Metal and Hardcore

Last Shot: Chemical Warfare Takes Its Toll

[Editor's Note: Long-time concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out two years ago that he had stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events, on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places. As he continues to fight for his l ... More >>

Eagles of Death Metal to Play at the Arch on May 18

Tongue-in-cheek boogie rockers Eagles of Death Metal announced that the band will be playing a concert in the shadow of the arch on May 18. The show is part of sponsor Jack Daniel's new Live at the Landmark show series, where as you might guess, bands play famous landmarks across the United States. ... More >>

Sign Up to Save Beavis & Butthead, Then Watch the Duo's Five Best Music Video Critiques

This month marks twenty wonderful years since MTV aired the first episode of Beavis and Butthead. Mike Judge's hilarious cult phenomenon originally ran from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997, before being retired so that Judge could focus on Fox's animated series King of the Hill. When that show ca ... More >>

The 20 Most Overused Terms In SXSW Band Bios

By Craig Hlavaty Before I take any trip to Austin and SXSW, I always take more than a few days to peruse the schedule and check out a few of the hundreds of names on the roster and read their bios. Some years there are more bands with "wolf" and "space" in their monikers than usual, and some year ... More >>

The Dwarves

7 p.m. Sunday, December 30. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

High On Fire

7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 6. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From November 12 to 18

There's lots of good shows this week for music fans of every shape in size, and I'm not just saying that (this time). Deicide is playing the Firebird on Friday, the same day Carolina Chocolate Drops plays the Sheldon. I'd wager that these two musical experiences will not be alike in many ways whatso ... More >>

The 10 Best Halloween Parties in St. Louis

That most excellent of holidays -- the one where we get to dress up in goofy costumes, the one where it's considered par for the course to vandalize your neighbors' houses, the one where strangers give children candy and everyone is cool with it -- HALLOWEEN is nigh! Skeleton decorations blanket the ... More >>

25 gorgeous GIFs from Lollapalooza 2012

See Also: Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You Ready for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osbourne, "I can't fucking hear you!" I said, ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GIFS?! This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was i ... More >>

Naked Raygun

8 p.m. Saturday, July 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Corrosion of Conformity

7 p.m. Monday, June 18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Megadeth Rocker Elaborates About His Love for Mini-Horse

When metal demigod Dave Mustaine isn't raising eyebrows with his kind words about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, he's usually melting faces as the frontman for Megadeth. With so many years of rocking under his proverbial belt, Mustaine is entitled to some of the finer things in life. But a ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Fifteen Best Shows From March 19 to 25

Last week we alluded to the fact that this March is a great time to be a music fan in St. Louis....this week we're driving the point home and then some. Unless you are capable of bi-location (or in some cases: tri / quadro), you are going to miss some good shows this week. We have Andrew Bird at the ... More >>

Danzig Provides Motherly Household Advice

Everyone has a new year's resolution, especially the people who jump down your throat and lecture you about how stupid resolutions are. You know they've got 'em, and theirs are probably especially shameful. Since you don't need to lose any weight (really, you look fantastic!) and you've already qu ... More >>

Biggest St. Louis Music News Stories of 2011: Part Three

​The Return of Gateway to the West Fest From 2002 until 2008, local hardcore hero and all-around-badass Adam "The Devastator" Greer booked roughly 250 shows in the St. Louis area and beyond. I use the term "badass" rather than "promoter", because I don't think he would like being called the P ... More >>

Six Best Blatant Drug References In Song

​Drugs are a crucial part of the classic triumvirate of rock & roll; very few things in our society are of enough import to rival "sex." As a result, drugs have been mentioned and implied in countless songs crossing every imaginable genre. I'm sure there's some Indonesian Gamelan track about o ... More >>

Black Coffee, Blacker Prose

Ozzy Osbourne

7:30 p.m. Friday, January 14. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Ozzy Osbourne's Scottrade Center Show Tonight is Canceled

Well, this is a bummer: Just got word that Ozzy Osbourne's show tonight at the Scottrade Center is canceled "due to an ear infection." According to the publicist's note, the show will now take place on Friday, January 14, 2011. All tickets for tonight's show will be honored then. Refunds are also av ... More >>

The Sword

8 p.m. Monday, December 13. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Ozzy Osbourne

7:30 p.m. Friday, December 10. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Video: It's a Very Slayer Christmas Lights Display, "Raining Blood"-Style

You just know that this dude's neighbors hate him. Here's a guy in Southern California who programs his Christmas lights displays to music. We're talking a couple of Trans-Siberian Orchestra tunes, Vince Guaraldi's "Linus & Lucy" and, last year, Slayer's "Raining Blood." The video is nothing short o ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Ben Salyers of Shaved Women and Apop Records on Collecting, Record Store Culture at Apop and the Relationship Between Punk and Vinyl

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 >>

Anthrax's Scott Ian gives B-Sides the scoop on his new side project, the Damned Things

Ozzy Osbourne and Halford Coming to Scottrade Center in December

At the KSHE Pig Roast on Saturday, the station announced that Ozzy Osbourne and Halford (featuring -- you guessed it! -- Judas Priest's Rob Halford) would be playing the Scottrade Center on December 10. Ticket info for that show emerged this morning: They're on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m. and star ... More >>

Glenn Danzig, Henry Rollins, Hall & Oates, Comic Books, Satanism -- and You

Recently, one of Glenn Danzig's biggest fans alerted us to a new single-issue comic produced by Microcosm Publishing: Henry & Glenn Forever. No description could explain the premise as well as the cover art does. Microcosm PublishingRollins gives Danzig a rubdown​Your eyes do not deceive you: ... More >>

Show Review Setlist Photos: Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Pageant, Tuesday, March 10

Whenever my father and I discuss great concerts he brings up the first time he saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience. "When just those three guys walked out on stage," he always says, "I said there's no way just the three of them could make all that sound like on the record. And they didn't. They made mor ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Alice in Chains and Creature with the Atom Brain at the Pageant, Monday, February 22

Alice in Chains has done the unthinkable. The Seattle band lost its original lead singer, Layne Staley, to a drug overdose in 2002, regrouped with a new vocalist, William DuVall, recorded a new album, Black Gives Way to Blue -- and hasn't tarnished its legacy. That was clear at a smoke-hazed Pageant ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, August 11

Photo: Todd OwyoungFrom last night's show at the Scottrade Center. See more photos of Green Day last night.​ Caveat: I've been a Green Day fan since 1994 or so. And so I have a sneaking suspicion that last night's Scottrade Center show wasn't for me - even though the band ran through plenty of ... More >>

Photos: Slayer, Marilyn Manson and the Faces of Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, 7/22/09

So yesterday, the Rockstar Mayhem Festival again rolled through St. Louis, and much like last year, the day-into-night metal festival drew out the area's die-hard metalheads. Photographer Kenny Williamson was at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater to document the scene there (full photo set here.) Photo ... More >>

Baroness/Opeth/High on Fire

7:30 p.m. Monday, October 13. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

2 p.m. Wednesday, July 23. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights

Valient Thorr

9 p.m. Sunday, June 20. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Sworn Enemy

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. 2 Cents Plain, 1114 Olive Street

The Dillinger Escape Plan

7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 26. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

The #12 Looks Like You

7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 4. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

Sounds of the Underground

2 p.m. Friday, August 10. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

Chromeo

Fancy Footwork (Vice)

Hellyeah

Hellyeah (Epic)

Korn

MTV Unplugged (Virgin)

Lacuna Coil / Shadows Fall

8 p.m. Tuesday, May 1. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).

Paying Homage to the Metal Gods

Destruction

7 p.m. Tuesday, January 30. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)/

Glenn Danzig

Black Aria II (Megaforce)

Danava

Danava (Kemado)

Bullet for My Valentine

7 p.m. Friday, August 18. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Nile

Annihilation of the Wicked (Relapse)

THE MELVINS

The Bootlicker (Ipecac)

Agnostic Front

Friday, Oct. 22; Galaxy

Close Quarters