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Dr. Dre

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Out Every Night: The Best Shows From May 21 to May 27

    We'll start this post off by recognizing the fact that yes, Red Hot Chili Peppers is playing in town on Friday (Scottrade Center); as is Local H (Firebird), but Friday is already well-represented below with another what-is-this-1996 artist, Snoop Dogg, playing at Pop's and roots-reggae pioneer Might ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    The Case Against Holograms, Which in Honor of Freddie Mercury Needs to be Made Right Now

    A few days after Tupac Shakur came back from New Mexico appeared as a "hologram" during last month's Coachella festival, cynics wondered aloud about the optical illusion becoming a trend. Somebody even put together a humorous "poster" advertising next year's show, which consisted exclusively of eith ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Hologram Musicians: The Legal Implications

    There's no denying that the "hologram" of Tupac Shakur that debuted at Coachella this year is provocative. Some see the visual effect as a celebration of a well-regarded rapper's legacy. Others see the spectacle as a disturbing example of the uncanny valley theory on a particularly grand scale. No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Best of Coachella's Final Day

    See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Best of Coachella Day Three

    See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Six Best Coachella Death Matches

    You may know that the Coachella festival begins this weekend, in which Indio, California is overtaken with every type of person from hippies to people who like watching bands outside and camping yet deny being hippies. The impressive lineup has a few notably similar acts who may not be rivals but st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

    "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Coachella in St. Louis: Make Your Own Spring Festival Without Leaving Home

    The Coachella 2012 lineup is out, featuring the Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg and roughly half of Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2011 list. But California is far away and three day passes (officially) cost your left eyeball and firstborn child. Fortunately, many of the Coachella highligh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Coachella 2012 Lineup: Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Headline

    Coachella has just announced its 2012 lineup. The festival, which will take place over two weekends in April, will feature the Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg as headliners, and it doesn't exactly drop off from there: Pulp, Cat Power, M83, the Shins, Bon Iver, Noel Gallagher, Feist, Jeff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Ben Folds on Making the Most of a Misunderstood Career

    Courtesy of the artist.​This Sunday, Ben Folds performs a sold-out show at Powell Hall alongside the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We talked to the versatile, potty-mouthed and misunderstood performer during a rare moment of rest between rehearsing for one of his many orchestral concerts and j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Six Best Blatant Drug References In Song

    ​Drugs are a crucial part of the classic triumvirate of rock & roll; very few things in our society are of enough import to rival "sex." As a result, drugs have been mentioned and implied in countless songs crossing every imaginable genre. I'm sure there's some Indonesian Gamelan track about o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Kanye West Runs A Suitor Over On His Bike In Throwback "Mama's Boyfriend"

    ​Before My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy fused the two sides of Kanye West into a paranoid (beautiful, dark, twisted) mess of triumphalism and (twisted) Chris Rock-aided introspection there were two West figures in evidence on his albums--the massively confident rapper and the confused, angry ... More >>

  • Music

    January 27, 2011

    Tef Poe fights against complacency, and defies pigeonholing, with War Machine

    ​Before My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy fused the two sides of Kanye West into a paranoid (beautiful, dark, twisted) mess of triumphalism and (twisted) Chris Rock-aided introspection there were two West figures in evidence on his albums--the massively confident rapper and the confused, angry ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Interview: Tef Poe on War Machine, His Fantastic New Album

    courtesy of Tef Poe​Tef Poe's War Machine is a nineteen-track tour de force. The Force member's musical versatility has always been his calling card, and so it's not surprise that Machine embraces diversity and defies pigeonholing. Genre-wise, it touches on warm R&B, ominous hip-hop, celebrato ... More >>

  • Music

    September 15, 2010

    Devin the Dude

    7 p.m. Friday, September 17. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Vandalyzm's Megatron Majorz Redux Hits iTunes Hip-Hop Charts

    Vandalyzm is now gunning for Dr. Dre.​One of St. Louis' finest is currently sandwiched between 50 Cent and Notorious B.I.G. on the iTunes top 200 hip-hop albums chart. No, it's not Nelly (though his new single "Tippin' in da Club" is at a respectable 34 on the singles chart) -- it's Vandalyzm.The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of January 11 to 17

    Although Vampire Weekend dominated both stores this week, I would just like to note that Dr. Dre's The Chronic was a top seller at Vintage Vinyl last week. Proof that it's always Dre Day. Euclid Records 1. Vampire Weekend - Contra 2. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind 3. Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Homespun: Phaseone, Thanks But No Thanks

    In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Phaseone's Thanks But No Thanks. He had this to say:As a songwriter, Phaseone relies on a few pet sounds: '80s orchestral synths, sharp-edged hi-hats and loads of reverb. His use of samples is tasteful and discreet (you'd have to be a hell of a crate ... More >>

  • Music

    August 19, 2009

    Homespun: Phaseone

    Thanks But No Thanks
    (self-released)

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    All Forked Up: Pitchfork Music Festival Day 1

    That's Doug Martsch of Built to Spill behind that hat.It's the end of Day 1 of Pitchfork Music Festival here in Chicago, which by Sunday, should see 40 bands play and welcome 50,000 -- ahem, hipsters -- through the fences of Union Park. More than a few bands who have made their way through St. Louis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2008

    Busted Rhymes: The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

    By Ben Westhoff Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously ... More >>

  • Music

    September 17, 2008

    Royce Da 5'9"

    9 p.m. Monday, September 22. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue.

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    '90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: 2Pac Dr. Dre, "California Love"

    9 p.m. Monday, September 22. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue.

  • Music

    April 30, 2008

    Uh Huh Her

    9 p.m. Friday, May 2. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2008

    Dr. Dre to Release...Sparkling Vodka?

    9 p.m. Friday, May 2. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

  • Music

    December 13, 2006

    The Game

    Doctor's Advocate (Geffen)

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2006

    B-Money's Beat Kicks Off the New Jay-Z

    Doctor's Advocate (Geffen)

  • Music

    July 19, 2006

    Busta Rhymes

    The Big Bang (Aftermath)

  • Music

    January 4, 2006

    Critical Fatwa

    Ja Rule

  • News

    December 21, 2005

    Healthy Distrust

    Hip-hop's trends in 2005

  • Music

    November 23, 2005

    Pimping All Over the World

    B-Sides gets gangsta with Burt Bacharach, imagines a rainbow of worldly bands and dissects the nuances of two trumpets

  • Music

    July 20, 2005

    He's Only the Piano Player

    Ben Folds wants you to floss

  • Film

    July 20, 2005

    Boyz N the Studio

    Hustle & Flow is short on action, long on scenes of recording

  • Music

    June 15, 2005

    Various Artists

    The Very Best of Death Row (The Row)

  • Music

    February 9, 2005

    The Game

    The Documentary (Aftermath/G-Unit/Interscope)

  • Music

    November 24, 2004

    Eminem

    Encore (Aftermath)

  • Music

    November 17, 2004

    MC Eiht

    Friday, November 19; the Duck Room

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2004

    Conservatives? Anyone?

    Ben Stein at UMSL

  • Music

    September 1, 2004

    213

    The Hard Way (TVT)

  • Music

    February 18, 2004

    G Unit

    Beg for Mercy (Interscope)

  • Music

    March 5, 2003

    50 Cent

    Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Shady/Aftermath Records)

  • Music

    January 15, 2003

    Eve

    Eve-Olution (Ruff Ryders/Interscope)

  • Music

    January 8, 2003

    Attitude Check

    Four discs trace the development of the original gangstas

  • Music

    March 20, 2002

    Fog Advisory

    In our humble opinion, RFT contributor Andrew Broder is headed for rock stardom

  • News

    March 14, 2001

    Playing Dr.

    The members of Dr. Zhivegas have lives beyond the stage

  • Music

    March 7, 2001

    Music: Response

    He produced Madonna's Music, but Mirwais has been around for 20 years and has influenced a legion of French DJs

  • Music

    August 16, 2000

    Eminem

    The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope)

  • Music

    August 16, 2000

    Roll Call

    Cleaning out the inbox yields interesting results

  • Culture

    April 26, 2000

    Guys and Dolls

    Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows (Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts)

  • Music

    August 11, 1999

    LOOTPACK

    Soundpieces: Da Antidote (Stones Throw)

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