Jeff Buckley

The 33 1/3 Series is Accepting Submissions

​Earlier this month, Spin announced that it is moving most of its album reviews to Twitter. Music writing is getting shorter, not longer, and yet the 33 1/3 Series, which has the gall to publish entire books on albums that aren't even current, soldiers on. There are 85 installments in print n ... More >>

Yankee Racers Release First Full-Length with a Little Help from a Lot of Friends

Curt Brewer is a familiar face in the local music community: he plays guitar with the raw, bluesy quintet Kentucky Knife Fight, lays down 1920s-inspired jazz licks in Two Swingin' Picks, and sits in as a gun-for-hire for wedding bands, fill-in gigs and the like. This Thursday night, however, he'll b ... More >>

Six Indie Rock Songs That Sound Like Christian Rock Songs

Image via.​A plethora of compelling music has come from indie rock's complicated relationship with Christianity: Sufjan Stevens' folk hymns, David Bazan's tormented crises, the Thermals' blasphemous pop punk. These are the polar opposite of today's contemporary Christian rock, with its overt p ... More >>

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Elsinore At The Firebird, 11/4/11: Review And Setlist

Roy KastenSTL still loves you SSLYBY​ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | Elsinore The Firebird November 4, 2011 The perfect pop song is out there, forever out there, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin may never find it, but on some nights getting to share in the search is more tha ... More >>

Homespun: The Mhurs

In Another Tongue
www.themhurs.com

Get To Know R6 Implant: (Maybe) "The Most Intense Rock and Roll Experience of Your Life"

Photo courtesy of R6 Implant.​ The good thing about a band calling it quits in St. Louis is that its never really done. R6 Implant is playing a farewell-of-sorts show on Saturday at Cicero's, but this isn't goodbye forever. The bill is shared with the Lion's Daughter, Galaxicon and Iron Hills. ... More >>

Introducing the Sheldon Ballroom Series

Bill StreeterPokey LaFarge and the South CIty Three do a holiday show​November 10's May Day Orchestra release show at the Sheldon Concert Hall functioned as the inaugural concert in the Sheldon Ballroom Series. In an interview with Michael Dauphin, organizer Ryan Harris explained the aim of th ... More >>

Stream a New Song from Indie-Eggheads the Great Outdoors, Snag Its New CD Tomorrow

​The young, new local quartet The Great Outdoors -- formerly known as Leaking Africa -- is releasing its first EP, Board Up Our Homes, this weekend with a show at the Firebird. Homes is an interesting first release: The songs unfurl themselves in slow motion, driven by piano with faint jazz fi ... More >>

Show Review Setlist: Leonard Cohen at the Fabulous Fox, November 7

Timothy Norris/LA WeeklyLeonard Cohen at this year's Coachella music festival.​At the Fox Theatre on Saturday night, in the middle of "Tower of Song," Leonard Cohen intoned, "I was born with the gift of a golden voice." The audience applauded enthusiastically, even though the line was not strictly ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Bobby Long, Playing at the Firebird on Sunday

Dirty Pond Songs, the debut album from English singer-songwriter Bobby Long, is a quiet album, a collection to put on when you're deep in thought or otherwise thinking about life's weightier matters. It's also an album indebted to many of Long's favorites, which he named in a recent RFT interview. ( ... More >>

Homespun: Glass Waves

One Day We'll All Just Float Away
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B-Sides cuts to the heart of the matter with songwriter John Hiatt, while a new book about Slayer asserts the band's thrash-metal dominance

Photos: DeVotchKa at the Pageant, Friday, May 23, 2008

Dropkick the Robot

Two Feet
(self-released)

Pétur Ben

9 p.m. Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street.

Leo

Nightmares (Dream Makers Music)

The Cinematics

7 p.m. Wednesday, June 20. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Hot Summer Music

Your guide to St. Louis music — from now till Labor Day.

Go! 5/4-5/6

Scott H. Biram

9 p.m. Tuesday, January 2. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

The Silent Years / Troubadour Dali / Brandy Johnson

9 p.m. Tuesday, November 14. Cicero's (6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Pointe Blank

The Hi-Pointe closes, but its legacy lives on.

City on Film

Friday, February 17, 5:30 p.m. at the Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

My Favorite Things

2005's best and brightest albums

Tom Brosseau

Saturday, October 8; Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)

World Leader Pretend

Saturday, October 1; Taste of St. Louis (at the Gateway Mall, along Market Street between Ninth and Eleventh streets)

Copeland

Friday, June 10; Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

Dead First

We rank musical deaths, embrace Failure and remember the Old School

Noiseday Hootenanny with Tommy Halloran

Thursday, November 18; Frederick's Music Lounge

Letters

Week of October 20, 2004

Die, Jeff Buckley, Die!

It's time to put a bullet through the head of the Jeff Buckley zombie

Tell Us How You Really Feel

Ministry's Al Jourgensen gets political, Black Heart Procession talks facial hair, and Minnie Driver loves us (yay)!

Best Electronics for the Audiophile

Music for Pleasure

Ultimate Rock Fantasy

Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

Yo La Tengo

Thursday, June 10; Mississippi Nights

Riverfront Times Music Awards '04

Jeff Buckley

Live at Sin-é (Columbia)

Turin Brakes with David Gray

Friday, August 1; American Theatre

Summer at Shatter Creek

Summer at Shatter Creek (Absolutely Kosher)

Rick It Up

Rick Springfield knows who's the biggest badass

Nicolai Dunger

Soul Rush (Lakeshore)

The 2002 RFT Music Awards Showcase

The name has changed, but the song remains the same

Starsailor

Love Is Here (Capitol)

Eyes Half-Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Please Release Me

Our intrepid reporter attempts to dig out from under an avalanche of newly released CDs

Martin Sexton

Saturday, Feb. 17; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room.

Guitars on Mars

Gary Lucas has performed with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, John Zorn and Allen Ginsberg. Now he's visiting St. Louis to perform alongside the silent film The Golem.

Sound Checks

Local Time

1998: The Year in Music, Part 2