Fleetwood Mac

Dave Grohl's Movie Sound City is Playing at the Tivoli Tonight Only: Read Our Review Here

Here's something you don't get to say too often: It's a shame when Paul McCartney turns up. Before McCartney arrives, rasping, puppy-eyed, and eager to have a go at the hot new grunge sound of 1993, Dave Grohl's Sound City is an exciting, sometime illuminating documentary about how a squad of techni ... More >>

Yo La Tengo's Six Best Cover Songs

Legendary Hoboken, New Jersey indie rock trio Yo La Tengo is gracing the Pageant with its presence this Thursday, January 31. The band is notoriously unpredictable live, in part thanks to its virtual encyclopedia of cover songs. Here is a list of Yo La Tengo's six best cover songs. Let us know your ... More >>

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 >>

You Have One More Day to Submit Your Band for An Under Cover Weekend Six

The annual hero-halloween for St. Louis bands known as An Under Cover Weekend* is scheduled for September 7 and 8 at the Firebird. Want to show everyone your excellent Spice Girls impression (someone please do this)? Now's your chance. The event is taking submissions for another 31 hours as of this ... More >>

The Ten Best Juke Boxes in St. Louis

​Selecting the Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and scattin' our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. There is no surer way ... More >>

Idle Warship at 2720 Cherokee: Review

Idle Warship | SoundClash 2720 Cherokee February 15, 2012 Since setting up shop in the burgeoning Cherokee Street Art District in 2009, 2720 has made a name for itself in the national club scene as one of the top venues for street-inspired dance music. Last night's performance with Talib Kweli in ... More >>

The 33 1/3 Series is Accepting Submissions

​Earlier this month, Spin announced that it is moving most of its album reviews to Twitter. Music writing is getting shorter, not longer, and yet the 33 1/3 Series, which has the gall to publish entire books on albums that aren't even current, soldiers on. There are 85 installments in print n ... More >>

Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore And The Four Biggest Rock And Roll Breakups

Wikimedia Commons​Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth have separated after 27 years of marriage and now the future of the band is unknown. Their record label released this statement last Friday: Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separa ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow At Off Broadway, 9/12/11: Review

​Black Moth Super Rainbow | Marshmallow Ghosts | Dosh Off Broadway September 12, 2011 Sometimes it's hard to remember that these people making these sounds are just people. Get them in front of you, mostly maskless, wearing their every day human faces and clothes made out of fabric and threa ... More >>

St. Louis Bands: An Under Cover Weekend is Now Taking Submissions

Image via​An Under Cover Weekend, where local bands play sets as famous bands of their choosing, will have its five year anniversary this September. This thing is consistently awesome, and for the first time, any St. Louis bands can apply via this handy-dandy online form, which opened this mor ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend, Night One: Blind Eyes and Troubadour Dali

As the Blind Eyes is an-all male trio, there was some question as to who was going to play the all-important role of Stevie Nicks in its Fleetwood Mac cover set. The solution to this quandary was as simple as it was brilliant: Get every noteworthy female vocalist from St. Louis' indie-rock scene to ... More >>

Ten Things To Do This Weekend

image via1. Dogtown Street Musicians FestivalThis weekend marks the first ever Dogtown Street Musicians Festival. Located between the 1200 - 1300 block of Tamm, this event will run Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 2. Funk Fest 5Go get funked up at Broadway Oyster Bar Saturday night, starting at ... More >>

Old Lights Emerges from the Studio with an Off Broadway Show, New Demo MP3

Jennifer Silverberg​After being away from the city for several months, manicured indie-pop act Old Lights is resurfacing with a show tonight at Off Broadway. Tonight's openers include Jon Hardy, who's doing a solo set, and singer/songwriter/pal of Old Lights David Vandervelde. As we wrote ab ... More >>

St. Louis Producer Phaseone Drops New Mixtape: "The Realest Shit I Ever Wrote"

Why is this the cover art? Nobody knows.​Phaseone, the RFT's Best Producer of 2010, has been getting all kinds of Internet lovin' for his new mixtape "The Realest Shit I Ever Wrote." The fifteen-track, 29-minute compilation was featured on Pitchfork's Forkcast earlier this week and Jeff Weiss, for ... More >>

Hark! Pastoral Indie Troupe Midlake Is Coming to the Old Rock House in May!

Midlake, the Denton, Texas, act which just released its highly anticipated second album, The Courage of Others, is performing at the Old Rock House on Saturday, May 15. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 day of show -- and the show is all ages. Fans of Fairport Convention, the softer side of Fleetwood ... More >>

The Dive Bomber: Time Out! This Isn't a Dive

OK, so maybe I do have a few hipster tendencies. Before this week's dive trip, I spent a couple of hours coddling a $5 bottle of beer at the Bleeding Deacon with friends.I'm not ashamed to admit I enjoy such activities. I had a hard time pulling myself away to go a block down Gravois to Time Out Ba ... More >>

Local Band to Know: String Buzz

A few weeks ago, I heard Tim Rakel play a plaintive folk song on his radio show. Turns out the tune was by a band called String Buzz, a local duo featuring Ann Hirschfeld on guitar and Ron Leible on drums. Music lifers might know the pair from the '90s band Plaid Cattle, although Hirschfel ... More >>

The Breeders' Kelley Deal talks Fate to Fatal and filming a video in St. Louis. Plus, the best of last week on the music blog.

Show Review Set List: Fleetwood Mac at the Scottrade Center, May 5

Fleetwood Mac ended its concert Tuesday night with "Silver Springs," a Rumours-era b-side that has become a fan favorite. In the song's chorus, Stevie Nicks unloads what may be her best lyrical quatrain: Time cast its spell on you, but you won't forget meI know I could have loved you but you would n ... More >>

Tonight! Fleetwood Mac at the Scottrade Center, KRISTEENYOUNG at Off Broadway

St. Louisians have a choice of fierce females to see tonight: Stevie Nicks -- she of the "magical coochie" -- and the rest of Fleetwood Mac are playing the Scottrade Center tonight at 8 p.m. The show is not sold out, so if you're feeling up to some sing-alongs and gothy twirls, head on downtown. At ... More >>

Video: Cyndi Lauper Covers Christine McVie

Now, as Christian Schaeffer pointed out this week, Christine McVie will not be with Fleetwood Mac tonight. Aw. However. I had no idea until a few months ago that one of Cyndi Lauper's first recorded sessions was a cover of Christine McVie's "You Make Loving Fun." Thanks to YouTube, here it is!  ... More >>

Fleetwood Mac

7 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Jacks Mannequin

7 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. Touhill Performing Arts Center, 1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road on the campus of University of Missouri-St. Louis.

STL Show Announcements, Week of January 20

Here are some of the new shows announced this week at venues around St. Louis! Pageant *Railroad Earth/Split Lip Rayfield, Thursday, March 26 *Morrissey, Wednesday, April 8 *Bonnie Prince Billy, Friday, April 10 *The Bamboozle Roadshow Spring Tour feat. We the Kings/Forever the Sickest Kids/Th ... More >>

I Need a Hero: In honor of Smashing Pumpkins' twentieth anniversary, a list of Billy Corgan's top ten guitar heroes

B-Sides considers campaign songs and talks costumes with Dressy Bessy

MP3: Buffet Libre DJs, "Rewinded"

Premium Ivory Coast Pomegranate Margarita

Elephant Bar
1085 West County Center Drive
Des Peres
314-835-0545

Show Review: Stevie Nicks at the Chaifetz Arena, Friday, June 13

Stevie Nicks

8 p.m. Friday, June 13. Chaifetz Arena, One South Compton Avenue

Caleb Travers & Big City Lights/Jon Hardy & the Public

9 p.m. Saturday, October 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Parlour Games

Limbeck gets classical and Nick Acquisto releases a compilation of classics.

Colbie Caillat

9 p.m. Tuesday, August 21. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Strength & Loyalty (Full Surface/Interscope)

Clinic

Visitations (Domino)

The Back of Love

Lindsey Buckingham has big, big love for Fleetwood Mac and for his solo work.

The Damnwells

8 p.m. Tuesday, December 5. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).

Fly Like an Eagle

There's no better way to perish than via Eagles of Death Metal's Death by Sexy

Panic! At the Disco

Saturday, March 18, at 7 p.m. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

Also Playing

The Gourds

Tuesday, April 26; VooDoo Lounge in Harrah's Casino (777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights)

The Meat Purveyors and Rough Shop

Friday, September 3; Frederick's Music Lounge

Hip to be Square

Tracks offers comfort to Ensure-swilling music fans

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative

Little River Band with the Well Hungarians

Sunday, September 1; Pop's

Child's Play

Twenty-five years ago, an idealistic freak recorded Canadian children singing pop songs. Newly reissued, the CD is an underground hit.

Party Poopers

Where do the candidates stand on the real issue?

What Were the First Concert and the Last Concert You Attended?

Published the week of July 26-August 1, 2000

176 Keys of Love

Waxing romantic over husband-and-wife collaborators the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo