Jason Potter

Your Guide to the Bands of RFT's Music Showcase

Rock: Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2013 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is this weekend! Think of it as St. Louis music's own official holiday and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music have been working hard to make our cases for all 130 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year in 26 categor ... More >>

The Readers vs. RFT Music: Who Had Better Picks for the Best of St. Louis?

Hopefully by now you've enjoyed perusing our annual Best of St. Louis issue, which hit the stands a week ago today. We had some truly tough decisions to make this year, and we'll agonize over them in the coming weeks and months in this space. For now, though, we want to turn our attention to your pi ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

The Cover of the May 31 Print Edition

Girl Power: Best Coast, Bruiser Queen and Sleepy Kitty: Review and Photos

Best Coast|Bruiser Queen|Sleepy Kitty The Firebird May 30, 2012 Best Coast is vocalist and guitarist Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. Prior's to this month's second full-length, The Only Place, Cosentino was pleased to write songs about her cat, and churn out fuzzy gems like ... More >>

Chill Out, Everybody: Best Coast at the Firebird: Review and Setlist

Best Coast | Bruiser Queen | Sleepy Kitty May 30, 2012 The Firebird "Why would you live anywhere else?" It was a rhetorical question. Bethany Cosentino can mean a lot more in her California obsessions than one might think, but that doesn't mean she wants answers. But here are a few anyway: Cheap ren ... More >>

Find the RFT Showcase Team at Off Broadway, the Firebird, Old Rock House, Lola, 2720 Cherokee and Soldier's Memorial

The RFT Music Showcase is just over a week away -- on June 2, 79 of St. Louis best bands and artists will play at twelve venues on Washington Avenue. But there's quite a bit of great music happening in this city before then. Our RFT Showcase Team will be at nine of the best of those shows, giving aw ... More >>

Homespun: Bruiser Queen

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In the Galleries: Oh! You Pretty Things and On Another Note... CLOSES March 17 at the Artists' Guild

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 >>

Homespun: Morgan Nusbaum

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Morgan Nusbaum's Solo Record Comes Out Friday

Morgan Nusbaum, a former member of the 75s and front woman of the wailing garage outfit Bruiser Queen, will release her first solo album at a show this Friday at Foam. The album, called Let It In was the subject of this week's Homespun review, and Christian Schaeffer notes a departure from Nusbaum's ... More >>

Announcing The First RFT Music Party

Kentucky Knife Fight. Photo by Dave Johnson​Our love for St. Louis music cannot be confined to words. Which is just one of several reasons we're throwing a party Saturday, August 13 at Off Broadway, featuring a few excellent locals: Kentucky Knife Fight, Bruiser Queen and Ra Cailum. $6 gets y ... More >>

Southern Graphics Conference Highlights St. Louis Art Openings This Weekend

Martin MazorraFor Real, another affordable piece of art from Cannonball Press.​The Southern Graphics Council International Conference (Wednesday, March 16, through Saturday, March 19), is a series of seminars and panel discussions on the artistry and business of fine-art printing. The SGC is a ... More >>

Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, Mar. 4 - 6, 2011

Planning to pick up some beads this weekend? Head over to the Mardi Gras Gallery Hop to pick up free, collectible beads and get your face painted while checking out some New Orleans-themed artwork. See details on this event and more after the jump. Not Made By Great MenMichael Grimaldi​

An Under Cover Weekend Night One: Union Tree Review, Sleepy Kitty, Bruiser Queen

​An Under Cover Weekend kicked off last night in fine fashion promptly at 8:30 p.m., with the Union Tree Review on stage at the Firebird covering the Postal Service. Thanks to a steady schedule of live shows, the young indie-folk band has improved mightily in recent months. Its set only solidi ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend returns for more cover-song shenanigans

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, April 23-25, 2010

Looking for weekend fun that won't break the bank? We humbly present these ten suggestions for weekend entertainment, which all cost $10 or less. Flip the bird to bottle service-ordering schmoes sunk into the velvet couch of some fly-by-night dance club; this weekend, enjoy outdoor Earth Day parties ... More >>

New (Local) Music Thursday: New Band Bruiser Queen Lives Up to Its Name, While Vandalyzm Gets Feisty

​Bruiser Queen is playing its first show tomorrow night at the Firebird. That's the new band featuring drummer Jason Potter of defunct garage-punks Left Arm, bassist Ben Ellebracht and Morgan Nusbaum, bassist of indie-pop act the 75's. (Don't worry: That band is still together and playing.) BQ ... More >>

Download: Unreleased Left Arm MP3s

Well, yes, garage-punks Left Arm played their last show of original songs on Saturday night at Atomic Cowboy's new venue, the Fox Hole. Before the show, however, drummer Jason Potter sent over a few unreleased tunes that the band recorded with Gary Copeland at South-Fi Studio. Sniff. Bittersweet! Do ... More >>

Show Flyer: The Safes, Argonauts and Left Arm at Atomic Cowboy, Friday, May 29

Sorta last-minute show from a pretty fantastic Chicago band (and two good local acts as well), at Atomic Cowboy. I hear it might be in the venue's new space -- anyone been to a show there yet? Curious what it's like...Jason Potter

Show Flyer: The 75s and Left Arm at the Kemper Art Museum,

Hey, check it out: The Kemper Art Museum at Wash U is holding shows this spring. So sayeth them: "Join us on Fridays from 6-8 pm throughout the spring from to enjoy the second annual Kemper Presents Spring Concert Series, FREE live concerts from a diverse variety St. Louis musicians, plus complimen ... More >>

RFT readers weigh in on the closing of the Creepy Crawl

Show Flyer: Bunnygrunt, the 75s and the Midtown Thieves at the Schlafly Tap Room, Saturday, December 27

Poster by Jason Potter.

Left Arm Recording 7" in Detroit with Jim Diamond

New Local Band: Midtown Thieves

Left Arm

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