George Harrison

Ravi Shankar, Dave Brubeck, and The Politics Of Westernizing 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. Ravi Shankar passed away this week at the age of 92. I can't admit to being a massive fan; by the time ... More >>

My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses at the Peabody: Review, Photos and Setlist

My Morning Jacket | Band of Horses August 8, 2012 Peabody Opera House Jim James does not have hair. He has a mane, and it is his single best asset as a showman. Better than his sleeved cape (his morning jacket, proposes RFT Managing Editor Chad Garrison), better than his drum pad chain, better even ... More >>

Official First-Ballot Inductees to the Simpsons' Music Hall of Fame: I Bent My Wookie

The sheer longevity of The Simpsons would be impressive if it wasn't so frightening. Consider: A person born on the day of the first non-Tracey Ullman Show episode is now 22 years old. And if characters from the show actually aged, Bart Simpson would be three years away from being able to assume the ... More >>

How Beatlemania Extended to a Southern Illinois Town

Beatlemania is arguably the most expansive musical frenzy in modern history, so it's not surprising that places big and small would try to latch on to every bit of the Fab Four's legacy. But it may be a revelation to some that the mania extended to Benton, Illinois, a smallish town located in the L ... More >>

Can musicians find new audiences through tribute nights?

Peter Frampton Comes Alive! in St. Louis: Five Other Albums That Should Be Taken On Tour

Frampton's Still Alive!​Classic rock fans, recently empty-nested mothers, and talkbox enthusiasts take note: Peter Frampton is going to play the iconic Frampton Comes Alive! in its entirety in St. Louis, part of a 35th Anniversary tour that will see the 1970s rocker play his classic live doubl ... More >>

The Last Waltz Tribute is Back: A Mercifully Flashing-Free Chat with Johnny Vegas

Once a year, the Stag Nite All-Stars form a ramshackle convergence to pay loving, egg-nog-addled tribute to The Last Waltz, arguably the most famous concert in history. Spearheaded musically by Mark Moynihan of Racketbox, the group also includes members of a dozen-odd other south city mainstays. Thi ... More >>

Paul Simon at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, 11/15/11: Review and Setlist

Kiernan Maletsky​Paul Simon | Punch Brothers Fabulous Fox Theatre November 15, 2011 Paul Simon still takes a wide stance when he gets into it. He tosses his hands for emphasis of his words, he converses his lines with an unseen foil. His voice belies his 70 years. Close your eyes and you can ... More >>

The Ten Most Facepalm-Inducing Uses of French in Pop Music: In Honor of Bastille Day

​Bastille Day is upon us, when all the world celebrates Louis XIV crossing the Delaware or something. We're not clear on the details, and on that front we join countless English-speaking pop and rock stars who took similarly haphazard forays into the Language of Love. In honor of the Frog's b ... More >>

Mumford and Sons, Ke$ha, the Avett Brothers, Wilco and Tornado Warnings: Beale Street Diary

Katie Moulton​Ed: Last weekend, the Beale Street Music Festival welcomed one of the stranger lineups of the season to Memphis: Cee-Lo Green, Ke$ha, Mumford & Sons, Jon Mellencamp, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Gregg Allman and more. We sent Katie Moulton on a last minute road-trip and she brought ... More >>

Contest! Win a Concert for George Deluxe Prize Pack!

​On March 22, Concert for George -- the 2002 tribute concert in honor of the late Beatle George Harrison -- was released on Blu-ray for the first time. The night featured artists such as Eric Calpton, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney and Tom Petty playing Harrison's songs and honoring his life and l ... More >>

Black Friday Record Store Sales Hit Vintage Vinyl, Euclid Records and Apop Records

recordstoreday.com​April's annual Record Store Day has been such a rousing success, a semi-sequel is happening on Black Friday. Indie record stores all around the country will have exclusives, special releases, deluxe editions and other rare, limited-run goodies for sale. Vintage Vinyl and Euc ... More >>

Contest! Win a Ravi Shankar-George Harrison Boxed Set!

A shot of the boxed set​This is a cool one: On October 19, Dark Horse Records/Rhino Entertainment released a limited-edition, deluxe boxed set titled Ravi Shankar George Harrison Collaborations. The 3xCD/1xDVD set honors Shankar's 90th birthday and features a 56-page hardbound Book, 3 CDs in r ... More >>

Concert Review: Midlake Floods the Old Rock House with Old and New Folk Rock, May 15, 2010

Dana PlonkaJesse Chandler and Tim Smith of Midlake​ The weather was Midlakian, if ever weather was. Mist and cloud vapors, a drizzle that came and went, all left the streets around the Old Rock House shining. Midlake, a Denton, Texas rock band, hadn't performed in St. Louis in years, ... More >>

Some Happy VD Reading, Courtesy of Our Friends at The Pitch

image source​The Plog, the news blog of Riverfront Times' sister paper in Kansas City, The Pitch, runs a delightful weekly feature called Studies in Crap in which Crap Archivist Alan Scherstuhl "brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sa ... More >>

Are Those Sleigh Bells We're Hearing? Nah, It's Just More Holiday Album Fun with Pet Shop Boys, Beatallica, REO Speedwagon and Michael McDonald...

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer spotlights a number of this year's top holiday releases. Here are several more festive releases that you might have missed. But are you really missing anything? Read on...​The Pet Shop Boys, Christmas Unlike your grandmother's fruitcake, which is always an ... More >>

Homespun: The Hibernauts, Velvet Suit

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews the Hibernauts' new album, Velvet Suit. Suit opens with the slow-grower "Make Me a Son," which unfolds with plaintive piano chords, some George Harrison-inspired slide guitar and a string section. Where the Hibernauts of old couldn't wait to get to ... More >>

The Hibernauts Velvet Suit

Velvet Suit
(self-released)

Fitter, Happier, More Productive: M. Ward's Hold Time

(Tuesdays can be a trying day here in Club Land at the RFT. It's deadline day for the show/concert listings, and this fact hangs over my head just like all of those foreboding elementary school (and high school and college) homework assignments that I would inevitably put off to the l ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!: What's so brave about Niños Héroes?

Show Review Setlist: The Eagles at the Scottrade Center, September 20, 2008.

Second Spin: Sea Level, Cats on the Coast

The Nation's First Beatles Museum to Open in Branson

Show Review: Iron and Wine at the Pageant, Friday, June 13

Clue To Kalo

9 p.m. Wednesday, April 2. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Donkey Punch

Week of January 31, 2008

Cellar Beware

The Treasury

9 p.m. Monday, December 10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Tabla for Two, Please

South by Southwest by Annie

Check out our exhaustive recap of Austin's indie-rock fest.

Hype Goggles

What will the beloved bands of '05 look like when the buzz wears off?

Dave Mason

Thursday, March 24; Bottleneck Blues Bar in the Ameristar Casio, 1260 South Main Street, St. Charles

Blessed Are the Cheese Makers

Monty Python's Brian returns, bearing cinematic salvation

High Score

Sometimes the worst movies have the best soundtracks

Bonnie Bramlett

Thursday, April 29; Generations

Various Artists

Concert for George (Warner Strategic)

Film Openings

Week of October 1, 2003

David Bowie

Reality (ISO/Columbia)

Abbey Roadkill

The Aerovons were this close to becoming America's Beatles. What happened?

Plucky Seven

The New Pornographers play the sounds of summer. Hawaiian shirts optional.

Panjabi MC

Beware (Sequence)

Musiq

Juslisen (Def Soul)

Unhappy Accident

Dee Dee Ramone died the same way he lived -- by accident

Guarding Angel

Week of January 16, 2002

They Take the Heat

Week of January 2, 2002

Paul McCartney

Driving Rain (Capitol)

Sitar Star

One of the world's pre-eminent sitar players, Imrat Khan once taught the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Now he teaches at Washington University.

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of June 28-July 4, 2000

XTC

Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Volume 2) (TVT Records)