Iggy Pop

The Best Shows at 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 >>

Johnny Depp to Collaborate With Nick Cave, Tom Waits on Album of Sea Shanty Songs?

Has anyone noticed that Johnny Depp is a musician now? Wait, has everyone but me noticed that Johnny Depp has been a musician...always? I mean, aside from his singing in movies that I slept through because I thought it'd be funny to get drunk beforehand. Maybe this is just news to me. See Also: - ... More >>

Ten Songs For Hating On Stupid Idiot 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 >>

2012: The Year in St. Louis Music

Getting Bored and Angry at Lamb of God: Review and Photos

Lamb of God | Hatebreed | In Flames | Sylosis The Pageant November 7, 2012 Before I start trashing one of the most popular metal bands on the planet, let me offer my credentials: In 1989, I saw Sepultura at the Bridgeton Soccer club at just nine years old. I got in trouble for spray painting the S ... More >>

The Six Best Songs About Dogs

Last week we counted down the six best songs about cats. In the name of fairness - and as a continuation of the Nitpick Six Animal Series, here are the six best songs about dogs. Let us know your favorite dog tracks in the comments below. 6. Deerhoof - "Kidz Are So Small" Kidz Are So Small by Deerh ... More >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard on the Grifter Blues, Songwriting and Ringo Starr

In the interest of full disclosure, I've known Ray Wylie Hubbard for going on 15 years, have crashed at his home in the hills of Wimberley, Texas and once rode on his tour bus (OK, it was borrowed) to one of Wille Nelson's picnics. I consider him a friend, in the same way, I suppose, I would conside ... More >>

A Comprehensive Guide to Record Store Day 2012

This just in: Vinyl is BACK! Now in its fifth year, Record Store Day has made its international mark, recognized by labels, bands, and collectors worldwide. Celebrating the cultural impact of the independent record store, RSD offers everything from live performances to special discounts to limited e ... More >>

23 Musicians with Michele Bachmann Eyes: Horrifying and Hypnotic

Jeff Tweedy as the Queen of Rage​Michelle Bachmann's Newsweek cover, on which she stares out icily over the headline The Queen Of Rage, has provoked intense reaction, mostly because of Bachmann's rapidly ballooning public caricature, but at least partly because the look in her eyes is somethin ... More >>

Smoking Popes' Josh Caterer On Deciding To Do A Concept Record And Touring

Katie Hovland​Josh Caterer, lead singer and one of the three Caterer brothers in the four-piece Smoking Popes, was compared to his grandparents' crooners while he wrote torch songs like "Need You Around" in his early twenties and sang about fatherhood and adulthood on 2008's Stay Down, the ban ... More >>

The Dum Dum Girls' retro-pop perfection comes into clear focus on new EP

For St. Louis music fanatics of the mid-'70s, Akashic Records was a haven of counterculture cool

Interview Outtakes: Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis on Making Music and Liking Katy Perry over Lady Gaga

Dove Shore​Tonight is the long-awaited, very-sold-out Girl Talk show at the Pageant. In this week's paper, D.X. Ferris spoke with Gregg Gillis, the man behind the moniker. (Note: The author is a fellow Pittsburgh native who grew up in the same classic-rock-obsessed area and witnessed Girl Talk ... More >>

Review Photos: King Khan and the Shrines Are Sensational at 2720 Cherokee, Sunday October 3

photos by Keegan Hamilton​Standing in the crowd, arms crossed, clutching a mixed drink and bobbing his head to the jangly punk rock of opening act Gentleman Jesse and His Men, King Khan looked like a regular dude. He wore thick black frame glasses and Converse sneakers, and sported an immaculately ... More >>

Review Setlist: The National Glows Past the Gloom at the Pageant, Thursday, September 30

Jason StoffThe National at the Pageant.​ Click here for more pics from The National.The National was in chatty mood at the Pageant, or perhaps baritone intoner Matt Berninger and brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner were just trying to fill the awkward silences between the acts of their rock opera ve ... More >>

Party in the Park: The first LouFest was an unqualified musical success

LouFest, Day Two: Alejandro Escovedo

Jon GitchoffAlejandro Escovedo at LouFest. More photos from day two here.​Alejandro Escovedo, who had the unenviable task of playing before Jeff Tweedy, is cooler than all of us. That's a simple, unassailable fact - and not just because he sported a long-sleeved jacket, as if to spite the humi ... More >>

Moolah Theatre & Lounge's Sean McElroy: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Alissa Nelson profiles Moolah Theatre & Lounge bartender Sean McElroy. Below is a Q&A with McElroy, followed by a video of him mixing an Old-Fashioned. Alissa Nelson​Sean McEl ... More >>

Show Review Photos: Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears Rolls Nice and Rough at Off Broadway, Sunday, June 27

Katie MoultonGood luck trying to capture anyone still at a Black Joe Lewis show​With every music writer in America comparing Black Joe Lewis to shout-it-out soul idols Wilson Pickett and James Brown himself, I expected last night's show at Off Broadway to be all about the man and his vocals. I ... More >>

Nightclubbing: South City Pinball, Punk and PBR Emporium The Silver Ballroom

(Welcome to Nightclubbing, our new weekly feature where we highlight new bars and clubs in town -- or remind you of some old favorites you may have forgotten. Hear of any new bars/clubs/venues opening? Email our clubs editor, Diana Benanti.) Diana BenantiSilver Ballroom owner Steve "Doc" Dachroeden ... More >>

Raised On Radio: A new book about KSHE lovingly documents St. Louis music history

Invisible Touch: The King Khan & BBQ Show Keeps up its rowdy live act and genre-defying ways on a new album and tour

Show Review Photos: The Mars Volta at the Pageant, Tuesday, September 8

When the Mars Volta unleashed its 2002 debut EP, Tremulant, some critics cheekily tagged the band "Punk Floyd." Given that vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez cut their teeth in the castle-storming emo-core outfit At The Drive-In, it seemed natural that "punk" would the ... More >>

Show Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Grand Ole Party and Pajo at The Pageant, June 2

Photo: Todd OwyoungKaren O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Pageant. More photos here.Yeah Yeah Yeahs' singer Karen O has crafted a persona as a shabby-chic fashion icon, a vulnerable diva, and some sort of female version of Iggy Pop. She has dated music video director Spike Jonze and is involved in t ... More >>

Best and Worst of Stadium Rock

Tonight, at the Scottrade Center, one of my all time favorite bands will rock the collective ass of St. Louis for all that it's worth. Ladies and Gentlemen, AC/DC is in the house. I know, I don't really seem the sort to love AC/DC, but what can I say? Maybe it's the screech of Brian Johnson's vocals ... More >>

Show Review Photos: Scott Weiland, Eagles of Death Metal and Cold War Kids at the Pageant, Wednesday, December 17

Picture the dirtiest dive bar you know. Stale cigarette smoke loiters in the air. Hockey or basketball plays on a TV over the bar, which has signs everywhere advertising cheap beer specials. The bartenders always look tired, their skin leathery, their fashion dated. Usually, the dive bar has karao ... More >>

Oxford Collapse joins Love as Laughter at the Bluebird, on tour in support of its Sub Pop LP, Bits

Give 'Em an Inch

And Hedwig will stalk you for miles

Joy Division

Unknown Pleasures
Closer
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Still Precious After All These Years

B-Sides gets real with our favorite Pretender and theSTART's Aimee Echo.

Legendary St. Louis 'zine Jet Lag goes digital.

Plus, the winner of the RFT DJ Spin-off.

"Without the Nights, the musical landscape of St. Louis would be drastically different."

Week of February 15, 2007

The Next Big Thing

A middle-aged couple with a million dollars and a big dream: To make St. Louis a pop-music hub

Death Warmed Over

Romance is alive...and dead in Just Like Heaven

Diane Horner's Country Line Dancing (1992)

Blind Phyllis learns the "Tush Push"

Thirsty Like the Wolf

Drinking games, zombies, pompadours and fire: the wonderful world of Guitar Wolf

Summer Film Previews

Our critics enter the summer-movie fray

All the Young Punks

The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center relieves social constipation, one ear-splitting roar at a time

Repent, Sinner!

And your love of punk-pop may be forgiven

Gone but Not Forgotten

The dark legend of GG Allin still drives the Murder Junkies

Film Openings

Week of June 11, 2003

Getting Free

Will Aussie exports the Vines survive the "saviors of rock" hype?

Just Like Candy

Jack and Meg White resist the spoils of success

Hed East

SIU-Edwardsville students go to camp with a production of Hedwig

Cyberpunk

Though technology plays the villain in many punk-rock dystopias, the St. Louis Punk Page strengthens the local scene

Band Aid

Ronald Reagan was president, Michael Jackson and Phil Collins ruled the charts and a bunch of little rock bands were changing lives

The 2001 RFT Slammies

Homeboy superstar Nelly tops the list of readers' favorite local musicians

Frank Talk

Frank Black is pissed about a lot of things, especially brainless rockers who just want to meet chicks and asinine questions about his old band, the Pixies

Guitars on Mars

Gary Lucas has performed with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, John Zorn and Allen Ginsberg. Now he's visiting St. Louis to perform alongside the silent film The Golem.

Days of Heaven