The Smiths (Musical Group)

Setlist Review Photos: Morrissey at the Pageant, Wednesday, April 8

(This review is a co-write by me, Annie Zaleski, and my evangelical-Moz pal Kami, who is in town from New York for this show. Her qualifications include the lyrics "Trouble loves me/Trouble needs me" tattooed on her ankles and the fact that this is her fourth show of Morrissey's 2008 spring tour she ... More >>

MP3: 7 Shot Screamers covers the Smiths, "Rusholme Ruffians"

In honor of Morrissey's return to St. Louis tonight (review and photos tomorrow), please enjoy the 7 Shot Screamers' take on the Smiths' "Rusholme Ruffians." Vocalist Mike Leahy is an avowed Moz fan, and it's impressive how his vocals honor the man on track. This MP3 can be found on a new album call ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scene ... More >>

Show Review Photos: Scott Weiland, Eagles of Death Metal and Cold War Kids at the Pageant, Wednesday, December 17

Picture the dirtiest dive bar you know. Stale cigarette smoke loiters in the air. Hockey or basketball plays on a TV over the bar, which has signs everywhere advertising cheap beer specials. The bartenders always look tired, their skin leathery, their fashion dated. Usually, the dive bar has karao ... More >>

True Faith: Peter Hook hasn't let New Order's split slow him down

Show Review: The Cure in Kansas City at the Starlight Theatre, Monday, May 19

Inspiration: For Justin Vernon, it comes from solitude. For others, Morrissey

Morrissey Zings the NME Over Cover Story, Accusations of Racism

Modest Mouse at the Pageant, November 14

Radiohead Covers New Order, Bjork, the Smiths

Duck and Cover

Some of the city's best-known bands go incognito at Off Broadway.

Last Night's Show: Morrissey

Last Night's Show: The Decemberists

Race Goggles

Unreal gets liquored up and starts demanding tasteless jokes. And in unrelated news, we talk teen sex with a Seattle sexologist and check out the locker room at the new Busch.

Good Advices

We have an intervention for An Angle, talk baseball and Moz with Joe Pernice, and learn some rock rules by which to live

Morrissey

Live at Earl's Court (Attack)

Being There

We talk movies with Allison Moorer and pit the Moz against Nick Carter

Back to the Future

We tell the Bravery's fortune, decode a rock opera and groan over Sting's intoxicated verbosity

Bowling for Press

Bands roll a few for props, plus we talk to the couple/duo Bagheera

This Charming Man

Why Morrissey is newly hip among bands that sound nothing like him

Save Us, Pete!

Signing bands and pleasing fans, Pete Yorn is here for the Lou

Oh, Brother

Joe Pernice is not only one of the great secret practitioners of pop, he's also about to become a published novelist

Lust Highway

The alt-country marathon known as Twangfest offers sex appeal galore

Brandtson

Tuesday, Feb. 12; Hi-Pointe

Hits and Grins

The greatest-hits format has fallen out of favor, but sometimes the results are pure gold