Pop-Punk and Emo

New Breakmouth Annie Record On The Horizon From Throwing Things Records

The clock is counting down to midnight on a Friday night at Lemmon's. After some knob-fiddling and shot/water retrieval from the bar, the band begins its set, as some more friends and fans run back in after finishing their cigarettes outside. The next 25 or so minutes become a blur of head-nodding, ... More >>

Win Tickets to See A Day to Remember at the Pageant

Florida pop-core act A Day to Remember will play the Pageant next Wednesday, and we've got two tickets to give away!

Nostalgia Is The Enemy Of Critique

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. In order to review music, one must judge the song/album/artist subjectively, only associating it wi ... More >>

Smoking Popes

8 p.m. Monday, October 8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Punk Rock Cover Show

8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From April 30 to May 6

This week is another of those extra-packed ones, so this list is a bit longer than usual -- hooray for St. Louis music! If anything remains of your vehicles after Saturday's ridiculous hailstorm (mine only lost a window or two, no biggie) make sure hit the town or else you'll be missing some excelle ... More >>

Six Most Overwrought Valentine's Day Emo Songs

Valentine's Day has come again, meaning you are either celebrating your love life or hating on those who are. The holiday's backlash is the perfect vehicle for emo, the genre that strives on tragedy and melodrama. Here are the six most overwrought emo songs about Valentine's Day. If you have additio ... More >>

The Lawrence Arms

8 p.m. Thursday, January 12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Taking Back Sunday At Pop's, 10/9/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Taking Back Sunday Pop's Nightclub October 8, 2011 Adam Lazzara has always smiled more than any of his peers. But this is different. He's ambling the stage at Pop's, shouting his lyrics like it's a circus trick he's suppressed into some sort of automatic, subconscious routine. He never took himse ... More >>

Patrick Stump Has Just Been Added To The Panic! At The Disco Show

Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​Patrick Stump, the Fall Out Boy singer turned R&B hitman, has just been added to Panic! At The Disco's November 10th show at Pop's. This is actually a great fit -- as we found at his recent solo show at Fubar, Stump is still attracting the pop punk crowd and not th ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: August 19-21

Todd OwyoungThe last time they were here, Blink 182 gave us sex, immature jokes and rock 'n' roll. We're hoping for more of the last one this time. ​This weekend is one for nostalgia. There's the PG-13 excess of the Nickelodeon '90s that comes with a concert fronted by Blink 182 (and shared wi ... More >>

Patrick Stump at Fubar, 8/4/11: Review, Photos and Setlist

Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​Patrick Stump Fubar August 4, 2011 Credit Patrick Stump for his artistic integrity. Which is to say: He is currently creating the exact music he wants to, the stuff that comes from somewhere in the marrow of his bones. That much is clear. But the Fall Out Boy voca ... More >>

Meet The New Patrick Stump: Not As Different From The Old One As You Might Think

Courtesy of the artist.​Patrick Stump is at a strange place, career-wise. As the guitarist and lead singer in Fall Out Boy, he helped instill a limber tunefulness many of the bands' pop punk peers lacked. That was one of many reasons FOB built a huge following -- but even those tracking Stump ... More >>

The Get Up Kids Return

Jimmy Eat World at the Pageant: The Beth Bombara Cover

Beth Bombara at last year's RFT Awards. Photo by Jon Gitchoff​Who is excited for Jimmy Eat World on Saturday? It's been six and a half years since the pop-punk band made an appearance in St. Louis, and we'll venture that a fair number of the fine readers of A to Z have made out with someone w ... More >>

Review: All Time Low and Yellowcard, The Pageant, Monday, April 4

​When All Time Low headlined the sold-out Pageant last night, the reigning princes of bubblegum punk seemed bent on taking their young audience to an all-time high. The full bill, which also featured Yellowcard and up-and-comers Hey Monday and the Summer Set, kept up the energy with polished, ... More >>

Story of the Year vocalist Dan Marsala reveals the secret history of the band's breakthrough LP, Page Avenue

Lemuria

9 p.m. Thursday, December 30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Pierce the Veil

6 p.m. Tuesday, December 21. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Review: My Chemical Romance at the Pageant, Tuesday, December 14

Todd OwyoungGerard Way of My Chemical Romance​Near the end of My Chemical Romance's very-sold-out show at the Pageant, the band took a break and left vocalist Gerard Way and touring keyboardist James Dewees alone on the stage. Way, sporting simple black pants, boots and a T-shirt, clasped the ... More >>

Hawthorne Heights

7:30 p.m. Monday, November 29. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

A Day to Remember

6 p.m. Wednesday, November 17. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Joan of Arc

9 p.m. Wednesday, November 3. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Terrible Things

8 p.m. Thursday, October 28. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

forgetters

8:30 p.m. Friday, October 8. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

O'Brother/Felix Culpa

7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Loser's Luck

7:15 p.m. Friday, June 18. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Homespun: Resoldered, Everybody in Between

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Resoldered's new album, Everybody in Between. He had this to say: The crunchy, snotty, breakneck pop-punk made famous by bands such as the Descendents and the Dead Milkmen is reborn in the metro East quartet Resoldered. For everyone who grudgingly a ... More >>

With its fourth album, The Constant, Story of the Year stays the course

Lemuria

2 p.m. Saturday, January 9. The Sci-Fi Lounge, 6010 Kingsbury Avenue.

Native/La Dispute

8 p.m. Thursday, December 31. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

Hawthorne Heights

6 p.m. Saturday, December 19. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

The Seedy Seeds

10 p.m. Saturday, November 14. Antarctica, 5226 Gravois Avenue.

Boys Like Girls/Cobra Starship

6:30 p.m. Friday, November 13. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Setlist Review Photos: Paramore and Paper Route at the Pageant, Tuesday, November 3

Annie ZaleskiHayley Williams of Paramore. Entire set here.​ By the second song of opening act Paper Route's set, it was clear that last night's Paramore show at the Pageant was going to be extremely loud and very in your face. The Nashville act (which is friends with the headliners) enveloped ... More >>

Paramore

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 3. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Brand New/Manchester Orchestra

7 p.m. Tuesday, October 6. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Tomorrow! Vans Warped Tour Anniversary Movie Screens in St. Louis

As part of its fifteenth anniversary celebration, the Vans Warped Tour is holding a one-night only, simultaneous screening of a movie featuring two hours of performances culled from its September 6 anniversary show in LA. Says this website: Featuring larger-than-life performances on the big screen ... More >>

Dear and the Headlights

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Battle of Wits: Who's better: Blink-182 or Weezer?

Rumor: Blink-182 May Not Perform in St. Louis on Thursday

Last night, pop-punks Blink-182 cancelled their show in Saratoga, New York, citing the death of DJ AM, a close friend of drummer Travis Barker. (Barker and AM survived a horrific plane crash last year.) Weezer, Taking Back Sunday and Chester French still played, however. A statement on Blink's websi ... More >>

Blink 182 Show Moved from September 3 to September 29

Turns out that the rumors of Blink 182 moving its St. Louis show originally scheduled for September 3 were true: LiveNation just sent out a press release announcing that the concert is now set for Tuesday, September 29. A statement included with it says: After much thought and consideration, Blink-1 ... More >>

Show Review Photos: Fall Out Boy, Chester French and Brendon Urie at the Pageant, Wednesday, August 19

Photo: Nick SchnelleView more photos from the show last night.​ REVIEW BY MATTHEW JACKSON (View photos from the show last night.) Fall Out Boy's concert Wednesday night at the Pageant afforded many opportunities, but primary among them was the chance to answer, in one continuous sitting, that ... More >>

John Nolan

8 p.m. Thursday, August 20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Fall Out Boy

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Paramore at the Pageant, Wednesday, October 7

Paramore is playing its first club show in St. Louis in several years, on Wednesday, October 7, at the Pageant. Tickets are $29.50, and are on sale August 21. Here's a review of Paramore's July gig, when it opened for No Doubt.

Happy Birthday, Punk: The Vans Warped Tour turns fifteen years young

Set Your Goals

7 p.m. Monday, July 13. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Maylene & the Sons of Disaster

7 p.m. Saturday, July 11. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Dr. Manhattan/Foxy Shazam

7:30 p.m. Monday, February 16. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.