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Last Shot: Time Is Running Out

[Editor's Note: Long-time concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out two years ago that he had stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events, on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places. As he continues to fight for his l ... More >>

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... By Jason Roche See ... More >>

The Six Best Non-Metal Songs About Heavy Metal

Songwriters love riffing on folklore, be it nursery rhymes or Biblical parables. Over the years, heavy metal has developed its own brand of legend, so much so that stylistically disparate musicians have used it as a springboard for creatively disparate songs. Here are the six best non-metal songs ab ... More >>

Oklahoma to St. Louis in Nine Minutes

Youtube user OrionOrbes this week posted an interesting timelapsed video of his drive from MacAlester, Oklahoma to St. Louis, a journey that whizzes by at a brisk nine minutes and forty-nine seconds. What makes it so much fun for the viewer is that there's no soundtrack on it, so you can add your ow ... More >>

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 >>

Judas Priest at the Family Arena, 11/10/11: Photos

Jon Gitchoff​Judas Priest brought the noise to St. Charles last night. Opener Black Label Society had skulls, DJ Lady Starlight had brown booze straight from the bottle and the fans came with rawk fists at the ready. Jon Gitchoff went with a camera and proved that you need a hell of a lot mor ... More >>

Melt-Banana And The Black Angels Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Like snorting Adderall off a Hello Kitty doll, Melt-Banana's terse noisy punk will eat yr brain.​ Japanese anti-heroes Melt-Banana embark on a U.S. tour this fall, and guess where they're gonna be? Cicero's. Guess where they're not gonna to be? New York City. Bah, that rules. If we're keeping ... More >>

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Listen to This Hilarious, Entertaining Ozzy Osbourne Interview

​Ozzy Osbourne is performing at the Scottrade Center tonight, Friday, December 10. Halford (the band fronted by Rob Halford of Judas Priest) opens. Tickets are $27 to $72.50, and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. A few weeks ago, KSHE DJ Favazz had the chance to interview Osbourne. The results, pre ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne and Halford Coming to Scottrade Center in December

At the KSHE Pig Roast on Saturday, the station announced that Ozzy Osbourne and Halford (featuring -- you guessed it! -- Judas Priest's Rob Halford) would be playing the Scottrade Center on December 10. Ticket info for that show emerged this morning: They're on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m. and star ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Chris Shiflett on His Guitar Heroes, Being a Dad and the Status of Foo Fighters

Jack Butler​ Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants -- the rootsier side project of the Foo Fighters guitarist -- will be at the Old Rock House tonight. The show's at 8 p.m. and tickets are $8. We chatted with Shiflett in this week's paper. Read on below for some outtakes in which he discusses h ... More >>

CD Review: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Puts the "Brutal" in The Brutalist Bricks

​ BY JASON TOON Ted Leo & the Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks (Matador) When people call Ted Leo "the thinking man's punk," what they're getting at is this: His best songs hang suspended halfway between the urgent directness of punk and the compositional and lyrical richness of the singer-s ... More >>

Rock the Bells: Get in the spirit with the RFT's annual holiday-album rodeo

Lemmy Entertain You: Twenty questions With Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister

Ravage

8 p.m. Thursday, August 13. The Library, 706 Lafayette Avenue.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot: Judas Priest Then and Now

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This old adage was proved true last night in the parking lot outside the Judas Priest/Whitesnake show at Family Arena in St. Charles, as this slideshow here proves.Steve TruesdellA Judas Priest show now. More photos from last night here.Sure, the ... More >>

Judas Priest/Whitesnake

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 1. The Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles.

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week of March 24

Pageant *Yonder Mountain String Band, Friday, May 8, Saturday, May 9 *Demetri Martin, Saturday, May 16 *Mint Condition, Saturday, May 30 *The Avett Brothers, Thursday, June 25meatpuppets.comBlueberry Hill *Howie Day, May 1*Meiko/Cory Chisel, May 14*Cracker, Friday, May 15*Meat Puppets, May 28

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. G ... More >>

Headlining a headbanger fest, Glenn Danzig celebrates a career in and out of metal, while Michael Zapruder's intricate pop songs transcend the singer-songwriter tag

Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Supergrass at Scottrade Center, Sunday, July 20

Motorhead and Testamant at the Pageant in St. Louis, August 20 -- Along with an Insane Rumor...

Evil Is as Evile Does

Paying Homage to the Metal Gods

Trail of Tears

Prey should be called Dances With Tedium.

Scream to a Whisper

With City of Life, Avenged Sevenfold embraces its indoor voice

Big Girl Raspberry Sex on the Beach

Freddie's Bar, 4112-4114 Manchester Avenue; 314-371-1333

Double-flushers

We list this year's real stinkers, get some critical advice from the folks and look at some scary new downloading laws

American Idolatry

Who says cover bands are unoriginal?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of August 18, 2004

Queer Eye for the Country Guy

Cowboy crooners are putting some metro-sex into their rural images

Sounds Around Town

Week of March 17, 2004

Devil in the Details

New books document heavy metal's ugly history

Rock On and On and On and On

Make Sweet Meat proud in the KSHE 95 March Bandness: Tournament of Rock; plus, give us your juiciest Berger Bite, check out some cranky public art and a Branson Idol hopeful -- and don't pack heat in Dierbergs

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of January 7, 2004

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Trans Am with Dälek

Sunday, April 27; Rocket Bar

Dead Can Skate

Local goths are on a roll

Film Openings

Week of September 18, 2002

Sounds Around Town

Week of July 3, 2002

A League of Their Own

The Missouri Prowlers are tilting more at windmills than at blocking sleds

Welch the Revelator

Gillian Welch's new record marks a testing of the very limits of that "confessional singer/songwriter" mode

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a rock star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it

Stage Fright

It takes real metal to interview W.A.S.P.'s Blackie Lawless

STORM WARNING

The Stormtroopers of Death return to set heavy metal straight