Rob Zombie

Ten Bands You Never Would Have Thought Used to Be Good

It's a common cliché by now: Some snobby, balding guy with glasses in every bar across America rants and raves about how he only likes "the old stuff" by every band. "I liked the first record," is his creed. This character floats around, bumming everyone out and sucking all the fun out of a karaoke ... More >>

The Ten Best Music Videos Featuring Zombies

I'm rereading the first 40 or so issues of The Walking Dead comics, since The Walking Dead TV show returns to AMC this Sunday, October 14. I'm super-psyched about the third season -- my friends are developing a drinking game around how many times Carl gets lost, and I'm more than ready to see Rick G ... More >>

The 53 Hardest-Rocking Ladies at the Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson Concert

It's supernatural season, and last night, St. Louis got into the holiday spirit with the Twins of Evil Tour. Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson brought their doom, gloom, colored contacts and rock & roll to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. We'll have more coverage later. Meanwhile, however, photographe ... More >>

A Few Things to Know Before Venturing to This Weekend's Pointfest

Ah, Pointfest. It's the time every summer when rock enthusiasts from all around the St. Louis area can gather at beautiful Verizon Wireless Amphitheater to watch a seemingly endless stream of bands. With groups spanning all areas of the mainstream rock spectrum, it's not too much of a stretch to say ... More >>

Megadeth Rocker Elaborates About His Love for Mini-Horse

When metal demigod Dave Mustaine isn't raising eyebrows with his kind words about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, he's usually melting faces as the frontman for Megadeth. With so many years of rocking under his proverbial belt, Mustaine is entitled to some of the finer things in life. But a ... More >>

Ten Ridiculous Amazing Themed Restaurants We Wish Existed

Image viaWould you like a danish from a Supreme Court Justice?​Sometimes at Gut Check International Headquarters, we get tired of eating gourmet meals day in and day out. We admit it: We like a little kitsch once and a while. Today, this story from the HuffPost Food about outrageous themed res ... More >>

Review: Ozzy Osbourne at the Scottrade Center, Friday, January 14

Todd OwyoungOzzy Osbourne last night at the Scottrade Center​"The crazier you fuckers go, the longer we will play," Ozzy Osbourne crowed to the audience at the start of last night's Scottrade Center show. While a statement like that is always tinged with hyperbole, there was an element of trut ... More >>

Local sign-language interpreters equalize and enhance the concert experience

Show Review Photos Setlist: Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie Conjure an Early Halloween at the Family Arena, Thursday, October 7

Todd OwyoungAlice Cooper at the Family Arena.​As might be expected, the Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie "Gruesome Twosome" double bill at the Family Arena was a somewhat surreal experience. Between the fans aping Cooper's look, those dressed to the goth nines and the setting - a faceless concrete aren ... More >>

The Twelve Best Halloween-Themed Cupcakes

With Halloween right around the corner, we've had horror movies on the brain. And then we started coming across some awesome Halloween-themed cupcakes. What could be better, we thought, than a double-barreled approach: the best Halloween cupcakes paired with the best movies to watch while eating the ... More >>

Horror-rock king Rob Zombie talks his fall tour with Alice Cooper

Show Announcements: Week of August 9

Canadian near-supergroup Wolf Parade play The Pageant on November 20. ​ Billiken Club *Anais Mitchell, September 9 *Callers, October 25 *Field Music, October 2 *Light Pollution, October 4 *Sarah Jaffe, September 2 *Times New Viking, October 14 Cicero's *Dirt Daubers, September 9 Family Are ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: Tool Rocks Deeply at The Family Arena, Saturday, June 26

BY MATTHEW JACKSON Expect a lot from the next sentence. Among its other virtues, Tool's sold-out concert at The Family Arena last night answered one of life's Big Questions: Can an art-metal band that thrives on obscurity still get 11,000 people to stand and shout without pause in one place for two ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of February 1

Euclid Records is switching computer systems this week, so we only have Vintage Vinyl's top sellers. Behold! An asterisk denotes the band is coming to town. Look at all of those St. Louis acts in the top 25, too! Who says people don't sell records anymore? 1. GOV'T MULE---By A Thread 2. LIL' WAYNE- ... More >>

Jamey Johnson

7 p.m. Sunday, December 13. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Show Review Photos: Rob Zombie at the Pageant, Sunday, November 15

It didn't take long to realize that Rob Zombie was cranky last night. By the third time or so he admonished the media ecology of cameras and cell phones snapping pictures and recording videos, he appeared almost stupefied. "This is not Miley Cyrus," he growled. "You're supposed to be animals!" Had h ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Old School Tattoo Expo, Brendan Benson at the Duck Room, Peter Bjorn and John at the Gargoyle, London Calling at the Halo Bar and Rob Zombie at the Pageant

Ugh. Monday has reared its ugly head once more. And sadly, it looks to be a soaking wet week. (Again.) Hopefully our weekend coverage will brighten your day a bit. Here's the recap.Old School Tattoo ExpoPhoto: Jason StoffThis tattoo needs more... Cowbell! See more photos from the Old School Tattoo E ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, November 13 to Sunday, November 15

Friday, November 13 *Brendan Benson/Cory Chisel, Blueberry Hill's Duck Room *Boys Like Girls/Cobra Starship/Versa Emerge, etc., the Pageant -- SOLD OUT *So Many Dynamos/The Lake/Cold Bear Scout, Off Broadway *Person L/John Nolan (Straylight Run)/Brian Bonz, Firebird *Peter Bjorn and John/El Perro d ... More >>

Rob Zombie

8 p.m. Sunday, November 15. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Cuts Like a Knife: Lita Ford hasn't lost her edge — metal or otherwise — since stepping away from the spotlight

Local Harvest: For the first time ever, Farm Aid comes to St. Louis.

Review Setlists: Phosphorescent, Will Dailey, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses, Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson at Farm Aid, Sunday, October 4

The 24th annual Farm Aid started with the old-school gospel quartet harmonies of the Blackwood Brothers and enough warm sunshine to persuade all the family farms in Missouri -- the Show Me State has the second highest number of farms in the Union -- that their summer work is far from over. What Will ... More >>

13 Worst Haunted Houses in the USA

Photo: Steve Truesdell​It's the beginning of October, and that means it's the season to stand in line outside a building blasting pulsating, industrial music and then paying to have for some creep come up behind you and scream bloody murder. But enough about downtown St. Louis! It's haunted house ... More >>

Misfits Reunion Allegedly Scuttled by New Leader Jerry Only

Show Review: Uh Huh Her at the Duck Room, Friday, May 2

Singular Sensation

St. Louis New Concerts, Week of October 16

Zombie Road

Unreal plays superhero matchmaker, takes a trip down Zombie Road with some ghost busters, checks in with a parachuting local blogger and talks back to "Town Talk."

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Rodriguez and Tarantino's two-headed film is a B-movie blast.

Grindhouse

Diamonds in the Rough

Blood Diamond

Eating for Two

Dixie Witch

10 p.m. Friday, June 2. The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

Rogues' Gallery

Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

Your Government at Work

What You Need to Live

Zombie trivia all the way

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

The Devil & Mr. Zombie

The rocker's second directorial stab yields a true gorefest

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, 05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Shark Bait

Open Water delivers more flaws than jaws

A Year That Trembled

From the grindhouse to the art-house, movies in 2003 made us shake with sadness and fear

Film Openings

Week of April 9, 2003

Direct to Video

When the concert season cools down, try warming up with the latest rock and metal DVDs

Gravity Killed

Are you hotty-hot-hot enough for the big time? The notorious Black Panel reconvenes for another local-release roundup.

Sounds Around Town

Week of March 27, 2002

Party Poopers

Where do the candidates stand on the real issue?

Night & Day

June 30 - July 1, 1999

Sun Dance

Sound advice on the summer's hottest concerts

Sound Checks