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Seven Depressing Things About Scary Movie V That Have Almost Nothing to Do with the Movie Itself

Kendrick Lamar Brings the House Down at the Chaifetz Arena 4/17/13: Review and Setlist

Compton's new "King of West Coast Hip-Hop" (so dubbed by the likes of Dr. Dre, the Game and Snoop Dogg) made a stop in St. Louis last night to a packed Chaifetz Arena. The prodigious, fan-favorite rapper was welcomed by a rabidly excited crowd, and performed with the confidence of a veteran, rather ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 15 to 21

Record Store Day approacheth! I won't say much this week. I have to reserve as much energy as possible with these vinyl-skimming digits, after all. Outside of all the events and after parties revolving around dear RSD, there's plenty to get out and see all week. Click ahead for our recommendations, ... More >>

Why John Mayer's 'Daughters' is the Worst Song Ever

I have three daughters. I love and adore my three daughters. If it were possible, I would move heaven and Earth for my three daughters. I hate the song "Daughters" by John Mayer. Every year, I take my oldest two children to a father-daughter dance where there are three things I can count on with ab ... More >>

20 Food Holidays Even More Absurdly Specific Than National Peach Ice Cream Day

Did you know that today, July 17, is National Peach Ice Cream Day? Neither did we! Truth be told, this fact pisses us off. Here we are, getting ready to celebrate National Ice Cream Day this very Friday, July 20, and peach ice cream has to be like, "Oh! Look at me! I'm special! I'm seasonal. I deser ... More >>

The Case Against Holograms, Which in Honor of Freddie Mercury Needs to be Made Right Now

A few days after Tupac Shakur came back from New Mexico appeared as a "hologram" during last month's Coachella festival, cynics wondered aloud about the optical illusion becoming a trend. Somebody even put together a humorous "poster" advertising next year's show, which consisted exclusively of eith ... More >>

Tupac Shakur is Still Alive

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Best of Coachella Day Three

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

Just Blaze

10 p.m. Saturday, April 14. Lola, 500 North 14th Street.

Akon Self-Censored His Way to the Top: Five Years Ago Today

News flash: popular music includes profanity. Now that I've gotten your attention with that shocking revelation, here's another: some of the trickiest songs to release as singles incorporate naughty words in to the title. Music might be a form of expression, but it's also a business. And sometimes ... More >>

The Isley Brothers at Chaifetz Arena, 9/17/11: Review and Setlist

​The Isley Brothers | El DeBarge | After 7 Chaiftez Arena September 18, 2011 Things got off to a bit of a rocky start at this weekend's Superstars of Soul concert. Just prior to start time, lines for the box office practically stretched out of the doors, thanks mostly to a number of tickets b ... More >>

Six Best Blatant Drug References In Song

​Drugs are a crucial part of the classic triumvirate of rock & roll; very few things in our society are of enough import to rival "sex." As a result, drugs have been mentioned and implied in countless songs crossing every imaginable genre. I'm sure there's some Indonesian Gamelan track about o ... More >>

Rebecca Black, Kreayshawn and Tyler the Creator: Hype Hounds from Hell

Michele Crowe/MTV​Behold the three biggest page-view generators of 2011: Tyler the Creator, Rebecca Black, and Kreayshawn. This trio has come to represent the holy trinity of overhype -- with each one famous for dubious reasons, or at the very least, more famous for the wrong things than the r ... More >>

New Release Highlights for April 5, 2011: the Raveonettes, the Kills, Cold Cave and More

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) ​*Cold Cave, Cherish The Light Years The Guardian says of Cold Cave's latest: "'Take me to the future. I'm ready,' sings Wesley Eisold. That may be true, but ... More >>

Interview: Wiz Khalifa on Dank, Odd Future and His New Film with Snoop Dogg

​A select few got to "Roll With Wiz" last night at the Flamingo Bowl. The chronic-loving Pittsburgh rapper was in town promoting his new album Rolling Papers, which drops next week. Khalifa gamely posed for pictures with fans, signed posters and treated them to free eats -- it's no wonder he's ... More >>

The Discography: A One-Stop Website for All of Your Music Lawsuit Needs

image via​If you have any interest at all in the music business, be sure to bookmark The Discography, a new website developed by a recent graduate at the Washington University School of Law that catalogs more than 2,400 music-related court cases dating back to 1833. Loren Wells, the site's cr ... More >>

New Release Highlights for August 24: The Sword, Usher and Everyone's Favorite "California Gurl"

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below. Post delayed a day due to server issues!) Apocalyptica 7th Symphony​*Apocalyptica, 7th Symphony Stream Apocalyptica's seventh album, which features guest voca ... More >>

Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa Talks Gaga, Van Smells, Hip-Hop and the Band's New Album

LA's Warpaint play tonight at the Luminary Center for the Arts. From left, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Stella Mogzawa, Emily Kokal(front).​The Los Angeles four-piece Warpaint crafts haunting dreampsych with iridescent harmonies and filmy reverb, but don't label them as an all-girl band ... More >>

Get to Know: Junk Culture, Who's in Town Tonight at Antarctica

Deepak Mantena, soon to be better known as Junk Culture, is the sample-happy, electronic virtuoso signed to Girl Talk's Illegal Art label. Mantena takes his name from a 1984 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album -- and the Portland-by-way-of-Idaho-and-Mississippi artist just picked up a tour with ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: The Killers and Chairlift at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Monday, May 4

The important thing to remember about the Killers is that the band hails from Las Vegas, the city where the concept of time falls prey to glitz, fantasy and excess -- and the place that built a replica of great cities such as Paris and New York, thus manufacturing its own reality to fit it ... More >>

Show Review Setlist: "Weird Al" Yankovic at Family Arena, Friday, August 8

St. Louis thrash-punks Cross Examination's rep is built on beer, bongs, riffs and YouTube

Producer nonpareil Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Deck the Halls with Christmas Albums

B-Sides reviews the year's crop of holiday cheer and talks to Dweezil Zappa about his dad's legacy.

Who's your favorite rapper, Joe?

Week of October 19, 2006

Critical Fatwa

Bum Rap

50 Cent wants to be an actor...but he's not

Fightin' Femmes

We duel with Gretchen Wilson and Kelly Clarkson, get home-cooking tips from the stars and delve into Omarion's psyche

We Aren't the World

A critical fatwa of Live 8

Get Out of My Head!

Earworms bore in and won't let go

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The Hard Way (TVT)

Ultimate Rock Fantasy

Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and Biz Markie

Monday, June 28; the Pageant

Film Openings

Week of May 2004

Wages of Sin

DMX is gonna give it to ya in this stripped-down crime story from Donald Goines

Hutch Ado About Nothing

No obvious joke goes untouched in this so-so TV show remake

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of March 3, 2004

Waiting to Inhale

High On Fire are dope

The Isley Brothers

Body Kiss (T-Neck/Dreamworks)

Hella Hol'

Da Hol' 9 get released from their major-label contract -- and have a new release to show for it

Benzino

Redemption (Elektra)

Attitude Check

Four discs trace the development of the original gangstas

Bobby Love

De Niro -- no surprise -- is the reason to like City by the Sea

Slight Club

Stuck in the Panic Room, Fincher takes us to a most familiar place

Kid Rock

Cocky (Lava/Atlantic)

Film Openings

Week of November 14, 2001

Eminem

The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope)

Goin' Back to Cali

The re-emergence of Del tha Funkee Homosapien heralds a renaissance for Bay-area hip-hop