Internet Broadcasting

[VIDEO] No One is Sadder Than the Saddest Little Cardinal

Meet Cy, the Saddest Little Cardinal. Only a four-year-old could adequately sum up how we were all feeling on Monday night when the Cards decided, mehhh, they were done playing baseball and donated the most important game of the season to the Giants. "They're not winning! They're not going to the ... More >>

First Aid Kit

8:45 p.m. Saturday, October 6. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Alan Evans Trio

9 p.m. Tuesday, September 4. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Man Discovers Magical "St. Louis Hat" [VIDEO]

This Finnish man has found a "St. Louis hat" with the magical power to help him speak "little better American language," then proves it with his very best impression of a free-spirited Midwestern dude. Gives us a hankerin' for a road trip! Apparently the "Tykylevits" are documenting their summer va ... More >>

Brevity is...Wit.

Sikeston Musician's Homemade Millennium Falcon Guitar Earns YouTube Fame

Star Wars is a beastly franchise -- a film series to which legions and legions of fans don't hesitate to pay tribute. But a Missouri musician upped the badassery ante recently with an awe-inspiring Millennium Falcon guitar. Brian Fisk -- a country music artist who resides in Sikeston -- has made se ... More >>

Home Movies

VIDEO: Crotch-Rocket Cowboys Terrorize St. Louis

YouTubeImagine this in your rearview mirror. Not distracting. Not at all.​It's called the "Ride of the Century" even though it happens once a year on the interstates running through St. Louis. Last weekend the motorcycle stunt team Streetfighterz, hosted its 2011 edition of the ride. As local medi ... More >>

Bobby Flay as Michael Scott? Chef Makes His Version of The Office.

You know what we don't see nearly enough on television? Bobby Flay running his mouth. We also don't get nearly enough episodes of The Office, between NBC's summer reruns, several syndicated episodes every night, and three-hour "Office Blocks" on TBS several nights a week. Hey! What if Bobby Flay ... More >>

The Antlers

9:30 p.m. Friday, June 10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Jimmy Eat World

8 p.m. Saturday, May 28. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Jacob Tucker: Kid From Illinois College Is Slam Dunk Phenom

The Post-Dispatch today has a nice profile on Jacob Tucker, a student at the Division III school of Illinois College who recently won the NCAA's slam dunk contest. Here's a video that the five-foot-eleven-inch Tucker and his friends made that got over four million YouTube views and earned him an inv ... More >>

VIDEO: Arizona Suspect Jared Loughner Dresses in Trash Bag, Mask, Burns U.S. Flag

If you're still trying to understand the mind of Jared Loughner, the man accused of murdering six people and critically wounding several others -- including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- during a shooting rampage Saturday in Tucson, look no further. Here's a video Loughner posted on his YouTub ... More >>

Girl Talk in St. Louis = Sold Out

Hope you have tickets to Girl Talk's January 18 show: According to the Pageant, it just sold out, a month after it was announced. Here's a video of Girl Talk from Pittsburgh. (It took me a while to find this; you can only imagine what comes up on YouTube if you search "girl talk.")

Fitz and the Tantrums Comes to St. Louis

"Did Motown and Bowie have a love child?" asks a YouTube commenter underneath the video for Fitz and the Tantrums' "MoneyGrabber." Astute observation: The LA band's modus operandi is indeed horn-laden soul with a twist of glam. Fitz & the Tantrums will be at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room on Saturday ... More >>

What What? Samwell and Jon Hamm Duke It Out On YouTube

Of course you remember Samwell. How could you not remember Samwell? The Chicago flight attendant starred in the 2007 YouTube sensation "What What (In the Butt)" -- a video in which he coyly sings, "You want to do it in my butt?"Hey! Don Draper! Want to do it in his butt?​That video was produced by ... More >>

Cardinals vs. Reds, As Soundtracked by Disturbed

Gotta hand it to hardcore YouTube users: Just hours after last night's epic St. Louis Cardinals-Cincinnati Reds brawl, people had already posted homemade videos set to music. This one, which matches Disturbed's "Bodies" with shaky TV footage of the melee, is particularly fitting.

Cardinals vs. Reds, As Soundtracked by Drowning Pool

Gotta hand it to hardcore YouTube users: Just hours after last night's epic St. Louis Cardinals-Cincinnati Reds brawl, people had already posted homemade videos set to music. This one, which matches Disturbed's Drowning Pool's "Bodies" with shaky TV footage of the melee, is particularly fitting.

Comedian Doug Stanhope Returns to St. Louis in November

Comedian Doug Stanhope is not even remotely safe for work, so we'll spare the gory details, but we do know this: He's just booked a show at the Firebird on Saturday, November 6. Tickets are $20 (with a $2 minor surcharge; the show's 18-plus) and they're on sale today right here. Here's one of the ta ... More >>

James Mason Would Like You To Enjoy Thunderbird Wine

A colleague passed along this YouTube gem: a commercial for Thunderbird wine featuring the great James Mason. Perfect for the end of the week and, unlike most of stuff Gut Check, throws up here, perfectly SFW:

Video: The Dead Weather Open Its St. Louis Show with "60 Feet Tall"

Miss the Dead Weather concert on Saturday night at the Pageant? Besides reading our review of the night, the next-best-thing might be this video uploaded to YouTube. Great sound, great quality -- and amazing amounts of attitude. Enjoy.

Video: Missourians Protest Red-Light "SCAMeras"

YouTubeA "scamera" protester in Kansas City.​A Missouri group called Liberty Restoration Project had planned eleven rallies nationwide this past Sunday to protest the use of red-light cameras. Kansas City was one of the towns that actually participated in the Valentine's Day protest. St. Louis was ... More >>

St. Louis Video: The Ramones, "Psycho Therapy," 1990 at the Fabulous Fox

The YouTube treasures of yesteryear continue, with this footage of punk legends the Ramones at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, circa 1990. "Psycho Therapy" comes from 1983's Subterranean Jungle, one of the band's lesser-known discs.

St. Louis Video: Johnnie Johnson and David Krull

The great piano man Johnnie Johnson passed away in 2005. However, thanks to YouTube, his effortless playing lives on. Here's footage of an encore from a Sheldon concert. Johnson is performing with David Krull. The fluidity of Johnson's performance and the dulcet tones he's coaxing from the piano are ... More >>

What Happens When Michael Jackson Enters Super Mario Brothers' World?

If you're at work today, chances are you're ticked that you don't have the day off -- like (what seems like) everybody else in America does. In times like these, I like to bust out random bits of absurdity and foolishness, in hopes of making the workday that much brighter. Such as the following YouT ... More >>

A to Z Gets a Cease-and-Desist Letter for...Linking to a Blog?

Timothy Norris/LA WeeklyLady Gaga in LA, 12/23/09​​Last Thursday, to preview Lady Gaga's show at the Fox that night, I posted about a Nirvana-Lady Gaga mashup floating around the Internet. In that post, I embedded the YouTube video and a link to the where the mashup originated: a blog post on th ... More >>

VIDEO: Hotel Valets Get Fast and Furious with Guests' Cars

The Tokyo Drift has arrived to the Midwest -- specifically the underground parking garage of the downtown St. Louis Hyatt Hotel. Check out this YouTube clip of parking valets abusing guests' cars at the hotel.  Sure, peel out in the 'Vette. But the late-90s Honda Civic? Why, that could be my ri ... More >>

Sick Puppies

7 p.m. Sunday, December 13. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Video: The New Heathers, "Agatha"

Oh, those wacky kids in the New Heathers. Last week on YouTube, the Ludo side project posted a video for the song "Agatha," which was filmed in loving homage to/honor of the '80s classic Stand By Me. Check it out below.

Video: The Muppets do Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"

This lighthearted ditty made the rounds yesterday, but on this holiday-weekend eve, it's worth posting. In honor of Freddie Mercury's 1991 death, this video surfaced on YouTube of the Muppets singing along to "Bohemian Rhapsody." Awww. Amazing. View it below. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Video: Paula Deen Hit in the Face with a Ham

When I first heard about this, I assumed some crazed animal-rights protestor had chucked a ham at Paula Deen on account of her ties with Smithfield. Nope. Just this. Ouch.Update @ 3 p.m.: Ah, the copyright police have struck YouTube again, it seems. You can see the original here.

Rap Lyrics or Deranged Terrorist Threat? You Decide!

An Illinois judge is left to fill in the blanks.​Not that rap lyrics are required to rhyme, but we here at Daily RFT are having the darndest time imagining the following sentence as musical verse: If this account doesn't reach $50,000 in the next 7 days then a murderous rampage similar to the VT s ... More >>

The Great Google Wave Spaz-Out of 09

Photo by Sam Howzit via Flickr (creative commons attribution 2.0)​Last week Google sent out the first batch of 100,000 invites for their new collaboration product Google Wave, resulting in the most ridiculous jockeying for invites since Joost a couple of years back. Twitter went crazy with otherwi ... More >>

Tuesday, September 15: Calendar Pimp Suggests

  Every single Blues highlight clip on YouTube, whether for individual players or the team as a whole, is set to the worst music in the world. I have never heard so much 311 in my life, and I lived through the summer of "Down." The above video is no exception, so turn your speakers off. Or lea ... More >>

Video: Alejandro Escovedo at Twangfest; Recalling Wasted Night at Cicero's

Here's a YouTube clip of Alejandro Escovedo headlining Twangfest last week at the Pageant. Escovedo prefaces the song "Sensitive Boys" with a recollection of a wild night (or two) he spent playing the old Cicero's club back when he was with the band The True Believers.

Video: Cyndi Lauper Covers Christine McVie

Now, as Christian Schaeffer pointed out this week, Christine McVie will not be with Fleetwood Mac tonight. Aw. However. I had no idea until a few months ago that one of Cyndi Lauper's first recorded sessions was a cover of Christine McVie's "You Make Loving Fun." Thanks to YouTube, here it is!  ... More >>

Eating Contest: Kobayashi vs. a Kodiak Bear (Really)

Though Gut Check has a general distaste for competitive eating, the breathless commentary on this YouTube clip is too entertaining to ignore.

U2 vs. Escape Club, "Get On Your Boots in the Wild, Wild West"

This idea has been floating around ever since U2 released "Get On Your Boots" last year, but thanks to YouTube, it's now a reality. Here's some rock math-like mash-up of the new single. (Now all they need is to add Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" to this, and we're all set...) Snaps to Jason for findi ... More >>

Miserable "National Grouch Day" To You!

Soviet-Era Estonian Meat Commercial Will Haunt Your Dreams

St. Louis Video: Murphy's Law, "Stepping Stone" Live, 1989

St. Louis Video: Flaming Lips Live on Fox2 News in 2000, "Waiting for a Superman"

St. Louis Video: L7, "Loudmouth" at Bernard's Pub, 1988

Want to buy the Galaxy's P.A.?

Ska Dad Does His Best Mr. Clean Impression

Danzig Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" = Pure Comedy Gold

VNV Nation

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The Oranges Band / SHed SHot

9 p.m. Tuesday, November 28. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

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