Patti Smith

Forty Years into Her Career, Patti Smith is Still Bewitching: Review and Setlist 5/5/13

Patti Smith Contemporary Art Museum May 5, 2013 It's an emotional thing, seeing Patti Smith. I've seen her perform a bunch of times, and every time I'm shocked by my own intense reaction. I know that I usually get all sentimental and weepy when she starts singing, but this time I was blinking away ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis this Weekend: May 3 to 5

The RFT Music Showcase is only a month away! Have you voted yet? And to the nominees, have you submitted your info to play? As far as we're considered, every weekend is a showcase. In addition to Eric Brace and Peter Cooper, Grace Basement's record release, Apop's 9th Birthday Party, Cinco de Mayo o ... More >>

Godmother of Punk Patti Smith Talks New Album, Book and Burroughs: "I wanted to come to St. Louis because I just wanted to say hello to William."

Patti Smith reads from her poetry and performs a rock set at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 ) Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30. There's no simple way to describe Patti Smith, the profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 29 to May 5

Serenity now, serenity now!! What better way to start the week than with a series of nearby ground-shaking, Earth shattering construction noises to accompany a morning cup of joe? Luckily, headphones exist and a series of bookmarked live performances take me back to my quiet place. Music soothes all ... More >>

Ten Songs For Hating On Stupid Idiot Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, one of the most polarizing of all holidays. Do you enjoy taking this day as a reminder to appreciate your loved ones and get romantic? Or are you annoyed by a manufactured holiday that brings out candy-coated bullshit and makes the lonely feel lonelier? Either way, we a ... More >>

Ten Songs To Get Busy To On Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, one of the most polarizing of all holidays. Do you enjoy taking this day as a reminder to appreciate your loved ones and get romantic? Or are you annoyed by a manufactured holiday that brings out candy-coated bullshit and makes the lonely feel lonelier? Either way, we a ... More >>

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three to Play New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Where in the world isn't Pokey LaFarge these days? In the past year, he's made all sorts of waves -- on the radio, over the ocean and even on TV, culminating a wide range of adoring fans. Between appearing on Jools Holland's NYE Hootenanny, backing up Jack White and performing on HBO's Boardwalk Emp ... More >>

It's World Book Night, So We Visit a ReadMob and Get Advice from Tim O'Brien

Sometime today, if you're lucky, somebody will shove a paperback book in your face and demand you take it home and read it. There are worse fates that could befall a person. The reason for this ardent promotion of literacy is World Book Night. A conglomeration of publishers, booksellers, librarians ... More >>

The 33 1/3 Series is Accepting Submissions

​Earlier this month, Spin announced that it is moving most of its album reviews to Twitter. Music writing is getting shorter, not longer, and yet the 33 1/3 Series, which has the gall to publish entire books on albums that aren't even current, soldiers on. There are 85 installments in print n ... More >>

Saint Louis International Film Festival: Films from Week 2

Bob Gruen Is a Rock & Roll Primary Source

A Missive from the Master

CBGB's Final Show With Patti Smith (A.K.A. The Day I Got Covered in Brian Eno's Sweat)

​Legendary punk club CBGB closed five years ago tomorrow. In its final week, the venue hosted a string of shows paying tribute its storied thirty year run, and it all culminated with a headlining set from Patti Smith. There were only a couple hundred people lucky enough to get tickets to that ... More >>

Frances Bean Cobain And The Other Nine Hottest Offspring Of Musicians

Rocky Schenck​Today is Frances Bean Cobain's 19th birthday. Time flies, right? In celebration of Miss Frannie, we've compiled a list of hot rock 'n' roll spawn. These people have at least one rock star parent and their moms are frequently models. (Figures.) They are all totally bangable, and m ... 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 >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

If you were reading this at bedtime, would you want to go the fuck to sleep?​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending June 19, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subte ... More >>

Michael Stipe Talks St. Louis Punk and Playing Shows Here in Interview Magazine

wikimedia commons​The current issue of Interview Magazine has Christopher Bollen interviewing R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, and their conversation leads them to a couple interesting tidbits about St. Louis. Stipe, as you may be aware, graduated from high school in Collinsville. He tells Boll ... More >>

Country-music star Rodney Crowell traverses Chinaberry Sidewalks

Destroy All Monsters Survey Opens at White Flag Projects This Weekend

On Saturday night, a very cool exhibit is set to open at White Flag Projects. Destroy All Monsters: Hungry for Death is billed as "a survey of survey of artwork, music, video, and archival material by the seminal pre-punk/psychedelic noise group and art collective Destroy AllMonsters." Founded in 19 ... More >>

Unreal searches in vain for salvation and gets sucked into writing about the new Vacuum Cleaner Museum in St. James, Missouri

Unreal Gets Saved on the Dancefloor

flickr.com/photos/dee_lightful​Unreal doesn't consider ourself a likely candidate for salvation, but we happened to hear Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" on the radio the other day and decided that if it ever does happen, it will be on a dance floor. Of course, our Patti-inspired vision involves v ... More >>

Wednesday, July 15: Calendar Pimp Suggests

Photo: Katie Clancy Ain't no apartment big enough for both a dead crow and bad love.   I ride the stallion thru the dust storm, my guardian rides along side me. I have been warned beforehand that this is a life or death ride. no grays. no subtle shades. no middle ground.  &nb ... More >>

Rock, Lobsters and Bad Love

7 Shot Screamers, Tony Renner, The Monads and Strawfoot on National Compilations

7 Shot Screamers has contributed a Smiths cover to a compilation called American Psychobilly Archive, Volume One. The collection -- which is released on the Analog Arkives label -- also features covers of tunes by Echo & the Bunnymen, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, and more. Tony Renner has contrib ... More >>

'90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Ini Kamoze, "Here Comes the Hotstepper"

A #1 hit for Ini Kamoze in 1994, "Here Comes the Hotstepper" was on the soundtrack to the little-remembered flick Prêt-à-Porter. This song takes cues from "Land of 1000 Dances," a Chris Kenner tune popularized by Wilson Pickett (and subsequently covered by Broken Social Scene, Guy, Patti Smith, an ... More >>

Patti Smith Biopic Dream of Life Screens at Webster University, Thursday, October 2 to Saturday, October 4

The Detroit Cobras

8 p.m. Monday, August 27. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

Lollapalooza, Day Three: A Review

Johnette Napolitano

9 p.m. Thursday, May 31. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Heartless Bastards

9 p.m. Thursday, January 11. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Now Dirtier Than Ever

The New Lou Reeds

Friday, November 18; Frederick's Music Lounge (4454 Chippewa Street)

Meat Beaters

Unreal mingles with true meat-masters, joins the campaign to save CBGB and receives a dispatch from Redbird Nation. Plus, what's Keebler doing handing out roach clips?

Morrissey

Live at Earl's Court (Attack)

Patti Smith

Sunday, June 20; the Pageant

Lucinda Williams (cancelled)

Friday, March 12; Pageant

Television

Marquee Moon / Adventure (Rhino)

Paint It Black

Local zine publisher Christina Wojtan crusades on behalf of her passion

Kristie Stremel

Wednesday, Jan. 9; Frederick's Music Lounge

Gary "U.S." Bonds and the Shangri-Las

Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 17-18; Harrah's East Street Casino

The Strokes

Is This It? (RCA)

Rainer Maria

A Better Version Of Me (Polyvinyl)

Ode to Joy

The RFT music staff indulges itself by picking the best work of 2000

The Go-Betweens

The Friends of Rachel Worth (Jetset Records)

Patti Smith

Thursday, July 13; Mississippi Nights

Mary Gauthier

Drag Queens in Limousines (Groove House)

Brother 'Hood

South Philly produces more than just mobsters

L7

Tuesday, Sept. 28; Karma

Local Time

Beck to the Future