Johnny Cash

Reliving Legends

The Ten Best Juke Boxes in St. Louis

​Selecting the Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and scattin' our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. There is no surer way ... More >>

Murder by Death

9 p.m. Thursday, December 29. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

The Kitchens are Alive with the Sound of Music

Image via​After a recent lunch at a Chinese hog trough buffet where we were lulled into stupor by the gentle tones of "Rock-a-Bye-Baby" on the sound system and one too many sticks of chicken meat, we've been thinking a lot about music and food. Turns out we're not the only ones. Around the s ... More >>

Rosanne Cash On Her Career And Memoir, Which She Is Signing Tonight In St. Louis

​Rosanne Cash has endured some seriously heavy blows over the last decade. She lost her father and step-mother (Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, respectively) over the course of a few months in 2003. Six weeks after her father's passing, her step-sister was found dead on bus in Tennessee. A c ... More >>

Happy Birthday Jim Henson! Our Favorite Musical Muppet Moments

Happy Birthday Jim Henson!​ Tomorrow would be Jim Henson's 75th birthday. We baked him this: And then we watched this, and we fucking cried like little crybabies who left their teddy bears at the supermarket and then had an "acc-i-denn" in the carseat. Watch this you soulless automatons! If 5 ... More >>

Nine Of The Most Unexpected Crossovers Into Kids Music

​Amidst the flash, bang, and noise of summer movies, there's "Winnie the Pooh", a quiet and relatively bombast-free film that picks up where the 1966 classic left off. The one difference: hipster queen Zooey Deschanel lends her delightful vocals to the soundtrack, including the beloved theme ... More >>

The 10 Most WTF Crimes Committed by Musicians

​Surely you have heard the charges made against Coheed and Cambria's bassist, Michael Todd, alleging that he robbed a Walgreens pharmacy before a performance, leaving with multiple bottles of oxycodone and hailing a taxi to the band's performance in Massachusetts. Hilariously baffling? Of cour ... More >>

The Ten Most Effective American Protest Songs

This one doesn't make the cut, unfortunately.​It's Fourth of July weekend, and in the haze of the heat, barbecue, domestic beer, and red-white-and-blue buntings, it's easy to get caught up in ranting-chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" The founding fathers and a lot of musicians might not agree with ... More >>

Bang On

This one doesn't make the cut, unfortunately.​It's Fourth of July weekend, and in the haze of the heat, barbecue, domestic beer, and red-white-and-blue buntings, it's easy to get caught up in ranting-chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" The founding fathers and a lot of musicians might not agree with ... More >>

Review: The Godfathers at Off Broadway, Tuesday, February 22

​When we interviewed lead Godfather Peter Coyne, he spoke of possessing a spirit of "revenge." But revenge, though sweet, is not always easy. The band, which recorded its best-known hits in the 1980s, was scheduled to play the first show of its American comeback tour at Off Broadway. However, unsp ... More >>

Carolina Chocolate Drops

9 p.m. Wednesday, October 20. The Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard.

Setlist Review Photos: Adam Lambert Transcends American Idol at the Pageant, Sunday, August 8

American Idol's taken a beating this year. Besides the usual drama with its judges, interest in the show appeared to be dwindling. In fact, its results-show finalé drew its lowest ratings ever. Perhaps what Idol again needs is a personality like Adam Lambert. The season eight runner-up lived up to ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of March 21

​ As always, the asterisk (*) after an album indicates that the artist is coming to town. A plus-sign ( ) indicates local. Euclid Records 1. She & Him - Vol 2. 2. Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave 3. Goldfrapp - Headfirst 4. Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune 5. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine ... More >>

Murder By Death

8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 31. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Bob Wayne

9 p.m. Friday, January 15. The Fox Hole at the Atomic Cowboy, 4140 Manchester Avenue.

Rap Lyrics or Deranged Terrorist Threat? You Decide!

An Illinois judge is left to fill in the blanks.​Not that rap lyrics are required to rhyme, but we here at Daily RFT are having the darndest time imagining the following sentence as musical verse: If this account doesn't reach $50,000 in the next 7 days then a murderous rampage similar to the VT s ... More >>

The Dive Bomber: Slo-Tom's Ain't Much of Nothing But It Sure Is Something

Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.If a bar has been immortalized in song by the world's greatest bar band, the Bottl ... More >>

Red-Hot and Brown: Hip comfort food at Deluxe's Fine Food & Spirits in Maplewood

Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.If a bar has been immortalized in song by the world's greatest bar band, the Bottl ... More >>

Second Spin: Tommy Cash, Rise and Shine

Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.If a bar has been immortalized in song by the world's greatest bar band, the Bottl ... More >>

Lo-Fi Sessions: Magnolia Summer, Ludo, Fred Friction

Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.If a bar has been immortalized in song by the world's greatest bar band, the Bottl ... More >>

Gladys Knight/Al Green

7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard

Preview: Rancid Setlist from the House of Blues, Orlando, June 21, 2008

7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard

Don't Fall to Pieces!

7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

Murder By Death/ Reverend Horton Heat

7 p.m. Saturday, August 18. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

Billy Joe Shaver interview: The Lost Tapes

7 p.m. Saturday, August 18. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

Danzig with the Stars

The coolest guy you know named Glenn finds Lost Tracks.

Haggard Glory

Country’s hardcore hard-ass is still bringin’ it.

The Great Cash-In

Walk the Line

Bobby Bare

The Moon Was Blue (Dualtone)

Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

Writes and Wrongs

In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

Halfacre Gunroom

Tuesday, July 19; the Gearbox (1551 South Seventh Street)

Dave Insley and the Careless Smokers

Wednesday, May 4; Frederick's Music Lounge (4454 Chippewa Street)

Verboten!

We ban rock cliches, fatwa Eric Clapton and read up on music nerds

Rosanne Cash

Friday, November 19; Sheldon Concert Hall

Best Lunch Counter

Tiffany's Original Diner

Best Rock Radio Program

Juxtaposition

Various Artists

No Depression: What It Sounds Like (Vol. 1) (Dualtone)

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Discs of Fire

A new boxed set highlights the genius of Johnny Cash

Best Jukebox

Blueberry Hill

How Would You Describe Your Dance Style?

Week of July 23, 2003

Flesh and Blood

Honest-to-God icon Johnny Cash celebrates his 70th birthday with a passel of reissues

Various Artists

Timeless (Lost Highway)

Momus

Folktronic (Le Grand Magistery)

Ode to Joy

The RFT music staff indulges itself by picking the best work of 2000

Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B

Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B (Cleopatra Records)

The Whole Truth

Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B (Cleopatra Records)