Popular Mechanics Magazine

KHVT Hosting Kickoff Party to Raise Funds for New Skate Park

Kingshighway Vigilante Transitions, or KHVT for short, aims to improve the community one skatepark at a time. But to make their plans completely concrete, they're going to need some more cents for cement. Their next step? A Kickstarter.com campaign. For the uninitiated, the crew of skate enthusiast ... 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 >>

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 >>

Arrested Development's 20th Anniversary Tour, Tilly and the Wall, White Rabbits 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 >>

Matisyahu, Psychedelic Furs, Teenage Bottlerocket 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 >>

Helmet & The Toadies, Steel Panther, Gaslight Anthem 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 >>

Birdman & Mystikal, The Walkmen, Naked Raygun 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 >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: March 30 to April 1

Another excellent spring weekend in St. Louis: It's tough to top legendary DJ and producer Pete Rock, performing tonight at Lola, but he'll get a run for his money from Ben Kweller (Off Broadway) and Peter Frampton (Peabody Opera House). Saturday brings William Fitzsimmons to the Firebird and Pillow ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From March 26 to April 1

Still tired from last week? Too bad, March is unrelenting. Time to down some coffee, eat some energy bars and pack in the protein (might we recommend some pink slime?) because this week is jam-packed with shows as well. On Friday, two guys named Pete who happen to be legends in their respective fiel ... More >>

English Beat, Willie Nelson, Orgone and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Once again, here is every newly announced show this week! Two-tone ska band the English Beat will be playing Blueberry Hill on April 21; time to dig up your wingtip shoes and checkered suspenders and try to remember how to skank. Also on April 21st is the one year anniversary show for local South-si ... More >>

Childish Gambino, Eve 6 and an R.E.M. Tribute and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Submitted for your consideration: Every newly-announced show this week! KDHX's Tribute to R.E.M. on April 27 is sure to be packed -- which is especially good, considering it is a benefit show for the independent radio station. Don Glover, star of NBC's Community brings his rapping alter-ego Childish ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: November 18 to 20

​Welcome to the weekend, St. Louis music fans! And what a weekend: At least five locals are releasing albums in the next three days (that's the cover of Dubb Nubb's Sunrise Sleepy Eyed pictured here). On the national side, we're especially excited about Lydia Loveless and Kings Go Forth. Loom ... More >>

St. Louis Does Guided by Voices: A Salty Salute

​On Thanksgiving evening, after all of the turkey, pie and Pepto-Bismol, a group of local musicians will gather at Off Broadway to pay tribute to one of the most influential rock bands of the past two decades: Guided by Voices. The show will feature Bunnygrunt, Karate Bikini, Popular Mechanics ... More >>

Six Indie Rock Songs That Sound Like Christian Rock Songs

Image via.​A plethora of compelling music has come from indie rock's complicated relationship with Christianity: Sufjan Stevens' folk hymns, David Bazan's tormented crises, the Thermals' blasphemous pop punk. These are the polar opposite of today's contemporary Christian rock, with its overt p ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: September 9 to 11

The Features play tomorrow night at Old Rock House​The short week has ended and there's plenty of live music to get your ears ringing through the start of fall. Javier Mendoza is releasing a CD tonight at Old Rock House, Bon Iver brings the woodsy yacht rock (we guess?) to the Pageant on Sunda ... More >>

Kingshighway Skatepark Gets Nod in Popular Mechanics

courtesy of KHVT (Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny)Build a skate park, change the world!​OK, so they didn't find a cure for cancer or resolve the ongoing crisis in Libya. But the founders of the Kingshighway Skatepark still get a shot-out in the August issue of Popular Mechanics -- they're one of ten ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: December 17 to 19

Is your Christmas shopping done yet? Mine's not. (Ack.) While I figure this out, check out this week's music picks -- and see below for more to do this weekend, while the weather's let up enough to let us leave the house. ​ Friday: Christmas with Pokey @ The Sheldon Ballroom Pokey LaFarge and ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas CD Release Shows

There's something for everyone in these new holiday albums, even for Wilson Phillips fans

Ten Essential 2010 Holiday Albums

​For many musicians, the lure of the Christmas songbook is hard to resist. Despite the challenge of reworking well-worn (and, in some cases, worn out) songs, each year a few dozen acts try to make something fresh out of these seasonal favorites. This year's crop is heavy on female-fronted pop, ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas Returns in 2010 With a CD, Holiday Shows

​Although it's still 70 degrees in St. Louis, it's already time to start thinking about the holidays. After a year off, the Matt Harnish-created A Very Bert Dax Christmas compilation is returning for 2010. A co-production with Pancake Productions, Volume 8 in the series is going to feature MIS ... More >>

Tonight! Adam Reichmann and the Ghosts of Electricity, Blood Pony Popular Mechanics

Lots to do tonight. First, Adam Reichmann and the Ghosts of Electricity will be playing at Off Broadway. This is Reichmann's long-gestating band, featuring Jason Hutton, Mike Apirion and Steven Bunck. Show starts at 8 p.m. with an acoustic set and then morphs into a full-on band set after. Tickets a ... More >>

Homespun: Popular Mechanics, Time And a Half

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Popular Mechanics' album, Time and a Half. He has this to say: In the annals of American indie rock, the name Hüsker Dü recalls the smart, streamlined rock & roll made by the Minnesota band throughout the '80s. The St. Louis trio Popular Mechanics ... More >>

Homespun: Popular Mechanics

Time and a Half
(Pancake Productions)

Five Hours at the 2010 RFT Music Showcase: Beer, Shaving Cream and Yes, Tunes

Jon GitchoffCross Examination at the 2010 RFT Music Showcase. More photos here​On Saturday night, we headed to Washington Avenue to see what we could see at the annual Music Showcase. New intern Steve Hardy talked to some of the bands, the bartenders and any random attendees, all in the name o ... More >>

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

Your 2010 RFT Music Showcase Schedule is Right Here

​On June 5, the RFT Music Showcase is happening on Washington Avenue. All day, all night. Have you voted yet for your favorite bands? If not, I suggest you do that right here! Perhaps the schedule for the music showcase will spur on your clicking fingers. Read on below for the bands, venues an ... More >>

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 >>

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of December 29

Firebird *Scathe/Heist/Broke, Friday, January 8 *Thunderkid, Saturday, January 23 *All the Day Holiday/Empires, Sunday, January 24 *Tilts/City of Ships, Friday, January 29 *Pretty Little Empire/The Union Electric/Popular Mechanics, Monday, February 15 *Pretty and Nice/Title Tracks/Jumbling Towers, S ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, December 18 to Sunday, December 20

Friday, December 18 *Holiday Brasstravaganza with The Funky Butt Brass Band, Off Broadway *Cheap Heat/The Stone Electric/Lengrand, The Firebird *El Monstero, The Pageant, The Pageant *Jimmy Kennedy and the Wrecking Ball, The Gramophone *Erin Bode, Mad Art *The Mystery Trip, Blueberry Hill's Duck Roo ... More >>

Tomorrow! Blood Pony EP Release at Lemmons Free MP3

​ Newish band Blood Pony releases its debut EP, Kissing Cities, with a show tomorrow night at Lemmons. HUMDRUM and Popular Mechanics open. Like melancholic, orchestral indie-rock but hate the pretentiousness that goes hand-in-hand with the genre? Listen to Blood Pony. Like Bright Eyes, but wis ... More >>

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Week of August 31, 2006

What If . . .

A cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard of the 9/11 "truth movement." Just don't call them conspiracy theorists.

I, Robot Exhibit

Build a better robot, and the world will beat a path to the City Museum to see it

Space Case

Witnesses testify in the mystery of the Metro East UFO

Force Behind the Throne

A St. Louis barber-chair maker weathered the Depression, succumbed to Japanese competitors and adapted to changing fashion