Robert Plant

The Six Most Uncool Members Of Cool Bands

Last week in this very column, we counted down the six coolest members of uncool bands. This week, we flip the script. Here are the six most uncool members of cool bands, and they're all probably really nice people. See Also: -The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

Win Tickets to Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Pageant

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are coming to the Pageant on Thursday, January 10. They'll be joined by Langhorne Slim, and the show is way sold out. BUT: It's not too late to have the lovely Ms. Potter make eyes at you while also rocking your face off (it's true; I've seen it!). We have a pair of t ... More >>

Achilles' Third-to-Last Stand

Dread Zeppelin

9 p.m. Friday, September 21. Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Lez Zeppelin

8 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

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 >>

Win Tickets to Zeppelin Tribute Celebration Day at the Pageant

Todd OwyoungJimmy in 2010. ​Beloved Led Zeppelin tribute band Celebration Day plays a pair of shows at the Pageant this weekend. Saturday's installment is already sold out, and we've got tickets to Friday's with your name on them. Go to our Facebook page to win.

Darrell Scott is Coming to Old Rock House

Darrell Scott is more well known for his associations. He's written songs for country superstars ranging from Faith Hill to the Dixie Chicks to Brad Paisley and has performed alongside Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and is a member of Robert Plant's Band of Joy. He brings his own headlining tour to t ... More >>

Pitchfork 2011: tUnE-yArDs, Guided By Voices And Other Day One Highlights

Guided By Voices​The weather was perfect and apparently -- horrifically -- it is mom-jean-short-season. It was a day for eccentric acts, the line-up carefully curated to force superfans into buying Friday tickets. The will call line stretched around the block and then some. 4:32 pm:tUnE-yArDs ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: June 17-19

Wikimedia Commons​The time has come again, and we hope you're as pumped as we are for this weekend's psychitzophrenic spread. It's all about the well-rounded experience: You can ponder art over an exhibition of electronica artists at the SLAP Conference, check out a Robert Plant sound-a-like o ... More >>

Robert Plant and Band of Joy at the Fox Theatre, 6/15/11: Review and Setlist

Robert Plant and Patty Griffin​Robert Plant and Band of Joy with Luther Dickinson The Fabulous Fox Theatre June 15, 2011 The lobby of the Fabulous Fox doesn't look so fabulous as of late. A maze of poles and beams supporting scaffolding and platforms for the post-fire restoration gives the gra ... More >>

Robert Plant

8 p.m. Wednesday, June 15. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.

Nashville's Amelia White: Considerably More Neil Young than Taylor Swift

courtesy of the artist​Amelia White, who will be playing at Off Broadway with Sam Knutson on Sunday, is an enveloping singer and a prolific songwriter (she runs her own small song publishing company and has co-written for artists like Tony Furtado, Anne McCue, Molly Thomas, Stephanie Schneider ... More >>

Alison Krauss Coming to the Fabulous Fox

Wikimedia Commons​Alison Krauss, the bluegrass singer whose steller career has hit mainstream peaks with appearances on the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack and a recent collaborative album with Robert Plant, will be playing in St. Louis later this year. Her Paper Airplane Tour comes to th ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of April 7

Mumford and Sons blew up faster than a barn housing a meth lab, and now the Anglo-folksters are commanding $35 at the door. Don't make the same mistake you made with Florence and the Machine, this show will sell out before you can say hoe-down. At the Pageant June 5.​ Blueberry Hill *Dread Ze ... More >>

Robert Plant & the Band of Joy Coming to the Fabulous Fox

On June 15, Robert Plant & the Band of Joy is coming to the Fabulous Fox Theatre. Tickets are $35, $50 and $65 and are on sale Friday, April 8, at 10 a.m. The touring band for this trek, according to his publicist, is the same one on last year's Band of Joy: vocalist Patty Griffin, multi-instrumenta ... More >>

The Pretty Reckless, and its lead singer St. Louis native Taylor Momsen, defy actress-fronting-band stereotypes

Bonnaroo 2011 Lineup: Buffalo Springfield, Eminem, Arcade Fire and Lil Wayne(?!)

​We here in St. Louis are lucky to get spillover from a few of the summer festivals. The first of these, Bonnaroo, just announced its 2011 lineup -- and there are some tantalizing wishlist potentials in the list. The biggies are Eminem, Arcade Fire, Widespread Panic, The Black Keys, Buffalo Sp ... More >>

Grace Potter On Meeting Robert Plant, Bending Genre Rules and Going to Strip Clubs

In this week's paper, Katie Moulton spoke with Grace Potter, the leader of the currently sizzling Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. Moulton spelled out some of the band's accomplishments in recent times - including opening for the Avett Brothers and smoking on VH1's Divas Salute the Troops special - an ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of November 22-28, 2010

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. KANYE WEST---My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. THE NATIONAL---High Violet (Expanded Edition) 3. NICKI MINAJ---Pink Friday 4. RIHANNA---Loud 5. LATIMORE---All About The Rhythm & The Blues 6. NELLY---5.0 7. LIL WAYNE---I Am Not A Human Being 8. ... More >>

Tonight! The Red River vs. Times New Viking vs. Monahans

Times New Viking​Yes, there's another day in the week after this one. But you should still go out tonight and see one of these bands. Your boss won't mind, right? And who does work on Friday, anyway? *The Red River @ Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. Why this band isn't huge yet is beyond me. Th ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of September 20

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. DEAD CONFEDERATE---Sugar 2. MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO & SO'S---Buzzard* 3. KEM---Intimacy 4. WALKMEN---Lisbon* 5. SANTANA---Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of September 13-19

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. ROBERT PLANT---Band Of Joy 2. WEEZER---Hurley 3. ALOHA MI'SHO---Badd 4. GRINDERMAN---Grinderman 2 5. LINKIN PARK---Thousand Suns 6. LUDO---Prepare The Preparations* 7. JJ GREY & MOFRO---Georgia Warhorse* 8. ARCADE FIRE---Suburbs 9. WALKMEN---Li ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Heart at the Family Arena, Saturday, September 4

In preparation for this show, I borrowed a copy of The Essential Heart, perhaps the most comprehensive of the band's greatest-hits collections. Listening to it, I was struck anew at its rapid descent from '70s rockers to '80s power-balladeers. Granted, those '80s records were Heart's best sellers - ... More >>

KSHE Klassics -- A YouTube Compendium (Part 2)

​And now what you've all been waiting for: The second and final installment in RFT's carefully curated hastily thrown together assemblage of YouTubery that reflects the KSHE Klassics of our (or someone's, anyway) youth. In case you missed Part 1, in this week's issue, Annie Zaleski heralds the ar ... More >>

Electric Touch

8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Whole Lotta Film

The Parlor Mob

9 p.m. Friday, February 20. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Open Comment Thread: The 2009 Grammy Awards

Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Curre ... More >>

Austin City Limits Day Two Review: Mugison, Fleet Foxes, Erykah Badu, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, the Fratellis, John Fogerty

Video Clip: Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Wednesday, September 24 -- "Nothin'"

Show Review Setlist: Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett at the Fabulous Fox Theater, Wednesday, September 24

Show Review Setlist: Neko Case at the Pageant, Wednesday, September 24, 2008

O, Brother!: Producer and guitarist T-Bone Burnett joins Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at the duo's Fabulous Fox performance

Logos

Beautiful Disguise EP
(self-released)

Preview: Logos EP Release Party, Saturday, July 12 at the Old Rock House

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Show Rescheduled for DVD

2008 Music Awards Nominees: Best Rock Band

St. Louis Gigantic Concert Calendar, April 7 through August

2008 Bonnaroo Lineup Announced: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Jack Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, more

Mapping Out the Birthplace of the Blues -- But Where's St. Louis?

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Raising Sand
(Rounder)

Us Against the World

Victoria mines an unlikely chemistry.

The Academy Is...

6 p.m. Friday, May 18. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights).

Bleeding Heart Baby

B-Sides cuts right to the Heartless Bastards, intellectualizes Hayseed Dixie and dissects the anatomy of the common punk rocker

The Music

Thursday, March 3; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Hip to be Square

Tracks offers comfort to Ensure-swilling music fans

Jeff Buckley

Live at Sin-é (Columbia)

Primal Scream

Evil Heat (Epic)

TALE OF THE TAPE

Mike Davis mixes up a mesmerizing blend on his cassette Yars' Revenge