Setlist

Photo from a previous Neon Indian show by the design of best fit via Creative Commons. ​Neon Indian | Asobi Seksu | Née The Firebird 06.08.11 Last night St. Louis was treated to an evening of triumphant power pop, rip-a-hole-in-the-sky shoegaze, and cybernetic neo-bounce. Kicking off a ... More >>

Slobberbone

9 p.m. Wednesday, May 18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Mikey Wehling Talks Lo-Fi and Going To School with Midlake

​Mikey Wehling's newest EP, Galaxy Reverb, came out earlier this week and can be downloaded for free on bandcamp. It's a studiously homemade affair, recorded on a four-track in Wehling's basement using equipment he scrounged up at places like garage sales. The results are at once heartfelt an ... More >>

SXSW Day 2: Toro Y Moi, The Civil Wars, The Baseball Project, Bob Geldof, Vandaveer, Abigail Washburn, Charles Bradley, Ron Sexsmith and Surfer Blood, Thursday, March 17

Dana PlonkaThe Civil Wars​12:24 In the South By vortex, all news - or at least news not related to Jack White pop-up performances, Cee-Lo Green cancellations, Kanye gossip and R.E.M. show rumors - gets obliterated. Japan's nuclear nightmare is no exception. Glancing at an RSS reader under 75 d ... More >>

Sarah Jaffe

9 p.m. Thursday, September 2. The Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

Concert Review: Midlake Floods the Old Rock House with Old and New Folk Rock, May 15, 2010

Dana PlonkaJesse Chandler and Tim Smith of Midlake​ The weather was Midlakian, if ever weather was. Mist and cloud vapors, a drizzle that came and went, all left the streets around the Old Rock House shining. Midlake, a Denton, Texas rock band, hadn't performed in St. Louis in years, ... More >>

Midlake's second album is worth the blood, sweat and tears it took to record

Hark! Pastoral Indie Troupe Midlake Is Coming to the Old Rock House in May!

Midlake, the Denton, Texas, act which just released its highly anticipated second album, The Courage of Others, is performing at the Old Rock House on Saturday, May 15. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 day of show -- and the show is all ages. Fans of Fairport Convention, the softer side of Fleetwood ... More >>

Brave Combo

9 p.m. Friday, November 27. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue.

Show Review Photos: Slobberbone and Glossary at Off Broadway, Wednesday, August 12

Before we begin, a pledge. This review will not use the following words which fall like random keystrokes from a chimpanzee blogger's laptop: rock (or its derivations), crunchy, drunk, Americana, twang, testosterone, Neil Young, alt.country (or its derivations), wasted, and/or dudes. In other words ... More >>

Slobberbone gets the band back together for another twang-punk trek

Local Punks the Humanoids, God Fodder, Suburban Smash Leavin' for Tours

Photo: Nick SchnelleThe Humanoids perform at the Halo Bar during the RFT music showcase back in June. Things may be a little quieter on the local punk scene in the next few weeks as the Humanoids, Suburban Smash and God Fodder all depart Saturday for tours. Suburban Smash and God Fodder pile in ... More >>

SXSW: Day 1 with M. Ward, Billy Bob Thornton, Caitlin Rose and Gringo Star

On Sixth Street in Austin, it's Day One of SXSW 2009 (for Day Zero, go here) and the promotional and busking stunts are on: A couple of kids dressed in epidermally fused body suits to hype (sweetly) their outer space band Frontier Brothers, some Transformer mechano-dude on stilts, a posse with a sig ... More >>

Brave Combo

9:30 p.m. Friday, November 28. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

D.I.Y. Now for the Future: The Undertow Collective and Magnolia Summer are using technology to modernize their D.I.Y. creative vision

South San Gabriel/Centro-matic

9 p.m. Tuesday, November 11. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

MP3 Cover Bonanza: "Save It for Later" by Centro-matic, Harvey Danger

Show Preview: Awesome Party Fest at American Czech Center, St. Louis, with Cross Examination, Cardiac Arrest, more

B-Sides enters the Vortex with Erykah Badu and catches up with Centro-matic lead singer Will Johnson

Tonight: Fishboy, Wooden Kites and That's My Daughter at the Way Out Club

Last Night's Show: Centro-matic

Necessary Evil

United 93

Riverboat Gamblers

10 p.m. Wednesday, June 7. Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Riverboat Gamblers

To the Confusion of Our Enemies (Volcom/East West)

Left of Center

Centro-matic makes a new record, mourns Busch stadium

The Undoing of David Wright/Attractive and Popular/The Bureau

Friday, January 6; The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

Song Sung Blue

We have a 'Bone to pick with the Drams, write fan mail to the Vibrators and reflect on the music of New Orleans

Shock and Awful

Todd Solondz has been a lot of things, but never preachy or dull. Till now.

Riverboat Gamblers with Boss Martians

Saturday, May 15; Off Broadway

Changing Seasons

Nadine is ready for the next step -- no matter what it is

Will Power

Centro-matic's (and South San Gabriel's) Will Johnson is one of rock music's most prolific composers

Glorious Glut

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

Brave Combo

Saturday, December 14; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room

Little Grizzly

Friday, August 9; Frederick's Music Lounge

STL by Southwest

Local heroes Nadine drove hundreds of miles to perform at SXSW, the music industry's biggest clusterfuck. Was it worth it?

Brave Art

Brave Combo dares to embrace the last musical taboo: polka

Centro-matic with the Deathray Davies and Shelby

Friday, Sept. 7; Hi-Pointe