Matt Harnish

Homespun: Max Load

Max Load
rerunrecordsstl.com

BDR Records Re-Releases Material By Classic St. Louis Band Max Load

It's no stretch at all to think of BDR Records as St. Louis' very own Numero Group. That Chicago-based imprint quickly became the king of archival reissues, resurrecting long-forgotten and barely remembered sides from music scenes in Cleveland, Wichita and, on the Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples ... More >>

A Plea For The Separation of Music And Music Culture

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. As some of these Better Living Through Music columns have pointed out (and as my nemesis Matt Harnish ... More >>

Bunnygrunt Celebrates Twenty Years This Saturday at Plush

Bunnygrunt is an act seated right where it wants to be: walking the thin line between musical obsession and hobby, obscurity and fame. "For the most part, the band I thought about being in when I was a kid--this is pretty much that band," says guitarist Matt Harnish. "I guess I didn't really have th ... More >>

The Six Best Shows of 2012 That Nobody Attended

Editor's Note: The end of 2012 is upon us, 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! Despite what you may presume from the headline, I don't intend for this to be an "Oh ... More >>

Win a Copy of Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground

Update: Matt Harnish wins, because we can't resist a local hook. As a side note, I sincerely hope that Adam R. is the person I think it is. Well played, everybody. As much has been said about the Velvet Underground, there will always be more worth talking about. Rob Jovanovic, who wrote the only b ... More >>

The Shins Schedule St. Louis Show and Release (More) New Music

The Shins, dormant for the last few years, will return in 2012 with Port of Morrow and a U.S. tour that includes a stop at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard, 314-726-616) on June 4. Tickets are $32 for general admission or $37 for reserved balcony spots and go on sale Friday at 5 p.m. The Shins, ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Nine is Coming

Christmas was almost cancelled this year. Or, at least, the Bert Dax Christmas Compilation almost didn't happen, which as far as St. Louis music goes is just as bad. But Matt Harnish and Rob Severson found a way to continue the tradition into its ninth year. The artwork, which you see here, was done ... More >>

A Salty Salute: St. Louis Does Guided by Voices

8 p.m. Thursday, November 24. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

St. Louis Does Guided by Voices: A Salty Salute

​On Thanksgiving evening, after all of the turkey, pie and Pepto-Bismol, a group of local musicians will gather at Off Broadway to pay tribute to one of the most influential rock bands of the past two decades: Guided by Voices. The show will feature Bunnygrunt, Karate Bikini, Popular Mechanics ... More >>

Record Store Day 2011: Hot Sellers, Highlights from St. Louis

​As we have already mentioned, Record Store Day 2011 was a massive success, with a couple local stores suggesting it may have been their biggest sales day ever. Most places did plenty to give back to their rabid patrons, offering free food, beer, live music and local celebrity DJ sets througho ... More >>

The city's long-running slop-pop experts celebrate turning eighteen this weekend

Get Well Soon, Bunnygrunt Drummer Eric Von Damage!

courtesy of Matt HarnishThe 1993 Bunnygrunt lineup -- Renee Dullum, Matt Harnish and Karen Ried -- play Columbia's Rock Bridge High School.​Some bad news for those of you wanting to shower Bunnygrunt with cigarettes, lotto tickets and other legal sundry: The band's eighteenth birthday party th ... More >>

Free Live Music Returns to the Re-Opened Mangia

​Gut Check reported Thursday that south-side staple Mangia Italiano will be reopening this week. Although Mangia's new owners are still working out details, Eric Hall (who tends bar and books acts for the venue) offered up some info on what changes we can expect: Well, the deal just finally c ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: December 17 to 19

Is your Christmas shopping done yet? Mine's not. (Ack.) While I figure this out, check out this week's music picks -- and see below for more to do this weekend, while the weather's let up enough to let us leave the house. ​ Friday: Christmas with Pokey @ The Sheldon Ballroom Pokey LaFarge and ... More >>

Homespun: Various Artists

Test Patterns
(BDR Records)

Mangia Italiano and Matt Harnish Proudly Present the St. Louis Shuffle

Last week, we told you about some exciting changes taking place at Mangia Italiano. The revitalization is a work in progress, and continues this week with the very first installment of the St. Louis Shuffle. DJ Matt Harnish is taking on the task of filling a local staple with local tunes for a few ... More >>

2010 Music Showcase: 1 night, 50+ bands, 5 bucks this Saturday on Wash. Ave.

Interview Outtakes Free Music: Early St. Louis Punk Band The Welders Talks Reuniting, Raymilland and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe

The Welders, back in the day​In the current issue of the dead-tree RFT, writer Mike Appelstein constructed an oral history of early St. Louis punk band the Welders. The quartet briefly got back together in December to play the reunion show of post-punks Raymilland (who we featured back in Dece ... More >>

An oral history of long-lost St. Louis punks the Welders

The 2010 RFT Music Awards Nominees: The List

The 2010 RFT Music showcase takes place on Saturday, June 5, 2010, on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis. On and before that day, fans can vote for their favorite local musicians in the following categories. For more information on where and how to vote - and for up-to-the-minute details about ... More >>

Recap: Record Store Day at Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records, Saturday, June 17

Dana Smith​As we stood in the slightly elevated perch of Vintage Vinyl's DJ booth, I asked store co-owner Tom "Papa" Ray if Record Store Day was his version of Christmas morning. He thought about it for a second and said, in his inimitable drawl, "You know, I think I like Record Store Day bett ... More >>

Local News Rodeo: Bunnygrunt, Union Electric, Sex Robots Band Break-Ups

Firecracker Press​It's time for a local news rodeo! Yee-haw. Bunnygrunt is having what it's calling a Wedge-i-dency every Monday in April at the -- you guessed it -- Wedge, at the corner of Bates and Virginia. "We're using these shows as a chance to work up some new songs in a low pressure -- ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Matt Harnish, of Bunnygrunt and Vintage Vinyl Fame

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

Poptones: A lost local post-punk classic gets the reissue treatment from a new label — and the band reunites to celebrate

Saturday! Post-Punks Raymilland Reunite at Off Broadway MP3

Who's Raymilland, you might ask? Why, it's a short-lived St. Louis band doing a reunion show at Off Broadway on Saturday night. (Bunnygrunt, the Medical Tourists and fellow old-school punks the Welders are also on the bill.) The quartet existed from 1979 to 1981 and opened for some of-the-day high-p ... More >>

Old School Back In Session: Vintage Vinyl Unearths Another St. Louis Hip-Hop Original

Last year, while digging through a cluttered storeroom, a Vintage Vinyl employee discovered a pair of rare 12" records with roots that stretched back to the very beginning of St. Louis hip-hop.The records-- "Power of Soul" by Dangerous D and DJ Charlie Chan and "Culture Shock" by Early D--eventually ... More >>

Holiday Jam Countdown '09: MU330, "Xmas Card"

(Like last year, A to Z will post a holiday-related MP3 every day of December, leading up to Christmas. If you have any requests, suggestions or files to share, email me.) First, some sad news: There will be no Bert Dax holiday compilation this year, due to Matt Harnish's Bunnygrunt obligations. A ... More >>

Want to See Bunnygrunt Rendered as Dolls?

Every band worth its salt attaches a premium to a new album -- whether it be bonus tracks, interviews or videos. But leave it to Bunnygrunt's label, Happy Happy Birthday to Me, to make dolls for each band member. Not creepy, will-stab-you-in-your-sleep, unblinking-eyes dolls -- but cute, cuddly, lum ... More >>

Homespun: Bunnygrunt, Matt Harnish & Other Delights

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Bunnygrunt's new LP, Matt Harnish & Other Delights. He had this to say: Delights shows off what Bunnygrunt does best: black humor (the horn-aided opener "665 and 1/2 Won't Do"), romantic frustrations ("You Get What You Get") and off-key, breath ... More >>

Homespun: Bunnygrunt

Matt Harnish & Other Delights
(Happy Happy Birthday to Me)

New Bunnygrunt LP West Coast Tour Coming in May

While I dropped by Vintage Vinyl on Sunday, Matt Harnish alerted me that Bunnygrunt will be releasing a new album in May on Happy Happy Birthday to Me called Matt Harnish and Other Delights.Here's a rough cut of the Delights cover, a painting rendition of the band playing live. Dana Smith/asbestoss ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas Shows, this Weekend at Lemmons, Way Out Club, Off Broadway

Just a reminder: The Bert Dax Christmas shows we wrote about here -- with audio accompaniment -- are happening this weekend! Christian Schaeffer also reviewed the CD in this week's paper. He had this to say: You probably know the drill by now: Every year Bunnygrunt's Matt Harnish corrals a bunch of ... More >>

Various Artists

A Very Bert Dax Christmas Vol. 7
(Bert Dax Cavalcade of Stars) 

MP3: A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume 7 CD Shows

The cheerfully gaudy Christmas decorations are up in the Loop, which means it's high time to announce this year's edition of A Very Bert Dax Christmas. Volume seven features tunes from the Trip Daddys, the Humanoids, Quief Quota, Left Arm (covering "Last Christmas"!), Blondiegrunt, the Ottomen, Midt ... More >>

Various Artists

A Very Bert Dax Halloween
(Bert Dax Calvalcade of Stars)

Boo! A Very Bert Dax Halloween CD and Shows Coming in October

2008 Music Award Nominees: Best Indie Band

The Aviation Club: Reunion Show, January 4 at Off Broadway

Homespun, A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume 6

Bunnygrunt Does the U.K.: A Chronicle of the Bunnyham Palace Tour

A Very Bert Dax Christmas shows

9 p.m. Friday, December 15. Lemmons (5800 Gravois Avenue)

9 p.m. Saturday, December 16. Way Out Club (2525 South Jefferson Avenue).

Do the Bunny Hop

Bunnygrunt returns — on a tribute to UK cult figures the June Brides

Buffet of Champions

You came, you saw, you voted: the winners of the 2005 Riverfront Times Music Awards

A Very St. Louis Christmas

A local label gives you a soundtrack for the holidays

Bunnygrunt

Friday, April 16; Lemmons and Saturday, April 17; Radio Cherokee

Black Christmas

A St. Louis band is up on the rooftop with Bad Santa

2003 Music Awards

The readers spoke, and the RFT music staff listened. Find out who's large and in charge on the St. Louis music scene.

Christmas Sweets

Tired of the usual X-mas tunes? We've got some suggestions.

Out Through the Inbox

Intrepid columnist attempts to placate the pissy masses with a quick survey of recently received offerings