Pink Floyd

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 >>

I Have Eight Free Tickets to the Pageant This Weekend: Win Them

St. Louis' favorite Led Zeppelin tribute band, Celebration Day, is playing back-to-back shows at the Pageant this weekend on Friday and Saturday. Somehow, I wound up with four tickets to each night -- and you can win them!

El Monstero by the (Staggering) Numbers

Slideshow: El Monstero's 2012 Pageant Shows

El Monstero Sells Out Third Night, Will Be Lone Remaining Entertainment Option After the Apocalypse

El Monstero 212: The Pigocalypse has just sold out its third of six shows at the Pageant. You're out of luck for December 22, 29 and 21 (the actual Pigocalypse, you note). You can still see the most extravagant Pink Floyd tribute this side of Roger Waters' The Wall tour on December 23, 27 and 28. Bu ... More >>

Swans at the Firebird, 10/23/12: Recap

With the beginning of the show pushed back a half hour due to their late arrival, Swans took the stage about 10:30 p.m.. Frontman Michael Gira did not disappoint. Per tradition for Swans shows, the air conditioning was shut off at The Firebird for the duration of the performance, and the venue began ... More >>

The St. Louis Symphony Just Had its Best Year in Over a Decade

In 2005, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra was struggling: Labor disputes, falling revenue and diminishing credibility threatened the group, which has existed since 1880. It's safe to say times have changed: the SLSO is now world-class -- it recently returned from a successful European tour and music ... More >>

The Six Best Songs About The Moon For Neil Armstrong

If you find yourself in this corner of the Internet, it is safe to assume you heard about Neil Armstrong's passing. If not, sorry you had to hear it this way. In honor of Earth's first lunar visitor, here are the six best songs about the moon. Let us know your favorites in our comments section (a pl ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: July 13 to 15

This weekend would have been the hundredth birthday of Woody Guthrie, if he'd only lived that long. To celebrate, both Plush and Off Broadway are hosting tributes -- Plush's is on Friday night and Off Broadway's is on Saturday. It was good thinking on the part of these two venues to put their shows ... More >>

Moonface at the Luminary Center for the Arts, 6/24/12: Review and Setlist

Moonface with Sinaii | La Big Vic The Luminary Center for the Arts June 24, 2012 The last time Spencer Krug came to St. Louis, he had one musician in tow and they played some songs from the then-recently-released Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped. And here is your inevitable retread of his ... More >>

Ten Years Later, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is Still Wilco's Masterpiece

Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is rightfully associated with excellence, a piece of work commonly heralded as one of the best albums of the 2000s. It's the type of record with enough depth, lyricism and experimentation to get people interested in serious music, no small feat for any band, and this one ... More >>

Six Best Sophomore Albums By One Hit Wonders

In the business model of the one hit wonder, the commercially unsuccessful follow-up album is essential to the tag. Had the second album not flopped, the artist would be at least a two-hit wonder. Many folks assume that these artists are only worthy of a single dose of limelight, but some have prove ... More >>

Win Tickets to Zeppelin Tribute Celebration Day at the Pageant

Todd OwyoungJimmy in 2010. ​Beloved Led Zeppelin tribute band Celebration Day plays a pair of shows at the Pageant this weekend. Saturday's installment is already sold out, and we've got tickets to Friday's with your name on them. Go to our Facebook page to win.

[Update] El Monstero Adds Sixth Show; Four Five Already Sold Out

Jason Stoff​Update, 12/5: The show on Wednesday, December 21st is now sold out -- the only one of the six shows with any tickets remaining is the newly added Christmas night show. Original post follows. Stand in the way of El Monstero at your own risk. The Pink Floyd extravaganza has grown ... More >>

The Last Waltz Tribute is Back: A Mercifully Flashing-Free Chat with Johnny Vegas

Once a year, the Stag Nite All-Stars form a ramshackle convergence to pay loving, egg-nog-addled tribute to The Last Waltz, arguably the most famous concert in history. Spearheaded musically by Mark Moynihan of Racketbox, the group also includes members of a dozen-odd other south city mainstays. Thi ... More >>

Meet P.R.E.A.C.H, St. Louis' Own Romanian-Born Rapper

Egan O'Keefe​Erik "P.R.E.A.C.H." Bothazy is a 26-year-old local rapper originally from Oradea, a city in western Romania about seven miles from the border of Hungary. P.R.E.A.C.H., along with his parents and sister, immigrated to south St. Louis in 1991. After moving to St. Louis, P.R.E.A.C.H ... More >>

Six Best Blatant Drug References In Song

​Drugs are a crucial part of the classic triumvirate of rock & roll; very few things in our society are of enough import to rival "sex." As a result, drugs have been mentioned and implied in countless songs crossing every imaginable genre. I'm sure there's some Indonesian Gamelan track about o ... More >>

DJ SuperConductor on Riot Grrl and the Contributions of Lady Gaga

Photo by Jon Scorfina​Euclid Records employee Anna Zachritz, better known around town as DJ SuperConductor, has amassed hundreds of records in less than a decade. As a DJ, Zachritz is known for spinning underground hip-hop and electro, but at the heart of her collection is riot grrl - the '90s ... More >>

RFT Showcase Preview: Listen Before You Go

​The 2011 RFT Music Showcase is practically here: This Saturday from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Washington Avenue. In our continued attempt to prepare you for the madness of 78 music acts in one day, we will be compiling preview tracks from artists playing the showcase; you can listen below. This wil ... More >>

New Album Releases: Motörhead's Back With The Wörld Is Yours

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of the Dead's Tao Of the Dead​*And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Tao of the Dead Spin gave Tao of the Dead a 7 out ... More >>

The Riverfront Times' Best 31 Concerts of 2010: #31-21

Jon GitchoffAre the Drive-By Truckers on this list? ​After looking over the (very helpful) comments to my blogpost asking for the year's best concerts, I started perusing our show review archives. I got as far back as July before the archives ended -- which meant that in the past six months al ... More >>

Czech Yourself

Horror-rock king Rob Zombie talks his fall tour with Alice Cooper

Show Review Photos Setlist: Heart at the Family Arena, Saturday, September 4

In preparation for this show, I borrowed a copy of The Essential Heart, perhaps the most comprehensive of the band's greatest-hits collections. Listening to it, I was struck anew at its rapid descent from '70s rockers to '80s power-balladeers. Granted, those '80s records were Heart's best sellers - ... More >>

Show Review: VHS or Beta Pop Their Cherokee Cherries, March 25, 2010

Craig Pfunder and Mark Palgy of electro-rock group VHS or Beta brought their beats last night to 2720 Cherokee, the newly established, stand-alone music and arts venue in the up-and-coming Cherokee Business District. And although unaccompanied by the rest of their band, or the modern guitar licks an ... More >>

Raised On Radio: A new book about KSHE lovingly documents St. Louis music history

Second Spin: Captain & Tennille, Dream

Artist: Captain & Tennille Album: Dream From: Vintage Vinyl Year: 1978 Label: A&M Records What it sounds like: Jimmy Buffett The Beach Boys Barbra Streisand Elton John/Scissor Sisters Diana Ross = Captain & Tennille.

MP3 Weekender: Marnie Stern, Little Joy, Dar Williams, Elf Power/Vic Chesnutt

Oh, hey! Lots going on this weekend. Marnie Stern When/Where: 9 p.m. Friday, November 21, The Billiken Club, with Thor Axe Sounds Like: "The brain-bending, technical nature of Marnie Stern's guitar playing is impressive by anyone's standards. Her math-rock explorations are pointed and deliberate, ... More >>

B-Sides considers campaign songs and talks costumes with Dressy Bessy

Vintage Vinyl Unearths Rare Local Hip-Hop Vinyl from Charlie Chan, Dangerous D, Early D

Bar of the Week: Drinking a Black-and-Red at Foley's Bar in Maplewood

Show Review: The English Beat, The Alarm and the Fixx at the VooDoo Lounge, Harrah's Casino, Thursday, July 17

Kick out the jammies.

A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies for B-Sides, while the Downtown Trio adds jazz and pizzazz to local TV staple the Fan Show.

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Week of January 18, 2007

Dream into Action

B-Sides investigates the story behind the new Take Action tour, Dar Williams opens her mind, and we suggest the coolest tunes to download this week

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

This Is the New Year

A sneak preview of what local bands are up to in 2006

Good, Better, Betty

Mr. Night and Ms. Day battle it out over dessert-icon supremacy

Color Bland

South Korea's first anime feature is beautiful, but not much more

Keep It Real

We pitch a hard-rockin' reality show, talk Jesus with an ex-Card and have a little tiff about Brian Wilson

The Olivia Tremor Control

Music from the Unrealized Film Script "Dusk at Cubist Castle" and Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 (Cloud Recordings)

Sing, My Pretties

Bring the family to Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz and walk away with a song in your heart (and a bunch of kazoos in your hand)

It's Not (Just) TV

Carnivàle: the game

Black Christmas

A St. Louis band is up on the rooftop with Bad Santa

'Head Games

Forget critics' warnings: Listening to Radiohead is easy

Keith Rowe and Toshimaru Nakamura with Darin Gray, Chris Smentkowski, Eric Hall, Ben Hanna and Tobi Parks

Sunday, February 2; Galaxy

The 2002 RFT Music Awards Showcase

The name has changed, but the song remains the same

Left for Dead

Schwagstock 10 offers good vibes, friendly faces and Grateful Dead-inspired jams

The Melvins

Electroretard (Man's Ruin)

Roll Call

Cleaning out the inbox yields interesting results

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