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The Ten Worst Best Of Lists In Music

Lists will inevitably be remembered as the highest point of pop-culture Internet journalism. Why? BECAUSE WE LOVE THEM. Sometimes, however, the sure-fire can't-miss format of the list fails us from a journalistic standpoint. Here are ten of the worst music-related lists that I could find before goi ... More >>

Tony LaRussa's Wife: Huge Metalhead?

Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Elaine LaRussa. Names that come to mind when thinking of the top heavy metal babes of all time? Not exactly, but it seems the wife of the man who led this city's baseball team to two World Series championships may prefer the mosh pit over the dugout herself. See also: - The 2 ... More >>

Why You Should Listen to Music Outside Your Wheelhouse: The Jazz and Metal Connection

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. Every few months, Edwardsville's downtown dive bar The Stagger Inn hosts a show featuring locals The Go ... More >>

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 >>

Baroness

8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Fiona Apple Presale Password [Update]

Update, 4/19/12: The Fiona Apple presale password appears to be "criminal" for the St. Louis show. You can buy presale tickets for the show on Ticketmaster right now; the general sale is tomorrow. Prices range from $35 to $75 before fees. That's the same password used in February for the March 31 s ... More >>

Five Surprising Video Game Cameos by Musicians

In this day and age, it's become almost commonplace for artists to plug songs into a video game. Heck, there's an entire freaking genre dedicated to translating music into video game form. While musicians and their labels frantically rush to get a song in the latest FIFA title, there's a small subs ... More >>

Happy Birthday Lou Reed: The Bravest Rock & Roller

Earlier this week, RFT Music celebrated "Country Grammar's" 12th birthday. Here's another reminder of everyone's impending mortality: Lou Reed turns 70 today. The Brooklyn-born rock icon's first seven decades have been, to put it mildly, eventful. He's created some of the most influential - and mos ... More >>

Kanye West's Snub and the Proud History of Grammy Incompetence

Homer Simpson proudly displays his Grammy Award for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word or Barbershop Album.​Adele could soon become a Grammy paper champion. Oh sure. 21 is a worthy entrant for the coveted Grammy for Album of the Year. "Rolling in the Deep," after all, topped the 2011 Pazz and Jop P ... More >>

New Release Highlights for April 5, 2011: the Raveonettes, the Kills, Cold Cave and More

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) ​*Cold Cave, Cherish The Light Years The Guardian says of Cold Cave's latest: "'Take me to the future. I'm ready,' sings Wesley Eisold. That may be true, but ... More >>

Video: Joy Division's "Transmission," As Performed by Playmobil Characters

(H/T to Twitter follower @tone_wolf for the link) A few years ago, we brought you some fun videos of Lego people miming to songs by System of a Down, Metallica, U2 and others. It was only a matter of time before Playmobil -- the preppier, square version of Lego -- got in on the action. The video bel ... More >>

Baran Burner

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of November 22-28, 2010

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. KANYE WEST---My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. THE NATIONAL---High Violet (Expanded Edition) 3. NICKI MINAJ---Pink Friday 4. RIHANNA---Loud 5. LATIMORE---All About The Rhythm & The Blues 6. NELLY---5.0 7. LIL WAYNE---I Am Not A Human Being 8. ... 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 >>

Books, Bullets & Booze

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 >>

Metal veterans Anvil embark on a tour to support their documentary and new album

Interview Outtakes: Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta

Hatebreed, with Jamey Jasta in the middle.​In this week's issue, D.X. Ferris chats with Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta, who just might be one of the nicest dudes in rock. The Connecticut metallic hardcore band plays at Pop's tonight with Born of Osiris, Unearth, Cannibal Corpse and Hate Eterna ... More >>

Review Photos: The Vans Warped Tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Monday, August 3

Warped Tour isn't for the faint of heart, especially on a hot August day in St. Louis. But an unforgiving sun didn't prevent the area's bros, punks, misfits, meatheads, horndogs, scene queens, nerds and foxes from converging on the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater for the tour's fifteenth-anniversary j ... More >>

Monday Mashup: Metallica vs. Bryan Adams, "Enter You"

As if last week's Rick Astley/Nirvana mashup wasn't good enough, my pal Matt found and posted this fantastic conflation of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and Bryan Adams' "Run to You." You wouldn't expect that James Hetfield's chipmunk-on-'roids vocals and Adams' epic wintry guitars would mesh so well, ... More >>

Cleveland Rocks! With the Hall of Fame Inductions, Bruce Springsteen Exhibit and Music History

Last weekend when I was visiting my parents, I had the pleasure of taking a music-centric tour of Cleveland and some of its music landmarks. The timing was fortuitous, because the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are taking place this Saturday, April 4, in the lakefront city. Those ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: November 14 to 16

Friday, November 14 *Greg Laswell/Jenny Owen Youngs, Duck Room *Secondhand Serenade/Cute Is What We Aim For, Pop’s *Steel Train/Dear and the Headlights, Off Broadway *Femme Fatality/7 Shot Screamers/Exercise, Bluebird *Celebration Day: Tribute to Led Zeppelin, Pageant *Benjamin Del Shreve/David Sa ... More >>

Top Thirteen Signs You Know You're at a Metal Show

Warped Tour darlings Cobra Starship discusses side projects and fanny packs, while the hidden history of Green Jellÿ is revealed

Sworn Enemy

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

Napalm Death

Have two Nirvana producers helped create the next Metallica?

2008 Bonnaroo Lineup Announced: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Jack Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, more

Doors Swing Both Ways

Mexicans like music that doesn't involve tubas?

Holiday MP3 Post #6: The '90s

St. Louis Concert Calendar: Tuesday, August 21

Lollapalooza, Day One: The Rest of the Fest

Fuzz Busters

Hot Fuzz

Danzig with the Stars

The coolest guy you know named Glenn finds Lost Tracks.

Destruction

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

Film Openings

Week of November 23, 2006

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 10

Bif Naked

Friday, November 18; Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Non-Crash Course

BMW Ultimate Driving Experience

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men

Friday, June 18; Off Broadway

Summer Film Previews

Our critics enter the summer-movie fray

Best Neighborhood Bar (North)

Mimi's Subway Bar and Grill

9/11 Memorial in a Pub

Barfly does The Guys

Lickgoldensky

The Beautiful Sounds of Lickgoldensky (Escape Artist)

Ozzfest 2002

Monday, August 19; UMB Bank Pavilion

Atom and His Package with Har Mar Superstar

Wednesday, May 9; Rocket Bar

Pantera

Thursday, Feb. 15; St Charles Family Arena.

The Fucking Champs

IV; Drag City Records

STORM WARNING

The Stormtroopers of Death return to set heavy metal straight