Depeche Mode

EDM Is Well Represented at This Year's Coachella: Here Are the Highlights

Amidst the crazy sea of hipsters, hippies, old folks, pre-teens and babies(!), the first weekend of Coachella was also packed with EDM revelers, ready to get their fist-pumping music fix over the course of the three-day bacchanal. In fact, it seems that dance music lovers are growing in numbers so m ... More >>

The Worst Things About 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 >>

Here's Your Soundtrack for National Coming Out Day

It's National Coming Out Day! Today is the day that we celebrate and give love to all of our out and proud gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer friends. In honor of this yearly event, we'd like to provide you with a soundtrack for your own personal National Coming Out Day. These songs will ... More >>

From The Beatles To Arctic Monkeys: How The Five Waves Of British Invasion Stack Up

This and that Union Jack dress that Ginger Spice wore are just part of a list of uncomfortable moments in British invasion history.​Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner looked dapper and distinctively British on the cover of SPIN's recent Success Issue. The slight singer sports a skinny suit th ... More >>

She Wants Revenge

9 p.m. Tuesday, June 7. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Interview Outtakes: Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis on Making Music and Liking Katy Perry over Lady Gaga

Dove Shore​Tonight is the long-awaited, very-sold-out Girl Talk show at the Pageant. In this week's paper, D.X. Ferris spoke with Gregg Gillis, the man behind the moniker. (Note: The author is a fellow Pittsburgh native who grew up in the same classic-rock-obsessed area and witnessed Girl Talk ... More >>

Twelve Music-Based Documentaries Screening at the Saint Louis International Film Festival

The movie Do It Again.​The annual St. Louis International Film Festival (that's SLIFF for short) began last night and runs through November 21. As it does every year, SLIFF features a generous selection of music-related documentaries. Here's the rundown. For the RFT's full coverage of the film ... More >>

St. Louis Gothic Celebrates Ten Years Tonight at the Complex with the Twilight Garden

myspace.com/thetwilightgardenmyspaceTodd Loomis of the Twilight Garden​DJ Skeletal (a.k.a. Joel Lovins) has been the go-to guy for industrial and gothic music in River City for a decade, and tonight he's celebrating ten years on the scene with an anniversary blow-out at The Complex. Lovins sta ... More >>

New Album Release Highlights: Tuesday, June 8

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Culturebully.comAgainst Me!'s latest release, White Crosses​*Against Me!, White Crosses Pick up Against Me!'s latest release to prepare for its upcoming free ... More >>

YouTube Gold: The BBC4 Synthpop Documentary Synth Britannia

The mere existence of this documentary should send post-punk fans, synth dorks and music historians into spasms of ectasy. The BBC's Synth Britannia examines the rise of the UK's early '80s synthpop movement. More specifically, it's a 90-minute, thorough examination of the genre's roots, major playe ... More >>

Plushgun/Nightmare of You

8:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Common Market: Thursday springs back to life with a brash new album on a new label

Interview: Fall Out Boy Drummer Andy Hurley

Fall Out Boy is returning to its roots somewhat tonight, by doing a show at the Creepy Crawl. (The quartet certainly played at the old Creepy location on Tucker when it was just another Chicago band trying to get ahead.) Tickets are $20 and are only available at the door. The venue's website says th ... More >>

Scott Weiland, Cold War Kids and Eagles of Death Metal at the Pageant, Wednesday, December 17

Show Review: Tiffany at Home Nightclub, Friday, July 18

Are You Going to Prom

Stone Temple Pilots at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Sunday, June 8

Doors Swing Both Ways

Mexicans like music that doesn't involve tubas?

Blaqk Audio

CexCells (Interscope)

Battle for I-70 Hipster Supremacy: LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire in Kansas City

Dubfire

9 p.m. Monday, April 23. Dante's (3221 Olive Street).

Shiny Toy Guns

7 p.m. Wednesday, January 31. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Depeche Mode

The Best Of, Volume 1 (Sire)

Gwen Stefani

The Sweet Escape (Interscope)

Brandtson

6 p.m. Wednesday, October 11. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois).

Shiny Toy Guns

7 p.m. Sunday, October 8. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Between the Buried and Me

The Anatomy Of (Victory)

Action Action

7 p.m. Sunday, July 2. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard)

Just Can't Get Enough

B-Sides steps out with Gabriel and Dresden, matches drugs with Tool albums and previews the WM3 benefits going on around town

Brandtson

Tuesday, April 25, at 8 p.m. The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue).

Lucky Boys Confusion/Pomeroy

Friday, February 10, 8 p.m. at Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

Smooth Operator

Smooth jazz lives on in St. Louis — on the Internet

Letter Perfect

We analyze Billy Corgan's catalog, count our Ps and Qs with They Might Be Giants and remember Joe Strummer's humble beginnings

Back to the Future

We tell the Bravery's fortune, decode a rock opera and groan over Sting's intoxicated verbosity

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the years best pop-rock records.

Junior Boys

Last Exit (Kin)

Tiësto

Just Be (Nettwerk)

Depeche Modes

New box sets explore the many faces of the synth-pop stalwarts

Staggering Genius

In which stellastarr* melds with the universe

Cat Power

Electro heavy Felix da Housecat makes new songs sound classic

Guilty Pleasures

Nobody has the right to judge you for your secret musical kinks -- but everyone will

Gravity Killed

Are you hotty-hot-hot enough for the big time? The notorious Black Panel reconvenes for another local-release roundup.

Bit Player

In a world of rigid conformity and paint-by-numbers composition, the work of experimental-electronic artist Kid 606 is rich with adventure

Married, with Music

Husband-and-wife team Puerto Muerto produce a strange and beautiful brainchild

Depeche Mode

Exciter (Mute/Reprise)

Perpetual Movement

American BT builds a new house, to rave reviews from both sides of the pond

Close Quarters

Unseen Beats

Vienna Fingers