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Getting Bored and Angry at Lamb of God: Review and Photos

Lamb of God | Hatebreed | In Flames | Sylosis The Pageant November 7, 2012 Before I start trashing one of the most popular metal bands on the planet, let me offer my credentials: In 1989, I saw Sepultura at the Bridgeton Soccer club at just nine years old. I got in trouble for spray painting the S ... More >>

Randy Blythe is Free! Win Tickets to See Lamb of God at the Pageant

Update: You've got two more days to enter this thing. There are two ways to win -- the first is by coming up with a new Randy Blythe slogan for us. And today I'm adding a second. Tell us your favorite Halloween song and a pair of tickets could be yours. It can be campy, kiddie, creepy or fit some ot ... More >>

Pussy Riot and Four Other Bands That Lost the Battle with Authority But Won the War

If there's one thing the Pussy Riot trial has taught us, it's that protest music can still be a dangerous, subversive tool. By performing an anti-Putin "punk prayer" during a guerrilla action at a Russian Orthodox church, Pussy Riot intended to provoke and offend. Many saw their action as blasphemou ... More >>

The Lamb of God and Dethklok Tour Has Been Canceled

Dethklok and Lamb of God, with support from Gojira, were supposed to make a stop at the Family Arena on August 15. It's a bill we've been excited about since it was first announced and was probably the marquee metal show of the summer. Unfortunately, the entire tour has just been cancelled because L ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 6, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The Heart and the Fist, we think, would be a great ti ... More >>

Doom Town brings stories home from Europe

Vaclav Havel's Four Biggest Musical Influences

​This weekend, two world leaders passed. One, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, is remembered as an eccentric but dangerous dictator, a man who suppressed dissent and kept his people in a perpetual state of war and famine. The other, Vaclav Havel, played a key role in freeing Czechoslovakia from Comm ... More >>

Winners and Losers On Day One Of the Draft

​The first round of the 2011 NFL Draft is in the books, and there's plenty to talk about before round two starts up again tonight. Cam Newton was picked first overall and fellated unceasingly by pretty much everyone with a microphone for the rest of the night. The lockout scared a bunch of teams i ... More >>

Czech Yourself

Oishi Green Tea: The Favored Beverage of World Leaders

Seen at a bus stop in Prague: Image source​ The Pope is saying, "Nothing but Oishi for me!" Obama responds, "Nothing but Oishi for me as well!" The main headline translates as "New beginnings." Does this mean Oishi Green Tea is ushering a new era of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and ... More >>

SXSW Day One: Billy Bragg, Broken Bells, Miranda Lee Richards, Jason Collett, Fanfarlo more!

Big Star's shadow is looming large at this year's SXSW.​The text that Alex Chilton had died came through just before midnight on the first full day of South By Southwest 2010 in Austin. I was on my way to the sleeze-and-cheese-and-bathroom-cologne club Prague to see the anti-Alex, Billy Bragg, ... More >>

Tonight! Hot Cha Cha and the Natural Selection at Cicero's MP3 Fun

Bryon MillerHot Cha Cha, in the flesh​Cicero's hosts a riotous bill of epic proportions tonight. First up are long-distance-locals the Natural Selection. If you missed our feature a few weeks ago -- or missed the band's show then -- here's your chance to catch the act's funk-da-fied dance party ag ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Sunn O))), Playing Tonight at the Firebird

One of the summer's more anticipated shows happens tonight at the Firebird: Drone-metal legends Sunn O))). Paul Friswold interviewed the band Greg Anderson's this week. Here are some outtakes from the interview. ideologic.org Paul Friswold: Who first thought of doing the album with the acoustic e ... More >>

Behind the Metal: Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil

SXSW Report: Saturday with PJ Harvey and Beyonce's Little Sister, Friday with New York Dolls and Camera Obscura

Where to begin? I should start with the ornamental comb, like three white gleaming stakes from some Gnostic purification ritual, holding a jet-black stack of hair atop the fiery head of Polly Jean Harvey. She's never wanted for making an impression. Wrapped in white, backed by a hard avant-garde blu ... More >>

SXSW Day 2: No Leonard Cohen, the Hold Steady Stay Positive, Blind Pilot Soars

Imagine, if you will, the worst possible way to spend a day at SXSW, one that doesn't involve an emergency colonoscopy or a Marnie Stern showcase, and then imagine something even more tedious and despairing, a day of utter humiliation and loathing. And then it really starts to go downhill.I should h ... More >>

The Sneak: Who Kolaches the Watchmen?

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Dara Strickland is a leading expert on sneaking food and drink into the movies. She reports on her exploits for Gut Check (from an undisclosed location) every Monday.Show: Watchmen, in all its nearly 3 hours of incomprehensible, geeky glory. No one should ever b ... More >>

Primary Colorful: Ian blisses out on beignets and other well-executed simple fare at Cafe Ventana

Flirty Versus Filthy

Does it matter who's doing the cat-calling? Should it?

God Complex

Elvira Arellano is no Rosa Parks. She's more like Jesus.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out local theater

Will You Take a Czech?

B-Sides talks to Silos frontman Walter Salas-Humara about his strangest gig ever.

And bluesy British songwriter James Hunter clarifies why his eyes aren't as blue as one might think.

RFT Alum Richard Byrne Does Good

Royale Flush

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy and comes up aces.

By Any Other Name

Roseanne's still sweet

Super Cities: London (1994)

The Great Gray Grinch gets its own infomercial

Genre Mash-Up

We look for a home for Hem, weigh Soulard against folk music and visit the Old School

Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

Finding a Way

As Nazi artillery fire draws nearer, two opposites share an unlikely love

Film Openings

Week of October 27, 2004

Best Coach

Joel Quenneville

Best Newsstand

World News Ltd.

Forever Young

Greendale stays true to Neil

Liberty for None

Mandy Moore's likable enough; wish we could say the same about her movie

Expat Alert!

The exodus of the creative class continues apace

DayGlo Schmoes

What would happen if lunatics decided to refilm Xanadu?

Film Openings

Week of January 2, 2002

This Czechvar's for You

Sporting a disguise, the original Bud readies for battle in the realm of the King of Beers

The Big Payback

With this presidential debate, the highlights didn't come from Bush or Gore

Best Liquor Store

Corral Liquors

Games Show

A new exhibit presented by the Missouri Historical Society recalls one Olympics that was anything but fun and games

Plight of the Gypsies

Home is where they have to take you in. But for the Roma refugees who've come to St. Louis, there's no such place.

LAUGHING WILD

By Christopher Durang (Echo Theatre Company)

Festival of Light

Fourth annual Jewish Film Festival