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The 20 Best Concerts That Happened in St. Louis in 2012, According to Us

It's been another steller year for live music in St. Louis, whether you were looking for the most legendary living pop artist or the quiet birth of a powerful local band. We've racked our brans and come up with our twenty favorite shows (they're listed below), but what tops your list? Was it The Ur ... More >>

Tenacious D at the Pageant, 7/23/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

Tenacious D The Pageant July 23, 2012 Tenacious D has the biggest dick in rock and roll. Not that I've seen too many rock band dicks -- I can't think of any offhand, actually -- but still I think it's safe to say Tenacious D's looming twenty foot dick easily towers above them all. Allow me to exp ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 23 to 29

Attention cheap and poor folks in St. Louis: Four of the ten shows listed here this week won't cost you a dime! Tenacious D at Vintage vinyl (better show up early to ensure entry though -- big band, small venue), David Beeman & Kit Hamon of Old Lights playing a more intimate set at Plush, then back ... More >>

((Thorlock))

10 p.m. Sunday, July 8. Lemmons, 5800 Gravois Avenue.

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 2 to 8

In case you hadn't heard, fireworks displays are cancelled all over town this year because everything is on fire. Fair St. Louis is just about the only game left in town, which is convenient for our music-related purposes since that's also where Heart will be playing this Wednesday. Other than that, ... More >>

Tenacious D Will Do an In-Store Performance at Vintage Vinyl

Jack Black and Kyle Gass, also known as the self-proclaimed "Greatest Band in the World," Tenacious D, will be doing a special in-store performance at Vintage Vinyl on Monday, July 23. The appearance will precede their now sold-out show at the Pageant, giving fans who didn't get tickets in time a se ... More >>

Deep in the heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie

DJ: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a month away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Over the next month, we'll be making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year. Each weekday between now and the showcase ... More >>

Tenacious D is Coming to the Pageant

Tenacious D has just announced a show at the Pageant. It's July 23, or roughly a month after the release of the band's third album, Rize of the Fenix. Tickets are $39.50 for general admission or $44.50 for reserved balcony seats. They go on sale this Friday, March 30 at 10 a.m., but there's a Face ... More >>

The Muppets and Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium

​Walter grew up in Smalltown, USA, the kind of place whose population number (literally) flips every time a vehicle rolls into or out of town. He's the adorable felt brother and best friend of Gary (Jason Segel) who, after stumbling across old episodes of The Muppet Show, becomes enchanted with th ... More >>

Seth Rogen schlubs it up as The Green Hornet's masked man

Last Collector Standing: Carlos Ruiz Isn't a Pretentious Record Store Guy -- He Just Draws a Comic About One

Jon Scorfina​The "pretentious record store guy" has long been the bane of the record shop. Despite their wealth of archaic knowledge, music lovers were never sure whether these pompous clerks were an asset or a plague to their shopping experience. Local comic artist and graphic designer Carlos ... More >>

Rush Documentary Screening at Ronnies in June

If Rush's August show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater won't have enough air-drumming dudes and epic prog breakdowns for you, fear not: Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, a documentary on the band directed by the men behind Iron Maiden: Flight 666, is screening in St. Louis on June 10. Says a press ... More >>

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Gladys Knight & the Pips, "Midnight Train to Georgia"

The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which ... More >>

Coming (at You) Soon: Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

Apocalypse Whatever: Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Last Night: Jargon Opens at Mad Art Gallery

Laughing Pains

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

Test My Balls of Fury

Lazy review or lazy movie?

Gentleman Auction House Recording an Album at Silver Sonya Studios

Weed Killer

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Nothing But the Truth

Columbia's True/False Festival is the coolest four-year-old in Missouri.

Film Openings

Week of December 7, 2006

Woman's Glib

The awful truth about Nancy Meyers.

Film Openings

Week of November 23, 2006

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

What's the deal with Mexicans and their fear of banks?

Week of July 13, 2006

Tortilla Flat

Nacho's funnier than Napoleon, which ain't sayin much

Get Inside!

A round-up of summer's surefire hits (and definite duds)

Monkey Shines

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

Swindled Art

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Film Openings

Week of September 29, 2004

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Film Openings

Week of April 28, 2004

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Come Poop With Me (Warner Bros.)

It's a Black Thing

The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock

Film Openings

Week of March 26, 2003

Guilty Pleasures

Nobody has the right to judge you for your secret musical kinks -- but everyone will

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Film Openings

Week of January 9, 2002

Weezer with Tenacious D and Jimmy Eat World

Thursday, Nov. 29; Family Arena

Film Openings

Week of November 7, 2001

Beyond Salvation

Silverman's bitter "comedy" is enough to make you lose all hope

Jesus' Son

Directed by Alison Maclean

High Fidelity

Directed by Stephen Frears