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Win Tickets to See Foals Tonight at the Pageant

[Update: Congrats to Jeremy Lehmann! Pick up your tickets at the box office. Make sure to bring a photo ID; enjoy the show!] Oxford, England's Foals brings its brand of danceable indie rock to the Pageant tonight, and we've got two tickets for you to win!

Pazz & Jop Results Are In! See this Year's Winners, Read Advice from St. Louis Artists

The Village Voice's annual critic's-list-to-end-all-critic's-lists, the venerable Pazz & Jop issue, is now in circulation. Each year the Voice polls hundreds of music critics in an effort to provide the most comprehensive list possible of the former year's most critically-acclaimed music. In additio ... More >>

Beach House at the Pageant, 7/11/12: Review, Setlist and Photos

Beach House July 11, 2012 The Pageant Let's start with some Bonnie Tyler: "Once upon a time there was light in my life; now there's only love in the dark." And like a perfect stranger in the night, through smoke and warm silhouettes, Beach House crept into the hearts of St. Louis concertgoers last ... More >>

[Update with Winner] The Head and the Heart: Win Tickets to Sunday's Show at the Pageant

Update: We've picked a winner, via Facebook. Jon Gitchoff, selected by blind polling of our tree-expert panel, who offers this fact, "They're just the right height in Michigan." Thanks to everyone who entered. The Head and the Heart will play the Pageant. Tickets are $17.50 in advance or $20 on Sun ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Fifteen Best Shows From March 19 to 25

Last week we alluded to the fact that this March is a great time to be a music fan in St. Louis....this week we're driving the point home and then some. Unless you are capable of bi-location (or in some cases: tri / quadro), you are going to miss some good shows this week. We have Andrew Bird at the ... More >>

Supersuckers

8 p.m. Friday, February 10. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

The Shins Schedule St. Louis Show and Release (More) New Music

The Shins, dormant for the last few years, will return in 2012 with Port of Morrow and a U.S. tour that includes a stop at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard, 314-726-616) on June 4. Tickets are $32 for general admission or $37 for reserved balcony spots and go on sale Friday at 5 p.m. The Shins, ... More >>

Shearwater

9 p.m. Tuesday, February 7. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Pitchfork 2011: Odd Future, HEALTH and Other Highlights from Day Three

Tyler, the Creator.​Pitchfork: The Final Frontier. The final, sold-out day of Pitchfork had two acts I was dying to see -- unfortunately, both of those were practically at the same time -- Odd Future at 3:20 and Shabazz Palaces at 3:45. I had to see the tall tale that is Odd Future for myself, ... More >>

Foals

8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Fleet Foxes Coming to the Pageant

Sean Pecknold​Bearded folkers Fleet Foxes have just been confirmed for a July 19th appearance at the Pageant. This will be the outfit's first headlining show in St. Louis. Last time Robin Pecknold, Skyler Skjelset and friends were in our fair city was in the fall of 2008, when they opened fo ... More >>

Interview: Male Bonding's Kevin Hendrick

Steve Gullick​Best Coast and Male Bonding are opening the Gargoyle's semester tonight. The show starts at 9 p.m. We've already interviewed Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino. But Male Bonding deserves some attention as well: The UK trio released its (excellent) Sub Pop debut, Nothing Hurts, earlie ... More >>

Happy Birthday

8 p.m. Monday, August 2. Off Broadway,

Five SXSW Best Bets: Sleigh Bells, Best Coast Three More Acts to Watch

SXSW is the Kentucky Derby of American music festivals. It's a quick race to the finish for up-and-coming bands to test their might and merit against their fellow musicians and friends -- all while enjoying as much free beer as possible. Here's a look at five of the favorites who have a chance of br ... More >>

Poptones: A lost local post-punk classic gets the reissue treatment from a new label — and the band reunites to celebrate

New Beach House MP3: "Norway"

Beach House made quite the impression earlier this year at its sold-out Billiken Club show. The dreamfuzz act, which signed to Sub Pop earlier this year, will be releasing Teen Dream on January 26, 2010. The new song below has a fantastically creepy wavering keyboard line underneath Victoria Legrand ... More >>

Tok plays MS benefit at Fubar tonight, sends gifts to the RFT

Philanthropy and rock & roll go hand-in-hand tonight during the "Rock Out for MS" show at Fubar (3108 Locust Street). Local acts Soma, the Sudden Passion, Lydia Loveless and Tok will perform, and the show begins at 7 p.m. We reviewed Tok's latest LP Long Tall Cobra Box a few weeks ago and had th ... More >>

Homespun: Tok

Long Tall Cobra Box
(self-released)

Supersuckers

8 p.m. Friday, October 10. Deluxe, 2733 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood

Oxford Collapse joins Love as Laughter at the Bluebird, on tour in support of its Sub Pop LP, Bits

Video: The Vaselines, "Son of a Gun" Live in Brooklyn

Wolf Eyes

8 p.m. Thursday, June 26. 2 Cents Plain, 1114 Olive Street

Rogue Wave

8 p.m. Sunday, April 20. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University, 1 Brookings Drive

Under Spells

B-Sides talks to the Comas about their latest release and downloads Iron & Wine's "The Boy With a Coin"

Alina Simone

8:30 p.m. Monday, July 23. Lemp Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Shapes and Sizes

Shapes and Sizes (Asthmatic Kitty)

Band of Horses

Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)

Let There Be Rock

Ten albums that make it easy to avoid fretting about your old-fashioned, Rockist ways

The Dwarves

Saturday, November 19; the Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

Rogue Wave

Thursday, September 22; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

An Open Letter

Thanks for everything, Art Chantry -- we can't wait for this week's retrospective show!

Hot Hot Heat

Elevator (Sire/Reprise)

Low

The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the years best pop-rock records.

Wolf Eyes

Burned Mind (Sub Pop)

Fevered Pitch

Pitchfork is taking over music criticism by making people laugh -- or pissing them off

David Cross

It's Not Funny (Sub Pop)

Reverend Horton Heat

Saturday, May 8; the Pageant

Mates of State with I Am The World Trade Center and The Thermals

Saturday, October 18; Rocket Bar

Mudhoney

Since We've Become Translucent (Sub Pop)

List-omania

RFT music geeks pick the best recordings of 2001

Shin City

These Sub Pop recording artists may hail from Albuquerque, but musically they're all over the map

Ode to Joy

The RFT music staff indulges itself by picking the best work of 2000

Mike Ireland and Holler

Thursday, March 9; Off Broadway

Supersuckers and the New Bomb Turks

Thursday, Aug. 26; Hi-Pointe

Sound Checks

Sound Checks

1998: The Year in Music