Evan Sult

'Come Dancing' with Local Bands at Kinks Tribute Show, KDHX Benefit

That's where the big bands Used to come and play My sister went there On a Saturday -- "Come Dancing" Ten local bands hope you'll believe in the power of Ray Davies and "come dancing" during a benefit concert for KDHX 88.1 FM tomorrow, March 30. Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy: A Tribute to the Kinks ... More >>

Weekend Round-up Review: SXSC Day One, Rat Heart, Bass Amp & Dan-O

All right, folks. Weekend two. Recap: For the month of March (and possibly longer/shorter depending on my funds, stamina, and sanity), I am seeing at least three local bands each weekend. The rules: the shows must fit a budget (who pays more than $8 to see a show?), predominantly local bands, and ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Results Are In! See this Year's Winners, Read Advice from St. Louis Artists

The Village Voice's annual critic's-list-to-end-all-critic's-lists, the venerable Pazz & Jop issue, is now in circulation. Each year the Voice polls hundreds of music critics in an effort to provide the most comprehensive list possible of the former year's most critically-acclaimed music. In additio ... More >>

Homespun: Seven-inch Singles from Sleepy Kitty and Kentucky Knife Fight

The New Seven-Inch Sounds of Sleepy Kitty and Kentucky Knife Fight: Review

Seven-inch singles are still the best way to get to know a band. If you can't kick out the jams in under four minutes per side, perhaps the rocking life just isn't for you. The end of the summer brought a few new 45s from two venerable local acts, both building off of and refining what came before. ... More >>

The 17 Best Fans, Musical Moments and Trends at LouFest 2012: Day One

17. Twenty-Five Percent of the Girl Talk Crowd Girl Talk only makes sense -- and I do mean only -- if you are dancing. Otherwise it's just your very pop-savvy friend's iTunes playlist on schizophrenic overdrive. So kudos to those bumping various body parts and whipping around beach balls -- there w ... More >>

Evan Sult of Sleepy Kitty is the New Editor of Eleven Magazine

Eleven Magazine has just announced its new editorial leader: Evan Sult, who is most well known in St. Louis as one half of the print and music-making duo Sleepy Kitty. "I've been watching Eleven since its inception, thinking about what it means to cover music and think about music as a culture in ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty couldn't just type out its lyrics

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

Chill Out, Everybody: Best Coast at the Firebird: Review and Setlist

Best Coast | Bruiser Queen | Sleepy Kitty May 30, 2012 The Firebird "Why would you live anywhere else?" It was a rhetorical question. Bethany Cosentino can mean a lot more in her California obsessions than one might think, but that doesn't mean she wants answers. But here are a few anyway: Cheap ren ... More >>

Tower Groove Records: The Bands Discuss their First Double-LP Compilation

Photo by Dana Smith A backyard is as good a place as any to start a movement. That's where, in two separate neighborhoods over roughly nine months, 22 bands outlined the edges of a music collective, filled them in over beer and launched Tower Groove Records. They collected votes and took turns. The ... More >>

Band to Watch: Bailiff, Opening for JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound Tomorrow

​If you weren't already heading to Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue, 314-773-3363) tomorrow night for JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, you oughta be. The soul-steeped Chicago band brings along another Windy City export, a stellar three-piece called Bailiff. You can't go wrong with a blues-rock ba ... More >>

Death Cab For Cutie At The Pageant, 10/2/11: Review, Photos and Setlist

Photo by Jason Stoff​Death Cab For Cutie The Pageant October 2, 2011 Ben Gibbard has left us. The melancholic Ben Gibbard we once knew is gone, for all intents and purposes. He's skinny now, having swapped drinking for running, and he's got a new, Jordan Catalano haircut. He's visibly bouncy, ... More >>

Deerhoof And Sleepy Kitty At The Luminary, 9/27/11: Photo Essay

All photos by Corey Woodruff​Prior to Sleepy Kitty's opening set, Evan Sult lamented the passing of St. Louis luminary Bob Cassilly and dedicated the first song to him. ​In further tribute to late City Museum founder Bob Cassilly, Evan Sult fashioned a t-shirt that read "Thank You BC".

Bob Cassilly And City Museum's Impact On St. Louis Music

Jennifer Silverberg​Bob Cassilly, the artist whose seemingly impossible visions included the City Museum, died yesterday while working on his most ambitious creation: Cementland. For a look at his life, his work and his famously enormous personality, read Aimee Levitt's obituary on Daily RFT. ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty's Infinity City Release Party

​Sleepy Kitty's debut full length, Infinity City, had an informal release party last week at the Royale. The band is playing a show tomorrow at Pig Slop with Cowboy Indian Bear and Little Big Bangs. We are introducing a feature, Live and Local, to help introduce St. Louis bands to people who ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty is Playing "Seventeen" as a Guitar Relay at Tonight's RFT Awards Party

The cover of Sleepy Kitty's upcoming Infinity City.​The RFT Music Awards Party is tonight at 7 p.m. at the Firebird. In addition to the announcement of all this year's winners, the evening will feature performances by 18andCounting, Prince Ea and Sleepy Kitty. The latter has something unique p ... More >>

RFT Showcase Preview: Listen Before You Go

​The 2011 RFT Music Showcase is practically here: This Saturday from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Washington Avenue. In our continued attempt to prepare you for the madness of 78 music acts in one day, we will be compiling preview tracks from artists playing the showcase; you can listen below. This wil ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty: Meet Your RFT Showcase Main Stage Headliners

Corey Woodruff​Although the duo isn't originially from St. Louis, Sleepy Kitty still manages to serve as an ancillary conduit that helps keep the city's arts and music scene buzzing. Utilizing "all of the advantages of 1980s-style land line," as drummer/singer Evan Sult aptly quipped, both Su ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty's Album Pre-Release Gift: 3% Famous Featuring New Music

sleepy kitty arts​Attendees of Sleepy Kitty's Album Pre-Release Party last week at Off Broadway were promised a "secret, one-time-only gift." We, being adamant lovers of free shit, went to the show, and our efforts were rewarded with new music! 3% Famous, which contains a song from each of the ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty Signs to Euclid Records, Announces Release Date of Debut LP

Euclid Records, the record label arm of the venerable record store, announced today that it's signed Sleepy Kitty (a.k.a. the RFT's Best New Band 2010). Says the press release: Plans are for the record, which will be released on vinyl and CD, to be in stores by the middle of February, 2011. Natural ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Sleepy Kitty's Paige Brubeck and Evan Sult on Art, Vinyl and Budgie

Jon Scorfina​Sleepy Kitty is never short of crazy endeavors. Guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Paige Brubeck and drummer Evan Sult's next gig is following the sold-out Flaming Lips show at the Halo Bar tomorrow night. In celebration of the Lips gig, the pair has also come up with a clever plan of ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend returns for more cover-song shenanigans

The World Cup trophy is pretty darn ugly. But nothing says balls like the Golden Cup!

World Cuppage: Mexico 2 - France 0; Gringos and El Chicharito at Carniceria Latino Americana

photos by Keegan HamiltonMexico vive aqui.​"I feel like I'm rooting for the neighborhood team."That was the perfectly succinct explanation given by Evan Sult, the drummer/vocalist for local indie rock duo Sleepy Kitty, when asked why he, a very gringo looking gringo, was rooting for Mexico in thei ... More >>

Five Hours at the 2010 RFT Music Showcase: Beer, Shaving Cream and Yes, Tunes

Jon GitchoffCross Examination at the 2010 RFT Music Showcase. More photos here​On Saturday night, we headed to Washington Avenue to see what we could see at the annual Music Showcase. New intern Steve Hardy talked to some of the bands, the bartenders and any random attendees, all in the name o ... More >>

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

The Art and Music of Local Duo Sleepy Kitty

​In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer interviewed local duo Sleepy Kitty. He says the band "write[s] effervescent rock songs that touch on layered girl-group harmonies, sound collages, noir country and power pop." Of its debut EP, What I Learned This Summer, Schaeffer says it "features t ... More >>

Sleepy Kitty brightens up Cherokee Street

Hear a New Sleepy Kitty Song, Catch Them Tonight with Imperial China at Cicero's

​Tonight at Cicero's, Sleepy Kitty will be hosting an out-of-town pal. Imperial China hails from Washington, DC -- and carries on that city's grand tradition of spiky, rhythmically complex post-punk. (To me, they resemble Public Image Limited's early stuff.) As for Sleepy Kitty, the duo of Eva ... More >>