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The Six Best Sloppy Drummers

Of all rock and roll instruments, drums require the most physical ability and coordination. Sometimes musicians get so preoccupied with the technical aspect, they forgot that drums are also these loud things that sound cool when you hit them. Here are the six best sloppy drummers. Let us know your f ... More >>

Play the Celebrity Artwork Matching Game, in Honor of Ringo Starr's (Microsoft) Paint Tour

Update: Chris Ward wins round one, but there are still tickets on the table. To win Flux Pavilion or Beach House tickets, write a scholarly sounding sentence about one or more of the paintings. We'll give 'em to whoever makes us laugh the hardest. Ringo Starr is taking his All Starr (...) band on t ... 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 >>

Ray Wylie Hubbard on the Grifter Blues, Songwriting and Ringo Starr

In the interest of full disclosure, I've known Ray Wylie Hubbard for going on 15 years, have crashed at his home in the hills of Wimberley, Texas and once rode on his tour bus (OK, it was borrowed) to one of Wille Nelson's picnics. I consider him a friend, in the same way, I suppose, I would conside ... More >>

Official First-Ballot Inductees to the Simpsons' Music Hall of Fame: I Bent My Wookie

The sheer longevity of The Simpsons would be impressive if it wasn't so frightening. Consider: A person born on the day of the first non-Tracey Ullman Show episode is now 22 years old. And if characters from the show actually aged, Bart Simpson would be three years away from being able to assume the ... More >>

The Beach Boys' Maroon 5 Grammy Collaboration and Four Other Fan Indignities

Beach Boys fans are resilient, and they'll get over it. I want to begin there, because it's important to remember that the news that recently broke about the Beach Boys' reunion performance at the Grammys is no more than the fifth most embarrassing thing Beach Boys fans have had to deal with in the ... More >>

From The Beatles To Arctic Monkeys: How The Five Waves Of British Invasion Stack Up

This and that Union Jack dress that Ginger Spice wore are just part of a list of uncomfortable moments in British invasion history.​Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner looked dapper and distinctively British on the cover of SPIN's recent Success Issue. The slight singer sports a skinny suit th ... More >>

Tony Bennett, American Idol, And New World Order Idol 2061

Tony Bennett appears in the first of 50 consecutive American Idol finales. ​I saw Tony Bennett was trending on Twitter the other day, and I'm not sure if this makes me a bad person or just an unobservant one but my first thought was: Oh, god, Tony Bennett's dead. It turns out that the 84-year- ... More >>

Contest! Win a Concert for George Deluxe Prize Pack!

​On March 22, Concert for George -- the 2002 tribute concert in honor of the late Beatle George Harrison -- was released on Blu-ray for the first time. The night featured artists such as Eric Calpton, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney and Tom Petty playing Harrison's songs and honoring his life and l ... More >>

Cowboy Mouth

8 p.m. Friday, December 31. The VooDoo Café & Lounge at Harrah's Casino, 777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights.

Interview, Part Two: Max Weinberg on His Time with Conan O'Brien, Taking Advice from Ringo Starr and Being a Business Man

(This is part two of our interview with E Street drummer Max Weinberg. Part one can be found here. Max Weinberg and his Big Band are at the Argosy Casino in Alton tonight.)Image via​Matt Wardlaw: As you alluded to, you're really playing some intimate venues on this tour, which is really cool. ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Black Crowes Drummer Steve Gorman on Ringo Starr, Working with Warren Zevon and Avoiding Grunge's Pitfalls

Josh Cheuse​The Black Crowes is playing at the Pageant tomorrow night as part of its "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys" tour. (Remember, don't bring a camera.) Drummer Steve Gorman chatted with the RFT this week; read on below for outtakes, including a touching recollection of working with Warren ... More >>

Bettye Lavette

9 p.m. Friday, August 6. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of January 18

Euclid Records 1. Spoon - Transference 2. Eels - End Times 3. Vampire Weekend - Contra 4. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast 5. Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom Live 6. Josh Ritter - Hello Starling 7. John Mayer - Battle Studies* 8. Nirvana - Live At Reading 9. Ring ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of January 11 to 17

Although Vampire Weekend dominated both stores this week, I would just like to note that Dr. Dre's The Chronic was a top seller at Vintage Vinyl last week. Proof that it's always Dre Day. Euclid Records 1. Vampire Weekend - Contra 2. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind 3. Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom L ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scene ... More >>

Show Review Setlist: The Eagles at the Scottrade Center, September 20, 2008.

A Hard Day's Epoch

Of dinosaurs and drummers

2008 Grammy Awards: The Liveblog

The Misfits/Humanoids/Holy Python

8 p.m. Tuesday, December 4. Roberts Orpheum Theater, 416 North Ninth Street.

An Under Cover Weekend, Night Two Review: Yes, Becky, Queen of Carpet Was There

An Under Cover Weekend: Night Two, Tonight!

Duck and Cover

Some of the city's best-known bands go incognito at Off Broadway.

Glenn Kotche

Mobile (Nonesuch Records)

Paperback Master of Puppets

We talk mashups with Beatallica, skewer Ember Swift and find out what Robert Earl Keen is really saying

Various Artists

Concert for George (Warner Strategic)

Film Openings

Week of October 1, 2003

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

2003 Music Awards

The readers spoke, and the RFT music staff listened. Find out who's large and in charge on the St. Louis music scene.

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

Getting Slammied

Tidbits from an exhaustive (and exhausting) tour of the Slammies Showcase

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

Fair to Poor

Critiquing that haven of musical has-beens, Fair St. Louis

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Four new releases don't tell all of the Captain Beefheart story