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The Ten Worst Best Of Lists In Music

Lists will inevitably be remembered as the highest point of pop-culture Internet journalism. Why? BECAUSE WE LOVE THEM. Sometimes, however, the sure-fire can't-miss format of the list fails us from a journalistic standpoint. Here are ten of the worst music-related lists that I could find before goi ... More >>

Kanrocksas Early Bird Tickets on Sale at 10 a.m. Today

Kanrocksas (a festival at the NASCAR Speedway just west of Kansas City, so named for...never mind) debuted big in 2011, going toe-to-toe with Lollapalooza and featuring many of the same names (including Eminem, Muse and A Perfect Circle). They took the year off in 2012 due to renovations to the Spee ... More >>

Odd Future

8 p.m. Friday, September 14. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

The Top Six Lyrics by Earl Sweatshirt

Tonight marks the first time that the rowdy Los Angeles hip hop collective Odd Future makes a stop in St. Louis, on a tour that is also the first that member and standout lyricist Earl Sweatshirt is able to attend. For a large portion of Odd Future's hype-laden ascent, Earl (whose real name is Thebe ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2012: Highlights from A to Z

The team: six 40-year-old men, leaving behind six fairly respectable jobs, five wives and 14.9 children for four days. The tools: a 32-foot RV, VIP tickets, comfortable shoes and enough beer to take down a small fraternity. The task: to do and see as much as physically and logistically possible at ... More >>

Slaughterhouse at Old Rock House, 5/25/12

Slaughterhouse | Murphy Lee | Steddy P. | Mathias The Old Rock House April 25, 2012 For hip-hop fans who still appreciate lyricism, Slaughterhouse epitomizes the term "supergroup." Joe Budden, Royce Da 5'9", Crooked I and Joell Ortiz returned to St. Louis last night for the first time since 2009 - ... More >>

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.

Just Blaze

10 p.m. Saturday, April 14. Lola, 500 North 14th Street.

The Kanrocksas Music Festival Won't Be Happening in 2012

The Kanrocksas Music Festival, assembled last year in rapid fashion with a lineup of surprisingly big names (Eminem, the Black Keys, the Flaming Lips...), will be taking what would have been its sophomore year off. The Kansas Speedway, which hosts the festival, is undergoing a major construction p ... More >>

23 Musicians with Michele Bachmann Eyes: Horrifying and Hypnotic

Jeff Tweedy as the Queen of Rage​Michelle Bachmann's Newsweek cover, on which she stares out icily over the headline The Queen Of Rage, has provoked intense reaction, mostly because of Bachmann's rapidly ballooning public caricature, but at least partly because the look in her eyes is somethin ... More >>

St. Louis' Own Thi'sl, a Christian Rapper, Tops iTunes Hip-Hop chart

Image viaThi'sl: The number one rapper on iTunes right now.​It might be a misnomer to call Thi'sl a Christian Rapper. Like many other artists, he just raps about his life. And God happens to play a big part in his life. Well, Thi'sl is one of the hottest rappers coming out of St. Louis. In ... More >>

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 >>

Clayton Gets Vito Rancanelli's Mad Tomato

Robin WheelerMad Tomato in Clayton​ If there's any doubt that Vito Rancanelli, Jr. is using fresh, local food at Mad Tomato, his new venture in Clayton, just spend a few minutes in the dining room at lunchtime. First, a farmer with a young daughter arrives, carrying a case of fresh asparagus. ... More >>

Nicki Minaj/Lil Wayne/Rick Ross/Travis Barker/Mix Master Mike

7 p.m. Sunday, April 10. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Bonnaroo 2011 Lineup: Buffalo Springfield, Eminem, Arcade Fire and Lil Wayne(?!)

​We here in St. Louis are lucky to get spillover from a few of the summer festivals. The first of these, Bonnaroo, just announced its 2011 lineup -- and there are some tantalizing wishlist potentials in the list. The biggies are Eminem, Arcade Fire, Widespread Panic, The Black Keys, Buffalo Sp ... More >>

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 >>

R.I.P. Sex Pistols Manager, Fashion Visionary Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren, the wily manger who guided original punks the Sex Pistols to infamy, died today after a battle with cancer. He was 64. After outfitting the New York Dolls with outrageous stagewear in the mid-'70s, he became more notorious for coordinating the Sex Pistols' outlandish publicity stunt ... More >>

Sponge

7 p.m. Thursday, December 31. Fubar, 3108 Locust.

An Open Letter to Smashing Pumpkins Collectors

Dear Smashing Pumpkins collectors,Why do you keep emailing me, asking if I'm selling my Zeitgeist promo CD? I'm genuinely curious about these queries, which I assume are stemming from my review of the album. For starters, it's mad illegal; my copy is a record-label-issued, numbered and watermar ... More >>

Interview: Hip-Hop Journalist Kim Osorio, Ex-Editor-in-Chief of The Source

(Article by Kristy Wendt)For those yearning for behind-the-scenes fodder on the battles, beefs, and trysts of hip-hop's high profilers, Kimberly Osorio's memoir Straight From the Source will make you feel like you're looking through their hotel room keyholes; you'll get a tantalizing glimpse, and no ... More >>

Girl Talk at the Pageant, Thursday, January 8: Show Review Photos

Better than: A crowded dorm-room party with cheap beer and cheap vodka drank out of red plastic cups, awkward grinding and an iTunes playlist full of cheesy dance hits. Actually, wait - that was kind of what the show was. Slide ShowThere's no easy way to review last night's Girl Talk show, mainly ... More >>

Show Review: Ill Bill, Strata-G, Sean Price at Pop's, Thursday, September 18

Royce Da 5'9"

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

Show Review: Scribble Jam Preliminaries at Atomic Cowboy, Saturday, August 16

Show Review Setlist: "Weird Al" Yankovic at Family Arena, Friday, August 8

Film Openings

Week of August 9, 2006

MC Frontalot

Friday, May 26, at 7 p.m. Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Mates of State

Bring It Back (Barsuk)

Tony Yayo

Monday, January 16; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Critical Fatwa

Goy Gevalt

In Her Shoes is pretty but useless, a Prada with a broken heel

Love Stinks

The best foul-mouthed breakup songs of all time

The Streets

A Grand Don't Come for Free (Vice)

Fade to Black

Jay-Z signs off with The Black Album

Home Girl

How does Jessica Dana get away with the things she says on the radio?

Night & Day for the week of February 12-18, 2003

Highlights of the Riverfront Times

X-mas Marks the Spot

A guide to new holiday discs, from surprise presents to Tannen-bombs

Rank Amateur

Week of November 13, 2002

Sweaty Teddy

For this maestro, the weddings go on forever and the receptions never change

Ice Ice Maybe

A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him.

Series/Festivals

Week of June 26, 2002

Blood Red Throne

Document of Death (Hammerheart/Martyr Music Group)

Tori Amos with Rufus Wainwright

Saturday, Oct. 27; Fox Theatre

BS 2000

Simply Mortified (Grand Royal)

Lyricist Lounge Tour featuring Mos Def

Thursday, Oct. 5; Firehouse

Death of a Format

Remodeling St. Louis' radio dial

Minding The Beats And Q's

Competition in the burgeoning St. Louis rap-radio market? Bring it on, says one station manager.