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Streaming Services Like Spotify and Pandora are Destroying Music

The law of unintended consequences is far-reaching. It's easy to see how it applies to things like medication, the environment, and Prohibition, but it also applies to the advances in the computerization of music over the past decade. The proliferation of the use of streaming services such as Spotif ... More >>

2012: The Year in St. Louis Music

The Class War Between Food Culture and Music Culture

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 I'm a sucker for the Food Network. Chopped is my jam, I have strong opinions about specific Iron Chefs, an ... More >>

The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Promo Photos

Here at RFT Music HQ we see literally one shitload of press photos every week. Many of them stick to a template: Gather all band members together, shoulder to shoulder. Make sure no one smiles, ever. Have the artists try to look thoughtful, but also like they are not trying to look like anything. Th ... More >>

Music Music vs. Words Music

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. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece for RFT Music poking fun of the modern concept of genre that spawns ph ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2012: Big Ass Water Slide, Illicit Koozies and Bands

Bonnaroo is an entirely different world, one where the air always smells of weed and the people you encounter share any kind of resources they have, the way we were taught as children but adults seldom practice. People were kind. Musicians were gracious. Deep-fried oreos were a reality.

Win a Pair of Bonnaroo Passes

Update: And our winner is Alex Fritz, because we love it when our food writer makes sex jokes about bands. Instructions are on their way via Twitter. Thanks, everyone. Yep, that's right. Looking to make some last minute plans for a trip down to Tennessee this weekend? We've got a pair of Bonnaroo w ... More >>

You Have One More Day to Submit Your Band for An Under Cover Weekend Six

The annual hero-halloween for St. Louis bands known as An Under Cover Weekend* is scheduled for September 7 and 8 at the Firebird. Want to show everyone your excellent Spice Girls impression (someone please do this)? Now's your chance. The event is taking submissions for another 31 hours as of this ... More >>

Other Lives, Chris Botti Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Jeremy CharlesDust Bowl wonders Other Lives.​ Oklahoma's Other Lives is a fantastic band, which is probably why Radiohead plucked them out of the Great Plains and gave them supporting dates on its 2012 takeover tour. Lush, pastoral, and you're getting a preview at Cicero's a month before Radio ... More >>

Sharon Van Etten, Radiohead Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Sharon Van Etten.​You probably haven't heard about this, because it's a pretty big secret and no one is really talking about it, but Thom Yorke and His Merry Men are coming to the Scottrade Center in 2012. Today, the Luminary Center for the Arts announced their first show of The Year We're All ... More >>

The Seven Best Dancing Thom Yorke Videos

On Friday, Radiohead released its new album, The King of Limbs. Along with the eight-song set, the band unveiled a video for the song "Lotus Flower." The stark black-and-white clip focuses on singer Thom Yorke and his wiggly, lithe, devil-possessed dance moves. Naturally, the Internet responded to t ... More >>

Liars Coming to the Firebird in July, Furthering the '80s Revival with Beck

Anyone who showed up early at Radiohead's set a few years ago experienced the face-melting Australian nomadic rock band Liars. Although the cavernous Verizon Wireless Amphitheater swallowed the group's post-punk throttling, fans will have a chance to experience annihilation up close on July 22: The ... More >>

Top Sellers At Area Record Stores for 2009

Who says the record store is dead? Not us here in St. Louis, where both Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records sold a lot of tunes. Below, please find the top selling albums from both stores, including a separate top vinyl list from VV. Enjoy! Vintage Vinyl: Top CDs ​1. Murphy Lee - You See Me 2. ... More >>

They Kiss by the Book

Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, September 11-13

Well, this week went by quickly. (Thank you, Labor Day!) If while checking your online banking statement, you realize you might have gone overboard with the spending last weekend, here's your opportunity for redemption: Have fun this weekend on a budget. All the following events cost less than $10 - ... More >>

Antennas Up

9 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Lemmons, 5800 Gravois Avenue.

Setlist Photos Review: Calexico and the Acorn at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, Sunday, November 9

Bar of the Week: rBar

St. Louis Concert News: Wilco Finally Playing, Van Halen Reschedules, Sold Out Shows and New Additions

E-Mix: André Anjos and the Remix Artist Collective leverage initiative, ingenuity and the Internet into an online music force

Nine Inch Nails Just Released a New Record, Ghosts I-IV

The Spirit of St. Louis

Two of the Lou's famous rockers fill us in on their favorites of 2007 — and what the next year holds.

2007: The Year in Movies and Music

A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

Radiohead Covers New Order, Bjork, the Smiths

Daily Web Crawl

Radiohead, In Rainbows: A Review, Upon First Listen, Track-by-Track Style

St. Louis Weekend Round-Up: September 21-23

The Hibernauts CD release show for Periodic Fable: Outtakes from the Feature

Ours

9 p.m. Friday, June 22. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Deftones

8 p.m. Tuesday, June 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Yo La Tengo

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)

Sweet Sorrow

Muse

Black Holes and Revelations (Warner Bros.)

Local Motion

Waterloo/Wormwood Scrubs

Brad Mehldau

Wednesday, April 13, through Saturday, April 16; Jazz at the Bistro (3536 Washington Avenue)

Los Lobos

Saturday, August 7; Gateway Arch Stage on the St. Louis Riverfront

Fevered Pitch

Pitchfork is taking over music criticism by making people laugh -- or pissing them off

Ilya

Thursday, June 24; Rocket Bar

A Touch of Gray

The jam-band community pulls together for one heck of a funeral

Air

Talkie Walkie (Astralwerks)

Books on Tapes

Lo-tech gift giving is easy with these rock books

Gingersol with Nadine

Saturday, August 9; Off Broadway

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative

The Roots with Skillz

Friday, February 14; Pageant

DeVotchKa with Bureau of Sabotage

Thursday, Jan. 24; Way Out Club (special preview performance at Vintage Vinyl on same afternoon)

Embarrassment of Riches

At the top of our growing pile of local CDs is one from Doze Mary Pool, a new band with extravagant, soaring guitar pop, dreamy/dramatic vocal melodies and swooshy arrangements

The Doves with the Webb Brothers

Thursday, June 21; Galaxy

Radio Who?

Hailed as a successor to Radiohead, Grandaddy makes great music while looking to the good old days

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