Jimmy Eat World

An oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel in St. Louis

Go Download The New Humanoids Record For Free!

Back in July, we ran a feature on St. Louis' favorite melodic, pop-core playboys, the Humanoids. The band was gearing up for the release of its new self-titled album on FreeMusicFirst.org., and about to embark on the highly-regarded punk rock package tour featuring Off With Their Heads, Dead to Me a ... More >>

The ChalkBoyz Are Not Actually That Sorry For Partying

courtesy of the ChalkBoyz​For the ChalkBoyz fourth mixtape, which gets an official release tomorrow night at Off Broadway, 22-year-old Drake Maret (a.k.a. Dominant Force, the J. Crew Kid) and 23-year-old Dylan Cunningham (a.k.a. Dyl Staxx, Staxx Fifth Avenue) created summer songs that are as e ... More >>

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: May 27-30

Kalin Haydon ​The Gorge is putting out its long-awaited debut, Prehistoric Relapse, tonight at the Firebird. Curren$y brings his Jet Life Tour to the Old Rock House, and that's just the beginning for tonight: Dylan gets a proper birthday tribute at Off Broadway with a gaggle of great locals d ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World

8 p.m. Saturday, May 28. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Jimmy Eat World at the Pageant: The Beth Bombara Cover

Beth Bombara at last year's RFT Awards. Photo by Jon Gitchoff​Who is excited for Jimmy Eat World on Saturday? It's been six and a half years since the pop-punk band made an appearance in St. Louis, and we'll venture that a fair number of the fine readers of A to Z have made out with someone w ... More >>

Billy Brown on Sonic Youth, Record Store Day, and Drunk Reggae Fans

Photo by Jon Scorfina​In early January, Rolling Stone reported that vinyl sales had increased fourteen percent over the previous year with around 2.8 million units sold, making 2010 the best year for vinyl in recent memory. DJ Billy Brown is part of a new generation of music fans choosing rec ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of March 17

image viaSounds like a sly April Fool's day joke, but it isn't: Juelz Santana is celebrating his birthday at Club Amnesia. Well, not his real birthday, which was February 18, but his publicity-garnering birthday tour that *might* be tied to the release of his long overdue follow-up to 2005's What th ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World Coming to the Pageant

Your eyes don't deceive you: Jimmy Eat World is coming to the Pageant on May 28. The influential emo/rock band hasn't been to St. Louis since early 2005; it hasn't played in town in the entire time I've lived here. Tickets are $25 in advance, $28 day of show, and are on sale Friday, March 18, at 5 p ... More >>

New Album Releases: Toro Y Moi, Six Organs of Admittance, Adele and More

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Adele's 21​*Adele, 21 NPR reviewed 21: "The songs on 21 don't offer up much specific detail of the heartache Adele says she's suffering, or even outline the ... More >>

Interview: Blackpool Lights' Billy Brimblecom on the New Okie Baroque and How the Band Got Back Together

​Blackpool Lights -- the project featuring drummer Billy Brimblecom and the Get Up Kids' Jim Suptic -- will be doing one of its first shows in years tonight at the Firebird. The Class of '98 opens. The show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $10. Earlier this week, BPL released a stellar new EP, ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, Aug. 20-22, 2010

Pace yourself on Friday and Saturday nights, because St. Louis has a surprising amount in store this Sunday. This weekend is chock full of activities both highbrow (wine tasting, abstract art, Oscar Wilde plays) and lowbrow (rock shows, swap meets, amateur photography), so whether you get down in ev ... More >>

O'Brother/Felix Culpa

7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Twelve Vans Warped Tour Bands You Can Admit in Public You're Going to See

The Vans Warped tour returns to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis on Monday, July 5. Like every year, the tour has its fair share of bands that appeal mostly to "the kids" -- Hey Monday, Never Shout Never, the Cab, etc. But this year's model features plenty of acts with actual musical c ... More >>

Why Third Eye Blind became an alt-rock cockroach

Holiday Jam Countdown '09: Several Versions of "Last Christmas"

​Does this song even need an introduction? (Did George Michael frost his tips for most of the '80s?) The soft-glow of heartbreak and despair, crooned by Andrew Ridgely and Michael of Wham!, the dynamic '80s pop duo. "Schmaltzy" doesn't begin to describe this song -- but it doesn't matter! MP ... More >>

Dear and the Headlights

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Happy Birthday, Punk: The Vans Warped Tour turns fifteen years young

Viva Voce

9 p.m. Tuesday, June 9. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Interview: Building Rome's Jon Heisserer

In my profile of Jason McEntire, I observed him and producer Steven Haigler working with Building Rome on its new album, Nightmare. The band's been around for many years, but has matured greatly beyond its early work, which was heavily indebted to Jimmy Eat World. I caught up with BR vocalist/songwr ... More >>

Deep Cuts: Jason McEntire keeps world-class recording facility Sawhorse Studios humming

Appleseed Cast

8 p.m. Saturday, February 28. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Lost in the Supermarket: Jimmy Eat World, Lindsay Lohan, Enrique Iglesias

(Welcome to Lost in the Supermarket, an occasional blog recurring feature in which we discuss unexpected songs we've heard in unexpected places. This doesn't just have to be your local Schucks or Dierbergs, either; any weird pairing you've heard is fair game for the feature. Email the scenario to me ... More >>

Gentleman Auction House Tour Diary, Day Five: Akron

This Band Could Be Your Life, Part II: So Many Dynamos Tours to SXSW

2007: The Year in Song, MP3-Style

2007: The Year in Movies and Music

A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

The Week in Rock -- Or, Local Bands I've Seen This Week

Jimmy Eat World

Chase This Light (Interscope)

Cartel

6:30 p.m. Monday, February 12. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois).

Rocky Votolato

9 p.m. Monday, October 30. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

And the Nominees Are...

Get a load of the nominees for our annual music awards extravaganza

Brandtson

Tuesday, April 25, at 8 p.m. The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue).

The Format

Wednesday, April 5 at 8 p.m. The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

In With the New

New releases we didn't throw out with the old

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz

in your ear buds all winter long

Plain White T's

Tuesday, December 20; The Creepy Crawl, (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Tokyo Rose

Sunday, November 20; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Jimmy Eat World

Thursday, December 16; the Pageant

Fevered Pitch

Pitchfork is taking over music criticism by making people laugh -- or pissing them off

Something Corporate

Friday, December 12; Mississippi Nights

Various Artists

Maybe This Christmas (Nettwerk America)

Sounds Around Town

Week of December 11, 2002

Jimmy Eat World with A New Found Glory, Breaking Benjamin, Sugarcult, OKGo and Unchained

Saturday, December 14; Pageant

Thursday with Cursive, From Autumn to Ashes and Engine Down

Saturday, October 5; Mississippi Nights

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Jimmy Eat World

Sunday, Sept. 16; Mississippi Nights