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Psych: 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 >>

Conflict Zine Returns: Here Are Five Others We'd Like to See Come Back

I was as surprised as anyone when I clicked online and saw the message: there was a new product from an old favorite, now available for download. Given that this was the first such release since 1991, I wanted to check it out immediately. And indeed, I was not disappointed. There was enough of th ... More >>

Tone Rodent Bridges the Gap Between Noise and Music From Here To Brazil

Listen: Hear all of Tone Rodent's songs

Pinback, The English Beat, The Spits and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Lee Fields & the Expressions, Bad Religion, Cappadonna and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Kanrocksas Early Bird Tickets on Sale at 10 a.m. Today

Kanrocksas (a festival at the NASCAR Speedway just west of Kansas City, so named for...never mind) debuted big in 2011, going toe-to-toe with Lollapalooza and featuring many of the same names (including Eminem, Muse and A Perfect Circle). They took the year off in 2012 due to renovations to the Spee ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 30 to August 5

Time constraints occasionally preclude us from being able to preview every single great show in town. There's only so many hours in the week, and we have to keep the trains running on time in addition to writing up these recommendational blurbs. That said, a couple of shows early this week warrant y ... More >>

Snoop Dogg, Unknown Hinson, El Monstero and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded Youtube videos with which you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new ... More >>

Jane's Addiction at the Pageant, 2/22/12: Review, Photos, Setlist

Jane's Addiction | Black Box Revelation The Pageant February 22, 2012 Jane's Addiction remains an undisputed king of the '90s. From its inception in 1985 to the creation of Lollapalooza for its 1991 farewell tour, the band has lent more than its share to the birth of alternative culture, second to ... More >>

The Kanrocksas Music Festival Won't Be Happening in 2012

The Kanrocksas Music Festival, assembled last year in rapid fashion with a lineup of surprisingly big names (Eminem, the Black Keys, the Flaming Lips...), will be taking what would have been its sophomore year off. The Kansas Speedway, which hosts the festival, is undergoing a major construction p ... More >>

Madonna, the Spits Lead This Week's Show Annoucements

Madonna is taking time out of her taxing virgin-blood-drinking schedule long enough to fit in a lil' world tour. She'll bring all the hits and her terrifying biceps to the Scottrade Center on November 1. Teflon Don, The Boss Rick Ross is at the Ambassador on February 19. Rob Ruzicka is throwing hims ... More >>

Tennis System, Sleepy Sun And Death Of Yeti At The Firebird, 8/26/11

Tennis System​Tennis System | Death Of Yeti | Sleepy Sun The Firebird September 25, 2011 Sometimes it's fun to go to a show with a small crowd. Your friends are easier to find. There's no wait at the bar. And you seem to talk to people more because it's like, Hey, we're all in this together. ... More >>

Sleepy Sun Is Coming To The Firebird

Photo by Nick Schnelle​Sleepy Sun is coming to the Firebird. The San Francisco psych-freaks will play on September 25th. Tickets are $10 and on sale now. The band's set at this year's LouFest was manic and trippy and definitely could have used another look in the dark confines of a club. If ... More >>

Black Angels and Best Coast at Kanrocksas

Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​The Black Angels | Best Coast Ad Astra | Stagesaurus Rex Welcome to Day Two, where I regret to inform you the heat absolutely must be the first thing mentioned. People cower in the thin lines of shade, in the few places there is shade to be had, or stand on the bri ... More >>

Melt-Banana And The Black Angels Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Like snorting Adderall off a Hello Kitty doll, Melt-Banana's terse noisy punk will eat yr brain.​ Japanese anti-heroes Melt-Banana embark on a U.S. tour this fall, and guess where they're gonna be? Cicero's. Guess where they're not gonna to be? New York City. Bah, that rules. If we're keeping ... More >>

The Black Angels at the Old Rock House, 4/22/11: Review

Black Angels. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​ Black Angels/Tone Rodent/Suuns Old Rock House April 22, 2011 Better Than: Timothy Leary's best acid trip. Pity the folks turned away at the door of the Old Rock House last night. It's been four long years since the Black Angels played here, and the band ... More >>

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: April 22 to 24

Joy Formidible (Wikimedia Commons)​Flip a coin: there's no other way to choose which of the excellent shows to attend this weekend. Whether your betting tastes lean toward the Joy Formidable's melodic fuzz from across the pond, or Ha Ha Tonka's Bible-Belt punk from St. Louis' backyard, odds ar ... More >>

The Black Angels

8 p.m. Friday, April 22. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

The Black Angels' Alex Maas on DMT, St. Louis and lots more

Alexandra Valenti​The Black Angels has reached the point of royalty among today's lysergic rock outfits. In between relentless touring and putting out killer albums and EPs, the Austin five-piece started Austin Psych Fest, now in it's fourth year. For its third full length, 2010's Phosphene Dr ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of February 3

image viaAustin's The Black Angels.​ Apop Records *The Body, March 9 El Lenador *Arson For Candy, March 9 Cicero's *Secret Cities, March 5 *Lee MacDougal, March 11

The Black Angels Coming to the Old Rock House

Friday, April 22, is shaping up to be one full of hard choices for live-music fans. Rural Alberta Advantage is at the Firebird, the Joy Formidable/the Lonely Forest is at the Luminary Center for the Arts -- and now the Old Rock House is weighing in with a show by the Black Angels. (Suuns is opening. ... More >>

Sleepy Sun

9 p.m. Thursday, March 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Tonight! Brazos and White Denim MP3

www.myspace.com/brazosbrazos​Brazos/White DenimWhere: FirebirdPlaying With: Troubadour DaliSounds Like: White Denim is equal parts Scooby-Doo-esque psychedelic textures and stoner-rock skronk. (Zoinks! They aren't interchangeable.) And as for Brazos, Roy Kasten says: "With a sound somewhere betwee ... More >>

RFT Music Awards Nominees & Showcase Performers

Pontiak

9 p.m. Friday, December 19. The Wedge, 442 Bates Avenue.

Prog-Rocking Beats

B-Sides gets intimate with Rhino Records' new Genesis reissues, then catches up with the cool cats in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Download Mozart

The Saint Louis Symphony is ready to hit the high-tech notes.

The Black Angels/Vietnam

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

Portrait Concert Series: Steve Reich and George Crumb

7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 and 15. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (3716 Washington Boulevard).

Blog-alicious

Think the coasts have a lock on good MP3 blogs? Think again.

Black Angels

9 p.m. Thursday, August 3. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).