Rage Against The Machine

Outernational Toured Mexican Border Towns Before Its EP Release in Edwardsville

Outernational is a band to which music writers love making comparisons about politically outspoken musicians of yesteryear. Just about all of them stick. Yes, the New York-based rock group agrees with Woody Guthrie about whose land this is, shares the musical eclecticism of Joe Strummer (the Clash) ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

DJ: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a month away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Over the next month, we'll be making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year. Each weekday between now and the showcase ... More >>

Music Games Decline to Rage Against the Censorship Machine

Censorship is one of music's longer running conflicts, a struggle where the desire for marketability often trumps creative freedom. That's been the case for every music video game in existence, titles that constantly walk the aforementioned tightrope. One of the more challenging songs to appear in ... More >>

The Six Worst Songs On Great Albums

Even on a quote-unquote perfect album, one song has to be inferior to the others, just as one song has to rule the roost. Such is the yin and yang of nature. Here are the six worst songs on the best albums. 6. Wilco - "Heavy Metal Drummer" from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Heavy Metal Drummer by Wilco on ... More >>

Norah Jones, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Do it Right: SXSW 2012 Day 3

Thursday, March 15, 2012 1 p.m. SXSW is time machine, not always dialed towards the future. Though the clubs change names every season, the gimmicks get more and more outrageous -- witness the skyscraper-sized vending machine stocked with minivan-sized bags of chemically-enhanced corn chips whose n ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From March 5 to 11

This week brings us not one but TWO members of the Wu-Tang Clan (unfortunately on separate nights), Japanese punk-weirdos Peelander-Z, and the first visit ever from Seattle's raw Ramones-y punk band the Spits in its entire ten years of existence. Continuing with the punk rock / hip-hop aesthetic is ... More >>

Chris Cornell will Always Love You, Regardless of Your Sexual Orientation

Longtime Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell is winning a heap of (deserved) praise for scolding a homophobic traveler. According to the New York Post, Cornell was waiting in the Alaska Airlines lounge at Seattle's airport when he stepped in during a verbal fracas: Witnesses said Cornell jumped into ... More >>

You Decide the Name of Steve Prane and Adam Retherford's New Band

At RFT Music, we know that deciding on a band name is not easy. We're here to help. For our new series Name This Band, we've invited local musicans to answer some questions about their startup groups. Using this information, we will suggest three names. You can vote on your favorite in the comments ... More >>

Ten Musicians Who Support Occupy Wall Street

Adbusters​"Occupy Wall Street" started out as a 1,000-person mid-September protest in a New York City park against, among other things, financial disparity and corporate influence. Since that time that protest has grown into a nationwide movement, spurring on the creation of "Occupy" spinoffs ... More >>

The Ten Most Effective American Protest Songs

This one doesn't make the cut, unfortunately.​It's Fourth of July weekend, and in the haze of the heat, barbecue, domestic beer, and red-white-and-blue buntings, it's easy to get caught up in ranting-chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" The founding fathers and a lot of musicians might not agree with ... More >>

DJ Deception Wins Red Bull Thre3style Saint Louis -- On to Las Vegas

Courtesy Red Bull​Last Tuesday, DJ Deception bested seven other local musicians at the Red Bull Thre3style Saint Louis competition at the Old Rock House, with a set that spanned hip hop, rock and electro music. Deception, who's a resident DJ at the Social House, Home Nightclub and Fusion Nig ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why do Mexicans come to this country illegally instead of legally?

Review Photos Setlist: Monotonix Storms the Gargoyle, Friday, December 3

Jason StoffMonotonix at the Gargoyle​A question posed by someone in the audience at Monotonix last night: "Where are all the grungy St. Louis hipsters?" The girl went on to state her disappointment in the seeming lack of Southside punks in the crowd, but the answer to her query seemed self-evi ... More >>

Ten Memorable Shows at The Pageant, In Honor Of Its Tenth Birthday

This Saturday, the Pageant celebrates its tenth birthday with a concert by Chuck Berry. $35 general admission tickets are still available; balcony seats are sold out. The show starts at 8 p.m. with a set from Shooting With Annie. In the venue's lengthy history (a PDF listing its shows is a whoppi ... More >>

Cop Out: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay re-team, with decreasing returns

Taking It To the Streets: Audioslave/Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello returns to rap-rock with Coup frontman Boots Riley in Sweet Sweeper Social Club

Chris Cornell

7 p.m. Tuesday, April 21. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Show Review Setlist Photos: Nine Inch Nails, A Place to Bury Strangers at the Scottrade Center, St. Louis, Wednesday, August 20

Show Review Setlist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, St. Louis, Thursday, August 7

Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Supergrass at Scottrade Center, Sunday, July 20

Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Leaked: Radiohead, NIN, Wilco, Kanye West, Explosions in the Sky, Love and Rockets, The National, Lupe Fiasco, more!

Shred Cred

You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

The Ween Abides

Ten reasons Ween's better than your favorite band.

We Are Groundlings, All

This Just In: Tuesday, April 3

South by Southwest by Annie

Check out our exhaustive recap of Austin's indie-rock fest.

SXSW: St. Louis Wrap-up, Part Two

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs.

Coachella, Ho!

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Critical Fatwa

We Aren't the World

A critical fatwa of Live 8

Overheard on Delmar

Your reviews of the Riverfront Times Music Showcase

Eighteen Visions

Friday, February 18; Creepy Crawl

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004s best roots music while its still hot.

Political Ammo

Want to battle Bush yourself? Check this out!

Sounds Around Town

Week of January 7, 2004

Steady Diet of Atkins

Chet Atkins, that is

Black Is the New White

Angry comedian Lewis Black is worried about St. Louis' mold count

Bump and Grind

Strip-club disc jockeys spin to the beats of different drummers

New Bands From Old

Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"

Iris DeMent

Thursday, Nov. 8; Sheldon

Tricky with Tool

Friday, Oct. 19; Savvis Center

One Size Fits All

Roni Size is dedicated to moving forward, boundaries be damned

Certified Organic

The Roots roll into town with their earth-toned "Okay Player" show

Jurassic 5

Quality Control (Interscope)

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Critical Mass

RFT music critics offer a cut-and-paste compendium of the year in music. Everyone's wrong. Everyone's right.

Just Say No to Naomi

The city's finest join a boycott of supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal