The Raconteurs

The Six Best Sloppy Drummers

Of all rock and roll instruments, drums require the most physical ability and coordination. Sometimes musicians get so preoccupied with the technical aspect, they forgot that drums are also these loud things that sound cool when you hit them. Here are the six best sloppy drummers. Let us know your f ... More >>

Four reasons Lollapalooza needs EDM

See Also: Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You By Ian Traas With every year that passes, it feels like electronic dance music gains a bigger foothold in the summer festival circuit, and the climb in popularity was esp ... More >>

Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore And The Four Biggest Rock And Roll Breakups

Wikimedia Commons​Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth have separated after 27 years of marriage and now the future of the band is unknown. Their record label released this statement last Friday: Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separa ... More >>

Zee Avi

7:30 p.m. Monday, October 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Record Store Day 2011: Shoppers Show Off Their Spoils

The line at Vintage Vinyl. Photo by Chrissy Wilmes​Still feeling hung over from Record Store Day 2011? You could hardly be blamed: St. Louis' fine purveyors of music were in rare form on Saturday. The beer flowed freely, the live music just kept coming and the lines, as you can see, prove the ... More >>

Fifteen Bands Keeping the Spirit of American Music Alive, As Chosen by Pokey LaFarge

Jo MccaugheyPokey LaFarge​(Editor's note: This weekend, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three is celebrating the release of a seven-inch, "Pack It Up" b/w "Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County." The record is being released by Third Man Records, the label founded by Jack White. In fact, ... More >>

Ten must-know musicians and scenes of the '20s and '30s

Review: The Greenhornes at the Firebird, Tuesday, March 22

​Consider, for a moment, the ways in which Jack White's unseen hand has guided certain events and happenings in St. Louis in the past few weeks. First and foremost was the announcement that hometown heroes Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three would be releasing a White-produced seven-inch on t ... More >>

The Greenhornes/The Blind Eyes

9 p.m. Tuesday, March 22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Interview: Pokey LaFarge on Working with Jack White and Releasing a Seven-Inch via Third Man Records

Todd OwyoungJack White playing with the Raconteurs at the Pageant in 2008​On Friday, Pokey LaFarge revealed that he and the South City Three have a new seven-inch forthcoming that was produced by Jack White - yes, that Jack White, of the White Stripes, Raconteurs and Third Man Records. Over th ... More >>

New Release Highlights for January 25, 2011: Gang of Four, The Get Up Kids and Wanda Jackson Are Back With New Records

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Chikita Violenta's Tre3s​*Chikita Violenta, Tre3s Spin says of Tre3s, "This Mexican quartet's third release suggests a largely untapped indie-rock revenue st ... More >>

Show Review: Cage the Elephant, 22-20s and Autovaughn Have a Cure for the Blues at the Pageant, Friday, June 25

myspace.com/cagetheelephant​Cage the Elephant is a quintet, but on Friday night at the Pageant, the group might as well have performed under the name, "Matt Shultz and Friends." Although the vocalist kept the banter to a minimum -- from a "Thank you" here to a "Hey everybody, look at this kid ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: The Dead Weather Strikes the Pageant with Thunder and Strobe Lighting, Saturday, April 24

Two tall figures stand mouth to mouth with a lone microphone, each raven-haired and pale in the blue light. Alison Mosshart bores into Jack White, who pretends to watch his hands move on his guitar. Silhouettes and voices melding and retreating, they are towering four-alarm fires, side-by-side, blee ... More >>

Interview: Jack Lawrence -- The Belleville-Born Bassist for The Dead Weather -- Talks Its New Album

The Dead Weather debuts in St. Louis this weekend​The Dead Weather's résumé is stellar: The quartet features White Stripes/Raconteurs figurehead Jack White, Kills vocalist Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita and Raconteurs/Greenhornes member Jack Lawrence. Together, the m ... More >>

The Dead Weather

8 p.m. Saturday, April 24. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Ricky Skaggs

8 p.m. Friday, January 15. The Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard.

Review Setlist: Brendan Benson & Cory Chisel at the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, Friday November 13

In the middle of his song "Spit It Out," Brendan Benson declared "for every bubble you blow, I'm gonna pop it." The line offered a pretty good insight into the singer-songwriter's methods. For all his unstoppable power-pop moves and clear-eyed, harmony-enhanced bubblegum tunes, a bittersweet current ... More >>

Brendan Benson

9 p.m. Friday, November 13. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

Brendan Benson at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, Friday, November 13

Ah yes, I hear that Brendan Benson -- the Raconteurs member who has quite a fantastic string of power-pop/'70s rock-leaning solo releases under his name, including this year's My Old Familiar Friend -- will be at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room on Friday, November 13. The show goes on sale this Friday; t ... More >>

The Dive Bomber at Cotter's Sports Lounge

This week, I drove past three prospective bars, and all were far too nice for the likes of me. I was forced to play GPS Bar Roulette, in which I pick the closest bar listed on my TomTom and go with it. Tom delivered me to Cotter's Sports Lounge.I spend a lot of Monday nights in bars, and never hav ... More >>

Vintage Vinyl's Top 50 Best-Selling CDs and Top 25 Best-Selling LPs of 2008

Vintage Vinyl just released its list of best-selling LPs and CDs of 2008. (Physical product? Remember that?) Interesting to see how many local releases -- and how much hip-hop/R&B/rap -- is on the CD list, while how much old (and new) indie rock is on the LP list. Looks like you kids are downloa ... More >>

Homespun: Upright Animals, Carnivore City

In this week's Homespun, Christian Schaeffer reviews the Upright Animals' Carnivore City. He had this to say:For its latest EP, the Upright Animals decamped to Blackbird Studio in Nashville, where the disc was recorded and mixed by Vance Powell (who has worked with the Raconteurs, among others). The ... More >>

Homespun: The Upright Animals

Carnivore City
(self-released)

2008: The Year in Song, A to Z Style

So this is a wee bit late -- sorry, I've been battling a cold since New Year's Day, bah -- but hopefully still relevant: three "discs" worth of 2008 quality music. This is meant to be a companion list to the Top 10 Top 40 songs piece I penned, a way for people to perhaps discover some new bands and/ ... More >>

Webb gems: Saint Louis University professor Joe Webb's online alter ego is a big hit on campus

Austin City Limits Day Three Review: Foo Fighters, AA Bondy, Silversun Pickups, Gnarls Barkley, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Stars

Lollapalooza Photos

Photos: Lollapalooza Day 1 with Cat Power, Raconteurs, Jeff Tweedy, Gogol Bordello, More

Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Supergrass at Scottrade Center, Sunday, July 20

Show Review: The Raconteurs at the Pageant, Thursday, June 12

The Raconteurs

8 p.m. Thursday, June 12. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Summer Concert Calendar: Hit all the high notes this summer with our expanded concert listings

The Breeders' Kelley Deal: Outtakes from This Week's Music Feature

Sigur Ros Playing Kansas City, June 12

Tegan and Sara find their sister act soaring with The Con

St. Louis Gigantic Concert Calendar, April 7 through August

Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Leaked: Radiohead, NIN, Wilco, Kanye West, Explosions in the Sky, Love and Rockets, The National, Lupe Fiasco, more!

The Raconteurs at the Pageant, Thursday, June 12

2008 Bonnaroo Lineup Announced: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Jack Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, more

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

Pet Smarts

Meet Be Your Own Pet, the Nashville group that carries on punk's young, loud and snotty tradition.

Long Live Rock School

Hey kids! Dave Simon's music academy can transform you from a painfully shy teen to a guitar-slinging badass! Even your parents will approve!

Obscurity Knocks

CD Baby's weird and wacky Missouri musicians, "Yo! RFT Raps" talks to inBox magazine's svengali, and the Raconteurs star in this week's Download