People Motion Picture Orchestra

The 2013 RFT Music Awards Nominees

Well, it's that time again, folks! Each year, we at RFT Music HQ present the RFT Music Awards, an annual celebration of the best and brightest musical acts St. Louis has to offer. The nominees are chosen by a crack team of industry insiders, dedicated die-hards and various other musical minds from o ... More >>

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 >>

The High Cost of Greed

Homespun: Wax Wine EP

Homespun Double Review: Wax Wine's Self-Titled EP and Mikey Wehling & the Reverbs' Nests In Tree

[Editor's Note: For a change, this week's print edition features two Homespun reviews written by RFT Music Senior Writer Christian Schaeffer, because why not?]

Full Circle with The Flaming Lips: 2012 In Review

Editor's Note: The end of 2012 is upon us (also the end of the world, if you believe in that sort of thing), so we thought we'd put a cap on things by sharing some of our personal favorite shows, albums, events and general shenanigans. Join us as we indulge in some navel-gazing! When I write articl ... More >>

Homespun: Fire Dog

May These Changes
www.seefiredogroll.com

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: July 20 to 22

Happy Friday, St. Louis! Before we get to the festivities, it's been a little while since we've explained our shows-pickin' blog-postin' strategy, so here it is again for the uninitiated and the forgetful: Every Monday we do a blog post called "Out Every Night" that lists shows the RFT Music staff p ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Award Winners

2012 RFT Music Showcase Recap: Part One

We came. We saw. We heard. We completely bombarded Washington Avenue. As any of the hundreds in attendance will certainly attest, the RFT Music Showcase was a blast. Perfect weather, great drinks (Thanks Schlafly!), and fantastic performances all around. The schedule read like a choose-your-own-adve ... More >>

The RFT Music Showcase is Tomorrow: Here's What You Need to Know

The most improbable day of St. Louis music is upon us. It's RFT Music Showcase time, and the lineup is set, the taps are ready and the weather forecast is about as perfect as you could possibly hope for. Tomorrow, June 2, from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., more than 80 bands and artists across a spectacular ran ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

The Heavy Hand of the Lubitsch Touch

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Schedule

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase is two weeks away, on June 2. And here it is: 5 blocks, 14 stages, 74 bands and artists. Ten bucks gets you all the excellent St. Louis music you can absorb in one twelve hour span. And hey: At least for now, the forecast calls for an incredibly pleasant high of 89 degree ... More >>

Tower Groove Records is worth its weight in vinyl

Chamber Pop: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a month away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Over the next month, we'll be making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year. Each weekday between now and the showcase ... More >>

Six Most Exciting Record Store Day Releases

It's April and the smell of vinyl is in the air. Record Store Day is this weekend, that annual celebration of those places where the things you illegally download live. This equates to a wealth of exclusive releases and reissues, some of which are made in such small quantities they are practically o ... More >>

Van Dyke Parks at the Luminary Center for the Arts, 4/5/2012: Review and Setlist

Van Dyke Parks | Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra April 5, 2012 The Luminary Center for the Arts Van Dyke Parks embarked on his first-ever tour this year at the age of 69. It has been a limited run of shows in the United States, but with any justice more audiences will get to experience what ... More >>

Van Dyke Parks

8 p.m. Thursday, April 5. The Luminary Center for the Arts, 4900 Reber Place.

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: January 27 to 29

Courtesy of the Lemonheads​Happy Friday Party People. It's the last weekend in January already, and don't let the spring show announcements trick you into planning for the future. Because then you'd miss the Lemonheads tomorrow at Old Rock House and Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra play ... More >>

Sloup 23 Features More Than Seven Separate Soup Dinners this Sunday, Jan. 29

Sloup's 23rd event comes perfectly timed at the end of National Soup Month. Read on for details as Gut Check catches up with co-founder Maggie Ginestra to see what Sloup's been up lately and to get an idea of what to expect for Sloup 23's festivities. Sloup, a local monthly soup dinner that helps to ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do In St. Louis This Weekend: Halloween Weekend

​We're guessing you don't really need our help figuring out what to do this weekend. But hey: Everyone's going to be showing tonight's game seven (very much including our show at the Firebird) and you've got to watch it somewhere. As for the other holiday going on this weekend: Halloween fest ... More >>

Harry Nilsson Tribute At Off Broadway: What Is The Point?

Harry Nilsson, one of the very few things all four Beatles agreed on and a singer of nearly unparalleled talent, will get the tribute treatment at Off Broadway on November 26th. What Is The Point? A Tribute To Harry Nilsson will feature Nilsson sets from Theodore, Ransom Note, Edward Burch, John Kra ... More >>

Rats And People Motion Picture Orchestra's Residency Ends With Go West

Banner via​Rats And People Motion Picture Orchestra finishes its most ambitious string of shows to date tonight at El Lenador -- the group will be sharing a bill with Peck Of Dirt and Googolplexia starting at 9 p.m. and admission is free. Each Monday in September, the Orchestra has played a ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do On Labor Day Weekend In St. Louis

​Welcome to our favorite Commie holiday, where we celebrate the laborers by taking Monday off and no longer wearing white. We'd say something about the coming of Fall, but our landlord just announced they've decided to keep the pool we share with a nearby apartment complex open until the end ... More >>

Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra's El Lenador Residency Starts Monday

​The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra will take up residency at El Lenador starting on Monday. Each week, the group will play its original score of a silent film (or three shorts in week two). Admission is free, but the Orchestra is in dire need of a new van, so donations are highly app ... More >>

Join Mustard Rob's Bass Guitar Jam Tonight At El Leñador

​Tonight, the bass guitar gets its muddy moment in the spotlight at El Leñador. Rob Severson, a.k.a. Googolplexia, is roughly halfway through a monthlong Monday residency at the bar that looks German but serves Mexican food, and tonight's entertainment features an open bass guitar jam. Ever ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: August 12-14

​Welcome to the weekend. The heat wave's broken and there is no shortage of excuses to leave the house. Including Rum Drum Ramblers' vinyl release at the Gramophone tomorrow night. Stick around for the late show at the same venue for London Calling's five year anniversary party. Taylor Swift ... More >>

The RFT Music Party Is This Saturday

​This is happening two nights from now. Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra will start playing an original score to Buster Keaton's The High Sign at exactly 8:30 (really). We'll be announcing a change or two at this thing, but the best reason to come is clearly the bands -- your $6 cost of ... More >>

Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra Will Be Playing The RFT Music Party

​We saved the best surprise for first: Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra will be kicking off our upcoming shindig at Off Broadway. The Rats and People (more people than rats, to be honest) will be performing their score of Buster Keaton's The High Sign, and they will be playing at 8:30 s ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: April 15 to 17

​It's the most wonderful time of the year: Record Store Day! For us at A to Z, it's like Christmas, only we're receiving special gifts from Wayne Coyne and Thom Yorke, and enjoying DJ sets and live performances by the best in local music. Which, as far as we're concerned, beats the pants off o ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: March 18 to 20

​Still hungover from yesterday? You're probably not the only one. You must rally, however, as there's a ton going on this weekend, from the Southern Graphics Council International Conference to all of the music events we talk about on the RFT's main music page. Ten other good bets are below. E ... More >>

Ten Things To Do This Weekend: November 19 to 21

Mia KirbyWarpaint.​Music info here. More music below. Pre-Thanksgiving cramming: It's on. Friday: Beth Bombara's CD Release Show @ Off Broadway Read Christian Schaeffer's review of Bombara's new album, Wish I Were You, here. Dropkick the Robot and Old Lights are also playing. Patrons get a fr ... More >>

Twelve Music-Based Documentaries Screening at the Saint Louis International Film Festival

The movie Do It Again.​The annual St. Louis International Film Festival (that's SLIFF for short) began last night and runs through November 21. As it does every year, SLIFF features a generous selection of music-related documentaries. Here's the rundown. For the RFT's full coverage of the film ... More >>

Tonight! May Day Orchestra Album Release at the Sheldon Concert Hall

The cover of the album​Tonight in the Ballroom at the Sheldon, the May Day Orchestra is releasing its new album, Ota Benga. The second "folk opera" in its catalog, Benga is about a "pygmy who was taken from the Belgian colony in the Congo in the early 1900s and brought to the World's Fair in S ... More >>

STL Loud Leaks Artwork, More Nuggets of Information [Updated with Band Group #1 #2]

​[Update #1, Tuesday 10:30 a.m.: The first group of bands recording was announced yesterday See below. ][Update #2, Wednesday, 3:45 p.m.: The second group of bands recording was announced today. See below!] Last week, we told you about STL Loud, the local music compilations being compiled by R ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend Night Three: Theodore The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra, Fractured Army, Makeshift Gentlemen, The Dive Poets, Via Dove

This year's Under Cover Weekend ended with a strong turnout at the Firebird last night. The crowd awaiting the opening super-group featuring Theodore and The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra already surpassed the somewhat-skimpy attendance for last Saturday's event. It's a good thing so ma ... More >>

Van Dyke Parks Approves of Theodore and the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra's An Under Cover Weekend Set.

Parks' 1972 LP​Tonight is the third and final night of An Under Cover Weekend at the Firebird. Bands performing include Via Dove (Pearl Jam), the Dive Poets (R.E.M.), Fractured Army (Pat Benatar), Makeshift Gentlemen (the Doors) and Theodore/Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra (Van Dyke Par ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend concludes with a rock & roll bang

2010 Music Showcase: 1 night, 50+ bands, 5 bucks this Saturday on Wash. Ave.

The 2010 RFT Music Awards Nominees: The List

The 2010 RFT Music showcase takes place on Saturday, June 5, 2010, on Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis. On and before that day, fans can vote for their favorite local musicians in the following categories. For more information on where and how to vote - and for up-to-the-minute details about ... More >>

Zachary Schomburg and His Magic Poetry Mobile Take St. Louis Tonight!

Tonight is Exploding Swan Night at Stirrup Pants Chapbooks (2122 Cherokee Street), which will deviate from its usual Saturdays-only schedule to host The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra and a host of readers, including poet Zachary Schomburg, who has driven out here from Portland, Oregon, in h ... More >>

The Tugline

8 p.m. Friday, January 29. The Way Out Club, 2525 South Jefferson Avenue.

In a Silent Way: The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra scores the silent film Nosferatu this weekend at Off Broadway

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of October 13

Tegan and Sara at the Pageant, April 2, 2010​Fubar *Evergreen Terrace, Wednesday, November 4 *Breathe Carolina/Cash Cash, Friday, November 6 *Kate Voegele, Saturday, November 7 *Vampire Moose CD Release, Friday, November 13 *Wednesday 13's Gufire 76/Bullets and Octane, Saturday, November 14 *Days ... More >>

2009 RFT Music Awards Nominees: The List With Music!

A bit late, but below the jump you'll find links to as many blogposts we've run with MP3s -- and the occasional MySpace page and embedded tune -- of each nominated band. Whew. Chime in with any URLs that have tunes in the comments, of course. I think I have everyone. The music showcase blurbs/infor ... More >>

2009 RFTMusic Showcase Schedule! Right Here!

Just before we adjourned for the three-day weekend, I received the lineup/schedule for this year's RFT Music Showcase, on Sunday, June 7. Here's the full list of nominees -- and don't forget to vote for your faves! And if you have any complaints/gripes -- I don't want to hear them, because I didn't ... More >>

Winning the War: The 2009 RFT Music Awards nominees and annual music showcase are here!

Homespun: The May Day Orchestra

May Day, or Songs for Lucy Parsons
(self-released)

The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra

9 p.m. Friday, December 5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.