Joan Baez

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New Album Release Highlights: Tuesday, June 29

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) blogs.westword.com3OH!3's Streets of Gold​*3OH!3, Streets Of Gold Ke$ha joins the neon-pop group on its latest release. Stream that track and the rest of the ... More >>

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three to Play the Newport Folk Festival

Big congratulations to Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, who just announced that they're performing at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, August 1. To say the fest is prestigious is an understatement: Started in 1959, the event helped thrust Joan Baez and Bob Dylan into the national eye -- a ... 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 >>

London Calling: B-Sides gets the skinny on London singer-songwriter Bobby Long

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 >>

Photos Setlist Review: Joan Baez at the Pageant, Sunday, July 19

REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY KATIE MOULTON "You're telling me you're not nostalgic," Joan Baez sings on "Diamonds and Rust," "Then give me another word for it." The 1975 piece is Baez at her most personal, a look back on her relationship with Bob Dylan, and was the appropriate close to her set last night a ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Sonic Youth, Chris Isaak, Pitchfork Music Festival and Beach Bodies

It was a music-heavy weekend, and here's what you might have missed.Sonic Youth at the ArchPhoto: Todd OwyoungIndie rock godfathers, and godmothers, Sonic Youth played a free show under the Arch on Friday. See more photos.Music editor Annie Zaleski called this show on Friday "one of the best concert ... More >>

Joan Baez

8 p.m. Sunday, July 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of April 16

Pageant *Alejandro Escovedo, Wednesday, June 10 *MOE., Thursday, July 16 *Joan Baez, Sunday, July 19 Family Arena *A Flock of Seagulls/The Romantics/Survivor/Tommy Tutone/Naked Eyes, Saturday, June 13 BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups *Alvin Jett and the Phat Noiz CD Release, Saturday, May 2Firebird *Death ... More >>

Second Spin: Jackson Browne, Hold Out

Pageant *Alejandro Escovedo, Wednesday, June 10 *MOE., Thursday, July 16 *Joan Baez, Sunday, July 19 Family Arena *A Flock of Seagulls/The Romantics/Survivor/Tommy Tutone/Naked Eyes, Saturday, June 13 BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups *Alvin Jett and the Phat Noiz CD Release, Saturday, May 2Firebird *Death ... More >>

Outtakes from the Michelle Shocked Interview

Pageant *Alejandro Escovedo, Wednesday, June 10 *MOE., Thursday, July 16 *Joan Baez, Sunday, July 19 Family Arena *A Flock of Seagulls/The Romantics/Survivor/Tommy Tutone/Naked Eyes, Saturday, June 13 BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups *Alvin Jett and the Phat Noiz CD Release, Saturday, May 2Firebird *Death ... More >>

Get in the Van

Pageant *Alejandro Escovedo, Wednesday, June 10 *MOE., Thursday, July 16 *Joan Baez, Sunday, July 19 Family Arena *A Flock of Seagulls/The Romantics/Survivor/Tommy Tutone/Naked Eyes, Saturday, June 13 BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups *Alvin Jett and the Phat Noiz CD Release, Saturday, May 2Firebird *Death ... More >>

John Mellencamp

Freedom's Road (Universal Republic)

Flashback Alert: The Mississippi River Festival

Freedom's Road (Universal Republic)

Weed Killer

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

My Favorite Things

2005's best and brightest albums

Cape of Good Hope

2005's best and brightest albums

Concerts

2005's best and brightest albums

Dead Alive

We chat with Phil Lesh, listen to a new kind of protest song and take a trip into the shadows of the Old School

The Cantrells

Friday, February 18; the Focal Point (2720 Sutton Boulevard)

King Ink

Meet Brad Fink, a man of color whose body is the perfect canvas for his work

Fruits of Her Labor

The pierced and the ponytailed come together in Lucinda love

Sounds Around Town

Week of October 29, 2003

Folk Humor

Dar Williams sings poignantly, but her sense of fun is intact

War on War Songs

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

A Musical Miracle

Violet heralds the emergence of an exciting new theater composer

Bob Dylan

Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (Columbia/Legacy)

Paperback Writers

The latest music books struggle to demystify pop culture's greatest enigmas

Touch of Evil

History tells us that musicians who turn to the written word are just asking for trouble. Occasionally, though, something special sneaks through.

The Eternal Moan

Steeling a moment with Overland country-music legend DeWitt Scott Sr.

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.

FLYING DUTCHMAN

Renowned singer/songwriter Michael Smith hasn't limited his craft to the coffeehouse folk scene

Sound Checks

Renowned singer/songwriter Michael Smith hasn't limited his craft to the coffeehouse folk scene