Justin Timberlake

Kirkwood's Own Nikki Glaser Makes Late-Night MTV Premiere

We get it. MTV doesn't play music anymore. Now that you're done making the same tired objection that your uncle made ten years ago, maybe it's time you give the wayward TV station a little credit for at least getting back into the comedy business. Kirkwood-native Nikki Glaser and writer / comedia ... More >>

An Open Fan Letter to Mitt Romney and Todd Akin

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Eastwood's return is a decidedly slow-pitch affair in Trouble With the Curve

Buy One Big Mac or Quarter Pounder with Cheese at McDonald's, Get the Second for 15 Cents -- Today Only!

Usually Gut Check's morning commute is rife with road rage and angry silence, but today, perhaps because of weather that favors rolling down car windows to blasting the A/C, we switched on the radio. And good grief, thank goodness we did. No, it wasn't the new Taylor Swift song that stilled our bea ... More >>

Inside Cirque Du Soliel's Michael Jackson Tribute with St. Louis Trumpeter Keyon Harrold

Courtesy of Cirque Du Soliel Michael Jackson: Still filling arenas.​Trumpeter Keyon Harrold has spent much of his professional life in the relatively laid-back atmosphere of jazz clubs and recording studios. But when the St. Louis native performs in his hometown this week, he'll be in the midd ... More >>

Seven Very Homoerotic Music Videos: We're in the Mood for Some Hot Man Muffin

​This week, the U.S. finally dealt with one of those pesky civil rights issues we've been putting off for a while. Don't Ask Don't Tell is now a sordid thing of the past, and we want to celebrate the only way we know how. We rounded up our favorite music videos that celebrate men loving men, w ... More >>

23 Musicians with Michele Bachmann Eyes: Horrifying and Hypnotic

Jeff Tweedy as the Queen of Rage​Michelle Bachmann's Newsweek cover, on which she stares out icily over the headline The Queen Of Rage, has provoked intense reaction, mostly because of Bachmann's rapidly ballooning public caricature, but at least partly because the look in her eyes is somethin ... More >>

Tonight at Left Bank: Former RFT Writer Ben Westhoff Discusses New Book Dirty South

Ben Westhoff tonight at Left Bank.​Former RFT staffer Ben Westhoff is out with a new book exploring the artists who helped popularize the southern style of hip hop that has dominated airwaves for much of the past decade. Tonight at 7 p.m. Westhoff reads from his work Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayn ... More >>

Their Favorite Things: Our two writers discuss the best in theater from 2010

New Release Highlights For December 21: Keri Hilson, Keyshia Cole, Duran Duran 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.) Avant's The Letter​*Avant, The Letter The Urban Music Scene review says of Avant's latest album, "The Letter is a solid effort. There may not be anything tha ... More >>

David Fincher commented on Mark Zuckerberg's status. With The Social Network, he invites you to join him.

Tuesday Tussle: Part 1, Local Blogger Fired for Writing About Sex -- She Got Screwed!

The Beautiful Kind​As recounted on Daily RFT yesterday, a St. Louis sex blogger was summarily fired from her day job last week when her boss discovered her anonymous blog The Beautiful Kind (TBK). Although TBK has always been careful to hide her identity in her online writings and photos, someone ... More >>

Local Harvest: For the first time ever, Farm Aid comes to St. Louis.

Show Review Setlist: Jason Mraz at Farm Aid, Sunday, October 4

It's not a stretch to call Jason Mraz the hottest act at Farm Aid 2009. He may not have the legacy of Willie or the hipster cachet of Wilco, but Mraz's star is still on the rise and seems to show no sign of dimming. Mraz's continued climb to the top, however, is accompanied by a healthy dose of ma ... More >>

What the Beck: Guero can operate a leafblower?

Future Perfect: Max Tundra's world goes pop

Ear Burns: Our critics spew some haterade about 2008's bummer songs, albums and events

Show Review Setlist: "Weird Al" Yankovic at Family Arena, Friday, August 8

Show Review: The English Beat, The Alarm and the Fixx at the VooDoo Lounge, Harrah's Casino, Thursday, July 17

New Order's Peter Hook Talks Bonus Live Footage!

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

Sot in the City: It's time to hit the bottle — not the beach!

Producer nonpareil Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again

OneRepublic

7 p.m. Monday, February 18. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

SonyBMG Launches Platinum MusicPass Album Download Cards

Face the Nation

We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.

Ne-Yo

7 p.m. Thursday, June 21. Old Glory Amphitheatre, Six Flags, Eureka.

Film Openings

Week of May 17, 2007

Ogreload

Third time's the charmless for Shrek franchise

Nine Inch Nails

Year Zero (Interscope)

"News flash!

"Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, idiota, and consequently, any person born in Puerto Rico is a U.S. citizen."

Love Comes Tumbling

Recover’s former frontman gets his groove on, the way young lovers do.

Film Openings

Week of January 11, 2006

Living on Channel Z

B-Sides asks a cadre of local musicians to reminisce about Chuck Berry as he turns 80, while Dr. Zhivegas get down with their debut disc.

Bringing Up Baby

B-Sides gets the real story behind Living Things, chats with the Hail Marys' punk-rock mom and talks to Michael Stipe about his new charity single

Let's Get It Started

B-Sides cops to liking the Black Eyed Peas, talks to local-boy-done-good Marty Ehrlich and dreams up some new logos for American Idol contestants

Pointes Beyond

The Great Russian Nutcracker comes to town

Buffet of Champions

You came, you saw, you voted: the winners of the 2005 Riverfront Times Music Awards

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of February 2, 2005

Riverfront Times Music Awards '04

Bush Strikes Out

Our commander in chief takes to the mound, Missouri gets its very own dinosaur, an Old Kid on the Block remembers when he was New, and Unreal learns a little something about love and basketball

Remembrances of Things Pop

Radar Station looks back at Bryan Adams and lesbian chic

'03, Oh My!

Our critics weigh in on a questionable year’s best music

The Streets

All Got Our Runnins (Vice Internet Exclusive)

The Black Eyed Peas with Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera

Saturday, July 5; Savvis Center

New Bands From Old

Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"

Mag Hags

What's wrong with the state of music journalism -- and how to fix it

Is It Hot in Herre?

Our intrepid reporter chats face-to-face with swoon-inducing Nelly

Caught in the Net

A quick surf turns up quite a catch

Lip Sync-ed

Telemarketing, 'N Sync-style, puts a journalist on a party line