Marshall Crenshaw

Big Boi, The Mountain Goats, Steely Dan, Twangfest 17 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 >>

Patti Smith, Toots and the Maytals, Shooter Jennings, Ghostface Killah 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 >>

Does Spotify Mean the End the iPod and Your Music Collection?

When I bought my first iPod--this was the first iPod, when the scroll wheel actually spun around--it was a severe blow to my nerd-cred, which I guarded pretty jealously at the time. (It was the only cred I had.) Relying on iTunes and its untouchable database to maintain my MP3 collection, instead of ... More >>

Off Broadway Presents the First Annual Open Highway Music Festival

See also: The Bottle Rockets' Brian Henneman On The New Record And Learning Banjo Off Broadway has just announced a new music festival to take place Thursday, August 9 through Saturday, August 11. So far, three bands are confirmed, and they are a very promising start indeed: Will Hoge, William Elli ... More >>

The Bottle Rockets' Brian Henneman On The New Record And Learning Banjo

Of all of the bands to emerge from alt country's heyday in the mid to late '90s St. Louis-based band the Bottle Rockets has exceeded most in longevity, quality and consistency. After nearly twenty years of creating scorching and intelligent Southern-style country rock the band is still finding ways ... More >>

The Bottle Rockets

Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening With the Bottle Rockets
Bloodshot Records

Bird's Mile Home and Alley Ghost at Heavy Anchor, 8/5/11

Photo by Michael Dauphin​Show Recap: Bird's Mile Home | Bob Reuter's Alley Ghost | The Ghetto Tumbleweeds The Heavy Anchor August 8, 2011 It seemed like an unassuming night at the Heavy Anchor, and generally it was. Early in the evening, there were more folks out on the smoking patio than the ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of March 3

image viaMatt and Kim bring their spastic hyperactivity back to St. Louis on June 23 at The Pageant. ​2720 Cherokee *MathGames, March 18 *This Must Be The Band, March 11 *Zoogma, March 12 Chaifetz Arena *Charlie Wilson, May 6

Marshall Crenshaw, Freedy Johnston and Sondre Lerche Among Artists Returning to St. Louis

Kholood EidMarshall Crenshaw on stage with Bottle Rockets in January 2011​The Old Rock House just announced a slew of new shows for this spring. Up first is the return of elfin Norwegian musician Sondre Lerche, who was one of the first artists to perform when the Old Rock House started booking ... More >>

Congrats to the RFT's Music-Related Web Award Winners for 2011!

Wikimedia Commons​Late yesterday, the winners of the RFT's first-annual web awards went live on our website. Included in that bunch is a bunch of music-related winners. The best music blog award went to I Went To a Show -- because, according to judges, "It's great to see the local-centric cont ... More >>

Video: Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos Plays "Surrender" with Bottle Rockets and Marshall Crenshaw

On Wednesday night, we told you about Marshall Crenshaw and Bottle Rockets' killer cover of Cheap Trick's "Surrender." Well, last night at the Castle Theatre in Bloomington, Illinois, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos sat in with the bands for that same cover. Video evidence, of course, has already ... More >>

Review: Marshall Crenshaw with the Bottle Rockets at Off Broadway, Wednesday, January 19

Kholood EidMarshall Crenshaw (middle) with Bottle Rockets, last night at Off Broadway​Prior to last night's show at Off Broadway, Bottle Rockets guitarist John Horton stood in the lobby and expressed nervousness about the impending concert -- which was the first show in a series of gigs backi ... More >>

Grizzled country-rockers Bottle Rockets and power-pop songsmith Marshall Crenshaw form an unlikely touring alliance

Show Announcements: Week of December 16

San Francisco breakbeat whiz kid Lorin Ashton aka Bassnectar will be slangin' that ill shit on April 9 at the Pageant. ​ Blueberry Hill *Chuck Berry, January 19 *Truth and Salvage Co., February 20 Chaifetz Arena *6th Annual St. Louis Blues Festival, February 12 Cranky Yellow *Cognitive Disso ... More >>

Marshall Crenshaw and the Bottle Rockets are Playing St. Louis!

Remember that Marshall Crenshaw/Bottle Rockets tour we told you about a few weeks ago? Good news! The trek is coming here, to Off Broadway on Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Tickets are $20 in advance and $23 day of show. I'd buy your tickets early; this will likely sell out. Just think how epic Crensh ... More >>

Bob Reuter of Bob's Scratchy Records Discusses 45s, Bob Dylan Going Acoustic and -- What Else? -- Scratchy Records

The number of chain record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops as well as for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' recor ... More >>

Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles works on a new record, eschews convention

Last Collector Standing: Best-Selling Author Scott Phillips Dreams About Vinyl, Writes While Listening to Michael Nyman and Yo La Tengo

Jon Scorfina​Scott Phillips is the national best-selling author of the novels The Ice Harvest and The Walkaway; his newest book is the Western-tinged, black comedy Cottonwood. He's also a vinyl collector who has recurring dreams of shifting through bin after bin of lost music in an imaginary r ... More >>

Twangfest Auction Rolls On, Fest Starts Tonight With Alejandro Escovedo at the Pageant

Twangfest 13 starts tonight at the Pageant with Amy Lavere, Hot Club of Cowtown and Alejandro Escovedo, but the Twangfest eBay Auction, an annual charity event for KDHX Community Media, has been rolling for a week, with many items ending this afternoon. Lots of cool and rare music stuff. Check it ou ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Marshall Crenshaw

In this week's paper, Roy Kasten chatted with legendary songwriter Marshall Crenshaw, who's playing tonight at Off Broadway. The show starts at 8 p.m., tickets are $15 and it's an evening with -- meaning there are no openers and it's all Marshall, all the time. Get there on time! Here are some ... More >>

Video: Kids Incorporated Covers Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday, Someway"

Kids, Incorporated was the teeth-rotting children's TV show from the '80s and '90s that's now known for launching the careers of Martika, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Fergie. The premise of the show was simple: kids played in a band, which lead to them covering popular songs of the time in bet ... More >>

Noted pop songsmith Marshall Crenshaw explores Jaggedland with a new album

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week of March 10

Off Broadway *Marshall Crenshaw, Thursday, April 2 *Lydia, Wednesday, April 8 *Michael Jonas, Sunday, April 12 *Hot Panda, Monday, April 13 *Joy Bus, Wednesday, April 22 *Richard Buckner, Sunday, May 3 *KRISTEENYOUNG, Tuesday, May 5   Pop's *Dragonforce, Friday, April 24 *Twiztid, Saturday ... More >>

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week of March 3

Powell Hall *The Beach Boys, Wednesday, May 13 Billiken Club *Beach House, Friday, April 3 *So Many Dynamos Album Release Show, Saturday, April 18Fox Theatre *Robin Thicke/Jennifer Hudson (picture below), Thursday, April 23D. BanksOff Broadway *Little Brazil, Wednesday, March 25 *Vermillion Lies, Tu ... More >>

Marshall Crenshaw at Off Broadway, Thursday, April 2

This just in: Power-pop legend Marshall Crenshaw will be at Off Broadway at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 2. Tickets are just $15. "Whenever You're On My Mind" Marshall Crenshaw |MTV Music

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

Let's Stay Active

Mitch Easter's out on his own with Dynamico.

Gin Blossoms

7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 7 and 8. Argosy Casino (One Front Street, Alton, Illinois)

Dar Williams

Wednesday, October 26; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Various Artists

Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck (Sugar Hill Records)

The Everyothers

Thursday, March 11; Creepy Crawl

Sounds Around Town

Week of March 3, 2004

Cynical Guy

Work and play are the same thing to Marshall Crenshaw

Spring Cleaning

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Susan Werner

Friday, January 17; Focal Point

Sonny Landreth

Sunday, July 1; Broadway Oyster Bar

Christy McWilson

The Lucky One (Hightone Records)

Critical Mass

RFT music critics offer a cut-and-paste compendium of the year in music. Everyone's wrong. Everyone's right.

ASTROPUPPEES

Pet (Hightone)

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