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Peabody Energy Holds Shareholder Meeting in Wyoming: Trying to Escape St. Louis Protests?

Critics of Peabody Energy have become quite good at making a scene at their protests of the corporation headquartered in St. Louis. And that might just be why Peabody is going to be holding its annual meeting for shareholders a thousand miles away in Gillette, Wyoming. At least that's the theory of ... More >>

Public Enemy, Har Mar Superstar, Water Liars, Pink and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Animal Collective, Hoodie Allen, Widespread Panic and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: December 14 to 16

So whoa, Kiernan's leaving. This is the man that got me my start around here: I replied to an open call on the RFT Music Facebook page for writers, Mr. Maletsky in turn got me a job and now my days are spent babbling online about music rather than driving around in my car slinging pizzas. His depart ... More >>

Anti-Coal Activists Want City to Wake Up to "Peabody Takeover"

When it comes to Peabody Energy Corp., it's hard to tell who's being naughty or nice. This week, the activist group Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment has been staging demonstrations against Peabody, the largest private-sector coal company in the world, headquartered in downtown St. ... More >>

El Monstero, Bush, Those Darlins and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Tea Partiers Hold Flash Mob Outside Peabody Energy; Coal Co Kicks Supporters to the Curb

If you were downtown yesterday evening you might've caught red-clad Cardinals fans headed to Busch Stadium, an especially brilliant sunset, and maybe a scant group of activists commemorating the one-year anniversary of Occupy St. Louis at Kiener Plaza. Also hard to miss was a surreal and sizable g ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From August 13 to 19

LouFest is this weekend, but you will not find it listed within this post. This is because St. Louis's favorite outdoor festival will already see plenty of press this week -- hell, I'd be surprised if this blog post isn't surrounded on either side by bigass advertisements for the event. Point is, yo ... More >>

My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses at the Peabody: Review, Photos and Setlist

My Morning Jacket | Band of Horses August 8, 2012 Peabody Opera House Jim James does not have hair. He has a mane, and it is his single best asset as a showman. Better than his sleeved cape (his morning jacket, proposes RFT Managing Editor Chad Garrison), better than his drum pad chain, better even ... More >>

Fiona Apple at the Peabody Opera House, 7/14/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

Fiona Apple | Blake Mills July 14, 2012 The Peabody Opera House Fiona Apple is not afraid of silence -- but at least a few of her St. Louis fans might be. At Apple's concert Saturday at the Peabody Opera House (1400 Market Street; 314-499-7600) there were more than a few moments when hootin' and ho ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 9 to 15

The Monday after Independence Day weekend is one most brutal. After a full weekend of barbecue and beer and illegal fireworks, going to work seems all the more objectionable. I'm too damned hungover on Freedom to be productive, personally. My "word of the day" today is "aliquant," which even my spel ... More >>

Steve Winwood at the Peabody Opera House, 5/14/12: Review, Setlist

Steve Winwood | Bobby Long May 14, 2012 Peabody Opera House As go case studies in paying respects to the elder statesmen of rock & roll, there are worse fates than fourth-row tickets (so what if they're far orchestra right?) to Steve Winwood at the Peabody Opera House. Unlike many of the retirement ... More >>

Nicki Minaj, My Morning Jacket, Joseph Arthur and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded Youtube videos with which you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new ... More >>

Florence the Machine at the Peabody, 4/29/12: Review, Photos, Setlist

Florence the Machine Peabody Opera House April 29, 2012 It's been a year since St. Louis last hosted Florence the Machine, but things have changed in the short time that's passed. Florence Welch has been catapulted into a whole other realm of popularity, selling out the Peabody Opera House in ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows this Weekend: March 2 to 4

It's an eclectic mix of offerings we have for you this weekend, ranging from the sold-out-every-venue-in-the-eighties variety to the soon-to-be-selling-records local release types. Friday Barry Manilow and Eddie Money clash for dominance of St. Louis's 106.5 the Arch radio-listening demographic, pla ... More >>

Ryan Adams at the Peabody Opera House, 1/31/12: Review, Illustrations and Setlist

Ryan Adams | Jason Isbell Peabody Opera House January 31, 2012 Ryan Adams has had a troubled relationship with himself and with his music, which forms much of the the narrative of his later career. Many of his fans have held similarly ambivalent opinions about his work. It has been difficult to be ... More >>

White Rabbits, Black Keys Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Ricky Smiley and his infectious chuckle tickle our eardrums daily during his long-running morning show syndicated on Hot 104.1. The ATL funnyman brings his comic stylings to Chaifetz in February. Chaifetz also snagged the Black Keys in late April, and newcomer Plush is bringing our Missouri boys bac ... More >>

M83, Jason and the Scorchers Lead This Week's Show Announcements

M83's Anthony Gonzales.​By now you've all collectively shat over the M83 announcement: the Pageant, May 2. Touring behind his damn nice Midnight City album, Anthony Gonzales's eponymous single recently nabbed the coveted No. 1 track of 2011 from Pitchfork. Jason and the Scorchers head out on a ... More >>

Henry Rollins, Old 97s Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Courtesy of the artistHot.​From the looks of it, we're in for another killer spring as far as concerts are concerned. The Old 97's bring that highly accessible Texas twang to The Pageant is a bright spot on January 21. Henry Rollins, he of nimble mind and Black Flag fame also heads to the Page ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: November 4-6

Image viaAnne Byrn, the "Cake Mix Doctor," visits St. Louis this weekend.​Friday (Nov. 4): Anne Byrn, The Cake Mix Doctor Samples and Signing @ Straub's Anne Byrn, an award-winning food writer and author of seven cookbooks including The Cake Mix Doctor and The Dinner Doctor, unveils her new ... More >>

Better burgers, worse concert experiences: Readers kvetch

Widespread Panic At The Peabody, 10/12/11: Photos

Todd OwyoungFans wait outside the Peabody. ​Widespread Panic brought its finely crafted jams to the shiniest new venue in St. Louis last night. The Athens, Georgia band is now in its 25th year -- something you don't ever see without a consistent live show and some seriously devoted fans. Todd ... More >>

Roger Daltrey

7 p.m. Saturday, October 8. $53 to $123, Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market Street.

The Peabody reopens in a new St. Louis Music market

Brian Setzer, Big Troubles Lead This Week's Show Announcements

There's another St. Louis Secret Sound Society joint: Slumberland's Big Troubles at the STL Style House with Young Prisms and Frances With Wolves on October 15. Big Troubles just dropped its sophomore effort Romantic Comedy, a collection of pop gems shrouded in fuzz and reverb, in the vein of labelm ... More >>

Peabody Opening Gala, 10/1/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Peabody Opening Gala Aretha Franklin | Jay Leno October 1, 2011 After closing its doors twenty years ago, the Peabody Opera House (formerly Kiel Opera House) officially re-opened Saturday night and hosted a posh gala featuring the inimitable Aretha Franklin and comedic heavyweight Jay Leno. From ... More >>

Wilco Auctions Off Peabody Tickets For Gateway Greening

Wilco is auctioning off a pair of orchestra-row seats for its sold-out Tuesday show at the Peabody Opera House. The band will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to Gateway Greening, a non-profit organization that promotes community food projects, educations and wellness programs and civic greening ... More >>

Paul Simon, Miami Horror Lead This Week's Show Announcements

​ These Gargoyle shows keep popping up outta nowhere: Miami Horror, Austrailia's sugary disco outfit delivered a solid album last year that went relatively unnoticed despite three cuts featuring ultradarling Alan Palomo of Neon Indian. They'll drop the adorable jams on October 27. The inimitab ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy's Family Band, The Raccoonists, Has Its First Single

The Raccoonists Tumblr Page​Jeff Tweedy has never been known for broadcasting his intentions. So it should come as no surprise that, if he were to start a band with his two sons, Spencer and Sam, they would release their first song as a b-side on a 7" collaboration project with Deerhoof. Tha ... More >>

The Joy Formidable, Skrillex, Bad Brains Lead This Week's Show Announcements

The Joy Formidable, at The Firebird September 21. ​The broken glowsticks and prepubescent sweat have barely dried on the Pageant floor from last week's epic Skrillex show, but the man, the myth, the haircut is returning for an encore performance on November 3. H.R. (Human Rights), the lead sin ... More >>

Wilco Tickets Sell Out In 25 Minutes

​Thanks for playing, St. Louis! Wilco's October show at the Peabody is now officially sold out. After yesterday's pre-sale and Wednesday's fan-club pre-pre-sale, the general on-sale opened this morning at 11 a.m. At 11:25 a.m., the 3,000-capacity venue was sold out. The quick turn-around was ... More >>

Win Widespread Panic Tickets!

​With all the fanfare surrounding U2's upcoming record-breaking performance at Busch Stadium, we'd like to take this moment to draw your attention to another rarefied titan of live music: Widespread Panic, whose 25th Anniversary Tour comes to the Peabody Opera House on October 12th. The kings ... More >>

Wilco at the Peabody: Ticket Presale and Other Show Information

​You can start buying Wilco tickets on Thursday, and we're guessing you'll want to act quickly. For those of you just tuning in, Wilco is playing at the Peabody Opera House on October 4th in support of its new album, The Whole Love. That comes out on September 27th, so you'll have plenty of ti ... More >>

Wilco is Coming to the Peabody Opera House

Everyone get excited!​Wilco just announced a string of North American tour dates for this fall, and St. Louis has one of them: October 4th at the Peabody Opera House. You can see the announcement on the band's official Facebook page, but it's not on the Peabody site yet, and Wilco's own site i ... More >>

Peabody Opera House Gets Social

Tom Paule Photography via www.peabodyoperahouse.comThe ticket lobby at the Peabody last month -- still a long way to go before opening day.​It's not quite like Grandma trying to figure out Twitter -- but it's close.Like many a grand dame who's found herself thrust into our increasingly wired age, ... More >>

Wait Till This Year: What 2011 might bring to St. Louis theater

Protesters Planning Mock Awards Ceremony at Peabody Energy Headquarters in St. Louis Today

Image viaProtesting Peabody Energy: Not a coal black tie affair.​You know how The Razzies are the anti-Oscars? They're the "awards" that "salute the worst that Hollywood has to offer" each year? Well, that's kind of what a group of climate change protesters have planned this afternoon in downtown ... More >>

Wash U. Students Want University to Come Clean on Coal Research

Image viaBy contrast, coal accounts for more than 80 percent of Missouri's energy. ​For many environmentalists, the phrase "clean coal" is a contradiction in terms on par with military intelligence and jumbo shrimp. But to the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washi ... More >>

St. Louis to Get Blues Hall of Fame, 10-Day Bluesweek Musical Festival

Photo: Diana BenantiLeft to right: Blues musicians Bob Case, Roland Johnson and Mayor Francis Slay. ​Organizers of a new music festival to be called St. Louis Bluesweek held a press conference downtown yesterday to announce their lineup and unveil plans for construction of a new Blues Hall of Fame ... More >>

Ed Golterman on Renaming the Kiel the Peabody Opera House

Golterman's 2008 book blames the business group Civic Progress with stalling renovation of the Kiel.​If you haven't heard yet, the Kiel Opera House will have a name change when it re-opens next year following a $78-million renovation. St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. has purchased naming ... More >>

Great Coal Debate at Wash U. Tonight: Peabody Energy v. Sierra Club

​Didya know that 83.5 percent of Missouri's energy comes from coal, and that St. Louis is headquarters to the two largest coal companies in the country in Peabody Energy and Arch Coal? Add it all up and it makes St. Louis a great place to discuss the role of coal in our lives and its impact on the ... More >>

Peabody, Wash U. Lock Horns with Man Behind Clean Coal Consortium Parody Website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncharris/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Coal!​The website of the Washington University Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization openly admits to "perpetuating the myth that coal can be used in a clean and sustainable manner," to being a "public relations tool for industry," to advancin ... More >>

Wash U. Students Steamed About "Dirty Energy" Flash Executives

Wikimedia CommonsWash U. kids show big balls in protesting reception attended by energy executives, including some from the coal (above) industry.​Actually, it was a flash mob. Some 100 students clad in yellow T-shirts and arm-bands paraded into the "America Energy First Conference" cocktail recep ... More >>

VIP FTW!: How bands are using VIP packages to give fans more bang for their buck

Breathe Easy, Charter and KMOV (Channel 4) Have Reached a Tentative Deal

The local daily is reporting that Charter Communications and KMOV (Channel 4) have reached a tentative agreement. This means that we'll still see Larry Conners (in the snakeskin boots there), Vickie Newton, John Mills and the rest of the KMOV local news family each night. The cable company was in a ... More >>

Letters

Week of July 6, 2005

Firepower

Those who follow the way of the gun have their many reasons. Just ask them.