New Kids on the Block

Taylor Swift Red Tour at the Scottrade Center 3/18/13: Review, Photos and Setlist

Taylor Swift | Ed Sheeran Scottrade Center March 18, 2013 When music editor Daniel Hill assigned me to review Taylor Swift's Red tour at Scottrade Center, I assumed I'd have to pull his Bieber shenanigans to live through it. Thousands of screeching teenagers? No Serious-Musicians-In-Capital-Letters ... More >>

Mariah Carey, No Doubt The Latest Victims Of Inexplicable NFL Counter-Programming

Disclosure: I like both No Doubt and football, and after I used Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" to make a 90s-pop-related point I couldn't stop listening to it. I think this puts me in a unique position to say that the NFL's continued attempts to attract a non-traditional audience by tossing female po ... More >>

Here's Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as un-awful in Rock of Ages

Inside Cirque Du Soliel's Michael Jackson Tribute with St. Louis Trumpeter Keyon Harrold

Courtesy of Cirque Du Soliel Michael Jackson: Still filling arenas.​Trumpeter Keyon Harrold has spent much of his professional life in the relatively laid-back atmosphere of jazz clubs and recording studios. But when the St. Louis native performs in his hometown this week, he'll be in the midd ... More >>

Twelve-Year Old Youtube Commenters: Your Favorite Music Decade Sucked, Too

Yes, we had some of these in the 1990s. Some of them couldn't even hold a guitar.​I am 24 years old. When I was twelve years old, and Napster was a real thing and not a horrifying tale RIAA parents told their RIAA children to get them to clean their plate, I was briefly under the delusion that ... More >>

Justin Bieber And Boyz II Men Want To Get With You, Girl; Also, It's Christmas

Image via​Hey, girl -- you there, in the reindeer sweater -- I need an object lesson. Come over here and dance up on me while I write this Christmas music-related blog entry. See, Justin Bieber and Boyz II Men have just recorded a new Christmas song, "Fa La La," and, uh, it's kind of about Chr ... More >>

Taylor Swift Is Saving America

Communing with fans: One of many ways Taylor Swift is a superior pop star.​Let's get one thing out of the way: I am not a teenybopper. Never was. As a kid I never liked Grease or New Kids on the Block or Dirty Dancing. Even now, I can't give a crap about your Biebers or your Mileys. And how in ... More >>

Glee's Matthew Morrison: An Onstage Study Of His Musical Contradictions

Jon Gitchoff​Monday night's show at the Scottrade Center was a spectacle to behold on many different levels, but let's focus specifically on Matthew Morrison. The 32-year-old came out onstage with vengeance, a bowtie and two back-up seductresses who were not afraid of a little grinding. The au ... More >>

Hating On Matthew Morrison = Hating On Fun: Comment Of The Day

Jon Gitchoff​We find Matthew Morrison at an odd, disjointed point in his career: Catapulted from his serious acting gigs on Broadway to superstardom by his role in Glee, our intrepid hero how finds himself opening for the New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys as a poppy solo artist. Seemin ... More >>

NKOTBSB at the Scottrade Center, 7/19/2011: Reviews, Photos and Setlist

Backstreet's back, alright. Photo by Jon Gitchoff​New Kids on the Block | Backstreet Boys | Matthew Morrison Scottrade Center July 19, 2011 Last night's New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys show was an event full of glitter and pandemonium and mass hysteria. It was full of pelvic thrusting a ... More >>

The Ten Most Cringe-Worthy Celebrity Vocal Duets

The soon to be collaborating Voices. Courtesy of NBC​Oh great. The judges/coaches from NBC's hit karaoke tournament vocal competition "The Voice" are going to collaborate. Specifically, Maroon 5, led by slightly soulful popster Adam Levine will be joined by Christina Aguilera to perform their ... More >>

Matthew Morrison Cancels St. Louis Show to Join NKOTBSB Tour: Of Course He Does

wikimedia commons​Wet-eyed hair gel model/TV singer-songwriter Matthew Morrison has canceled his scheduled June 19th show at the Fox Theatre. Why? Because he was asked to join the New Kids On The Block/Backstreet Boys reunion tour, naturally. Incidentally, they're abbreviating that NKOTBSB, w ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of January 6

Dan Bejar, the indie maestro behind Destroyer's Euro blues sound and lyric poesy brings his erudite rock to the Luminary Center for the Arts with War on Drugs on March 28.​ Apop Records *Hush Arbors, January 26 BB's Jazz Blues and Soups *Chainsaw Dupont Blues Band, January 29 *Josh Vowell and ... More >>

New Kids on the Block Backstreet Boys Tour Coming to St. Louis

​Ladies, start practicing your bra-tossing skills: The New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys double bill (NKOTBSB if you're nasty) is coming to the Scottrade Center on Tuesday, July 19. (Your move, 'N Sync.) Tickets are on sale Saturday, January 15, at 11 a.m., and are $32, $52, $72 and $92. T ... More >>

Bring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg to St. Louis

​Want to hug Buddy the Elf? Dreamed of being audience to a private New Kids on the Block concert? Long to be brainwashed by Mugatu?Well, you may never climb those mountains, but here's what you can do: Use those clicking fingers and vote for St. Louis to host the premiere of The Other Guys, starri ... More >>

Prepare Ye for Reading the Way of Curious George

courtesy Houghton Mifflin​You may be unaware, but today, May 14, is St. Louis Reads Day. (It's also the Independence Days of Paraguay and Israel and the birthday of Danny Wood, the least-celebrated of the New Kids on the Block.) In celebration, you could go outside and sit under a tree with a ... More >>

What if Mad Men Took Place in Boston and Starred Joey McIntyre?

Saw this linked on a random blog, and nearly keeled over from laughing. Here's the show Mad Men, if it took place in Boston and starred New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre. The characters spend the entire time drinking Budweiser and swearing -- so this is very NSFW, if your office frowns on such t ... More >>

Spotted: Joey McIntyre from New Kids on the Block at the City Museum

Heads up, ladies: Although New Kids on the Block's show isn't until this Wednesday, July 1 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, some of the boys are already back in town. According to the City Museum's twitter, Joey McIntyre and his kids were spotted at the funhouse this morning. See a cute picture ... More >>

Today! LiveNation.com Has No Service Fees On Everything

After the success of last week's "no service fees on lawn tickets" promotion, LiveNation.com is doing it again today until midnight -- only better. Grab tickets to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at any level -- reserved or lawn -- with no service fees. What a deal! Some of the choicest bargains ... More >>

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of April 7

Pageant *Cross Canadian Ragweed, Saturday, May 23 *Gogol Bordello, Thursday, July 23 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater *New Kids on the Block, Wednesday, July 1 *Incubus, Thursday, July 23 Kranzberg Arts Center *Kay Love, Saturday, May 9 *Ken Haller, Friday, June 12 Firebird *YeaKid BigStatic, Tuesday, ... More >>

Xmas Jam Countdown: New Kids on the Block, "Have a Funky, Funky Christmas"

(Each day until Christmas, A to Z will be posting a Christmas/holiday-themed MP3 in honor of the festive season, in hopes of warding off the seasonal blahs. Check back every day for a new nugget of sonic bliss.)  MP3: New Kids on the Block, "Have a Funky, Funky Christmas" Oh, yeah. I went th ... More >>

Hello? Is It Me You're Looking For?: Best of Craigslist Missed Connections, November 10-16

(Welcome to Hello? Is It Me You're Looking For? Each Monday, we'll scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye this week.) Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, the Right Stuff...not: I missed NKOTB for you and ... - w4m (City) what would ... More >>

Review Photos: New Kids on the Block at the Scottrade Center, Monday, November 10

Interview: New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: November 7-9

New Kids on the Block

8 p.m. Monday, November 10. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Second Spin: Jeff Lorber, Step By Step

New Kids on the Block in St. Louis, Monday, November 10, at the Scottrade Center

Eater Reports on Food & Wine Best New Chef Party

The Ghost of the Forest

My Time to Die
(Critter)

New Kids on the Block Have a Funky, Funky Christmas with Arsenio Hall

Jordan Knight, "The Right Stuff" -- Live in St. Louis, 6/22/07

Jordan Knight

6:45 p.m. Saturday, June 23. Mainstage at Tower Grove Park, off of South Grand Boulevard.

Hot Summer Music

Your guide to St. Louis music — from now till Labor Day.

Up in Here

DMX gets a wake-up call at an airport, and the Pussycat Dolls are more pre-fab than you think. Plus: the debut of St. Louis scene trading cards!

This Is Pop?

Click Five create harmonic bliss

A Very St. Louis Christmas

A local label gives you a soundtrack for the holidays

Someday, Some Way

The tale of a journalist obsessed

SoundBlaster Masters

The Nintendo Fusion Tour brings a pixilated party to the Pageant

Making Traks

Sham Daugherty and Alonzo Lee Jr., the Trak Starz, aim to make St. Louis the center of the hip-hop universe

Bush Strikes Out

Our commander in chief takes to the mound, Missouri gets its very own dinosaur, an Old Kid on the Block remembers when he was New, and Unreal learns a little something about love and basketball

UniverSoul Man

Cal DuPree's efforts to assemble a "black circus" resulted in an amazing display of color

THROB, THROB

Herewith, a guide to the latest crop of musical heartthrobs