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The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: April 5 to 7

Sometimes, it's good to unplug the headphones and take a break from music for a minute simply to absorb the sounds from immediate surroundings. Take the Riverfront Times office soundtrack lately, for instance. Above my head, some intense industrial power sanding or something rattles the mug of tepid ... More >>

Five Deeply Inappropriate Beatles Songs For Paul McCartney To Sing At The London Olympics Opening Ceremony

Paul McCartney is probably going to sing "Hey Jude" at the London Olympics' opening ceremonies tonight. Just call it a hunch, or else just Google all the reports from trusted anonymous sources that he's been practicing the song at what I believe is officially called Not-The-Bird's-Nest-But-That's-Ok ... More >>

Beach House at the Pageant, 7/11/12: Review, Setlist and Photos

Beach House July 11, 2012 The Pageant Let's start with some Bonnie Tyler: "Once upon a time there was light in my life; now there's only love in the dark." And like a perfect stranger in the night, through smoke and warm silhouettes, Beach House crept into the hearts of St. Louis concertgoers last ... More >>

It's a Bug, It's a Pain, It's...Supergonorrhea!

There was much rejoicing last fall when the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report on sexually-transmitted diseases ranking the prevalence of the disease in U.S. cities and St. Louis came in at number 12. Yes, 12! All the way down from number 1 from the 2007 report. The ... More >>

Reach for the Multicolored Ring: Why do Mexicans suck so bad at the Olympics?

Update: Six Buttery Recipes for the Holidays

http://commons.wikimedia.org​Update: A Norwegian blogger named Tommy recently posted a vlog where he expressed disgust at Americans who've been taking the crisis lightly. We're also pretty sure he calls us fat, and he mentions something about Norwegians eating cats. Check out the video after t ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Special Good Gabacho/Evil Alabama Edition

Hang the Fry Cook - Morrissey Should Create Vegan Fast Food

stueagon.comMeat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.​Morrissey, former lead singer of the Smiths, has forged a career not only as the elder statesman of sad songs, but also as one of music's most outspoken animal-rights activists. Not surprising, coming from a guy whose band titled its 1985 albu ... More >>

Norway Massacre Has Dana Loesch Claiming Right is Left

Right or Left? Depends on which way the hot air blows.​St. Louis Tea Party co-founder and political pundit Dana Loesch thinks hard-line conservatives such as herself are being smeared by media accounts referring to Norway's Anders Behring Breivik as a "right-wing extremist." As you surely know, Br ... More >>

Too Hot To Live Winter Music Mix: Ten Songs To Lower Your Temperature

Refreshing! ​Finally, we seem to be on the other side of this week's bout of soul-shredding heat. Summer's all well and good, but the Beach Boys weren't singing about an endless summer where it feels like 115 degrees. Their summers were a good 30 degrees cooler than what we've been experiencin ... More >>

Spirits of St. Louis Aquavit, Square One Brewery and Distillery

Image Via​What do the countries of Scandinavia have in common? For one thing, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland are some of the happiest places on Earth. Every time a new study comes out attempting to quantify "life satisfaction," these countries hold court in the top ten, trading off the nu ... More >>

Of Montreal at the Luminary Center for the Arts, 7/4/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Lee Harris​Of Montreal | Yip Deciever Luminary Center for the Arts July 4th, 2011 It seems as though Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal and Independence Day (the holiday, not the movie) shouldn't jive. July 4th is brimming with conservative values, and the band's transgender obsessed schizo-disco ... More >>

The Five Best -- and Sometimes Scariest -- Parts of Contamination 2011

Freddy was noticeably absent at Contamination 2011 (jerk), but the weekend saw other key players. Check out our slideshow for photos that might even haunt your dreams.​This weekend's science fiction/horror/generally strange aesthetic festival, Contamination 2011, had its unfair share of prize ... More >>

Style, but little substance in Miral, Schnabel's Palestine plea

Comment of the Day: Special Deer-Saving Edition

Today's comment of the day comes from reader "Ashlee," who called out Daily RFT uber-blogger Chad Garrison for his cavalier attitude toward the tragedy of the deer trapped on the icy Mississippi -- and may have actually saved the lives of the aforementioned deer thanks to her persistence and ingenui ... More >>

Review Setlist Photos: Vampire Weekend, The Very Best and Beach House at Chaifetz Arena

Jason StoffVampire Weekend performing at the at Chaifetz Arena.​Click here for a full set of photos from the show.It's extremely difficult to write about a band that does everything right, as Vampire Weekend did last night at Chaifetz Arena. Even the band's ghastly novelty songs about punctuation ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the St. Louis theater scene

Laura Veirs fires up her new album, July Flame, as her popularity continues to increase

Black Metal Documentary Until the Light Takes Us Showing at Webster This Weekend

Until the Light Takes Us shows this weekend at Webster University.​The new documentary about black metal -- that satanic, unholy combination of thrash guitars, blast beats and guttural vocals -- is made by posers. That's the assumption one might have going into a viewing if Until the Light Ta ... More >>

Pokey LaFarge, So Many Dynamos Head Across the Pond

​Pokey LaFarge's forthcoming album, Riverboat Soul, is available to download on iTunes starting today. He'll be celebrating the album's release with a show at Off Broadway on Friday, February 19. Before that, though, he'll be heading over to England and Scotland for a few days. Color me jealou ... More >>

Pale Divine: What Have They Been Up to in 2009?

In this week's paper, the members of Pale Divine were kind enough to indulge questions about their favorite cover songs -- you see, their second-annual reunion show tonight at the Pageant will feature them doing two sets and tons of old covers. But the band's been quite busy in the last year since w ... More >>

New Beach House MP3: "Norway"

Beach House made quite the impression earlier this year at its sold-out Billiken Club show. The dreamfuzz act, which signed to Sub Pop earlier this year, will be releasing Teen Dream on January 26, 2010. The new song below has a fantastically creepy wavering keyboard line underneath Victoria Legrand ... More >>

Combichrist

7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Unemployment Can Be Fun!

flickr.com/photos/amin_tabriziLane Wallace came to an astonishing revelation two weeks ago, which she very kindly shared in The Atlantic: It is better to be unemployed in New York, L.A. or Silicon Valley than anywhere else in this great nation of ours.Of course, if all those unemployed New Yorkers o ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Glenn Danzig, Part One

New Order's Peter Hook Talks Bonus Live Footage!

Show Review: Ladytron and Datarock at the Pageant, Monday, June 16

John Roderick's Missing a Tooth, But Gaining Journalism Skills

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 3.4

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 2.28

That bastard: The Mexican explains why Portuguese is a bastard tongue

The Morning Brew: Friday, 11/16

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 11/13

The Kids Were Alright

Football in the Dome

No, the other football

Hedda’s a Pistol

Hope Springs Eternal

Mark Olson finds salvation in being one of the vocal and lyrical laureates of American music.

All Hands on Decks

Sondre Lerche

Phantom Punch (Astralwerks)

Vault

99 cents
Shell
6211 Delmar Boulevard

Various Artists

A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (Rhino)

Cooking with Fire and Steel

B-Sides gets domestic with Hurra Torpedo, defends the Dickies and downloads some hot, live MP3 action

Serena-Maneesh

Sunday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Turbonegro

Party Animals (Abacus Recordings)

Film Openings

Week of March 24, 2004

Thelonious Monk

Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia (Thelonious Records)

Rats!

Mark Ritter knows he'll never get rid of all the rats in St. Louis -- but as long as he gets the ones he's after, that's all right with him

Blood Red Throne

Document of Death (Hammerheart/Martyr Music Group)

Ghost Upon the Road

Ghost Stories

Tom Russell conjures the spirits of his ancestors -- and tells the epic story of America's immigrant history -- on The Man from God Knows Where