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RFT Spring Arts Guide 2013: Music

Tony LaRussa's Wife: Huge Metalhead?

Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Elaine LaRussa. Names that come to mind when thinking of the top heavy metal babes of all time? Not exactly, but it seems the wife of the man who led this city's baseball team to two World Series championships may prefer the mosh pit over the dugout herself. See also: - The 2 ... More >>

Full Circle with The Flaming Lips: 2012 In Review

Editor's Note: The end of 2012 is upon us (also the end of the world, if you believe in that sort of thing), so we thought we'd put a cap on things by sharing some of our personal favorite shows, albums, events and general shenanigans. Join us as we indulge in some navel-gazing! When I write articl ... More >>

Electric Six is Worth Seeing Nine Times: Here's Why

Even for a band that tours frequently, Electric Six rolls into town quite often. The dance-rocker's show tomorrow (Tuesday, November 6) will be its fifth appearance at the relatively young Firebird, and before that E6 also performed at Fubar and the late Creepy Crawl. I've seen almost all of the ban ... 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 >>

The 53 Hardest-Rocking Ladies at the Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson Concert

It's supernatural season, and last night, St. Louis got into the holiday spirit with the Twins of Evil Tour. Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson brought their doom, gloom, colored contacts and rock & roll to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. We'll have more coverage later. Meanwhile, however, photographe ... More >>

Kiss and Mötley Crüe at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre: Review and Photos

When you open for Kiss you have to put on a hell of a show, and Mötley Crüe delivered. From the displays camaraderie to the set list full of hair metal hits, Crüe brings brotherhood onstage and encourages it amongst the audience. With four-way fist bumps and sly "we got this" smiles, Crüe really ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From August 27 to September 2

Did everyone survive LouFest? Surrounding this post is our extensive coverage; be sure to read up. Rain be damned, the whole thing seemed to go off without a hitch. More big outdoors shows populate this week's post, for those of you that didn't get enough over the weekend. Tonight Verizon Wireless ... More >>

The Six Strangest KISS Knick-Knacks

KISS occupies a strange world. Part Halloween, part devil rock, part creepy mythos, KISS reigns as being among the top bands that freak your mom out. It should come as no surprise, then, that KISS merchandise also is sufficiently wicked. To celebrate KISS' appearance Aug. 27 at Verizon Wireless Amph ... More >>

Mariah Carey, No Doubt The Latest Victims Of Inexplicable NFL Counter-Programming

Disclosure: I like both No Doubt and football, and after I used Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" to make a 90s-pop-related point I couldn't stop listening to it. I think this puts me in a unique position to say that the NFL's continued attempts to attract a non-traditional audience by tossing female po ... More >>

Rock & Roll Myths Debunked and Proven in New Book Co-Authored By St. Louis Music Writer

Ever wondered if Pink Floyd purposefully synced Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of Oz? Or if Johnny Cash actually had the Folsom Prison blues? Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz tackle these questions and more in their newest book Rock 'n' Roll Myths: The True Stories Behind the Most Infamous Leg ... More >>

A Tribute to R.E.M. and 88.1 KDHX Benefit: Review, Setlist and Photo

Back to Rockville: A Tribute to R.E.M. And 88.1 KDHX Benefit Off Broadway April 27, 2012 When R.E.M. announced its breakup last September, the music world was shocked but not really surprised. After all, the three remaining original members had been together for 31 years by that point, most of them ... More >>

Taylor Swift at the Scottrade Center, 8/14/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Photo by Jon Gitchoff​Taylor Swift | Hunter Hayes | NeedToBreathe Scottrade Center August 14, 2011 Taylor Swift has documented her detractors well: They make frequent appearances in her overtly personal lyrics, most recently in her revenge jam "Mean." The song's music video even finds her t ... More >>

"One Person Going Through It Too": An Interview with Chris Mills

Courtesy of Chris Mills​You can take the kid of out Collinsville, Illinois, but you can't take Collinsville out of the kid. A certain sense of Midwestern, small-town alienation pervades the music of singer, songwriter and orchestral pop obsessive Chris Mills, even as his music has grown more c ... More >>

Lady Gaga Is A Terrible Match for Boyfriend Luc Carl: Lyrical Proof From Every Born This Way Track

​Are they? Aren't they? Lady Gaga's been giving conflicting reports recently on the state of her relationship with longtime on-and-off beau Luc Carl. On May 27 she announced their split to MTV UK, which reports that Gaga and Carl were spotted together in NYC days later. Around the time she a ... More >>

Ted Leo at Off Broadway, 5/8/11: Review and Setlist

Ted Leo. Photo by Roy Kasten​Ted Leo/Title Tracks/The Blind Eyes Off Broadway Sunday, May 8, 2011 Few axioms in live music are as rigid as the Law of the Solo Headliner: Never put two loud and catchy power-pop bands on before him. Break it at everyone's peril. Unless, of course the solo artist ... More >>

Power-pop cult heroes Ultimate Fakebook are back together playing shows, but it's strictly for fun

Interview Outtakes: Menomena's Danny Seim on Creed and How His Nerdiness Compares to Rush's Collective Nerdiness

Alicia Rose​In this week's music feature, Menomena drummer Danny Seim goes into detail about the band's unique songwriting process and its newest Barsuk Records full length, Mines. Read on below for some interview outtakes, in which contributor Ryan Wasoba discovers Seim's apparent obsession w ... More >>

Horror-rock king Rob Zombie talks his fall tour with Alice Cooper

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 >>

The Mother Hips

9 p.m. Friday, June 4. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

New (Local) Music Thursday: New Band Bruiser Queen Lives Up to Its Name, While Vandalyzm Gets Feisty

​Bruiser Queen is playing its first show tomorrow night at the Firebird. That's the new band featuring drummer Jason Potter of defunct garage-punks Left Arm, bassist Ben Ellebracht and Morgan Nusbaum, bassist of indie-pop act the 75's. (Don't worry: That band is still together and playing.) BQ ... More >>

Mahjongg

8 p.m. Sunday, February 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, January 22 to Sunday, January 24

Please look here and here for Haiti benefits happening around town this weekend. Friday, January 22 *Corey Smith, The Pageant *Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet, 2720 Cherokee *Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Deluxe (last show at the venue) *Soul Kiss (reunion), Duck Room *Mario Pascal, Lamar Harris a ... More >>

Sponge

7 p.m. Thursday, December 31. Fubar, 3108 Locust.

And The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2010 Inductees Are...

According to Crain's Cleveland Business: ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, the Hollies and the Stooges! David Geffen will be inducted as an executive, while songwriting teams of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry also made it in. (Other songwriters getting the nod include Jesse ... More >>

St. Louis Halloween Shows: Get Spooked

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year -- which means that the ooky-spooky celebrating (and, let's be real, debauchery) begins on Friday night. In light of this, here's a rundown of all the shows going on so far. Did we miss any? Chime in below. Wikimedia Commons​ October 30 Binge and Purge: ... More >>

Combichrist

7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

The Domani International Appears on Afghan Whigs Tribute CD, Opens for Dead Confederate

Recently resurrected local act the Domani International is appearing on a forthcoming tribute CD to the Afghan Whigs. It's in good company: Other artists appearing on .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } Summer's Kiss: A Tribute to the Afg ... More >>

Pucker Up!

Paul Stanley's in town

Career Destroyer

It's a Phantom menace

Ace Frehley

7 p.m. Tuesday, February 26. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Wouldn't You Like to Know Me?

Salute the Dynasty

Piazza Sweet

Week of February 8, 2007

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Hillbilly Noir

The literary world is abuzz over Daniel Woodrell, bard of the Ozarks.

Impossibly Passable

Slide Away

Lock up your family pictures, here come the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players!

Crazy Calculus!

B-Sides analyzes the mathematics of Don Caballero's existence, calls out Bon Jovi for cliches and points you to some hot Futureheads action in the Download.

Devil in the Details

New books document heavy metal's ugly history

Ute Lemper

Punishing Kiss (Decca/Universal)

Teenage Wasteland

Good music from some bad girls, the Donnas

Agnostic Front

Friday, Oct. 22; Galaxy

BRINGING OUT THE DEAD

Directed by Martin Scorsese

DETROIT ROCK CITY

Directed by Adam Rifkin

ROCK STOCK

A book report on the best tomes to consult before buying tunes

Speaking Frehley

Teenagers in Love

A Post-Poster World

It's the power of the music, not cartoonish surface appearances, that makes for a music hero, say the local young folk we polled