Phil Collins

The Top Ten Douchiest Drummers of All Time

By Nate Jackson What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder who ... More >>

Ten Bands You Never Would Have Thought Used to Be Good

It's a common cliché by now: Some snobby, balding guy with glasses in every bar across America rants and raves about how he only likes "the old stuff" by every band. "I liked the first record," is his creed. This character floats around, bumming everyone out and sucking all the fun out of a karaoke ... More >>

Which Song will FOX Ruin During the MLB Playoffs This Year?

The MLB postseason began again over the weekend--you might have noticed your sports-agnostic fans living and dying with the Cardinals' Wild Card play-in game win on Friday. You might even have noticed, in yourself, a newfound interest in the vagaries of the infield fly rule. If you noticed those thi ... More >>

Achilles' Third-to-Last Stand

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 >>

Five Surprising Video Game Cameos by Musicians

In this day and age, it's become almost commonplace for artists to plug songs into a video game. Heck, there's an entire freaking genre dedicated to translating music into video game form. While musicians and their labels frantically rush to get a song in the latest FIFA title, there's a small subs ... More >>

The Six Best Key Changes In Pop Music

The key change is an essential device in the pop canon. Play song, move chords and melody up a half step or so, continue in new key until otherwise noted. It's simple, really, and often effective, which is why it has been employed to the point of abuse. Here are the six best key changes in pop music ... More >>

The Six Best Drum Fills

​In rock and roll, singers get the attention, guitarists get the glory and bass players usually just have to show up. It's the drummers of the world who often put in the most effort for the least return, lugging ten times the equipment and playing twenty times as hard as the rest of the band. ... More >>

23 Musicians with Michele Bachmann Eyes: Horrifying and Hypnotic

Jeff Tweedy as the Queen of Rage​Michelle Bachmann's Newsweek cover, on which she stares out icily over the headline The Queen Of Rage, has provoked intense reaction, mostly because of Bachmann's rapidly ballooning public caricature, but at least partly because the look in her eyes is somethin ... More >>

Tattoo Suit Doesn't Delay Release of "Hangover" Sequel

Ed Helms wears copyright protected ink.​Fear not, bro-dawg cinephiles. The release of The Hangover Part II will not be delayed over a suit filed by a Missouri tattoo artist. You'll still be able to edify yourself Thursday with 102 minutes of (presumably) dick-and-fart-and-drinking jokes. Hurrah!Yo ... More >>

Cowboy Mouth

8 p.m. Friday, December 31. The VooDoo Café & Lounge at Harrah's Casino, 777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights.

Trifeckta Reigns Supreme at Red Bull Big Tune

Twelve producers went head to head last night in front of a packed house at Pop's Nightclub in Sauget for the Red Bull Big Tune nationwide competition. Now in its fourth year, Red Bull Big Tune is the hunt for the one producer that can wow the crowd. Red Bull Photo Files/Carlos CruzThe final two p ... More >>

Sting's guitarist Dominic Miller is a Renaissance man

Prom Do-Over

Title Tracks

9 p.m. Saturday, February 20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

And The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2010 Inductees Are...

According to Crain's Cleveland Business: ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, the Hollies and the Stooges! David Geffen will be inducted as an executive, while songwriting teams of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry also made it in. (Other songwriters getting the nod include Jesse ... More >>

Show Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Grand Ole Party and Pajo at The Pageant, June 2

Photo: Todd OwyoungKaren O. of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Pageant. More photos here.Yeah Yeah Yeahs' singer Karen O has crafted a persona as a shabby-chic fashion icon, a vulnerable diva, and some sort of female version of Iggy Pop. She has dated music video director Spike Jonze and is involved in t ... More >>

Second Spin: Sammy Hagar, Three Lock Box

Artist: Sammy Hagar Album: Three Lock Box From: Vintage Vinyl Year: 1982 Label: Geffen Records What it sounds like: The exhaust pipe of a white trash Ferrari

Second Spin: Phil Collins, No Jacket Required

Artist: Phil Collins Album: No Jacket Required From: Vintage Vinyl Year: 1985 Label: Atlantic Records What it sounds like: The 80's Dance Pop Special: A smooth synthesizer groove, with an order of keyboards, drum machines, and horns on the side.

Xmas Jam Countdown: Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

MP3: Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas Time? (Original 1984)" I couldn't find the best version of this song, which is an extended mix with a totally earnest spoken-word bridge featuring the tune's participants. But here's the original version of 1984's seminal charity single, "Do T ... More >>

Second Spin: Sweetbottom, Angels of the Deep

Show Review, Photos: Stars at the Pageant, Thursday, September 25, 2008

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Earth, Wind & Fire, "Reasons"

Are You Going to Prom

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

The #12 Looks Like You

7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 4. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

Prog-Rocking Beats

B-Sides gets intimate with Rhino Records' new Genesis reissues, then catches up with the cool cats in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

The River of Dreams

B-Sides gives you a guided tour of St. Louis through the eyes of Billy Joel, and provides three nifty downloads for the price of one.

Undercover of the Night

Violent shoot-outs and dangerous love in Mann’s visceral cop series update

Glenn Kotche

Mobile (Nonesuch Records)

A Star Is Born

B-Sides explores whether actors can really sing, downloads some Pixies goodness and has some devilish words for Bleeding Through

Lucky Boys Confusion/Pomeroy

Friday, February 10, 8 p.m. at Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

The Color of Money (1986)

Week of December 8, 2005

The Mad Blogger

Byron Crawford takes no prisoners. Don't screw with him.

You've Got a Friend

We catch up with the Gentleman Callers, find out what Ron Jeremy has to do with school and examine how much James Taylor really sucks

Copeland

Friday, June 10; Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

Schneidways

Unreal drops by to chat with Bob Schneider; we visit Africa and the Old School

Phil Collins

Love Songs (Atlantic)

Letters

Week of September 15, 2004

Fourplay

Monday, September 13; the Pageant

The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock

(Besides Sting)

Love's Labor Remixed

We strike out with the ladies, music-geek style, check out John Kerry's Behind the Music and hunt for Weird Al trivia

High Score

Sometimes the worst movies have the best soundtracks

Lewis & Clark and Libretto

Discover opera

Film Openings

Week of October 29, 2003

Bearly Necessary

Jungle fever fails to fully catch hold in this routine sequel

The Road to El Dorado

Directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul

Deja Vu