Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.I pulled up a bar stool to get to work at the Office. A black-and-white cat the size of an obese panther hopped onto the bar and then flopped against my chest, belly-up and purring. I shouldn't feel special -- he did this to everyone. When he ran out of suckers at the bar, he meand
To go along with yesterday's announcement of Sonic Youth on July 17, here's the entire line-up for Fair St. Louis and Live on the Levee -- below!
Fair St. Louis:
Friday, July 3
6:00 p.m. Magnolia Summer
8:00 p.m. Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Pageant
*18 & Life: The Favazz and KSHE Anniversary Show starring Joe Dirt and the Dirty Boys Band and The Who Band: A Tribute to the Who, Friday, June 19
*The Robert Cray Band, Tuesday, July 7
*The Wallflowers, Sunday July 26
*Rusted Root, Monday, July 27
*Xavier Rudd, Saturday, August 8
Friday, July 24
*Angie Stone/Soul Alliance/Leandra, Live on the Levee
*Sybris/King Thief, Cicero's
*Coldplay, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
*TobyMac, Six Flags
*Jaime Foxx, Chaifetz Arena
*Skeletonwitch/Saviours/Trap Them, Firebird
*Funky Butt Brass Band CD Release, Broadway Oyster Bar
*John Maxfield Band CD Release, The Library
*Those Darlins/The Builders and Butchers, Off Broadway
*Octopus Project, Luminary Center for the Arts
Heard rumblings about this last year, but my suspicions were confirmed yesterday: Local singer-songwriter Todd Sarvies -- better known as John Boy's Courage -- is one of fourteen contestants on P. Diddy's new MTV reality series, StarMaker. (Which, you might remember, held auditions at Blueberry Hill last August.) The show, which premieres on August 16 at 9 p.m. STL time, focuses on singers who, well, want to become stars. The trailer for the show features Sarvies busting out some Fall Out Boy (a
You know what you're going to get with a Gretchen Wilson set: no-frills, unpretentious, hard-twanging country-rock tunes - with emphasis on the rock. Her mid-afternoon set kicked off with the 2004 hit "Here For the Party." Sporting a black camisole, sparkly silver belt and jeans and big hoop earrings, the Pocahontas, Illinois, native grinned her way through the tune.
Wilson's songs about hard-working men and women - those who prefer beer and whiskey, and jeans and T-shirts, to fancier things -
