Eric Hall

The Luminary Returns with the Post Performance Series This Summer, Featuring Local Art and Music Collaborations

Luminary Center for the Arts makes a comeback on the show scene this summer -- well, not at its pending new physical space on Cherokee Street, but with the return of the Post Performance Series, featuring live music and one-day-only art installations at the Old Post Office Plaza (Ninth and Locust s ... More >>

The 2013 RFT Music Awards Nominees

Well, it's that time again, folks! Each year, we at RFT Music HQ present the RFT Music Awards, an annual celebration of the best and brightest musical acts St. Louis has to offer. The nominees are chosen by a crack team of industry insiders, dedicated die-hards and various other musical minds from o ... More >>

Help Us Select The 2013 RFT Music Awards Nominees

It's that time of year again! Each year RFT Music recognizes the hard work and exceptional talent of St. Louis' local musicians with the RFT Music Awards. In addition, our summer awards showcase on Washington Avenue provides St. Louisans a chance to see over 80 of these bands and musicians in action ... More >>

InFest STL Tournament Of Champions: Round One, FIGHT!

This Saturday and Sunday, a few dozen local and regional bands perform at InFest STL, a two-day indie festival at 2720 Cherokee. The event is totally free. This is not a battle of the bands, and the acts are in no way competing with each other, but that's no reason not to pit twenty-five confirmed a ... More >>

The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week: January 7 to 13

Monday mornings are weird when you have to share your home bathroom with nine or so near-strangers. Such was the case today after housing a couple of bands from a particularly noisy and awesome show last night. I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but officially as of today, my life is shows, shows ... More >>

2012: The Year in St. Louis Music

The St. Louis Soundtrack of Laumeier Sculpture Park: Review of the Site/Sound Exhibit

In a year when local bands have formed new partnerships or reconstituted old ones through DIY festivals, home-grown record labels and subscription seven-inch series, the sheer scope of Eric Hall's Site/Sound project demands respect. For the past year, experimental instrumentalist Hall has been in re ... More >>

Homespun: Various Artists

Site/Sound
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72 St. Louis Musicians Record the Soundtrack for Laumeier Sculpture Park

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship This weekend, the Site/Sound exhibition opens at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Local electronic sensei Eric Hal ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Award Winners

And this officially ends the 2012 RFT Music Awards and Showcase. Look in this week's print edition for the complete list of winners and a few thoughts on the whole thing from me, but in the meantime you can see who won each of the 25 categories below. They've been bolded.

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Schedule

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase is two weeks away, on June 2. And here it is: 5 blocks, 14 stages, 74 bands and artists. Ten bucks gets you all the excellent St. Louis music you can absorb in one twelve hour span. And hey: At least for now, the forecast calls for an incredibly pleasant high of 89 degree ... More >>

Electronic/Dance: 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 2012 RFT Music Awards Nominees

That's right, sports fans, it's once again time for the big ol' love letter to St. Louis music known as the RFT Music Awards and Showcase. The nominating committee has made its arguments and to show for it we have five of the best bands and artists in 25 categories. Many of these fine musicians wil ... More >>

N. Nomurai and Demonlover at Smash Bar, 2/15/12: Recap and Photos

​N. Nomurai | Demonlover Smash Bar February 15, 2012 N. Nomurai was assembled close to the entry way, with Eric Hall seated atop a small drum riser and his cohorts planted in a triangle. Jim Winkeler (of the Conformists) shook the walls of Washington Avenue's Smash Bar with his thousand-pound bas ... More >>

In the Galleries: Electric is the Love at Laumeier Sculpture Park, closes January 22

Eric Hall's Live Solos 2011: The Best Value in St. Louis Music

Eric Hall does not play songs. It's hard to describe the meaningful element of his improvised electronic performance without falling into hopeless abstraction: He fills the room, sends his audience within themselves and documents a time and place. Each show is recorded and mastered, and Hall has bee ... More >>

Dana Smith, St. Louis Painter, Celebrates Local Musicians with Southtown Famous

For local painter Dana Smith, art and music have always been intertwined. He can he found in the dark corners of music venues, his face obscured by a large lens, capturing live shots of local bands that he'll later use as a guide for his paintings. The sounds, sights and people of St. Louis are his ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: November 18 to 20

​Welcome to the weekend, St. Louis music fans! And what a weekend: At least five locals are releasing albums in the next three days (that's the cover of Dubb Nubb's Sunrise Sleepy Eyed pictured here). On the national side, we're especially excited about Lydia Loveless and Kings Go Forth. Loom ... More >>

Eric Hall Laumeier Performance Video

Photo by Jamie Lees​Eric Hall's creative takeover of the Laumeier Sculpture Park hit an early high point this weekend with his performance in the Park's Cromlech Glen. It's a spot he says has inspired him as an artist for years, and his half-hour set on Saturday was nothing if not respectful ... More >>

Eric Hall Announces Residency, Concert At Laumeier Sculpture Park

Mabel SuenEric Hall performs at KDHX for experimental show Wrong Division (Hosted by the author and photographer)​​As a teenager, Eric Hall would sneak into Laumeier Sculpture Park before dawn to capture the disparate sound of insects and animals as they woke with the rising sun. On November 12t ... More >>

High Concept, High Tech

Eric Hall Releases 22 And A Half Hours Of Music, Recorded Between 2005 and 2010

​Eric Hall has a way with machines. His electronic improvisations can be strangely transporting and deeply moving. They are, by their nature, a certain view of a certain moment, making each one an oblique account of a particular crowd and/or space. He frequently offers his sets for online con ... 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 >>

Here Are Your 2011 RFT Music Awards Nominees

Wikimedia Commons​Without fanfare, here are the 2011 RFT Music Awards nominees. Bands performing at this year's RFT Music Showcase, which takes place on Saturday, June 4, on Washington Avenue, will be taken from this list. Like they are every year, the nominations are cobbled together from fan ... More >>

Free Live Music Returns to the Re-Opened Mangia

​Gut Check reported Thursday that south-side staple Mangia Italiano will be reopening this week. Although Mangia's new owners are still working out details, Eric Hall (who tends bar and books acts for the venue) offered up some info on what changes we can expect: Well, the deal just finally c ... More >>

Crankfest 2011 Takes Place This Weekend at Cranky Yellow

Screenprint artist Curtis Tinsley will share the secrets of screenprinting on a budget on Sunday at Crankfest.​Kismet and ego have been at the root of great many happy accidents -- from the discovery of the New World to the discovery of Justin Bieber. This weekend, Joseph Hess is sharing anoth ... More >>

Five More Good Bets on New Year's Eve in St. Louis

Wikimedia Commons​There were so many things to drink about this year, from the oil bleeding into the Gulf to the earthquake in Haiti. But, despite having every reason to booze up, you still don't have New Year's plans. A few weeks ago, we suggested ten ideas for your year-end revelry. Below, h ... More >>

I Was a Fountain: Who Is This Animal Collective-Esque Band? [Update]

Last week, Eric Hall dropped me a line asking if I had any idea who was behind the St. Louis-based band I Was a Fountain. Going by three tracks found on Bandcamp, he pointed out the similarities between IWAF and Animal Collective. He's right, but AC is more of a jumping-off point for the band; its b ... More >>

Good Vibes, Good People: Local Musicians Eric Hall and Joel Schad Have Each Other's Backs

gomusicstl.comGoMusicSTL, located in the Delmar Loop, is run by musicians.​Last December we told you about an unfortunate mishap that led to local DJ Eric Hall losing his beloved musical gear, much of which was one of a kind. Except for two custom-made pedals from 4ms Pedals that came with a h ... More >>

Eric Hall Sits in for All Members of Tone Rodent at RFT Music Showcase

Mabel SuenEric Hall during one of his many sets​What do you do when you've been asked to perform at the RFT Music Showcase, and you just can't? Some bands would simply decline. If you're Tone Rodent, and you're pals with one of St. Louis' finest experimental sampling/mixing/distorting/manipula ... More >>

2010 Music Showcase: 1 night, 50+ bands, 5 bucks this Saturday on Wash. Ave.

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, May 14 to Sunday, May 16

Midlake performs at the Old Rock House on Saturday. Read our feature here.​Friday, May 14 *Ozomatli, Duck Room -- SOLD OUT *Ozomatli, Vintage Vinyl (5:30 p.m.) *Mr. Gnome/Loza/The Orbz, Firebird *Fundamental Elements (CD release), Old Rock House *Here Come the Mummies/Open > Sunday, The Pagean ... More >>

Sight Unseen

Have You Seen Eric Hall's Musical Gear?

File this one under "fluke accident": Last Thursday, after a gig at the Schlafly Tap Room, Eric Hall's musical equipment -- a pedalboard full of mostly custom-built pedals and other pieces of gear -- slipped out of his trunk as he made his way home. (Hall lives on Wyoming and Grand.) This Facebook n ... More >>

In the Studio: James Weber

(Welcome to In the Studio, a section on A to Z that spotlights -- what else? -- local artists in the studio. If you are also recording/recently recorded -- or are a studio engineer/producer and working with people -- email me, with the phrase "In the Studio" in the subject heading.) This week we s ... More >>

2009 RFT Music Awards Nominees: The List With Music!

A bit late, but below the jump you'll find links to as many blogposts we've run with MP3s -- and the occasional MySpace page and embedded tune -- of each nominated band. Whew. Chime in with any URLs that have tunes in the comments, of course. I think I have everyone. The music showcase blurbs/infor ... More >>

2009 RFTMusic Showcase Schedule! Right Here!

Just before we adjourned for the three-day weekend, I received the lineup/schedule for this year's RFT Music Showcase, on Sunday, June 7. Here's the full list of nominees -- and don't forget to vote for your faves! And if you have any complaints/gripes -- I don't want to hear them, because I didn't ... More >>

Tonight! Themselves, Casper and the Cookies, Everthus the Deadbeats at the Firebird

Interesting triple bill tonight at the Firebird, with pop weirdos Casper and the Cookies and Everthus the Deadbeats, local mash-up DJ maestro Lil' Daddy Reba McEntire (a.k.a. Eric Hall) and Anticon hip-hop legends Themselves joining forces. The show starts a little earlier tonight (8:30) but is well ... More >>

2008 Music Awards Nominees: Best Eclectic/Uncategorizable

RFT Music Showcase Schedule

Music for Bookstores

Brian Eno's got nothing

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Place to Play Pinball

CBGB

Pledge Ingenious

Local artist Eric Hall's new multimedia performance Freedom and Fear reclaims the flag for the left

Various Artists

Third Lip Cabaret: Opened (Third Lip)

Best Performance-Art Troupe

Third Lip Cabaret

Fat Lip

The latest incarnation of the Third Lip Cabaret bulges with intriguing entertainment

LIP SERVICE

The Planned Parenthood-sponsored Third Lip Cabaret returns to Cicero's

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