Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds

Killer Blues to Install Headstones at the Graves of Stagger Lee, Milton Sparks This Weekend

All too often we read stories about aging, sometimes-forgotten music legends that slowly wallow away into obscurity. Highly influential music pioneers get left in the pits of financial hell when -- if there was any justice in the music business (spoiler alert: there truly isn't) -- these legends' e ... More >>

Helmet & The Toadies, Steel Panther, Gaslight Anthem and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Kem and Babyface at the Chaifetz Arena: Review and Setlists

Kem stares into the middle distance.​Kem | Babyface Chaifetz Arena February 11, 2012 The past few weeks have been particularly rough on soul music lovers. They have experienced the loss of Etta James, Don Cornelius, and now the incomparable Whitney Houston. The breaking news of Whitney's pas ... More >>

The Isley Brothers at Chaifetz Arena, 9/17/11: Review and Setlist

​The Isley Brothers | El DeBarge | After 7 Chaiftez Arena September 18, 2011 Things got off to a bit of a rocky start at this weekend's Superstars of Soul concert. Just prior to start time, lines for the box office practically stretched out of the doors, thanks mostly to a number of tickets b ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, June 11 to Sunday, June 13

blogs.dallasobserver.comThe Brian Jonestown Massacre will be at Off Broadway Friday, June 11 at 8 p.m.​Friday, June 11 *Harry Connick Jr, The Fox Theatre *Maze featuring Frankie Beverly/Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Chaifetz Arena *Break These Walls/Make Me Break Me/Between The Rivers/Granite Clou ... More >>

St. Louis Show Announcements: Week of March 25

The Pageant*The New Pornographers/The Dodos June 28*Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros/Dawes, June 14 *Kevin Hart, April 30   ​Old Rock House*Gregory Alan Isakov, March 27*Honor Society, April 8*The Subdudes, June 26*Marcia Ball, June 20*The Nadas, May 6 *Tommy Castro Band, April 17 &n ... More >>

When the Post-Dispatch Sports Section Attempts to Write about Hip-Hop

Usher Wants His MTV

Why a pop megastar still feels neglected by the mainstream

Letters

Week of September 15, 2004

The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock

(Besides Sting)

Filling the Blue-Eyed-Soul Hole

Justin Timberlake leads the charge of new melanin-challenged soul brothers

Michael Jackson

Invincible (Epic Records)

You Will Love It

Josie doesn't pussyfoot around: You're being brainwashed by pop

The Backstreet Boys

Black and Blue (Jive)

Bona Fide

Joel and Ethan Coen's Brother hits a Homer

HIGHWAY TO HELL

Rock & roll is alive and well in St. Louis, living in sin with the Highway Matrons