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Fat Lady Sings: Karaoke Columnist Hopes You've Had the Time of Your Life

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 >>

The Worst Things About SXSW 2013

This year, our sister papers at the Houston Press music blog Rocks Off and Dallas Observer music blog DC-9 at Night teamed up to bring you only the choicest moments from last week's SXSW madness. See Also: -The Scene at SXSW: Here's What You Are Missing -SXSW 2013: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spai ... More >>

The Six Best Greatest Hits Albums

This week, RFT announces the winners of this year's Best Of St. Louis issue. To celebrate - and give a break from the local overload to ensue - here are the six best "Best Of" albums, plus a few bonus picks at the end. Let us know your favorites in the comments, and we'll put the comment in our vaul ... More >>

Music Music vs. Words 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. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece for RFT Music poking fun of the modern concept of genre that spawns ph ... 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 >>

Punk Rock Cover Show

8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Six Best Songs Under One Minute Long

Last week, we counted down the best songs over thirty minutes long, essentially a list of weirdos. On the opposite side of the spectrum, it is rare for an artist to call a song complete before it enters triple digits on the time counter. But great works have been made under the sixty second mark, be ... More >>

American Idiot at Peabody Opera House: Review

American Idiot Peabody Opera House March 2, 2012 The average age of the attendees of American Idiot's opening night at the Peabody Opera House hovered around the mid fifties, neither the target demographic for the music of Green Day nor that of a contemporary musical with a 1:4 ratio of choreograph ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows this Weekend: March 2 to 4

It's an eclectic mix of offerings we have for you this weekend, ranging from the sold-out-every-venue-in-the-eighties variety to the soon-to-be-selling-records local release types. Friday Barry Manilow and Eddie Money clash for dominance of St. Louis's 106.5 the Arch radio-listening demographic, pla ... More >>

American Idiot (The Musical) Proves Green Day Is Still Punk Rock

It is possible that no band maintains a more complicated relationship with punk rock than Green Day. Ever since the group's breakout Dookie, its existence has been paradoxical, a flow chart that alternately asks, answers, and dodges questions about the grand concept of punk. According to the gang me ... More >>

Punk on Broadway

Rock Band Delivers its Most Requested Song Ever: "Never Gonna Give You Up"! No, Seriously.

Any DJ, cover band or organ grinder can attest to how touchy people can get when a requested song isn't played. The blowback can be even more harsh when the musical entity in question is Harmonix, the creator of the Rock Band video game franchise. Even though music gaming experienced some discerni ... More >>

Six Best Lookout! Records Releases

​Lookout! Records officially shut down this month, which is not shocking news to anybody familiar with the long-running punk rock label. The company's financial struggles were well known to the public, and since 2006 it has only stayed in business to keep up its back catalog. In honor of the i ... More >>

The Six Best Drum Fills

​In rock and roll, singers get the attention, guitarists get the glory and bass players usually just have to show up. It's the drummers of the world who often put in the most effort for the least return, lugging ten times the equipment and playing twenty times as hard as the rest of the band. ... More >>

Smoking Popes At The Firebird, 7/27/11

Michael Dauphin​The term pop-punk had an entirely different meaning fifteen or so years ago. Back then, bands like Jawbreaker, The Descendents, Green Day and Screeching Weasel embodied the angsty sneer associated with punk music, but they all leaned on more poignant and desperate aspects of lo ... More >>

Observing the Twentieth Anniversary of the Riverport Riot with the Ten Best Concert Brawls

History shows that Axl Rose doesn't like cameras. The cell phone era must drive him batshit crazy. ​Overshadowed by the celebration of Independence Day, another explosive moment from American history came and went on Saturday, July 2 -- the twentieth anniversary of the infamous Riverport Riot. ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Ultimate Fakebook Drummer Eric Melina on Returning to Touring

​In this week's paper, Ryan Wasoba chatted with Ultimate Fakebook drummer Eric Melin, to mark the occasion of the band playing at the Firebird on Sunday, December 19. (The Orbz, Dead Girls and the Highway, Companion are also on the bill.) The power-pop cult heroes released a new album, Daydrea ... More >>

Ten Memorable Shows at The Pageant, In Honor Of Its Tenth Birthday

This Saturday, the Pageant celebrates its tenth birthday with a concert by Chuck Berry. $35 general admission tickets are still available; balcony seats are sold out. The show starts at 8 p.m. with a set from Shooting With Annie. In the venue's lengthy history (a PDF listing its shows is a whoppi ... More >>

Foxy Shazam storms the scene with glam

Top Five Music Festival-Inspired Flavors for Ben & Jerry's Consideration.

Every spring, when the music festivals are unveiling their line-ups, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream also reveals their new flavors. This year, the two have collided with Ben & Jerry's Bonnaroo BUZZ. Ian McCulloch: You know what would go great with that wine? Ice cream.​ The company's website descri ... More >>

An Anthem For Failure: "The 'Official' St. Louis Rams 2010 NFL Draft Day Song"

It's easy to forget how awful the Rams have been at drafting players in the first round. Fortunately, we have this little ditty from the boys at Joe Sports Fan as a nice reminder of every failed pick from Lawrence Phillips to Alex Barron that lets us laugh a little bit at the ineptitude.One can only ... More >>

Lollapalooza Announces Its 2010 Lineup. What Does It Mean for St. Louis? Besides a Phoenix Show...

A reunited Soundgarden headlines Lollapalooza​ Lollapalooza announced its 2010 lineup this morning, after building suspense with a Wheel of Fortune-style puzzle game revealing clues about the performers. As expected, the headliners are a reunited Soundgarden, Lady Gaga, Green Day, the Strokes, ... More >>

Dodgers Fan Makes Atrocious Holliday Song of His Own

​Remember those parodies of Green Day's "Holiday" that hit YouTube this summer following the Cardinals' acquisition of Matt Holliday? No? Well, as you can see here, you didn't miss much. Now a Dodger's fan has come up with his own parody of the song involving Holliday. Like the othe ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of August 10-16

Every Monday A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado: Euclid Records 1. Bottle Rockets: Lean Forward* 2. Wilco: Wilco The Album* 3. ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, August 11

Photo: Todd OwyoungFrom last night's show at the Scottrade Center. See more photos of Green Day last night.​ Caveat: I've been a Green Day fan since 1994 or so. And so I have a sneaking suspicion that last night's Scottrade Center show wasn't for me - even though the band ran through plenty of ... More >>

B-Sides puts Green Day's consciousness-raising music in context with other artists'

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of May 5

Scottrade Center *Green Day, August 11*American Idols Live, Saturday, August 29 Vintage Vinyl *Left Arm 7" Release, Friday, May 15 *Cracker, Friday, May 15 *Mad HaPPy, Wednesday, May 20

Green Day Stopping by St. Louis on August 11

Hot on the heels of its super-anticipated release, 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day is stopping by St. Louis (oops, was not sent a venue, just assumed. Monday brain fart) on Tuesday, August 11, at least according to its publicist and MySpace page. Hear 90 seconds of new single "Know Your Enemy" at ... More >>

Pennywise

7 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

St. Louis Video: Judge Nothing, "Score Uneven"

With all of the old-school St. Louis band reunion shows happening in the coming weeks, figured this week was a good time to unroll another installment of local old-school videos. Up first is a clip from Judge Nothing, the much-beloved Alton punk/pop/whatever act. The band played gigs with anybody w ... More >>

B-Sides traces the history and evolution of the power ballad in honor of Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick, and examines An Under Cover Weekend's '80s and '90s participants

The Box Social

9 p.m. Saturday, February 23. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street.

Aiden

6 p.m. Sunday, September 16. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

OK Computer: Ten Years After

B-Sides reboots Radiohead and takes a roadtrip with Ani.

The Dials

Saturday, April 22, at 9 p.m. The Way Out Club (2525 South Jefferson Avenue)

Some Girls

Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)

Whole Wheat Bread

Tuesday, January 24; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz

in your ear buds all winter long

Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11.

Ripe for Picking

Team Tomato blossoms on its third CD

Av Almighty

Unlike Jesus, Avril Lavigne will live to prove her haters wrong

Boys Night Out

Trainwreck (Ferret Music)

Idiot Savants

Green Day's politicking is simple but effective

Love Stinks

The best foul-mouthed breakup songs of all time

Repent, Sinner!

And your love of punk-pop may be forgiven

Hot Water Music with Thrice, Coheed and Cambria

Tuesday, October 22; Galaxy

Best Store For Used CDs or Vinyl

Vintage Vinyl

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists with Juno and Stepleader

Friday, Aug. 24; Rocket Bar

Teenage Wasteland

Good music from some bad girls, the Donnas

BUCKING TRADITION

Clog dancer Rush McAllister takes the unusual step of recording his fancy footwork