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Brillz Talks New Album and Twitter Fighting with Azelia Banks: "She Did it to Herself"

Emerging from Los Angeles' deep talent pool of producers, Brillz (LA slang for brilliant) has been on a tear lately, with a number of releases. Originally a dancer, he transitioned to instead making music that everyone can dance to. We caught up with Brillz during a short break from the studio to di ... More >>

Win Tickets to the Black Crowes' Sold Out Concert at the Pageant

The Black Crowes are back, and in force, as evidenced by the fact that the band's upcoming show at the Pageant is completely sold out. The 23-year-old band emerged from its "indefinite hiatus" in December of last year, and is currently in the midst of a 21-date U.S. tour stopping in St. Louis -- and ... More >>

The Six Most Uncool Members Of Cool Bands

Last week in this very column, we counted down the six coolest members of uncool bands. This week, we flip the script. Here are the six most uncool members of cool bands, and they're all probably really nice people. See Also: -The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

Six Best Bass Solos In Rock

First, a joke: A man visits an Indian reservation. The tribe's chief leads him on a tour, and the man hears drums in the distance. "What are those drums?" he asks. The chief replies, "When the drums stop, bad things happen." They continue the tour, but the man keeps getting distracted. "Excuse me, w ... More >>

Sexual Poo Worship and the Death of Kuu: Let's Talk About the New Skarekrau Radio Album

No-wave tends to work as an anti-music, a reaction to pop music slathered in classy hooks.The wondrous prog of yore dared not mix with the rough edges of hairy music from the outer crust. Skarekrau Radio is a cult under the pretenses of fantastical rock and experimental sludge. Calling on the shriek ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

Lez Zeppelin

8 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Alvin Youngblood Hart

7 p.m. Saturday, January 21. BB's Jazz Blues and Soups, 700 South Broadway.

Rooney Mara takes control of the Stieg Larsson juggernaut in Dragon Tattoo

The Six Sweetest Riffs of 2011

​There's no precise way to define a sweet guitar riff, much less a criteria for such categorization. A sweet riff is, like love or God or truly excellent barbecue, something only realized upon experience. This, the second year of the second decade of the twenty first decade of the modern calen ... More >>

Bob Gruen Is a Rock & Roll Primary Source

Rolling Stones Tribute Band To Get Its Rocks Off At Off Broadway Tonight

​Just when you thought that St. Louis' love for cover nights and tribute bands couldn't swell our collective hearts any further, a promising new venture in classic-rock recreation hits Off Broadway tonight. Street Fighting Band is a new local tribute to the Rolling Stones, and the band is made ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of March 17

image viaSounds like a sly April Fool's day joke, but it isn't: Juelz Santana is celebrating his birthday at Club Amnesia. Well, not his real birthday, which was February 18, but his publicity-garnering birthday tour that *might* be tied to the release of his long overdue follow-up to 2005's What th ... More >>

Hill Country Revue

9 p.m. Saturday, November 20. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Show Review Photos Setlist: Heart at the Family Arena, Saturday, September 4

In preparation for this show, I borrowed a copy of The Essential Heart, perhaps the most comprehensive of the band's greatest-hits collections. Listening to it, I was struck anew at its rapid descent from '70s rockers to '80s power-balladeers. Granted, those '80s records were Heart's best sellers - ... More >>

End of the Road: The Black Crowes go on indefinite hiatus, on a high note

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 >>

Bettye Lavette

9 p.m. Friday, August 6. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Ten Things to Do for $10 This Memorial Day Weekend: May 28-31, 2010

Looking for something to do this Memorial Day weekend? Here's a list of ten events around town that will cost you $10 or less. ​Homecoming: Fluxus and Visual Poetry by Regional Natives (Opens Friday) This new art exhibition opens Friday. Writes Paul Friswold: "Some people will tell you that F ... More >>

Star & Micey

Tuesday, December 29. MoKaBe's, 3606 Arsenal Street. 314-865-2009. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 30. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Black Crowes

8 p.m. Wednesday, November 11. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Joe Dirt & the Dirty Boys Band

8 p.m. Friday, June 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Austin City Limits Day Two Review: Mugison, Fleet Foxes, Erykah Badu, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, the Fratellis, John Fogerty

MP3 Weekender: Victoria, Tenement Ruth, Koufax

2008 Music Awards Nominees: Best Local Release on a Label

B-Sides catches up with Lou ex-pat Black Spade and finds out how Black Moutain manages to rock so hard

Doors Swing Both Ways

Mexicans like music that doesn't involve tubas?

Victoria CD Release Show, Saturday, December 1 at the Bluebird

The Cult

7 p.m. Thursday, November 29. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

St. Louis Weekend Update, November 16-18, Plus Monday Bonus!

Cold War Direction and Victoria -- New St. Louis Band Alert

Duck and Cover

Some of the city's best-known bands go incognito at Off Broadway.

The Final Jam

Mississippi Nights: Final Jam report

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.

Circa Survive

8 p.m. Tuesday, August 8. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street).

Flying High Again

With the Black Crowes back on the road, we reflect upon the band's tumultuous history

Here's to You, Ms. Robinson

We love you more than you can know

Rock Steady

The Hold Steady bring bombast back to rock & roll

The Mars Volta

Frances the Mute (Universal/Motown)

Song of the STL

On Saturday, September 4, we tuned in to local musical frequencies in their vast and varied incarnations. What we heard, all day and all night:

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

Science + Art =

Creepy and beautiful

The White Stripes with Quintron and Miss Pussycat

Monday, June 30; Pageant

Foot Don't Fail Me Now

Local favorite J.D. Blackfoot returns to St. Louis for one last show

Tori Amos with Rufus Wainwright

Saturday, Oct. 27; Fox Theatre

Black Crowes

Wednesday, Oct. 17; Pageant

The Fucking Champs

IV; Drag City Records

TALE OF THE TAPE

Mike Davis mixes up a mesmerizing blend on his cassette Yars' Revenge

Sound Checks