Neil Diamond

Killer Blues to Install Headstones at the Graves of Stagger Lee, Milton Sparks This Weekend

All too often we read stories about aging, sometimes-forgotten music legends that slowly wallow away into obscurity. Highly influential music pioneers get left in the pits of financial hell when -- if there was any justice in the music business (spoiler alert: there truly isn't) -- these legends' e ... More >>

Karaoke Night Sucks; What Do You Do?

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

You Have One More Day to Submit Your Band for An Under Cover Weekend Six

The annual hero-halloween for St. Louis bands known as An Under Cover Weekend* is scheduled for September 7 and 8 at the Firebird. Want to show everyone your excellent Spice Girls impression (someone please do this)? Now's your chance. The event is taking submissions for another 31 hours as of this ... More >>

Shahid Khan Is Looking Good These Days

​When last we saw Shahid Khan, he was wishing Stan Kroenke success with ownership of the Rams. It was a magnanimous gesture toward the rival who had pipped him at the post on a business deal, and Khan was the very image of a successful and gracious business magnate. The suit was natty, the tie was ... More >>

The Last Waltz Tribute is Back: A Mercifully Flashing-Free Chat with Johnny Vegas

Once a year, the Stag Nite All-Stars form a ramshackle convergence to pay loving, egg-nog-addled tribute to The Last Waltz, arguably the most famous concert in history. Spearheaded musically by Mark Moynihan of Racketbox, the group also includes members of a dozen-odd other south city mainstays. Thi ... More >>

Ten Songs Perfect for Drunk Sing-Alongs

Wikimedia Commons​For many people, today is a drinking holiday -- whether you're celebrating St. Patrick's Day or reveling at SXSW. It's also a day to let loose those vocal cords, with these stellar drunk sing-along songs. Whether fun, maudlin or cheese-tastic, these ten songs are among the be ... More >>

Keep It Classy

The Ten Worst Christmas Songs. Ever.

Wikimedia Commons​Before we get to the list, I want to make clear that this is not a Christmas-bashing article, but simply a piece listing ten Christmas songs that are so awful they should never be played again for any reason. I love Christmas, I love the season and I love the spirit -- and th ... More >>

Rock the Bells: Get in the spirit with the RFT's annual holiday-album rodeo

Free Your Inner Pervert: Q & A with Acclaimed St. Louis Sex Blogger "The Beautiful Kind"

Last week Unreal revisited our favorite local sex blogger, The Beautiful Kind, a 36-year-old divorced mom who was recently ranked #5 on a fellow sex blogger's list of the 100 best on the Internet.As she prepared to launch a newly redesigned website, we caught up with TBK for a little e-mail Q & ... More >>

Book Review: Neil Diamond is Forever by Jon Bream

Voyageur Press​As Jon Bream emphasizes repeatedly throughout Neil Diamond is Forever: The Illustrated Story of the Man and His Music, Neil Diamond is not hip. That's probably why my parents liked him. Actually that's probably why most people's parents liked him, except for people whose parents ran ... More >>

Unreal gets down and depraved, then trolls for a copycat La Russa lawsuit

Twitter, Schmitter -- Tony La Russa Sues Unreal!

Unreal has spent all of June breathlessly tracking the Tony La Russa v. Twitter brouhaha. OK, so we've actually just quickly spent the past few minutes skimming our columnist colleague Bill Streeter's two dispatches about the lawsuit, and also the one by Kristen Hinman. And even though those two are ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Halloween Parties, Stephen Malkmus, Neil Diamond, $2 Gasoline

Review Photos Setlist: Neil Diamond at the Scottrade Center, Sunday, November 2

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: October 31-November 2

Neil Diamond

8 p.m. Sunday, November 2. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Contest! We Have Two Pairs of Neil Diamond Tickets to Give Away!

Neil Diamond Scottrade Center Concert Postponed to November 2

An Under Cover Weekend: The '60s, Friday, September 5 at the Bluebird

An Under Cover Weekend at the Bluebird tackles the '60s and '70s, while electronic up-and-comer Deadmau5 worms his way into town

Diamonds in the Mud: A preview of the Big Muddy Blues Festival and a look at some niches in need of some Neil

Neil Diamond Concert Rescheduled for September 10

Stars and Bars

Slumber Party's Aliccia B.B. goes it alone, while B-Sides gives good Download and makes a mix of anti-patriotic songs

They Did What?

2005's Top WTF? moments

Hello, Cleveland!

B-Sides examines Venom's Spinal Tap moments, puts on kid gloves for Rasputina and reminisces with Shilo

Avoid Mall Rats

Shop on Sunday night

Sweet Caroline

We chat up a Neil Diamond doppelganger, shine the lowlight on the Bloodhound Gang and discover Cephalic Carnage's secret hippie identity

World Leader Pretend

Saturday, October 1; Taste of St. Louis (at the Gateway Mall, along Market Street between Ninth and Eleventh streets)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of June 22, 2005

Jameson 1780 Irish Whiskey

Bobby and Roxanna's backyard, south St. Louis

Crooked Fingers

Sunday, March 13; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Space is no place for thespians

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of December 29, 2004

Best Rock Radio Program

Juxtaposition

Various Artists

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Universal)

Dylan Friends

In which Radar Station meets some folks who kinda like Bob Dylan

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of January 7, 2004

Two Elvises

On one magic night, baby

Comic Belief

Alan Oxenhandler's one-night stand

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Is This a Stagger I See Before Me?

The shot heard round the world

Obscenity! Obloquy! Opera!

OTSL bows with Tosca

Reunited (and It Feels So Good)

Literate pop iconoclasts the Go-Betweens make a fresh start with Bright Yellow, Bright Orange

Who's the Manilow?

The classic camp tune "Copacabana" gives rise to a less-than-satisfying musical

Beyond Salvation

Silverman's bitter "comedy" is enough to make you lose all hope

Animal Husbandry

Two native sons seek ideal mates in the menagerie of Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire

Critical Mass

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

What bands got you into music in the first place and keep you going?

Sound Checks