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The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: March 1 to 3

Hang in there, fiends. Springtime looms visibly in the horizon, and there's plenty to be excited about when the seasons of the sun finally return (not to mention, Black Hole Sun). Check out handy local event guides for comedy and EDM to get yourself through March, and consider paying a visit to a tr ... More >>

The Best Shows in St. Louis This Week: February 25 to March 3

St. Louis is nothing if not prolific in 2013. Last week's show announcements boasted an impressive seven releases-to-be across the board. This week, add three more sets of brand new local tracks to your music collection. DinoFight!, Les Gruff and the Billy Goat, and Mikey Wehling and the Reverbs all ... More >>

Blowfly, Garagefest, Inspectah Deck 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 >>

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 >>

The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Kicks Off in Tulsa

On Saturday the world's foremost Woody Guthrie scholars gathered at the University of Tulsa to discuss how Guthrie's Oklahoma roots shaped his music and the Sooner State musicians who've followed in his footsteps. "Different Shades of Red: Woody Guthrie and the Oklahoma Experience at 100" is the fir ... More >>

Six Best Sophomore Albums By One Hit Wonders

In the business model of the one hit wonder, the commercially unsuccessful follow-up album is essential to the tag. Had the second album not flopped, the artist would be at least a two-hit wonder. Many folks assume that these artists are only worthy of a single dose of limelight, but some have prove ... More >>

Four Catholic Masses for Hearing Gorgeous Traditional Christmas Music in St. Louis

Image via​Say what you will about the Catholic faith: It has inspired, over the centuries, some haunting and beautiful Christmas melodies, and our city's faithful know how to do them justice. Here are four masses for tasting the tradition:    St. Margaret of Scotland [map]Best mass for m ... More >>

Cardinals Reportedly Close to Signing JC Romero

Nope, wrong J.C. Though, I suppose there's a fairly good chance at some point during the 2012 season we'll all be screaming, "Jesus Christ, Romero!" after he walks the one and only hitter he was brought in to face. ​It looks like the Cardinals are close to bringing in a second left-handed reliever ... 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 >>

Infected Mushroom, Cerebral Ballzy Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Infected Mushroom​Brooklyn punks with the name so dumb it might be brilliant, Cerebral Ballzy, are back at Fubar on October 7. Cue the resounding chorus: "Isn't that kid's dad the CEO of Kinko's or some shit?" Grab your glowsticks: 2720 Cherokee snagged Infected Mushroom for a Thanksgiving ext ... More >>

Pitchfork 2011: Fleet Foxes, No Age, DJ Shadow and Other Highlights From Day Two

DJ Shadow.​It's funny--spend a few minutes in the sun surrounded by 18,000 of your closest friends, and suddenly Maslow's hierarchy of needs takes on new significance, ie: We need sunscreen. I gotta pee. Someone needs water or they're going to faint. Dudes, I'm hungry. Beeeeeer. We need beeeee ... More >>

What's Worth More: Food or Cash?

Wikimedia CommonsTime to steal the doughnuts.​Three not-too-bright robbers in Hyannis, Massachusetts, attempted to rob a Dunkin' Donuts last week. They demanded a paper bag an employee was carrying in her purse and ran. Because so many paper bags at Dunkin' Donuts are filled with cash instea ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Is Mexico a Tea Party paradise?

Clownvis Presley Re-Imagines Holiday Classics -- and Creates a New One -- With Christmas in Hollywood

Clownvis Presley presents: Christmas in Hollywood!​ Clownvis is a lot of things: a clown, an Elvis impersonator, a wedding officiator, a burlesque emcee, a controversial television show contestant, a nice dude. If there's one thing he's not, however, it's traditional. Thus, the Clownvis Pres ... More >>

Review: "September Gurls and Boys" Pay Tribute to Alex Chilton at Off Broadway, Friday, September 24

Roy KastenMagic City at Big Star Tribute.​It's been a tough year for Big Star fans. In March, guitarist/singer Alex Chilton died - ironically, several days before he was to perform at South by Southwest with original members Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens. Then, four months later, Hummel died t ... More >>

Readers think the RFT is too lenient on Mexican immigration, while a German calls Americans prude

SXSW Days Three and Four: Big Star Tribute, Band of Horses, Marianne Dissard, Jakob Dylan, Courtyard Hounds, Boxer Rebellion, KDHX/Twangfest Day Party -- and More

To conclude: Susan Cowsill and the Watson Twins sang "September Gurls," with the remains of Big Star playing loose and beautiful all around them. It shouldn't have happened; most of what happens shouldn't. In life, as with music, we only get so much say. Alex Chilton's passing just days before Big S ... More >>

SXSW Day One: Billy Bragg, Broken Bells, Miranda Lee Richards, Jason Collett, Fanfarlo more!

Big Star's shadow is looming large at this year's SXSW.​The text that Alex Chilton had died came through just before midnight on the first full day of South By Southwest 2010 in Austin. I was on my way to the sleeze-and-cheese-and-bathroom-cologne club Prague to see the anti-Alex, Billy Bragg, ... More >>

Justin and Danielle Leszcz chucked the 9-to-5 in favor of a 3,700-square-foot farm in Affton

Last Night: The Presidents of the United States of America at Taste of St. Louis

photos by Keegan HamiltonChris Ballew of PUSA​No self-respecting St. Louis music fan went to see the Presidents of the United States of America at Taste of St. Louis last night. Between Sea Wolf, Michael Franti, the Big Muddy Records rooftop party, Darker My Love, and the Cardinals game there was ... More >>

Review Preview: Ranoush

This week I visit Ranoush, the Syrian restaurant that opened in the former Saleem's space in the Delmar Loop. The Delmar Loop has no shortage of colorful characters busking, begging, dressing up as clowns to hand out balloons and the Word of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, administering stress tes ... More >>

Anita Blake, TV Movie Star

photo: Jennifer SilverbergLaurell K. HamiltonFew authors serve their fans as devotedly as Laurell K. Hamilton: She produces not one but two new books a year, alternating between her two series, Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Merry Gentry, fairy princess. She's also responsible for a collection of A ... More >>

Holy Hip-Hop: "Soul Force" strikes the Loop every other Sunday for a one-of-a-kind worship service

Himmel Can Wait: RiverCity's Grace ain't easy to watch, but it's well worth the work

Kevin Slaten's Head Is About to Explode: The exiled sports-talk radio ranter needs to get some things off his chest

Rick Majerus: Is Nothing Sacred? Not Even Underwear?!

Rick Majerus: Is Nothing Sacred? Not Even Underwear?!

Milestone Christian Academy Pastor/Principal Suspended

Milestone Christian Academy Pastor/Principal Suspended

Wu-Tang Clan

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Outtakes from the Michelle Shocked Interview

Bottoms Up

Unreal considers becoming an ass-vertizer and wonders what's up with Dunc's junk.

Brain Drain

Unreal learns how to keep young, bright St. Louisans in town — and alive. Plus: Blog o' the Week, advice for the apocalypse and a chat with Bill the Thrill.

Film Openings

Week of October 26, 2006

Slide Away

Lock up your family pictures, here come the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players!

Overlooked in '05

Ten great discs that were, ahem, underserved by the media this year

Head Over Feet

We sip java with Alanis, investigate podcasting and figure out what those concert tickets are really worth

Letters

Week of April 20, 2005

Easy Skankin'

We chat with Professor Skank and one part of Bettie Serveert

Buon Natale!

Mr. Night and Ms. Day gawk at Hill Nativity scenes and then go eat sandwiches. You can, too!

Repent, Sinner!

And your love of punk-pop may be forgiven

Baby Love

The belated holiday anime Tokyo Godfathers is a genre-bending offer you shouldn't refuse

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of November 12, 2003

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Funny Business

Rich Balducci takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'

A Twist of Faith

From her small-town Baptist roots to her run for public office, Jeanette Mott Oxford has relied on her religious convictions to overcome fear and prejudice -- including her own.

MUMFORD

Written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan

This Week

The Tragic Christian

Father James Carney left St. Louis to work with the poor in Honduras, putting him at odds with both church and state. Fifteen years after his mysterious death, a new CIA report raises more questions than answers.