Eric Hall

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Memorial Day Weekend: May 24 to 27

Wow -- where to begin? Here, we wrote a quick guide for you. Step one: Eat some barbecue. Step two: See a show or two. Step three: Repeat. This extended weekend's offerings are slightly overwhelming. In addition to these ten picks, plenty of other events covered in the past week present themselves a ... More >>

Tone Rodent Bridges the Gap Between Noise and Music From Here To Brazil

Listen: Hear all of Tone Rodent's songs

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 >>

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: January 25 to 27

If I had a quarter for every Jell-O shot I've been offered since I started this job, I'd probably have enough change to get a couple beers out of the boozy vending machine downstairs. I've never been much of a lush, but it just seems un-American to turn down a dessert with such high regard from the ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: January 11 to 13

Making an album is a damn fine accomplishment, be it a self-mixed basement recording hand-dubbed to limited tapes, a mass quantitie of printed CDs that might ultimately end up in the bargain bin or even a pricier high-end studio recording committed immortally to vinyl (ok - perhaps records are a tad ... More >>

The Slackers, Major Lazer, Mac Lethal and More in this Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: October 5 to 7

DRAMATIC RE-ENACTMENT OF A RECENTLY-RECEIVED E-MAIL (Names and wording changed to protect the insistent): Dear Sir, Why is it the RFT never mentions Tone Rodent shows? Ringo Deathstarr is a buzz band across the country right now. Once again people are working hard to bring a great band to town and ... More >>

For The Love Of Boring Music

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. The greatest living composer (Steve Reich) is currently writing a piece based on source material from the ... More >>

Do It Together: Aaron Stovall Talks About This Weekend's SLAP Conference and Current -- Preview the Mixtape Here

This weekend, the St. Louis Arts Project will hold its second annual conference. Its aim is to reach the far-flung corners of the art world, regional or not, for an exchange of ideas and expression. There is a suggested $10 donation for entry -- check in starts tonight at 6 p.m. at the Contemporary ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Award Winners

2012 RFT Music Showcase Recap: Part Two

Some clubs on Washington Avenue who participated in the RFT Music Showcase are set up properly for live music. Others cleared off some floor space, hooked up a P.A., and became temporary venues for a day. The interaction of the sets with their settings was sometimes perfect and often fascinating. Ba ... More >>

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 >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: May 11 to 13

Local music fans in the know spent last night at KDHX's massive party at the City Museum, Midwest Mayhem -- I myself had to wash my eyeballs this morning to try and purge them of the things I saw at the skatepark burlesque show. The whole event was huge, weird, fun and extremely exhausting, but ther ... More >>

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: January 13 to 15

This was the first week of torrential show announcements for 2012, and we've got a weekend to match. The Civil Wars play a sold-out Pageant on Sunday, Eric Johnson's at Old Rock House and you're forgiven for missing Emperor X at the Billiken Club -- he's playing the Firebird this weekend. On the loc ... 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 new sound of local music

Mikey Wehling's Tape Trilogy Opus Gets its Live Debut Tonight

Bryan Sutter​In this week's feature, Ryan Wasoba tells the story of Mikey Wehling's tumultuous year. A key member of the now-defunct Messy Jiverson, Wehling found meaning and solace through hard times in a four track and a kitchen sink of musical ideas. The resulting trilogy of Reverb tapes, o ... More >>

Warm Jets USA

Warm Jets USA
(Cheap Guitar Records)

Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: December 3 to 5

​No getting around things: It's cold. Really cold. Still, there are plenty of reasons to leave the house this weekend. Start here with the music previews -- and continue below with more local goings-on. Friday Beth Bombara and Benjamin Riley @ The Map Room An acoustic apertif to your Friday n ... More >>

Get to Know: Junk Culture, Who's in Town Tonight at Antarctica

Deepak Mantena, soon to be better known as Junk Culture, is the sample-happy, electronic virtuoso signed to Girl Talk's Illegal Art label. Mantena takes his name from a 1984 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album -- and the Portland-by-way-of-Idaho-and-Mississippi artist just picked up a tour with ... More >>

Your 2010 RFT Music Showcase Schedule is Right Here

​On June 5, the RFT Music Showcase is happening on Washington Avenue. All day, all night. Have you voted yet for your favorite bands? If not, I suggest you do that right here! Perhaps the schedule for the music showcase will spur on your clicking fingers. Read on below for the bands, venues an ... More >>

In Brief

The 2010 RFT Music Awards Nominees: The List

The 2010 RFT Music showcase takes place on Saturday, June 5, 2010, on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis. On and before that day, fans can vote for their favorite local musicians in the following categories. For more information on where and how to vote - and for up-to-the-minute details about ... More >>

Record Store Day in St. Louis: What's Going on at Vintage Vinyl, Apop Records and Euclid Records?

[Update, April 14, 3 p.m.: Now updated with info on what's going on at Slackers!] On Saturday, April 17, record stores around the country are celebrating Record Store Day -- a time to unplug from iTunes, eMusic and Amazon MP3 (or torrent sites) and purchase tunes in-person. As enticement, Record S ... More >>

Grandpa's Ghost Contributes To Score for Alice in Wonderland Film

Tim Burton's highly anticipated adaptation of Alice in the Wonderland is due in the coming months. However, a Chicago-based filmmaker named James Fotopoulos is working on his own documentary about Lewis Carroll and Alice -- with a score provided by Ben Hanna of experimental collective Grandpa's Ghos ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, July 31 to Monday, August 3

Friday, July 31 *Fear/Agent Orange/DI/Total Chaos/Bloodhook, Fubar *Ratattack/The Livers/Black for a Second/Target Market, Firebird *Guster/Joe Stickley's Blue Print, Live on the Levee *Leslie and the Lys, Mad Art (7-9 p.m.) *Arc Angels/Soul Cowboys, The Pageant *Fattback/Old Lights/Monads, Off Br ... More >>

RFT Music Awards Nominees & Showcase Performers

Winning the War: The 2009 RFT Music Awards nominees and annual music showcase are here!

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: January 16 to January 18

Friday, January 16*Republic Tigers/Analysts/Oceania, Bluebird*Target Market/Jovian Chorus/Say Panther, Cicero's*Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Sheldon*Leroy Pierson/Los Carnales Blues Band, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups*Rum Drum Ramblers, The Stable*Everett Dean, Deluxe*Left Arm, The Blind Eyes/The Abac ... More >>

A to Z

What Lies Beneath

Neil Hamburger at the Creepy Crawl, August 2: Outtakes from the Story

2007 RFT Music Showcase

Week of May 31, 2007

Party Planner

Check out the Music Awards Showcase schedule!

Homespun: Various Artists

Sound (52nd City)

Let the battle for St. Louis supremacy begin:

It's the 2007 RFT Music Awards ballot.

The Bangin' Big Beats

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of September 28, 2005

Happy Hunting

Catch The Blue Bird

It Takes Two

Come hear Radio Cherokee's beautiful noise

Speak Now

Or forever hold your peace

Best Club to Close in the Past 12 Months

Galaxy

Best Place to Play Pinball

CBGB

Massamalgam

Saturday, April 27; Galaxy

Chew on This

Chefs and musicians collaborate on a delicious piece of performance art

Third Lip Cabaret, featuring the Julia Sets, the Highway Matrons, Cloister, Fred's Variety Group and dHHP

Thursday, Nov. 22; Galaxy

Third Lip Cabaret's Second Anniversary

Sunday, Feb. 18; Galaxy.

Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Duo

Friday, Dec. 15; Galaxy

LIVE EVIL

A full-to-the-brim bag of Halloween musical treats