New Order (Band)

Tone Rodent's Latest, A Bit Disconnected: Read Our Homespun Review and Listen

Guitarist/vocalist Adam Watkins and bassist Matty Coonfield have been the anchors in the member-shifting Tone Rodent, a band that swerves from psych to shoegaze to no-wave without losing a thumbprint of foreboding ambiance. The current six-piece lineup locks in nicely on this four-song EP, with Ashl ... More >>

Homespun: Tone Rodent

A Bit Disconnected
theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com

Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend One

Editor's Note: Coachella Music Festival split into two weekends for 2013. Read on for the best of Weekend One, from writers at our sister paper, the LA Weekly.Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor ... More >>

The Best Shows in St. Louis This Week: February 25 to March 3

St. Louis is nothing if not prolific in 2013. Last week's show announcements boasted an impressive seven releases-to-be across the board. This week, add three more sets of brand new local tracks to your music collection. DinoFight!, Les Gruff and the Billy Goat, and Mikey Wehling and the Reverbs all ... More >>

The Six Best Greatest Hits Albums

This week, RFT announces the winners of this year's Best Of St. Louis issue. To celebrate - and give a break from the local overload to ensue - here are the six best "Best Of" albums, plus a few bonus picks at the end. Let us know your favorites in the comments, and we'll put the comment in our vaul ... More >>

The Six Best Renditions Of "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me"

As we mourn the passing of Hal David, the lyrical genius on the Burt Bacharach/Hal David dream team, we also revisit his timeless contributions to music. Here are the six best renditions of one of his best songs, "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me." See also: Hal David, Songwriting Part ... More >>

Mission of Burma's Roger Miller Talks About the Band's Weird Death and Weird New Life

In the past decade, there have been so many indie-rock band reunions, and so many song-by-song recreations of now-classic albums, that the whole scene threatens to take on the tacky air of a 1950s or 1960s nostalgia revue. Only a very few of these reunited bands have managed to get back together and ... More >>

Homespun: Hidden Lakes

Model Airplanes
hiddenlakes.bandcamp.com

Hidden Lakes' Model Airplanes: Review, Video and Album Stream

Fractured Army quietly called it quits last year after a few years of in-town gigging, recording and a memorable turn as Pat Benatar for An Under Cover Weekend in 2010. (Because who doesn't love "We Belong"? Philistines, that's who.) But from that amicable split comes Hidden Lakes, featuring three-f ... More >>

The Six Best R.E.M. Non-Singles

​When I was in seventh grade, before I knew anything about indie rock or Athens, Georgia, or Reagan-era politics, R.E.M. was my favorite band. I'm certainly not alone; the band was a landmark in many lives for both the music it created and the doors it opened up for young listeners. And like m ... More >>

The Potomac Accord

9 p.m. Saturday, September 3. The Heavy Anchor. 5226 Gravois Avenue.

Music Movies: The Five Biggest Flops And Five Biggest Successes

This is the face that launched 1,000 falsettos -- and also our No. 2 entry in the hits category.​Welcome to a new recurring feature on RFT Music. In the next few weeks, we'll be taking a look at the best music movies, from documentaries (Dig!) to movies with earth-shattering soundtracks (Train ... More >>

From The Beatles To Arctic Monkeys: How The Five Waves Of British Invasion Stack Up

This and that Union Jack dress that Ginger Spice wore are just part of a list of uncomfortable moments in British invasion history.​Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner looked dapper and distinctively British on the cover of SPIN's recent Success Issue. The slight singer sports a skinny suit th ... More >>

Nee

The Hands of Thieves EP
(self-released)

The legendary metal singer Lemmy shows surprising, different sides in a new documentary

Ben Folds and Nick Hornby find kindred spirits in each other on Lonely Avenue

Interview Outtakes: Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis on Making Music and Liking Katy Perry over Lady Gaga

Dove Shore​Tonight is the long-awaited, very-sold-out Girl Talk show at the Pageant. In this week's paper, D.X. Ferris spoke with Gregg Gillis, the man behind the moniker. (Note: The author is a fellow Pittsburgh native who grew up in the same classic-rock-obsessed area and witnessed Girl Talk ... More >>

Gregg Gillis talks about the continuing popularity of his mashup project, Girl Talk

Posing Nude

Posing Nude
(Heavy Hydrogen Records)

Eight Bizarre TV Commercial-Song Pairings, As Inspired by Red Stripe's Frankie Goes to Hollywood Re-Write

Image via​On Monday, Red Stripe premiered a new ad for its delicious, delicious beer. The video clip features the Red Stripe Ambassador -- shades of the Old Spice smooth-talker, perhaps? -- dancing to a Stephen Marley-produced, reggae cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's '80s synthpop hit "Rel ... More >>

New Album Release Highlights: Tuesday, June 29

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) blogs.westword.com3OH!3's Streets of Gold​*3OH!3, Streets Of Gold Ke$ha joins the neon-pop group on its latest release. Stream that track and the rest of the ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: The Temper Trap and WarPaint Leave the Pageant Crowd Satisfied, Wednesday, June 9

Todd OwyoungWarPaint at the Pageant, Wednesday, June 9. More photos here.​Reaction to the Pageant double-bill featuring the Temper Trap and WarPaint generally fell into two categories: "I love those bands!" or "Who?" Still, a respectable crowd filled the venue's main floor for the brief, just- ... More >>

Waterloo Doing a Rare St. Louis Show This Weekend

​Waterloo vocalist-guitarist Mark Ray moved to Portland, Oregon, several years ago, meaning that the band rarely plays shows in town anymore. That's why this last-minute gig (with Magic City) will be such a treat. Live, the band's been known to play evocative covers -- at the Lot festival in A ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: The Role of Zines and Noise in the Life of Freezerburn Creator Ben Stegman

(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 >>

R.I.P. John Hughes, Director of Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club Movie Music Innovator

Talk about shocking news: John Hughes -- the movie director and screenwriter famous for his '80s teen movies -- died this morning of a heart attack. He was 59. Hughes' films -- especially the holy trinity of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink -- were innovative in the way they us ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: Coldplay, Amadou & Mariam and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, July 24

Last night at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Coldplay delivered exactly the type of set you would want from it - and then some. That's not snark, either: For nearly two hours, the British quartet unleashed hit after hit after hit with little self-indulgence and plenty of spectacle. In fact, th ... More >>

Show Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Grand Ole Party and Pajo at The Pageant, June 2

Photo: Todd OwyoungKaren O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Pageant. More photos here.Yeah Yeah Yeahs' singer Karen O has crafted a persona as a shabby-chic fashion icon, a vulnerable diva, and some sort of female version of Iggy Pop. She has dated music video director Spike Jonze and is involved in t ... More >>

The Rosebuds

8 p.m. Friday, April 3. The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

Gil Mantera's Party Dream

9 p.m. Thursday, February 5. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

The Pomegranates/Say Panther/Target Market

9 p.m. Tuesday, September 16. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

The Mary Onettes

9 p.m. Wednesday, May 14. Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Brighton, MA

7 p.m. Friday, September 21. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Funny Ha Ha

B-Sides finds out why Neil Hamburger isn't Yo La Tengo's favorite comic, then gets cinematic with Undertow Records' Monahans.

2007 RFT Music Showcase

Week of May 31, 2007

LCD Soundsystem

Sound of Silver (DFA/Capitol)

Local Motion: The Hibernauts

9 p.m. Friday, January 5. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Shiny Toy Guns

7 p.m. Sunday, October 8. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Grant-Lee Phillips

nineteeneighties (Zoe)

Critical Mass

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

LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE

The attractions of Magnetic Fields' three-CD 69 Love Songs

Moogs for Moderns

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