The Strokes

Belleville Native, Colorado Resident Tyler Taylor Returns to Play First St. Louis Show with the Amends

Many musicians dream about getting out of town, making names for themselves and then returning for that rad blowout of a homecoming show. Tyler Taylor has just such an opportunity. The Belleville, Illinois, native is bringing his Colorado band, the Amends, home to meet the family when the group per ... More >>

LouFest Lineup 2013: Here Is Our Best (Educated!) Guess

This morning LouFest launched a guessing game for its 2013 line-up, releasing a Wheel of Fortune-like thing with fill-in-the-blank band names and plans to release one letter a day between today and Monday, April 29. The first clue is the letter "U," which makes nine appearances in the line-up. In th ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Showcase Lineup for June 2

40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Two

Did we ruin the surprise? ​As you may have noticed, we were excited to be St. Louis music fans this year. And there is no more substantial document of the sound of this city in 2011 than the music released by its bands and artists. It is not an exaggeration to guess that the releases in the m ... More >>

St. Louis' First 'Real' Breaks: Interview, Photos, Video And The Complete Discography

Last week, the RFT published its annual "Best Of" issue, a yearly event that highlights all the best of the best that St. Louis has to offer while simultaneously breaking the backs of our poor distribution department with its heftier-than-usual size. Like many of you, I took the time to read through ... More >>

William Shatner Gets All Outer-Space: Five Songs for His Next Album

Wikimedia Commons​Last week, William Shatner unveiled the tracklist to his third studio album, Searching For Major Tom. Regardless of how you feel about the actor or his musical career, it's imperative you look at it right now. The album comprises nineteen covers of mostly space-themed songs l ... More >>

From party girl to Oscar winner, Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere

Ten Memorable Shows at The Pageant, In Honor Of Its Tenth Birthday

This Saturday, the Pageant celebrates its tenth birthday with a concert by Chuck Berry. $35 general admission tickets are still available; balcony seats are sold out. The show starts at 8 p.m. with a set from Shooting With Annie. In the venue's lengthy history (a PDF listing its shows is a whoppi ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: Kings of Leon Remains Poop-Free in St. Louis, Saturday, September 25

Todd OwyoungKings of Leon's Caleb Followill at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. More photos here.​Let's just get this out of the way now: pigeon shit, pigeon shit, pigeon shit. No rock concert has been stigmatized by bird feces as much as last evening's Kings Of Leon performance at Verizon W ... More >>

Phoenix Burns Up the Pageant

by Ryan Wasoba In one of a half dozen instances of audience acknowledgment, Phoenix vocalist Thomas Mars announced, "Growing up in Paris, we clapped like this." Mars commanded The Pageant to applaud to the rhythm of "[pause] clap, [pause] clap-clap" -- the complete inverse of the traditional Americ ... More >>

KSHE Klassics -- A YouTube Compendium (Part 1)

​In this week's issue, Annie Zaleski heralds the arrival of In Concert: KSHE and 40 Years of Rock in St. Louis, a scrapbook of the area's latter-day music history. Reading "Raised on Radio" put a few of us locals in a nostalgic state of mind, inspiring an e-mail frenzy of the KSHE Klassics o ... More >>

RFT Music Awards Nominees & Showcase Performers

Pop Matters: With Only By the Night, Kings of Leon aims for stateside success — and just might earn it

Gentleman Auction House Tour Diary, Day Nine: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Last Night: Guitar Hero at the Tin Can, St. Louis

2007 RFT Music Showcase

Week of May 31, 2007

Looking South (XSW)

St. Louis bands make a fine showing at Austin's annual indie-rock spring break.

Music Showcase Schedule

The complete low-down on this year's nominated acts

Tom Petty

Highway Companion (American Recordings)

Core Meltdown

A local rap troupe breaks up, while Captured! By Robots is Star Trekkin' into town

Alley Cat

Somebody forgot to tell Emil Williams Jr. that bowling is for fat, beer-guzzling honkies

Mother!

We chat with a lesser-known Danzig, fatwa Rolling Stone and wonder if membership has its privileges

Finest Workshows

A Michael Stipe speech actually tugs some heartstrings

Love's Labor Remixed

We strike out with the ladies, music-geek style, check out John Kerry's Behind the Music and hunt for Weird Al trivia

Sounds Around Town

Week of April 21, 2004

CD Releases From the Heart

A very special Radar Station

Wheat

Wednesday, February 11; the Gargoyle

'03, Oh My!

Our critics weigh in on a questionable year’s best music

Turin Brakes with David Gray

Friday, August 1; American Theatre

Getting Free

Will Aussie exports the Vines survive the "saviors of rock" hype?

Mag Hags

What's wrong with the state of music journalism -- and how to fix it

Bug on the Wall

Ded Bug Matt Meyer puts down his guitar and picks up a camera to chronicle St. Louis' rock scene

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Raising the Ceiling

The Tin Ceiling looks for ways to thrive, not just survive