John Lennon

Their Royal Highnesses, Queen

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2013: Music

The Six Best Diss Tracks

This month, you won't be able to watch an episode of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" without seeing a half-dozen attack ads. The music world doesn't have attack ads, it has diss tracks. In honor of the onslaught of negativity in our political process, here are the six best diss tracks of all time. Let us ... More >>

The Walkmen: At Plush on June 28

Near the top of the list of our favorite current rock bands is the Walkmen. A decade-plus into a career of kinetic music that would make an excellent soundtrack for some sort of epic Guy Ritchie movie set in New York, the band will release its seventh album, Heaven on June 5. And shortly thereafter, ... More >>

Bob Gruen Is a Rock & Roll Primary Source

Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore And The Four Biggest Rock And Roll Breakups

Wikimedia Commons​Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth have separated after 27 years of marriage and now the future of the band is unknown. Their record label released this statement last Friday: Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separa ... More >>

Imagine Herman Cain Sang a John Lennon Song About Pizza

If John Lennon had believed in heaven, he'd be weeping from his cloud right now. Thanks to the Omaha World Herald, footage has emerged that would have killed the singer-songwriter dead, had Mark David Chapman not done the awful deed a decade earlier. Behold the song stylings of former Godfather' ... More >>

Harry Nilsson Tribute At Off Broadway: What Is The Point?

Harry Nilsson, one of the very few things all four Beatles agreed on and a singer of nearly unparalleled talent, will get the tribute treatment at Off Broadway on November 26th. What Is The Point? A Tribute To Harry Nilsson will feature Nilsson sets from Theodore, Ransom Note, Edward Burch, John Kra ... More >>

Frances Bean Cobain And The Other Nine Hottest Offspring Of Musicians

Rocky Schenck​Today is Frances Bean Cobain's 19th birthday. Time flies, right? In celebration of Miss Frannie, we've compiled a list of hot rock 'n' roll spawn. These people have at least one rock star parent and their moms are frequently models. (Figures.) They are all totally bangable, and m ... More >>

Juggalos and Bald Britney: The Ten Worst Music Tattoos Ever

AHHHHHH!!​The mainstream ubiquity of tattoos is nothing new, but it does make for some pretty hilarious/horrendous Google searches. We chatted with two local tattoo artists to see what regrettable tattoos St. Louisians are getting these days. Iron Age Tattoo's Joseph Reincke said nothing surp ... More >>

The Ten Most Facepalm-Inducing Uses of French in Pop Music: In Honor of Bastille Day

​Bastille Day is upon us, when all the world celebrates Louis XIV crossing the Delaware or something. We're not clear on the details, and on that front we join countless English-speaking pop and rock stars who took similarly haphazard forays into the Language of Love. In honor of the Frog's b ... More >>

John Lennon Remembered Via a Concert from Webster University's Jazz Studies Program

​This Wednesday marks the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. This week faculty members and students from Webster University's Jazz Studies program will pay tribute to the late Beatle with a concert called "John Lennon Remembered." The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7, a ... More >>

Bob Dylan

8 p.m. Thursday, October 21. The Chaifetz Arena, One South Compton Avenue.

Happy 84th Birthday, Chuck Berry!

Chuck Berry -- who performed at the Pageant on Saturday night, to celebrate the venue's tenth anniversary -- turns 84 years young today. Happy birthday, Chuck! He's not slowing down at all -- in the last few months, he's performed at a DNC benefit downtown, continued to do his monthly gig at Blueber ... More >>

Ten Things to Do This Weekend: October 8-10

While our music page has plenty of things to do this weekend, a quick note: The fun./Steel Train/Jarrod Gorbel show at the Firebird is sold out. Hope you bought tickets! Now on to some other options: All weekend: *Soulard Oktoberfest Drink. Listen to Brave Combo, Copper Box and Soulard Blues Band. ... More >>

Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef

More recalls. A Pennsylvania company recalled 8500 pounds of ground beef for suspected E. coli contamination. The Washington Post reports that the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service found a link between Cargill Meat Solutions in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, and three cases of the infection in Ma ... More >>

Ed Hamell

10 p.m. Wednesday, March 18. Deluxe, 2733 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood.

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles

8 p.m. Wednesday, February 4, and Thursday, February 5. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.

MP3 Weekender: James Jackson Toth and Ohtis

James Jackson Toth

9 p.m. Friday, September 12. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

Antibiopic: What We Do Is Secret sanitizes the Germs' punk-rock tragedy

St. Louis Theater Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

You Say You Want a Revolución?

Beatles trump dictatorship in the U.S. premiere of The Concert.

Yoko Ono Sues Lennon Murphy, For Using Her...Given Name

John & Yoko & Joseph & Susan

The Treasury

9 p.m. Monday, December 10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Songs of the South

Corey Smith challenges ideas about "country" music.

American English

(The Casino Queen, East St. Louis)

The Walkmen

Pussy Cats Starring the Walkmen (Record Collection)

Film Openings

Week of September 28, 2006

Punk-o-Rama

Hot fun in the summertime with Warped Tour

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Get Inside!

A round-up of summer's surefire hits (and definite duds)

John Lennon

Acoustic (Capitol)

Letters

Week of September 15, 2004

Letters

Week of September 8, 2004

Wheels of Good Fortune

You can't spell "care" without "car"

Shelby Lynne

Saturday, October 25; Off Broadway

Spector of Death

Is Phil Spector mad, a genius or a murder suspect with decades of preparation? Read our results!

Hard Schlock

The Hard Rock Café serves up a breakfast you won't soon forget

Walter Ego

Former St. Louisan Walt Winston has a serious John Lennon fixation, but he's a true original

Paperback Writers

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

Paul McCartney

Driving Rain (Capitol)

Tori Amos with Rufus Wainwright

Saturday, Oct. 27; Fox Theatre

Beat Crazy

With all the subtlety of a drum-and-bugle corps, Blast turns the noble Fox into a house of rhythm

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.

Wonderland

Directed by Michael Winterbottom

Dear John

Singer/songwriter Andrew John pops out of St. Louis

Heroic Couplings