Jack Buck

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 15 to 21

Record Store Day approacheth! I won't say much this week. I have to reserve as much energy as possible with these vinyl-skimming digits, after all. Outside of all the events and after parties revolving around dear RSD, there's plenty to get out and see all week. Click ahead for our recommendations, ... More >>

Jackie Robinson Day: From the KMOX Radio Archives

Most U.S. residents are aware that today, April 15, is the day we all must file our income tax return (if we haven't already). Probably not as many of us are cognizant of the fact that it's also the anniversary of the day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball. On this occasi ... More >>

The 2013 RFT Music Awards Nominees

Well, it's that time again, folks! Each year, we at RFT Music HQ present the RFT Music Awards, an annual celebration of the best and brightest musical acts St. Louis has to offer. The nominees are chosen by a crack team of industry insiders, dedicated die-hards and various other musical minds from o ... More >>

St. Louis Native Hired as Mariners' Full-Time Announcer, First Since Legendary Dave Niehaus

Aaron Goldsmith, who grew up in St. Louis, is the Seattle Mariners' first full-time radio announcer hire since legendary caller Dave Niehaus, who passed away at age 75 in 2010. Goldsmith, at the young age of 29, has secured the incredibly sought-after job after six seasons of working his way throu ... More >>

The Best St. Louis Metal Shows in March

Looking for a good place to see flashy and exciting music played at high volume, have your mind blown by dark and powerful sounds, or just stomp around like a drunken goon with your shirt off? Then a heavy metal concert might be just the place for you. Each month I'll be offering my top picks of the ... More >>

Help Us Select The 2013 RFT Music Awards Nominees

It's that time of year again! Each year RFT Music recognizes the hard work and exceptional talent of St. Louis' local musicians with the RFT Music Awards. In addition, our summer awards showcase on Washington Avenue provides St. Louisans a chance to see over 80 of these bands and musicians in action ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: December 14 to 16

So whoa, Kiernan's leaving. This is the man that got me my start around here: I replied to an open call on the RFT Music Facebook page for writers, Mr. Maletsky in turn got me a job and now my days are spent babbling online about music rather than driving around in my car slinging pizzas. His depart ... More >>

John Goodman Plugs Budweiser, KMOX in Sports Illustrated Interview

He's an investor in the AM talker KTRS (550 AM), but in this week's Sports Illustrated John Goodman gave a plug to the competition -- KMOX (1120 AM). In an interview about the twentieth anniversary of his role in Babe, Goodman (Affton High School c/o 1970) discussed his stint as a walk-on offensive ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: June 15 to 17

I'm going to level with you, folks: It get difficult coming up with these introductory paragraphs week after week for these show posts, but luckily I just got a "word of the day" calendar to help keep it creative. See if you can guess what today's word is. Now, without further cunctation, here's thi ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Award Winners

The 2012 RFT Music Award Winners

And this officially ends the 2012 RFT Music Awards and Showcase. Look in this week's print edition for the complete list of winners and a few thoughts on the whole thing from me, but in the meantime you can see who won each of the 25 categories below. They've been bolded.

UPDATE: Giving the Rush Bust All the Honor it Deserves

UPDATE May 22, 3 p.m.: Our plans have been foiled. ABC News reports that a 24-hour surveillance camera will be placed in front of the Rush bust. It is the only statue in the Hall of Famous Missourians to be so honored. ------- Despite the best efforts of House Democrats, the bust of Rush Limbaugh ... More >>

Metal: 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 >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: April 13 to 15

So it seems that the weather is finally seasonally appropriate for the first time in 2012, but don't let the April showers keep you inside this weekend or else you're going to miss out on some great live music. We've got three local album release shows this weekend -- hip-hoppers Hawthorne Headhunte ... More >>

Jack Buck

9 p.m. Friday, April 13. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Avenue.

The 2012 RFT Music Awards Nominees

That's right, sports fans, it's once again time for the big ol' love letter to St. Louis music known as the RFT Music Awards and Showcase. The nominating committee has made its arguments and to show for it we have five of the best bands and artists in 25 categories. Many of these fine musicians wil ... More >>

The Best -- And Worst -- Of Baseball Broadcasting

​The noted sabermetric site Fangraphs recently did something a little unusual for such a hardcore stat-oriented website. They ranked baseball's television broadcasting teams. And while I might have expected them to come up with a statistic or formula to express the quality -- or lack thereof -- of ... More >>

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: January 13 to 15

This was the first week of torrential show announcements for 2012, and we've got a weekend to match. The Civil Wars play a sold-out Pageant on Sunday, Eric Johnson's at Old Rock House and you're forgiven for missing Emperor X at the Billiken Club -- he's playing the Firebird this weekend. On the loc ... More >>

Jack Buck

8 p.m. Saturday, January 14. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Avenue.

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Ten

Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Nine

Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Seven

​Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sl ... More >>

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Six

Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

Joe Buck Honors His Father with Game 6 Call

Jack and Joe Buck call their respective Game 6's from Kidd Video on Vimeo.Twenty years ago, the late-great Jack Buck was doing the TV commentary for Game 6 of the 1991 World Series when Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins hit an 11th-inning home run to win the game and take the Atlanta Braves to a ... More >>

Here's To You, Mr. Robinson: KMOX finds Jackie Robinson's 1960 interview with Jack Buck

Jack Buck, "the Negro," and Jackie Robinson

Jack Buck interviews Jackie Robinson​On July 7, 2011, when rain halted the Cardinals' assault on the Diamondbacks in the sixth inning, local sportscasters found themselves with an hour to kill. Kevin Wheeler, host of Sports Open Line at KMOX (1120 AM), decided to do something that hadn't been done ... More >>

Baseball Loses Another Legend: Dave Niehaus Dead at 75

Niehaus. ​You remember several years back, when the whole satellite radio thing was just starting up? XM and Sirius were still separate companies and David Bowie fell out of the sky. It was a crazy time. Well, I happened to be one of the earliest adopters of satellite radio, but not because I ... More >>

Baseball's Shining Stars

From Father to Son

Season's End

urbanprankster.com​Tonight, the Cardinals will begin their final series of the year. Well, final series of the regular season, anyway. Luckily, postseason baseball awaits for our boys in red this year, rather than the specter of another October spent rootrootrooting against the Cubbies. So am I sa ... More >>

Fire Destroys Home of Carole Buck, Widow of Cardinals Broadcaster Jack Buck

www.nab.orgJack Buck​A fire early this morning ripped through the suburban St. Louis home of Carole Buck, widow of the late Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck. According to media reports, the fire awoke Buck's widow, Carole Buck, around 1 a.m. this morning. She called 911 herself and escaped the blaz ... More >>

Map Locations At A Glance: Restaurants

Baseball Announcer Catch-Phrases are Hopelessly Out of Date

Via InsideSTLImagine if you will, Mike Shannon as the color man for the NBA. Baseball announcers are delightfully, hopelessly behind the times when it comes to coining catch-phrases to describe the on-field action. So much so, that when young bucks and young Bucks try to roll out a new one-liner, Am ... More >>

My Cardinals: Tim Lane

This past year, over at Viva El Birdos, I wrote a post on Christmas Eve called "God Bless Us, Everyone." It wasn't about baseball, as is often the case with the things that I write, but about my own feelings at Christmas about, well, just life in general. I was pretty proud of the way the piece turn ... More >>

Belgium to St. Louis: We're Not So Different, Are We?

The St. Louis Shag

Big or Rich?

Unreal takes matters into our own hands (tee hee!) and re-enters the wonderful world of note-passing with the opposite sex. Plus, we settle the age-old debate: Which is better, Clayton or Ladue?

Italian Heritage Tours

(It's pronounced "I-talian")

Trumped

Dick Gephardt also likes kittens and cross-stitching; Unreal has fun with greed and other mortal sins

The Law's an Ass

Week of October 2, 2002

Redbird's Burden

La Russa endures a hell of a season, escaping the purgatory of tradition

Best Member of the Loyal Opposition

Jeanette Mott Oxford

Best Cardinal

Albert Pujols

No-Show

Week of July 10, 2002

Riverfront Enquirer?

Week of July 3, 2002

Sudden Death

Halo and hype over Jack Buck pierced by the passing of Darryl Kile

Jack and Jill

Our reviewer broadcasts her opinion of J. Buck's

The Final Bell

The passing of wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick rekindles interest in the wrestling days of yore

Letters to the Editor

1998: The Year in Sports