R.E.M.

Ten Songs For Hating On Stupid Idiot Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, one of the most polarizing of all holidays. Do you enjoy taking this day as a reminder to appreciate your loved ones and get romantic? Or are you annoyed by a manufactured holiday that brings out candy-coated bullshit and makes the lonely feel lonelier? Either way, we a ... More >>

Ten Songs To Get Busy To On Valentine's Day

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, one of the most polarizing of all holidays. Do you enjoy taking this day as a reminder to appreciate your loved ones and get romantic? Or are you annoyed by a manufactured holiday that brings out candy-coated bullshit and makes the lonely feel lonelier? Either way, we a ... More >>

The Six Best Songs With Ridiculously Long Titles

Last week, Kieran Hebden from Four Tet announced a new single entitled "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix and Daphni Played on Boiler Room." It's an okay track with an awful title, but you have to give Hebden props for taking the plunge. Here a ... More >>

A Tribute to R.E.M. and 88.1 KDHX Benefit: Review, Setlist and Photo

Back to Rockville: A Tribute to R.E.M. And 88.1 KDHX Benefit Off Broadway April 27, 2012 When R.E.M. announced its breakup last September, the music world was shocked but not really surprised. After all, the three remaining original members had been together for 31 years by that point, most of them ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: April 27 to 29

In case you hadn't seen, we have a brand-spankin'-new Concert Calendar setup -- it is useful and easy to navigate, as opposed to the previous format, which was....well, not. Now, rather than just taking our word for it on these posts you can effortlessly conduct your own investigations and then tell ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From April 23 to 29

Did everyone survive Record Store Day weekend? Between the deluge of live music and the generous amounts of free beer -- not to mention the throngs of people -- we can understand how one might be tempted to take it easy this week. Please remember, though, that taking it easy is for square nerd loser ... More >>

The Six Best R.E.M. Non-Singles

​When I was in seventh grade, before I knew anything about indie rock or Athens, Georgia, or Reagan-era politics, R.E.M. was my favorite band. I'm certainly not alone; the band was a landmark in many lives for both the music it created and the doors it opened up for young listeners. And like m ... More >>

R.E.M Says Goodbye: The Great Beyond

Courtesy of R.E.M. ​One of the most important bands in rock music has broken up. After 31 years together, R.E.M. has announced its retirement on its website with a humble, thankful note. The declaration shocked fans, who immediately bombarded social networks and entertainment news stories with ... More >>

Ten Anagrams to Help Mangia Mobile Follow the Letters of the Law

​As you might have heard, a federal judge has issued a temporary injunction barring Mangia Mobile from using that name. Several readers have suggested new names for the food truck, some of them quite good.However, here at Gut Check International Headquarters and Branding Emporium, we believe there ... More >>

St. Louis Bands: An Under Cover Weekend is Now Taking Submissions

Image via​An Under Cover Weekend, where local bands play sets as famous bands of their choosing, will have its five year anniversary this September. This thing is consistently awesome, and for the first time, any St. Louis bands can apply via this handy-dandy online form, which opened this mor ... More >>

Annie Zaleski on music writing, DJing and, of course, REM

Jon Scorfina​Two weeks ago, former Riverfront Times music editor Annie Zaleski announced she was leaving her position to work for Alternative Press in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. We caught up with the writer at her Richmond Heights apartment as she was preparing for her move back to Cleve ... More >>

New Album Releases: Lupe Fiasco, R.E.M., Kurt Vile, Bruce Cockburn and more

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Bruce Cockburn's Small Source of Comfort​*Bruce Cockburn, Small Source Of Comfort American Noise reviewed Cockburn's latest, saying: "Personally, Bruce Cockb ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend Night Three: Theodore The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra, Fractured Army, Makeshift Gentlemen, The Dive Poets, Via Dove

This year's Under Cover Weekend ended with a strong turnout at the Firebird last night. The crowd awaiting the opening super-group featuring Theodore and The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra already surpassed the somewhat-skimpy attendance for last Saturday's event. It's a good thing so ma ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend concludes with a rock & roll bang

Michael Stipe in Waffle Country: Here's The Real Scoop, According to Sylvain Sylvain and Others

They didn't airbrush his face here.​This week, R.E.M. reissued its 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction as a two-CD set, which includes a disc of demos. The band also announced that it had finished recording its new studio album, which is set for release sometime next year. Perhaps in tribu ... More >>

Flashback: The Evening Whirl in Spin Magazine

One of my coolest recent finds on Google books is a searchable archive of Spin magazine's entire collection -- from the magazine's very first issue (Madonna was the cover star, May 1985) through last fall's Pearl Jam interview. I happened to click randomly on the May 1986 issue (R.E.M. on the cover, ... More >>

The Boorays

9 p.m. Saturday, November 21. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Tonight's MP3 Bonanza! Holiday Shores, King Khan & BBQ Show, Failures' Union/Cheap Girls

King Khan & BBQ Show Where: Off Broadway Playing With: Those Darlins, Jesse Irwin Sounds Like: What Keegan Hamilton said here and here. RIYL: Chuck Berry, Black Flag, psych-rock/garage-soul MP3: King Khan & BBQ Show, "Third Ave."

Happy 9-9-09 Day!

Last year, the calendar gods smiled upon us with the uber-nerdy date of August 8, 2008 (see Happy 808 Day! in honor of the drum machine). In 2009, however, we have the awe-inspiring date of 9-9-09 -- which, among other things, inspired Threadless to put its entire line of T-shirts on sale for $9! OM ... More >>

Album Review: R.E.M.'s Murmur at 25

[R.E.M. released a deluxe, 25th anniversary edition of its debut album, Murmur, today. The two-disc set contains the original album remastered from original tapes and a live concert bootleg from Larry's Hideaway in Toronto from that era. Co-producer Don Dixon will be on my KDHX radio show on Mo ... More >>

Parts & Labor

9 p.m. Saturday, October 25. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

St. Louis Video: Young Fresh Fellows, "Young Fresh Fellows Theme" and "Hang on Sloopy," November 23, 1985

The Treeweasels/Half Knots

9 p.m. Saturday, July 19. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

Modest Mouse at the Pageant, Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Modest Mouse

7 p.m. Tuesday, July 1. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Show Review: R.E.M. at the United Center, Chicago, June 6, 2008

The Modern Skirts

Feeling Gravity's Pull: R.E.M. hurtles toward the future on Accelerate

R.E.M. Hit NBC's Today Show -- Whose Expert Band Quiz isn't Exactly, Er, Correct

R.E.M. at Stubb's, SXSW, Wednesday, March 12: Review

R.E.M. Accelerate: An Advance Review and Song-by-Song Analysis of the Band's New Album

Spring Break in St. Louis 2008, WHOOOOO!!!

Holiday MP3 Post #2: Jangle all the Way

We Versus the Shark

9 p.m. Thursday, October 11. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Stereogum presents Drive XV: A tribute to R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People

Interpol

Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

Death Ships

9 p.m. Thursday, April 26. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

Stipe Hunting

R.E.M.

And I Feel Fine The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (EMI)

Turning Tricks

I Am a Sex Addict

Now It's Overhead / Tilly and the Wall

7:30 p.m. Monday, July 17. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

The Living Blue

Tuesday, December 13; The Way Out Club (2525 South Jefferson Avenue)

The Hand that Feeds

B-Sides boogies with a member of ABBA, gets dramatic with Colin Meloy and talks to the funniest NIN fan around

World Leader Pretend

Saturday, October 1; Taste of St. Louis (at the Gateway Mall, along Market Street between Ninth and Eleventh streets)

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Worlds Apart (Interscope)

Now It's Overhead with R.E.M.

Tuesday, October 19; the Fox Theatre

Jucifer

Saturday, February 22; Rocket Bar

Idlewild

100 Broken Windows (Capitol)

INSTRUMENTAL ASYLUM

A-pickin' and a-grinnin' over a new musical discovery

R.E.M./Wilco

Riverport Amphitheatre; Thursday, Aug. 19