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The Best Electronic [EDM] Shows in St. Louis: May 2013

Many EDM fans are suffering from post-Coachella hangover. Not to fear, warmer weather is bringing more and more festivals. This month, St. Louis has a wide array of genre within EDM represented, so lets drop in and see what's in store.

Death Grips, the Angry Samoans, Slash, UZ and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Taste's Joel Burton: 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, Jaime Lees profiles Joel Burton of Taste. Below is a Q&A with Burton, followed by the recipe for the Jack Rose.Inspired by a suggestion from last week's featured bartender Laura Therina ... More >>

The Most Popular Dude on the S.S. Coachella is Pulp's Jarvis Cocker

No one's really interested in reading about the actual performances taking place on this musical ship of contradictions, the S.S. Coachella, amirite? Instead, you want a spoonful of gossipy anecdotal sugar, straight from the decks of this funny ship. By Liz Tracy As you might have seen, Pulp was ... More >>

S.S. Coachella Cruise, Day One Highlights

The S.S. Coachella set out to sea rather unceremoniously. There weren't horns, not a streamer in sight, and no one smashed bottles against the body of the ship. By Liz Tracy But we'd all been aboard the Celebrity Silhouette for about four hours at that point, and Father John Misty was launching o ... More >>

With Bold Ideas, No Money and Almost No Chance, Republican Makes Bid for STL City Sheriff

Will pigs fly in St. Louis today? Maybe if 31-year Robert Vroman Sternberg manages to knock out a longtime incumbent today to become St. Louis' first Republican sheriff since 1928. Sheriff James Murphy has held onto his office for 24 years, despite a series of controversies that have made him look ... More >>

Despite Aggressive Home Defense, Help from Slay, Woman Forced from Home of 21 Years

What do you say to a woman who is losing her home of 21 years, watching as strangers drop all of her possessions in trash bags on the curb? "If anyone interferes with our movers, we're taking all of your things to the dump," a sheriff's deputy told Angelia Williams, who stood outside her Penrose h ... More >>

Primary Results: Akin to Face McCaskill, Clay Trounces Carnahan, Jones Wins City Treasurer

Yesterday's Missouri primary resulted in a few surprises. The biggest, perhaps, was Congressman Lacy Clay's stunning victory over Congressman Russ Carnahan for Missouri's First Congressional District that includes all of St. Louis and much of the county. Clay garnered 63.2 percent of the vote to Car ... More >>

New LCD Soundsystem Concert Doc Hits the Tivoli Tomorrow

Reliving the Final Moments of LCD Soundsystem Last Night With Shut Up and Play the Hits

The man in the chicken hat is hoping things get weird inside. He smokes a cigarette, flicks it to the ground, then changes his mind and smokes the rest of it while standing in front of the Tivoli Theatre in Delmar. He's already holding a ticket, but at the advertised 7 p.m. show time, nearly 100 hop ... More >>

People Started Giving a Shit: The LCD Soundsystem Doc is Here Tomorrow

Shut Up and Play the Hits Directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace Oscilloscope Pictures July 18 at the Tivoli By Karina Longworth "When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into anyplace, but you know--I was never recognized on a plane." James Murphy, fo ... More >>

The Six Best Songs Over Thirty Minutes Long

"American Pie" is eight and a half minutes, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is seventeen. It is not uncommon for a prog track to reach twenty minutes, but it takes a certain breed to break the half-hour barrier. Below is a list of the six best songs over thirty minutes long. Feel free to interject your favorit ... More >>

Death Cab For Cutie At The Pageant, 10/2/11: Review, Photos and Setlist

Photo by Jason Stoff​Death Cab For Cutie The Pageant October 2, 2011 Ben Gibbard has left us. The melancholic Ben Gibbard we once knew is gone, for all intents and purposes. He's skinny now, having swapped drinking for running, and he's got a new, Jordan Catalano haircut. He's visibly bouncy, ... More >>

The 2010 RFT News Challenge

Karina Longworth's Top 10 Movies of 2010

2010: The Year In Music

Black Sheriff Deputies Once Again Dicked Over by the Man

troycardona.comTroy Cardona administers a little Jeff-Co street justice in the STL.​A Jefferson County judge yesterday drastically reduced the damages that two black St. Louis sheriff deputies won in a September trial alleging racial discrimination. Saying the $350,000 in punitive damages awarded ... More >>

Free Energy kicks out the classic-rock jams on the new Stuck On Nothing

Jacques Hughes: Why He Had to Challenge the City Over a Noose Hung in the Courthouse

Jacques Hughes: "The sad part is this lawsuit never had to happen if the sheriff had given us 30 minutes of his time..."​Jacques Hughes was working as a sheriff's deputy in 2006 when his colleague William "Patrick" Hill alerted him to a prank in the basement of the Civil Courts building. One of th ... More >>

New Release Highlights for September 21: John Legend and the Roots want you to Wake Up!

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Flying Lotus' latest Pattern & Grid World​*Flying Lotus, Pattern Grid World Just months after releasing the full-length Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus returns wit ... More >>

Noose Trial: Attorney Recalls Four-Year Fight vs. St. Louis Sheriff's Department

The noose as captured on the cell phone of sheriff deputy Pat Hill.​Of the dozens of cases he's brought to trial over the years alleging workplace discrimination and mistreatment, attorney Jerome Dobson says none has been as emotional and personally taxing as the one concluded Friday accusing the ... More >>

Is the Noose An Inherently Racist Object?

Image viaYou know what they say, no noose is good noose.​Two St. Louis sheriff's deputies say it is, and the outcome of their workplace discrimination lawsuit against their boss, Sheriff James Murphy, may hinge on convincing jurors that the iconic hangman's knot does indeed symbolize prejudice.Wal ... More >>

Caribou

8:30 p.m. Monday, June 7. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

St. Louis Sheriff Dept. Employees Work 30-Hour Weeks, Get Paid for 40

James Murphy: He' s healthy (191 accrued sick days). His record-keeping? Not so much.​An audit of the St. Louis Sheriff Department found a lengthy list of accounting deficiencies, including the discovery that several workers get full-time salaries for part-time work. The audit (viewable here) by S ... More >>

Second Spin: Robert Brookins, "Come To Me"

Artist: Robert Brookins Album: Come To Me From: Vintage Vinyl Year: 1987 Label: MCA Records What it sounds like: DeBarge crossed with Bobby Brown doing a Prince imitation. Cheesy '80's R&B at its glorious worst. 

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

Battle for I-70 Hipster Supremacy: LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire in Kansas City

Lollapalooza, Day One: The Rest of the Fest

It's Showtime

From Q&As to film debuts, your guide to the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase

LCD Soundsystem

Sound of Silver (DFA/Capitol)

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem (DFA/Capitol)

Rapt Attention

The buzz-clouds are gathering around the Rapture

City Limits

A coalition of St. Louis mayors looking to change the city's charter finds the going rough