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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 >>

At Odds with the Modern World: Widowspeak chronicles its nostalgic struggles on Almanac

Homespun: Fire Dog

May These Changes
www.seefiredogroll.com

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

New Band: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a month away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Over the next month, we'll be making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year. Each weekday between now and the showcase ... More >>

The Ten Best Juke Boxes in St. Louis

​Selecting the Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and scattin' our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. There is no surer way ... More >>

Caroline Smith

9 p.m. Friday, April 13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Happy Birthday Stan Kann, the St. Louis Organ Great and Late-Night Vaccum Comedian

Stan Kann's websiteSt. Louis native Stan Kann was already a celebrated organ player before he became a comedic presence on talk shows​For most part, people in the entertainment business become famous by harnessing a single skill. They achieve notoriety through singing, dancing, acting, spoon-p ... More >>

It's A Small World, As Re-imagined By An Under Cover Weekend Bands

Photos by Bryan Sutter and Jason Stoff​Now in its fifth year, An Under Cover Weekend has ten local bands play a set of covers by an idol or influence of their choosing. Spread over two nights and almost certain to sell out, this years incarnation spans maybe the widest range in the event's his ... More >>

Joe Edwards on the Value of Collecting, Conversation and Chuck Berry

Photo by Jon Scorfina​Many St. Louisans know Joe Edwards as the man behind the revitalization of the Delmar Loop. His imagination has spawned Blueberry Hill, the rehabilitated Tivoli theatre, the Pageant, the Moonrise Hotel, and most recently the Chuck Berry statue. His joyous projects have at ... More >>

Jason Torbitzky's Last Show With Theodore Is Tomorrow: What He Meant To The Band

Jason Torbitzky playing with Theodore. Photo by Ellen Herget​Theodore's Jason Torbitzky is making his leave from the band much in the way he played with it: Without flailing or fanfare. His new job won't leave enough time to devote to the band; his final show will be tomorrow for the Union Ele ... More >>

Band Of Heathens And Theodore At Off Broadway, 7/27/11

Theodore. Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​On another muggy Wednesday in St. Louis, Band of Heathens brought towering piles of equipment and merch and Theodore brought its two new members. The shakeup in Theodore: Drummer Jason Torbitzky got a job he couldn't share with his duties as a member of a ... More >>

Brothers Lazaroff

Give 'Em What They Need
(self-released)

Show Review: Electric Six, The Constellations and The Breaks at The Firebird, October 31

Dance!​The current Electric Six show is consistent, bordering on predictable. Long time fans know that the group's set is going to include a handful of songs that never leave the set, but it'll otherwise focus on its latest album. Dick Valentine will rant about his drummer in the middle of "Fu ... More >>

An Exclusive Excerpt of Steve Almond's Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, Part Three

Austin singer-songwriter/musician Bob Schneider is performing at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room tonight, Wednesday, March 24. To go along with this appearance, we're running an exclusive excerpt from author Steve Almond's new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, which Random House will publish next ... More >>

SXSW Day One: Billy Bragg, Broken Bells, Miranda Lee Richards, Jason Collett, Fanfarlo more!

Big Star's shadow is looming large at this year's SXSW.​The text that Alex Chilton had died came through just before midnight on the first full day of South By Southwest 2010 in Austin. I was on my way to the sleeze-and-cheese-and-bathroom-cologne club Prague to see the anti-Alex, Billy Bragg, ... More >>

Top Pair: Upstream and Mustard Seed add up to a winning weekend of theater

In a Silent Way: The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra scores the silent film Nosferatu this weekend at Off Broadway

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: “(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right"

Finest Worksong

Jon Hardy and the Public finds beauty in love's vagaries.

2007: The Year in Movies and Music

A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

Fabulous Fix at the Fabulous Fox

Feel That Organ!

Amy Winehouse

Back to Black (Universal Republic)

Branching Out

Waterloo plays a CD release party for Out of the Woods; plus, a sneak peek at the new and improved Creepy Crawl

Tom Brosseau

Saturday, October 8; Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)

The Doxies with the Wormwood Scrubs

Saturday, June 18; the Gearbox (1551 South Seventh Street)

Steve on Steve

The grand unveiling of the Reverse Q&A™!

Spoon

Gimme Fiction (Merge)

Medeski, Martin and Wood

Thursday, August 12; Gateway Arch Stage on the St. Louis Riverfront

Dawn Kinnard

Saturday, January 24; Frederick's Music Lounge

Neko Case with Catherine Irwin and Carolyn Mark

Friday, February 7; Off Broadway

Festus Tornadoes

The Bottle Rockets rediscover themselves -- by covering their longtime idol, Doug Sahm

Mary Gauthier

Drag Queens in Limousines (Groove House)

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

Written and directed by Alan Rudolph

LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE

The attractions of Magnetic Fields' three-CD 69 Love Songs

Sound Checks