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Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control

The Future Is Fine: Streaming music isn't evil, it's just different

Slay's Latest Playoff Wager [UPDATED]

Updated October 23: Were we the only ones who thought this would never happen? But let it be said of our mayor: He is a man who knows how to take his lumps. On the bright side, think of the flacks in the SF City Hall who have to eat t-rav now. Original post after the jump.

Illegal Downloading Is Wrong, But I Do It Anyway

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. Question: If you were in the middle of a riot, streets overrun with people freaking out, smashing windows ... More >>

The Final Guy Fieri Round-Up: Dressel's, Highway 61 Roadhouse and (Maybe) Espinos

Since last week, we've been stalking tracking the visits that Guy Fieri made while in town filming for Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Yesterday, we added The Shaved Duck (2900 Virginia Avenue; 314-776-1407) to a list that already included Anthonino's Taverna (2225 Macklind Avenue; 314-773-4455) and fo ... More >>

Ryan Mifflin on the Problem of "Heard Of" but "Not Heard"

Ed. Musicians may get all the groupies, but there is more to a city's music world than people wielding instruments. To name a few: venue and studio owners, show promoters, assorted enthusiasts and -- the subject of this series -- bloggers. In Music Blogs of St. Louis, we'll talk to the humans behi ... More >>

Mysterious New Taco Truck for St. Louis? [Updated]

Driving around the city this morning and early afternoon, I spotted a new -- to me, at least -- food truck. Tacomovil was painted across the back of the truck in big letters, so I assume that's the truck's name. Actually, I spotted it twice: first, heading westbound on Market Street; then, half an ... More >>

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 >>

St. Louis Is the Fourth-Most Romantic City

​Just in time for Valentine's Day (ugh, thanks Hallmark), Foursquare has determined that we're the fourth-most romantic city in the country. This information was gleaned by searching more than 1.5 billion check-ins made by couples on the social media system at typically romantic places such as win ... More >>

Murphy Lee, 2011 STL Twitter Champ: His Twenty Best Tweets

​ It used to be something that I just did while trapped in my car. Waiting to pick up a friend at the airport? Check Murphy Lee's Twitter account. Sitting in stopped traffic on the highway? Check Murphy Lee's Twitter account. Pull up to the crib and see a creeper hanging outside and need to wa ... More >>

Eric Hall Announces Residency, Concert At Laumeier Sculpture Park

Mabel SuenEric Hall performs at KDHX for experimental show Wrong Division (Hosted by the author and photographer)​​As a teenager, Eric Hall would sneak into Laumeier Sculpture Park before dawn to capture the disparate sound of insects and animals as they woke with the rising sun. On November 12t ... More >>

Steve Jobs' Six Best Music Innovations

Apple (the Beatles record label) once sued Apple (the computer corporation). After initial squabbles over the right to name their companies after the same fruit, the two agreed that all was good as long as Steve Jobs and crew never entered the music business. As you can probably guess, as you likely ... More >>

Video: Andrew Breitbart Tells Dana Loesch to Butt Out

Adam Shriver: Blogger v. Blogger​Progressive activist and blogger Adam Shriver finally got an opportunity to debate conservative activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart this weekend when the latter showed up in St. Louis for a move-on-up.org conference. Shriver, a doctoral student at Washington Univ ... More >>

Death Cab For Cutie Will Be Probably Won't Be At Vintage Vinyl At 6 p.m. TODAY! [Update]

GO GO GO​Final Update: Atlantic's web team accidentally posted the announcement to Death Cab's page instead of Marc Broussard's. Read more here. Update #2 (IMPORTANT): The initial post (and its sixty-plus ecstatic comments) has disappeared from Death Cab's Facebook Page and Twitter feed, whic ... More >>

Missouri Teachers Seek Clarity on New Law Prohibiting Them From "Friending" Students

Some teachers are giving the new law a big thumbs down.​Under a new Missouri law, teachers who "friend" a current or former student on Facebook could soon run afoul of state codes. Senate Bill 54 first raised flags back in June when a teacher urged its veto after he used Facebook to help locate st ... More >>

Rebecca Black's "My Moment": The Fleeting YouTube Glitch That Almost Saved Us

Image via the video, which we will not link to for what should be obvious reasons.​Rebecca Black (she of... you know) has debuted her second single, "My Moment." It's way better than "Friday," but still terrible: A totally anonymous Disney-pop confection with a flat hook and mind-numbingly (b ... More >>

The Red Lion in Maplewood Closed [Updated]

​A reader reached out to us via Twitter to ask about the fate of the Red Lion (7336 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-645-4200). I stopped by just now, after its posted 11 a.m. opening, and found the restaurant closed and apparently empty of any employees about to open it. It looked as if some furni ... More >>

One Less Gay Blog in St. Louis

Someone needs to blog this!​The St. Louis blogosphere is officially a little less gay, with the virtual shuttering of GayStLouis.com. Tony Bossaller has run the site since 1998, an eternity in online terms. The site has grown and changed over the years, beginning as a lesbian, gay, bisexual and tr ... More >>

Post of the Month: "New Age of Crave": White Castle Introduces New Breakfast -- and New Direction!

Gut Check is constantly working to bring the latest food news to our readers. As a result, we do a lot of blogging. In an effort to draw attention to great posts that may have otherwise been lost in the blogosphere (and to recognize our hard-working writers), we present Post of the Month. Katie M ... More >>

St. Louis Ranked No. 24 in List of Social Media Cities

St. Louis: Average tweety birds.​We're generally pretty skeptical of the endless number of lists ranking U.S. cities on everything from street crime to tipping servers at restaurants. That said, the list out this week from Men's Health seems somewhat scientific. Editors at the magazine compiled th ... More >>

Yeah, Pomplamoose sold out to Hyundai, but this indie duo just might revolutionize the music business

Gut Check Joins Facebook (Poke Us and Die)

​Yes, Gut Check has been dragged kicking and screaming into the Aughts: We now have a Facebook page, which you can "Like." Join us there for all the news, insight and irreverence you've come to expect from this here blog and our Twitter account.Don't worry: We don't play Farmville, and we won't as ... More >>

The Future of News? Media Trends Suggest Social Media, Partisan Reporting and Brevity

Social Media, Version 1.0​Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism was in town yesterday to speak at a luncheon for PR professionals. Her topic, "The New News Consumer and the Future of News: Trends for 2011 and Beyond," also drew a fair numbe ... More >>

Learn About the Civil War, Facebook-Style!

Image viaFun fact: What we call "pokes" now were actually cannonballs during the Civil War. ​Remember Barack Obama's Facebook feed? What a humorous, useful and easy way to learn about what our 44th president accomplished in his first 100 days in office!With the Civil War sesquicentennial upon us, ... More >>

Thomas Lowery: East Alton Man Guilty of Sharing Heinous Porn Collection on Limewire

Limewire: The least disgusting Google image search related to this story.​Heaven knows there's been an epically disgusting porn collection or two (or two million) shared on the old Interwebz but it's hard to imagine anything more repulsive than the horde of filth accumulated and offered up for fre ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Michael Allen Has a Radiohead License Plate, a Cat Named Gibby Haynes and a Thing for Weird Vinyl

Jon Scorfina​The cultural sea change of downloading has not stopped Michael Allen's quest for vinyl LPs. A collector since childhood, Allen showed an early interest in this column and emailed us to be profiled. Though he is a self-proclaimed vinyl "junkie," it hasn't stopped him from taking ad ... More >>

Schlafly Beer's New iPhone App: A Gut Check Test Drive

[Editor's note: Schlafly Beer debuted its smart-phone app last month, and we asked two Gut Check bloggers, Robin Wheeler and Andrew Veety, to take it for a spin. Below, their respective reviews.] Robin Wheeler's take: ​Everyone loves a good shiny thing. Press a button and receive yummy tidbi ... More >>

Missouri History Museum Blog Dishes Out Old News. God Bless It!

Bagnell Dam, circa 1931​Perhaps it's the history major in me. Or maybe it's that I occasionally grow tired of scouring the interwebz all day in constant search of the latest news to report back to you dear, dear reader of Daily RFT. Whatever the case, I've recently enjoyed reading the "news" of ye ... More >>

Are You Against Local Control of the St. Louis Police Department? Then "Friend" It!

It's what you do when you're friends.​Is it me? Or does everyone and everything have a Facebook page these days? That said, are you a "friend" yet of this mouthful of a Facebook profile: "Citizens of the State of Missouri Against Local Control of the MPD-STL"?The Facebook page seems to have popped ... More >>

Literal Video: Air Supply, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"

I've blogged about these literal videos before, but YouTube user dascottjr has taken these to a new level with a bunch of really great ones. The Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" clip was deleted off YouTube (although you can see a snippet here) and this Crowded House one for "World Where Yo ... More >>

Video: I Blame Emily, "Facebook Friend"

Having a crush in the digital age is even more confusing than it was before we had Twitter, Facebook, text messaging and email. I mean, if someone doesn't respond to your direct message, is he not interested? That flirty Tweet directed to that one girl in California -- does it mean anything? A crypt ... More >>

Google Continues its Quest for World Domination with Google Voice

I finally got my Google Voice invite last week. Voice is Google's move into what has traditionally been the domain of the big telephone companies. The service is still in private beta, which means that you have to get an invite to try it out. It's very likely Google will roll out voice in a similar ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen Returning to St. Louis in October?!

According to Bruce Springsteen's official website, the Boss and his E Street cronies will be returning to St. Louis on Sunday, October 25 at the Scottrade Center. Can he top last year's show? Doubtful, but never rule out Bruuuuuuuuuuuce. No word yet from the venue on show confirmation, but ... More >>

Survey Sayz ... Internet Eating Into Family Time

Blame facebook, Twittter, Likeme.net, Myspace and all the rest. flickr.com/photos/theeponymousoneAre you addicted to the Internet? Your family knows.The social media sites -- all the rage of the Internet the past few years -- are eating into the time families spend together, according to a new surve ... More >>

And the First Cardinal on Twitter Is...

None other than Todd Wellemeyer. Congrats Todd. Notice the pitcher is following the Chicago Cubs and conservative commentators Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh. But enough about politics, lets just hope Todalion, as he's known, tweets from the bench. Or the mound? Everyone else wastes time on Twitte ... More >>

Cops Pimp Slap Craigslist on 'Erotic Services' Listings

An Open Letter to MTV Regarding MTVMusic

YouTube After Hours

Kill time outside of work

Ashley Grills Allegedly Admits Role in Megan Meier MySpace Hoax

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Deep Blue Something: Back from the Dead, and the Ocean Blue Leads Me Back to Chris Walla and St. Louis

Your Weekly Food Blog Digest

Your Weekly Food Blog Digest

Living Dolls

What’s in Pandora’s box? The RIAA, Journey and Karl Marx, among others.

Punk's Not Dead

Stlpunk.com, that is, with new owner John Mancuso.

Last Year's Model

It might be the last dance for St. Louis' independent record stores.

Don't Fear the Editor

Hey, St. Louis musicians — don't be shy

Various Artists

Beatwave Presents Argentina (Sonic360)