Seth Porter

Pop: Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2013 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is this weekend! Think of it as St. Louis music's own official holiday and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music have been working hard to make our cases for all 130 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year in 26 categor ... More >>

Tony Perolio Benefit Concert to Drum up Support for Leukemia Research

St. Louis musicians are a pretty generous bunch; it seems like they're always lending their tunes to local productions, sharing how-to tips and staging benefit shows. And so it goes this weekend when three of St. Louis' widely-praised bands come together to honor the memory of one of their own durin ... More >>

There's a New Song from the New-Look Blind Eyes! Listen Here

A good pop song makes you want to listen to it all the time. The same goes with a good pop band, but the Blind Eyes, perhaps St. Louis' best, know that a brief musical rest only makes the audience crave the hook more. So after a short break -- spent recording their first EP as a foursome and, ya kno ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From April 2 to 8

Well Spring has sprung, or whatever, though the 90 degree temperatures belie the notion. Flowers, cool breezes, light jacket weather? Nay: air-conditioner-in-April, sweating in the shade, when-the-hell-do-the-pools-open weather -- you'd think we skipped to summer already. This week's list of shows h ... More >>

Yankee Racers Release First Full-Length with a Little Help from a Lot of Friends

Curt Brewer is a familiar face in the local music community: he plays guitar with the raw, bluesy quintet Kentucky Knife Fight, lays down 1920s-inspired jazz licks in Two Swingin' Picks, and sits in as a gun-for-hire for wedding bands, fill-in gigs and the like. This Thursday night, however, he'll b ... More >>

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Seven

​Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sl ... More >>

The new sound of local music

[Update] The Blind Eyes: Unwitting Soundtrack to Yokohama's LA Auto Show Promotions

​Update, 3:23 p.m. As at least one of you noted, the videos have now been made private. And in the interest of clarification: The band was in fact offered credit and a link in the description of the original videos, and while its members feelings probably didn't reach the point of litigiousne ... More >>

The Blind Eyes' new album, With a Bang, track by track

Listen to Two New Blind Eyes Tracks Off With A Bang

​With a Bang, the Blind Eyes excellent follow-up to 2009's Modernity comes out this Saturday at Off Broadway. In this week's print edition, we went through the sophomore release track-by-track; there's more than meets the ear on first listen. And now, we've got some sounds go to along with tho ... More >>

Ted Leo at Off Broadway, 5/8/11: Review and Setlist

Ted Leo. Photo by Roy Kasten​Ted Leo/Title Tracks/The Blind Eyes Off Broadway Sunday, May 8, 2011 Few axioms in live music are as rigid as the Law of the Solo Headliner: Never put two loud and catchy power-pop bands on before him. Break it at everyone's peril. Unless, of course the solo artist ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend, Night One: Blind Eyes and Troubadour Dali

As the Blind Eyes is an-all male trio, there was some question as to who was going to play the all-important role of Stevie Nicks in its Fleetwood Mac cover set. The solution to this quandary was as simple as it was brilliant: Get every noteworthy female vocalist from St. Louis' indie-rock scene to ... More >>

In the Studio: The Blind Eyes

Lock up your daughters: It's the Blind Eyes.​ (All words below by drummer Matt Picker) The Blind Eyes Where: Firebrand Recording What: Thirteen new songs for our sophomore album. Not sure if all thirteen will make the cut, but they're all sounding really good so far. So, probably. With whom: B ... More >>

Hometown Proud: The top ten local releases of 2009

Tour Diary: The Blind Eyes

The Blind Eyes are Seth Porter, Kevin Schneider and Matt Picker. They are playing on October 17 at Off Broadway with the Safes, Gentleman Auction House, and Beth Bombara. But last weekend, they trekked to the upper Midwest for a few shows. Porter was kind enough to share what happened. Read below! ... More >>

The Modern World: How the Blind Eyes evolved from metalhead kids and orchestral geeks to the city's tightest rock trio

Show Review: Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, The Blind Eyes, The Hibernauts and The Makeshift Gentlemen at Off Broadway, Friday, January 9

I headed down to Off Broadway on Friday night to join folks primed and ready for a true potpourri of local music: One-man spazz show Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, retro-pop power trio Blind Eyes, the bartender-meets-Brit-prep of the Hibernauts and the shiny, neon synth-punk theatrics of the Makeshi ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend: The '70s at the Bluebird, Saturday, September 6

An Under Cover Weekend at the Bluebird tackles the '60s and '70s, while electronic up-and-comer Deadmau5 worms his way into town

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The complete low-down on this year's nominated acts