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The Smiths (Musical Group)

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 2, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    April 2, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Morrissey Zings the NME Over Cover Story, Accusations of Racism

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2007

    Modest Mouse at the Pageant, November 14

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2007

    Radiohead Covers New Order, Bjork, the Smiths

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 5, 2007

    Duck and Cover

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

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2007

    Last Night's Show: Morrissey

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

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2007

    Last Night's Show: The Decemberists

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

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    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.

  • Music

    August 3, 2005

    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

  • Music

    April 27, 2005

    Morrissey

    Live at Earl's Court (Attack)

  • Music

    April 6, 2005

    Being There

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

  • Music

    January 19, 2005

    Back to the Future

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

  • Music

    September 15, 2004

    Bowling for Press

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

  • Music

    May 26, 2004

    This Charming Man

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

  • Music

    October 15, 2003

    Save Us, Pete!

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

  • Music

    August 27, 2003

    Oh, Brother

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

  • Music

    June 4, 2003

    Lust Highway

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

  • Music

    February 6, 2002

    Brandtson

    Tuesday, Feb. 12; Hi-Pointe

  • Music

    December 19, 2001

    Hits and Grins

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

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