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Report: Araka to Close, 801 Chophouse to Open

Araka (131 Carondelet Plaza, Clayton; 314-725-6777) will close after service on Saturday, March 9, according to a report from George Mahe of St. Louis Magazine. Gut Check has a call in to owner Brad Beracha for independent confirmation. More from him as we learn it. Update: (Wednesday, February 20, ... More >>

Tilly and the Wall

8:30 p.m. Friday, October 19. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

EPA Official's Past Raises Red Flags in Wildwood's Dioxin Contamination Case

Missouri's interminable dioxin problem is alive and oozing in Wildwood. The latest controversy is over the Environmental Protection Agency official who's been working for decades on cleaning up the dioxin contamination of Times Beach and more recently assessing the Wildwood development site of Stre ... More >>

Cursive at Off Broadway, April 20: Review and Setlist

Cursive | Cymbals Eat Guitars | Conduits April 20, 2012 Off Broadway You don't expect a mosh pit to erupt at a concert headlined by a Saddle Creek Records band, but if it's a Cursive show, you should. Though one of the first groups signed to the Omaha-based record label, Cursive helped define and y ... More >>

Cursive's Tim Kasher Talks About Playing the Early Stuff and Where the Band is Now

Cursive's newest album I Am Gemini is the band's ninth since its 1997 debut. Far be it from the Omaha band to get comfortable at this point in its career; Gemini is the most complex, interwoven and ambitious Cursive record yet, complete with a booklet that lays out the album's lyrics as a Shakespea ... More >>

Win Tickets For Saturday's Ludo Show At The Pageant

​St. Louis' own purveyor of gleefully immature pop play the big stage at the Pageant on Saturday. The band is currently wrapping up a tour in support of 2010's Prepare The Preparations and naturally Saturday's homecoming should be a damn good time. To win: Tell us, in the comments below, wh ... More >>

311/Sublime with Rome

6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Noah's Ark Was a Spaceship

8 p.m. September 5. The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

St. Louisan Goes Apeshit on Southwest Flight

Image sourceThe skies aren't so friendly anymore.​And it wasn't even Annie! On a completely different Southwest flight last night, this one from Seattle to Lambert, a St. Louis man went batshit crazy and started pounding on the cockpit door. The plane had to be diverted for an emergency landin ... More >>

Study by Hot Dog Company Finds that Most Americans Enjoy Hot Dogs

You've got to hand it to Hebrew National for putting out the press release with this, um frank, headline today: "More Than 65 Percent of Americans Agree - A Picnic Isn't A Picnic Without Hot Dogs" Hot dogs and profit-driven, company-sponsored surveys: The American way, thank you.​Just in tim ... More >>

Photos Review Setlist Video: The Black Lips Destroy The Firebird, Wednesday, April 7

photo by Keegan HamiltonThe Black Lips got bum rushed during "Bad Kids"​I'd heard some wild stories about Black Lips performances -- instances where the band pissed in their own mouths, cut themselves and bled all over the stage or hocked loogies into the air and caught them in their mouths. Basic ... More >>

"If Hell Had a Hotel, It Would be Something Like This."

​This is one of nearly 50 posts placed on TripAdvisor, almost all of which have nothing but absolute scorn for the Days Inn Eureka Six Flags. Here's a sampling of some other cranky consumer comments about the 150-room establishment that TripAdvisor has named the second-dirtiest hotel in the ... More >>

Shocking Revelations in MovieMaker Magazine's List of Top 10 Cities for Filmmakers

Surely the people behind a magazine called MovieMaker would have seen Up in the Air. Surely those same people, if they were compiling a list of the ten best cities in the U.S. for moviemakers (or MovieMakers), would have taken note of how well St. Louis plays Omaha and several other middle-American ... More >>

Java Enabled: Have Coffee, Will Travel

One of the things I love most about travel is getting the chance to try new cafés. (As I wrote last week, some coffee aficionados base entire trips on this premise.) But even when your travels won't lead you to some undiscovered java gem, you might not want to sacrifice the comfort and security of ... More >>

Incubus/The Duke Spirit

7 p.m. Thursday, July 23. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Cursive

8 p.m. Friday, April 24. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Little Brazil

9 p.m. Wednesday, March 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic F ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: The Faint at the Pageant, Friday, December 12, 2008

Better Than: Playing DropkicktheFaint over and over again. It's easy to forget just how ahead of the curve the Faint has always been. Way back in 1999, the Omaha quintet decided to add squelching keyboards to the vanilla guitar-bass-drums combo. The result of the band's decision (1999's Blank-Wa ... More >>

Interview: Faint Keyboardist Jacob Thiele

In 2001, the Faint released Danse Macabre, which practically created the template for the new-wave/dance-punk revival which occurred two years later. Since then, the Omaha quintet has stayed barely under the radar and just ahead of the curve. Keyboardist Jacob Thiele took a break from the band' ... More >>

The Faint

8 p.m. Friday, December 12. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Unreal goes gun shopping in Lemay and checks in with a south-city blogger

Ladyhawk and Neva Dinova at the Bluebird, Tonight!

This Band Could Be Your Life, Part I: So Many Dynamos Tours to SXSW

How Orange Is Our Valley?

Coyote Bones

6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 24. Creepy Crawl,3524 Washington Boulevard.

Head of Femur

9 p.m. Thursday, October 25. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

St. Louis Weekend Round-up: August 24-26

Just Desserts

Erie Choir

9 p.m. Friday, April 6. Lemmons (5800 Gravois Avenue).

Little Brazil

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 21. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Whether they’re playing all-ages venues or arenas, indie superstars the Faint make their fans dance, dance, dance.

Join them, won't you?

Ladyfinger (ne)

7:30 p.m. Sunday, February 18. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Tapes 'n Tapes

9:30 p.m. Friday, October 20. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

The Prids

8 p.m. Sunday, September 17. Mississippi Nights, (914 North First Street)

Now It's Overhead / Tilly and the Wall

7:30 p.m. Monday, July 17. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Poison!

B-Sides lays down the law with Criteria, contemplates potential rock-star deaths and plays a rousing game of Tic-Tac-DeVoe

Bright Eyes

Motion Sickness (Team Love)

Better Than Ezra

Saturday, July 16; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

The Faint

Wet from Birth (Saddle Creek)

Now It's Overhead

Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)

Bone Up

Pop and noise meet at the Head of Femur

Eastern Youth with Cursive and The Blood Brothers

Friday, October 3; Mississippi Nights

FM Knives with the Incisions and the Kings of Pop

Monday, May 19; Hi-Pointe

Homegrown

Local labels keep their eyes on the prize

Cursive with Neva Dinova and Low Skies

Sunday, January 19; Hi-Pointe

Twangfest Schedule

Held this weekend at Off Broadway

Bright Eyes with Phut and Grandpa's Ghost

Thursday, July 29; Side Door

Landslide Victory