Stevie Wonder

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Wants to Bond with You, Personally

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has had quite a year. Still riding high on 2011's release of Hysterical, the band has toured almost nonstop in 2012, had a few bandmates call it quits, recorded a video in an Australian drainpipe and visited South Africa. And even after all of that, CYHSY still wants to play ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend

8:30 p.m. Friday, September 7, and Saturday, September 8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands: San Francisco Gets Life Lessons From the School of Wonder

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He's more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he's our Dickens or Dalí: a figure of impassable recognition, discussion, talent, lo ... 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 >>

The 33 1/3 Series is Accepting Submissions

​Earlier this month, Spin announced that it is moving most of its album reviews to Twitter. Music writing is getting shorter, not longer, and yet the 33 1/3 Series, which has the gall to publish entire books on albums that aren't even current, soldiers on. There are 85 installments in print n ... More >>

Ten 1982 Songs For Newt Gingrich's Theme Music, Now That "Eye of the Tiger" Is Out

It's a time-honored tradition: A candidate for political office starts walking out for stump speeches to the strains of a hit by a band that doesn't agree with his views. Cease-and-desist letters follow. This week's episode stars one Newt Leroy Gingrich, who has been using "Eye of the Tiger" dating ... More >>

Can musicians find new audiences through tribute nights?

Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: September 30 to October 2

Mount Eerie. Photo by Wheat Wurtzburger​It's the end of the week and it's hard to imagine better weather. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to enjoy it this weekend, including (count 'em) three outdoor festivals that involve standout locals: Midtown Alley Fest, Grove Fest and Euclid Recor ... More >>

It's A Small World, As Re-imagined By An Under Cover Weekend Bands

Photos by Bryan Sutter and Jason Stoff​Now in its fifth year, An Under Cover Weekend has ten local bands play a set of covers by an idol or influence of their choosing. Spread over two nights and almost certain to sell out, this years incarnation spans maybe the widest range in the event's his ... More >>

It's Final: The Complete Lineup of An Under Cover Weekend 2011

​It's official. This morning's announcement that Union Tree Review will be covering Marvin Gaye at the fifth annual An Under Cover Weekend, completes this year's line-up of the two-day show series on Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10. The series finds some St. Louis groups paying ... More >>

The Seven Deadliest Music Festivals

wikimedia commons​It has been a particularly grim summer already in music festival fatalities, with one death over the weekend at Electric Daisy and two more at Bonnaroo a couple weeks ago. But this is hardly a new phenomenon: The combination of crushing crowds, heat and mind-altering substanc ... More >>

Pianist Envy

The ten best local albums of 2010, as chosen by the RFT

The Riverfront Times' Ten Best Local Albums of 2010

​In an age where bands can succeed or fail on the basis of one MP3, it's refreshing that full-length albums are alive and well in St. Louis. Each year, the Riverfront Times receives dozens of CD, MP3 and, occasionally, vinyl submissions for our local-review column, Homespun, and we do our best ... More >>

King Khan: Finally Making it to St. Louis This Fall?

Image viaThat's Paris Hilton with King Khan. No, we don't know why either.​According to a Facebook event page, King Khan -- who never showed up for his show with BBQ Show last November at Off Broadway because their tour manager was arrested -- will be playing at 2720 Cherokee on Sunday, Octobe ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Orlandez Lewis, Jr. on His Dream Job at Vintage Vinyl, Learning About Music from his Dad and Thriller

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' record a ... More >>

Homespun: Natural Selection

White Picket Fence
Bocumast

Homespun: Dropkick the Robot

Join the Club
(self-released)

Soul Brothers and Sisters! A Tribute to James Brown

8 p.m. Friday, April 30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of December 14 - December 20

Euclid Records 1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures 2. Tom Waits - Glitter And Doom Live 3. Neil Young - Dreaming Man Live '92 4. Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart 5. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP 6. Norah Jones - The Fall 7. Vince ... More >>

Show Review Setlist Photos: Phish at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Tuesday, June 16

Better than: Streaming last night's show via the Internet, as a friend was doing. Photo: Stew Smith Phish on June 16, 2009 at the Fox. View concert slideshow. It took about three hours for Phish's show last night at the Fabulous Fox Theatre to reach transcendence. This occurred at the precis ... More >>

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Smokey Robinson, "Being with You"

The Singer: Along with Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson was a triple threat for Motown Records: a great singer, hit songwriter and an architect of the label's sound. Most people can name a half-dozen songs Smokey sang with the Miracles in the '60s, but his solo career pointed his smoot ... More >>

Video: The Natural Selection, "Down Elevator," Playing at Cicero's Tonight!

Tonight at Cicero's, I highly recommend going to check out the Natural Selection, a Denver-via-St. Louis band I wrote about in this week's paper. The band's playing with Say Panther and one other act, and the show starts at 9 p.m. Says I: Bassist Nick Jost, a graduate of SIUE's Jazz Studies program ... More >>

The Natural Selection

9 p.m. Thursday, December 11. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Stevie Wonder, "As"

The Singer: The list of truly certifiable pop-music geniuses is a short one, but even the briefest tally would have to include Stevie Wonder. Forget the fact that he's blind and that he played nearly every instrument on his best-loved albums. Forget that no one paired such stone-cold funk with vocal ... More >>

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: The Spinners, "I'll Be Around"

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Atlantic Starr, "Secret Lovers"

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Raydio, "You Can't Change That"

2008 Grammy Awards: The Liveblog

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

Robert Randolph and the Family Band

8 p.m. Thursday, December 20. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Blah-liday

Bite Me

Head to Upstream's Return of the Bedbug and scratch that itch.

Party Pooper

The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud.

Cafe Soul at Lucas School House: A Review of the Open-Mic

Imus, Revisited

Our Negro Leaguer weighs in again on the radio jock's fall from grace.

Homespun: Berry

Empathy EP (Right Place Records)

Hand It to Him

The Science of Sleep

Jonny Lang

8 p.m. Thursday, November 16. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).

Busta Rhymes

The Big Bang (Aftermath)

Copeland

Friday, June 10; Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

Sleeping Under the Arch

More than just a film festival

Fourplay

Monday, September 13; the Pageant

Geoff Kessell

Saturday, December 13; Borders Books and Music on Brentwood

Maroon 5

Wednesday, November 12; the Gargoyle at Washington University

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.

Time Is Tight

Dangerous Kitchen comprises some of St. Louis' best musicians -- and they make the most of their time away from their day jobs

Musiq

Juslisen (Def Soul)

Cleaning Up

Our intrepid reporter's New Year's resolution yields some unexpected bonuses

A Post-Poster World

It's the power of the music, not cartoonish surface appearances, that makes for a music hero, say the local young folk we polled