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Justin Timberlake, Mac Miller, The Go-Go's, Merchandise and More in This Week's 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 >>

The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

Bands are collections of people. In any such group, some people will be cooler than others. Even in an uncool rock band, there will be cool people. Here are the six coolest members of uncool bands. Cool? Cool. See also: -The Six Best Sloppy Drummers -The Six Best Songs About Murdering A Significant ... More >>

VMA Awards 2012: Handicapping the Video of the Year Nominees

The 2012 VMA nominees are out, and while there are certainly plenty of big names and obvious choices, there are a few surprises buried in there. Frank Ocean gets a nod, as do A$AP Rocky, Jack White and Regina Spektor. But those are curiosities -- Rihanna, Drake, Katy Perry et. al. get the lion's sha ... More >>

Indigo Girls at the Pageant, 7/21/2012: Review Set List

The Indigo Girls | Shadowboxers The Pageant July 21, 2012 A good-sized crowd came to the Pageant on Saturday night to dance, sing, sway and canoodle along to the music of the Indigo Girls, but you had to hand it to the Shadowboxers. The five-piece, all-male band hails from Atlanta -- like the head ... More >>

Six Most Cringe-Inducing Genres

Genres can be handy organizational tools. Without them, we would have to resort to long-winded explanations of every artists or unwarranted comparisons to similar acts. But as genres become more specific, they often become more ridiculous. Here are the six most cringe-inducing genres. Feel free to l ... More >>

Just Blaze

10 p.m. Saturday, April 14. Lola, 500 North 14th Street.

The Hunger Games Soundtrack: Hop Aboard the Gravy Train, Unlikely Bedfellows!

It's fitting that a film about a dystopian free-for-all would include music from the Arcade Fire. This is the group, after all, that composed several songs on Funeral about a world overrun by snow and power outages. But the song that appears in the movie is not from Funeral. It's an original song ... More >>

The Beach Boys' Maroon 5 Grammy Collaboration and Four Other Fan Indignities

Beach Boys fans are resilient, and they'll get over it. I want to begin there, because it's important to remember that the news that recently broke about the Beach Boys' reunion performance at the Grammys is no more than the fifth most embarrassing thing Beach Boys fans have had to deal with in the ... More >>

The Six Most Absurd Pop Songs of 2011

​The old model of popular music: dumb it down to the lowest common denominator and make it go down easy. Reviewing the Billboard and iTunes charts of this past year, the tides have obviously changed. In days when nobody is buying, the flashiest, loudest, weirdest thing sells -- how else can yo ... More >>

Nine Of The Most Unexpected Crossovers Into Kids Music

​Amidst the flash, bang, and noise of summer movies, there's "Winnie the Pooh", a quiet and relatively bombast-free film that picks up where the 1966 classic left off. The one difference: hipster queen Zooey Deschanel lends her delightful vocals to the soundtrack, including the beloved theme ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: July 1-4

Daniel Boud​It is on nights like tonight when we most wish we were some kind of amorphous blob that could split six ways: Elvis Costello's at the Pageant, Eddie Vedder's packing his ukulele into the Fox, Fucked Up and JEFF the Brotherhood are going to kick ass at the Firebird, Clownvis is fil ... More >>

The Ten Most Cringe-Worthy Celebrity Vocal Duets

The soon to be collaborating Voices. Courtesy of NBC​Oh great. The judges/coaches from NBC's hit karaoke tournament vocal competition "The Voice" are going to collaborate. Specifically, Maroon 5, led by slightly soulful popster Adam Levine will be joined by Christina Aguilera to perform their ... More >>

RFT Showcase Preview: Listen Before You Go

​The 2011 RFT Music Showcase is practically here: This Saturday from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Washington Avenue. In our continued attempt to prepare you for the madness of 78 music acts in one day, we will be compiling preview tracks from artists playing the showcase; you can listen below. This wil ... More >>

St. Louis Bands: Submit Your Music Video for a Chance To Play Under the Arch

courtesy of Fair St. Louis​ Fair St. Louis, the folks responsible for the free summer shows in and around the Gateway Arch, are introducing a music video contest this year for local bands. The winner gets, among other things, a 45 minutes set under the Arch on July 2nd, 3rd or 4th, depending o ... More >>

Bell Biv DeVoe, Gavin DeGraw, Keb' Mo' and Barenaked Ladies To Play Celebrate St. Louis

courtesy of Fair St. Louis​The lineup for the 2011 Celebrate St. Louis Summer Concerts has just been announced: As you can see, it's Bill Biv DeVoe on July 15th, Gavin DeGraw on July 16th, Keb' Mo' on July 22nd and Barenaked Ladies on July 23rd. All shows are free and the headliners listed sta ... More >>

2011 Fair St. Louis to Feature Headliners Steve Miller Band, Maroon 5

The 2011 Fair St. Louis event will expand to include three days of entertainment, it was announced within the hour. At a press conference at the Lafayette Square venue the St. Louis Palladium, the national headlining acts were revealed: Saturday, July 2: The Steve Miller Band Sunday, July 3: Maro ... More >>

Interview: Fitz and the Tantrums Leader Michael Fitzpatrick on Crafting Modern Soul and Eschewing Guitar

(Note: Fitz & the Tantrums' Saturday, February 12, show at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City) is sold out. However, the group is doing an in-store performance at Vintage Vinyl at 4 p.m. That gig is all-ages.) Piper Ferguson​When Fitz & the Tantrums hits town fo ... More >>

New Release Highlights for September 21: John Legend and the Roots want you to Wake Up!

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Flying Lotus' latest Pattern & Grid World​*Flying Lotus, Pattern Grid World Just months after releasing the full-length Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus returns wit ... More >>

Review Photos: Hanson and Rooney Update Retro-Pop, The Pageant, Thursday, August 5

Todd OwyoungTaylor Hanson at the Pageant. View more photos here.​Mock Hanson's music at your peril. The fresh-faced trio is still best-known for its effervescent tween-pop days - don't front, you know all the words to "MMMBop" - but it's grown into its bubblegum-funk/soul sound rather nicely. ... More >>

Homespun: Fundamental Elements, This Moment EP

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Fundamental Elements' new EP, This Moment. He had this to say:The oh-so-smooth, endlessly breathy pop of Maroon 5 mixes with modern R&B flourishes on Fundamental Elements' new six-song EP, This Moment. The band stuffs its tightly constructed song ... More >>

Homespun: Fundamental Elements

This Moment EP
(self-released)

Hannah Montana gets upstaged by sea turtles in The Last Song

We made you a mixtape! 2008: The year in music.

The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

In the RFT that's coming out later this week, our music writers will weigh in on what they liked -- and didn't like -- about music in the year 2008. Various writers from around the Village Voice Media chain also weighed in on their jams, lists we'll be rolling out over the next week or so. Here's a ... More >>

My Love-Hate Relationship with Counting Crows and Adam Duritz

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: September 26 to 28

Maroon 5, Counting Crows and Augustana at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Saturday, September 27

2007 MTV VMAs Wrap-Up: Stream-of-Conscious about Britney, Timberlake and more

Eight Days a Week

Fear and loathing in St. Louis: A to Z's week as a woman-about-town.

The Sunny Side of the Street

A look at the positive things going on in the St. Louis scene.

Naughty Santa

Red Moon, 1500 St. Charles Street, 314-436-7900.

Ying Yang Twins

USA (United State of Atlanta) (TVT)

We Aren't the World

A critical fatwa of Live 8

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of January 26, 2005

Letters

Week of September 15, 2004

The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock

(Besides Sting)

Talk This Way

Where's the reality for people trying out for American Idol?

Sounds Around Town

Week of November 12, 2003

Maroon 5

Wednesday, November 12; the Gargoyle at Washington University