Foo Fighters

Karaoke Songs to Put Your Significant Other In the Mood

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

Beck's Sheet Music Album: Five Especially Awkward Music Delivery Mechanisms

I'm willing to be surprised, on this, but if word got out that there was a Beck sheet music album coming out, I'm fairly sure the average RFT Music reader could fill in the rest of the news story him-or-herself. So: There's a Beck sheet music album coming out. It's called Song Reader, which is nicel ... More >>

Listen Like You Mean It

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. If I could pick one attitude of mine that would look sweet on a T-shirt or tattoo, possibly in metal font ... More >>

Toward A Taxonomy Of '90s Pop Songs You Kind Of Remember

I should begin here: During the actual '90s, I was much too busy listening to Japanese videogame soundtracks (educate yourself) to actually enjoy '90s pop music. My first-hand memories of most of it are hearing it in a car, at a skating rink, on somebody else's Discman, and shaking my head in lonely ... More >>

Contest! Win Tickets for Mariachi El Bronx at The Firebird

Mariachi El Bronx is playing this Saturday at the Firebird. The show starts at 8:00 p.m.; San Francisco folk-rock duo Two Gallants opens the show. We have a pair of tickets for the show, and you can win them! All you have to do is write in the comments your full name, a way we can contact you, and ... More >>

The Glee Treatment: "Fuck That Shit" and Five Other Rejections From Bands

Regardless of what anybody thinks about the actual program, there's no disputing that Glee has become an absolute juggernaut in the music industry. As of October 2011, songs from the show have been downloaded 36 million times. And during that same time period, 11 million physical albums that have be ... More >>

The Six Sweetest Riffs of 2011

​There's no precise way to define a sweet guitar riff, much less a criteria for such categorization. A sweet riff is, like love or God or truly excellent barbecue, something only realized upon experience. This, the second year of the second decade of the twenty first decade of the modern calen ... More >>

Seven Very Homoerotic Music Videos: We're in the Mood for Some Hot Man Muffin

​This week, the U.S. finally dealt with one of those pesky civil rights issues we've been putting off for a while. Don't Ask Don't Tell is now a sordid thing of the past, and we want to celebrate the only way we know how. We rounded up our favorite music videos that celebrate men loving men, w ... More >>

The Foo Fighters' Favorite Ice Was Not Enough To Prevent A Blues City Deli No-Show

The Foo Fighters: "We squeal like six-year-old girls with skinned knees when we see this ice!"​Foo Fighters' superfan and Blues City Deli kitchen worker James Washburn received a letter in June that said the band might make an appearance in his place of work. The letter, which he threw in the ... More >>

Foo Fighters at Scottrade Center, 9/17/11: Review and Setlist

Photo by Jon Scorfina. Read why we had no professional photos here. ​Mariachi El Bronx | Rise Against! | Foo Fighters Scottrade Center September 17, 2011 It's been a huge year for Dave Grohl. His band, Foo Fighters, began 2011 with its most reliable line-up of the group's existence. That was ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: September 16 to 18

What do you mean those mushrooms were "medicinal"? ​It seems like just yesterday we were welcoming the return of fall and trying to find somewhere to stand in the Pageant for Bon Iver. But another week has come and gone, and you, as usual, have no excuse to be bored this weekend. DJ Lance Roc ... More >>

Why You Won't Be Seeing New Foo Fighters Photos Here This Weekend

Unfortunately, this crowd shot from Wikipedia is about as good a visual as you can expect.​The Foo Fighters will be in town this weekend, and you'll be able to find a review of the show on this blog on Sunday. However, our coverage will not include photos, because we cannot agree to the terms ... More >>

Foo Fighters

7 p.m. Saturday, September 17. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

America's Got Talent Winner Runs for Missouri Office: Eight Musicians He Should Learn From

Neal Boyd's American dream includes serving in Missouri House of Representatives.​Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston has already won lots of American votes. Enough to win the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, when he wowed audiences with his pop opera skills. Before finding reality-show fame, Boyd ... More >>

Foo Fighters Coming to the Scottrade Center [Update with ticket prices]

image courtesy of Live Nation​The Foo Fighters has just announced its fall 2011 tour dates, and we get one! Saturday, September 17th at Scottrade Center. Rise Against, who was here just eight days ago, will open. Update: Tickets are $49.50 for GA Floor ticket, and reserved tickets range from ... More >>

The Five Saddest CDs You Can Buy for Under $2 at Best Buy

​Best Buy has a certain number of CDs it sells for preposterously cheap. Let's be clear: This isn't a bargain bin situation, where they clearly just upend the refuse in a cardboard dumpster and let people dive in. This is actual stock, kept on shelves, that in most cases sold (poorly, obviousl ... More >>

VH1 Enters Restaurant Reality Show Fray: 10 Famous Food Music Videos

VH1​ Because it's worked so well for Bravo ... VH1, whose motto used to be "Music First," announced Wednesday that it's jumping into the restaurant reality show fray. On the menu: Famous Food, which will feature a bunch of celebrities rehabbing a restaurant with Los Angeles restaurateurs Mik ... More >>

Record Store Day 2011: Hot Sellers, Highlights from St. Louis

​As we have already mentioned, Record Store Day 2011 was a massive success, with a couple local stores suggesting it may have been their biggest sales day ever. Most places did plenty to give back to their rabid patrons, offering free food, beer, live music and local celebrity DJ sets througho ... More >>

Panda Bear, Foo Fighters Lead this Week's Crop of New Releases

Chrissy WilmesVintage Vinyl General Manager, Leon Reed, with some of this week's releases​Every week, we'll ask your local record store clerks to advise you on which new releases are worth your hard-earned pennies. Today, Vintage Vinyl General Manager Leon Reed fills us in on a particularly st ... More >>

The Foo Fighters' Fancy White Limo Stops in St. Louis For a Listening Party

Contrary to some sad fans' misunderstanding, the Foo Fighters were not in St. Louis today. However, the sweet white ride emblazoned with the band's signature "FF" logo (the one featured in the "White Limo" video) was. Chrissy Wilmes​The limo rolled into town to promote the band's upcoming al ... More >>

Foo Fighters White Limo Tour Coming to St. Louis

​A few weeks ago, we posted the video for a new Foo Fighters song, "White Limo." The clip features the band getting into all sorts of trouble while riding in a white limo emblazoned with the Foo Fighters "FF" logo. (Lemmy's the driver, natch.) Well, that same limo has just embarked on a tour o ... More >>

Foo Fighters are Going to Hell in a Custom Limo -- and Lemmy's Driving

​Motorhead is playing at Pop's this Sunday, February 20. We'll have an interesting feature -- an interview with the codirectors/producers of a new Lemmy documentary -- in this week's paper, so stay tuned. Lemmy is popping up everywhere these days, it seems. Just yesterday, Foo Fighters posted ... More >>

R.I.P. Gerry Rafferty, 1947-2011

Even if you don't know Gerry Rafferty's name, you certainly know his work: the solo hit "Baker Street" and "Stuck In the Middle," a big hit for the group he co-founded, Stealers Wheel. Rafferty died yesterday "after a long illness," according to the Guardian. He was 63. Rafferty struggled with sever ... More >>

Blonde Redhead/Pantha du Prince

9 p.m. Monday, October 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Video: Dave Grohl Mock-Sues Scissor Sisters For Jake Shears' Peek-A-Boo Balls

(Via BIllboard) During a recent show, Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears apparently exposed his testicles. Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl was in attendance, and filmed a hilarious video in which he discusses a mock-lawsuit he's filed against the band, Ticketmaster, the venue and others. The fallo ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Chris Shiflett on His Guitar Heroes, Being a Dad and the Status of Foo Fighters

Jack Butler​ Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants -- the rootsier side project of the Foo Fighters guitarist -- will be at the Old Rock House tonight. The show's at 8 p.m. and tickets are $8. We chatted with Shiflett in this week's paper. Read on below for some outtakes in which he discusses h ... More >>

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett steps out of the band's shadow with an excellent new solo album

Rush Documentary Screening at Ronnies in June

If Rush's August show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater won't have enough air-drumming dudes and epic prog breakdowns for you, fear not: Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, a documentary on the band directed by the men behind Iron Maiden: Flight 666, is screening in St. Louis on June 10. Says a press ... More >>

Homespun: HUMDRUM, Individual Man

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews HUMDRUM's CD, Individual Man. He had this to say: If you were to break a certain folksy dictum and judge HUMDRUM's CD by its cover, you'd be right to assume that space is the place for this local quartet. The artwork for Individual Man features a h ... More >>

Homespun: HUMDRUM

Individual Man
(self-released)

Telekinesis

8 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Open Comment Thread: The 2009 Grammy Awards

Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Curre ... More >>

The Safes

9 p.m. Saturday, October 11. Lemmons, 5800 Gravois Avenue

Austin City Limits Day Three Review: Foo Fighters, AA Bondy, Silversun Pickups, Gnarls Barkley, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Stars

Foo Fighter Dave Grohl on Nirvana at Mississippi Nights Nirvana Videos, Thoughts

Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Supergrass at Scottrade Center, Sunday, July 20

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: July 18-20

Deadline Today! Win a Free Pair of Supergrass Tickets!

2008 Grammy Awards: The Liveblog

LucaBrasi

LucaBrasi
(self-released)

Season's Greetings from the Livers

2007 MTV VMAs Wrap-Up: Stream-of-Conscious about Britney, Timberlake and more

Team Tomato Homespun: Audio Bonus

Beat the Crowd

Glastonbury

Hand It to Him

The Science of Sleep

Tokyo Rose

Sunday, November 20; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Transdermal Celebration Canceled

Radar Station mourns a broken streak

Best All-Ages Venue

The Pageant

All His Life

The Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age and the Mars Volta

Wednesday, May 7; Savvis Center