Iggy Pop

David Bowie is Real-Life Space Alien. No, Seriously.

David Bowie is an Alien. No, really. We Mean it. I've had this idea marinating for a long time. Like, years. I've floated it to various sources and it's been met with reactions that vary from amused to annoyed, but I'm dead serious: I really think David Bowie is an alien. An extraterrestrial. A bei ... More >>

Ten Songs To Get Busy To On Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, one of the most polarizing of all holidays. Do you enjoy taking this day as a reminder to appreciate your loved ones and get romantic? Or are you annoyed by a manufactured holiday that brings out candy-coated bullshit and makes the lonely feel lonelier? Either way, we a ... More >>

The Ten Best Music Videos Featuring Zombies

I'm rereading the first 40 or so issues of The Walking Dead comics, since The Walking Dead TV show returns to AMC this Sunday, October 14. I'm super-psyched about the third season -- my friends are developing a drinking game around how many times Carl gets lost, and I'm more than ready to see Rick G ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From August 13 to 19

You can actually comfortably go outside today! The temperatures are supposed to be in the 80s. It's been so damn oppressively damn hot this whole damn summer that this respite, however brief, is newsworthy on even a music blog. My massively overtaxed air conditioner is assuredly on its last leg, but ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 9 to 15

The Monday after Independence Day weekend is one most brutal. After a full weekend of barbecue and beer and illegal fireworks, going to work seems all the more objectionable. I'm too damned hungover on Freedom to be productive, personally. My "word of the day" today is "aliquant," which even my spel ... More >>

Re-Animating a Classic

Pierced Arrows at the Gramophone, 4/24/12: Review

Pierced Arrows | Doom Town | Alley Ghost The Gramophone April 24, 2012 Ever have one of those nights when leave a concert thinking, "man, I am getting too old for this?" Sure you have, and Fred Cole's got the antidote for that decrepit feeling. Here's a guy who turns 64 this August, who's been re ... More >>

Babylon's Burning

Punk's Baby Photos

Recent Kings Of Leon Cop-Out Vindicates St. Louis in "Pigeon Gate"

Erin KinsellaPre-pigeon gate: Kings of Leon at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 23, 2010.​The day has come. A little more than a year ago, Kings of Leon aborted its concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater after just three songs, claiming, in an incident forever to be mocked as "p ... 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 >>

Akashic Records: A Long-Lost Haven of Counterculture Cool, Full of Stooges Fans

courtesy of Denis TolerAkashic Records, back in the day​This week's music feature is a look back at Akashic Records, which was the hippiest record shop in town for a brief moment in the '70s. Writer Jack Partain talked to principal characters and musicians associated with the shop, and reconst ... More >>

Best of Blowback: Top 10 RFT Reader Responses

This one's for you, dear readers.​ In honor of this year's Best of St. Louis issue, which hits the street today (woohoo!), we at RFT wanted to honor a different kind of "best" -- the best contributions from you, our readers. In the last year, your comments have made us laugh. They've made us cry ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend Night Two: Samuriot, Tenement Ruth, Beth Bombara and Cassie Morgan, The Orbz and The Hibernauts

Night two of An Under Cover Weekend featured a little something for everyone, a nice reminder of another one of the event's benefits: the ability to bring disparate crowds together. Most of this diverse crowd was still filtering in during Samuriot's opening set as third-wave ska legends Reel Big Fi ... More >>

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul (Finally) Gets an Official Release

EMI RecordsDavid Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse​Last spring, the late Mark Linkous (a.k.a. the man behind Sparklehorse) attempted to release what would be one of his final projects, Dark Night of the Soul. The album was a collaboration between Linkous and infamous musician/producer, Dang ... More >>

Eight Bizarre TV Commercial-Song Pairings, As Inspired by Red Stripe's Frankie Goes to Hollywood Re-Write

Image via​On Monday, Red Stripe premiered a new ad for its delicious, delicious beer. The video clip features the Red Stripe Ambassador -- shades of the Old Spice smooth-talker, perhaps? -- dancing to a Stephen Marley-produced, reggae cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's '80s synthpop hit "Rel ... More >>

Jemina Pearl

8 p.m. Monday, February 8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Jemina Pearl and the Ettes Coming to the Firebird

Jemina Pearl, the ex-vocalist of Be Your Own Pet released a solo album, Break It Up, earlier this year. She'll be at the Firebird on Monday, February 8. The Ettes are opening. Here's Pearl dueting with Iggy Pop!

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

8 p.m. Thursday, November 19. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Apropos of Nothing: LEGO David Bowie, New Order Autograph Forgeries and New-Wave Kids

*The video game LEGO Rock Band is due out later this year. And two of the artists included in the game are Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Why yes, you can totally play "Let's Dance," as a plastic model of Bowie croons along. The game's attention to detail is incredible: Iggy's abs are killer, and the blo ... More >>

The Mars Volta

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 8. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

The Boss Martians

9 p.m. Friday, May 16. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

Punk's Not Dead, the Movie: In St. Louis at the Tivoli, Friday, November 9

Tracklists for Joy Division Reissues on Rhino -- Vinyl! Studio albums! Control soundtrack! Killers covering "Shadowplay"!

Lollapalooza, Day Three: A Review

theSTART at the Creepy Crawl, July 30: Bonus Interview footage

Stooges: The SXSW Interview

South by Southwest by Annie

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

Shake Appeal: The Stooges at SXSW

Lean and 'Zine

The Stooges

The Weirdness (Virgin)

Of Caddies and Paddies

Music Sounds Better with You

A wrap-up of the RFT's DJ spin-off

Fat Boys

A gang of elderly, seedy Mississippi bluesmen come to your home...in DVD form

Dead Man (1995)

Jim Jarmusch at his most subtle

Taxi

Friday, July 30; CBGB

The U.S. Senior Open in St. Louis?

It's a Cinderella story

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of June 23, 2004

A Good Buzz

Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes

Riverboat Gamblers with Boss Martians

Saturday, May 15; Off Broadway

I, Henry

Henry Rollins has something to say, and you'd better listen

Whole Sick Crew, Fred's Variety Group, the Spiders and the Pubes

Friday, September 5; Hi-Pointe

The Big Chill

Tuxedos optional at housewarming

Terrible Beauty

Iggy Pop, rock & roll's Dmitri Karamazov, unleashes the acetylene-torch fury of his heart

Hall Pass

Looking for influence, significance, development and perpetuation at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Murder City Devils with the Yo-Yos and the Catheters

Monday, Aug. 7; Side Door

VENUS IN FURS

A bona fide Rock Star, the false-eyelash-worshiping John Petkovic, holds forth

"EXTREME" NOISE TERROR

The best loud stuff Japan has to offer

Buckcherry

Thursday, Dec. 9; Mississippi Nights

IGGY POP

Avenue B (Virgin Records)