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The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: June 14 to 16

It has been a crazy, crazy crime-filled week in St. Louis. Let's all go to some shows and try to forget about it for a while, okay? Just please, for the love of dogs, be careful out there! This weekend, look for new releases from Bob Reuter's Alley Ghost and the Blu Skies, check out the extensive li ... More >>

Project Pat, Jadakiss, Beth Bombara / Blind Eyes Record Release and More Show Flyers

Dirty South rapper / Three Six Mafia affiliate Project Pat will perform at Pop's this Friday. Roc-A-Fella artist Jadakiss will play the Coliseum on Friday as well, celebrating the venue's one-year anniversary. Last but not least, the Blind Eyes and Beth Bombara have a double EP release at Off Broad ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: February 15 to February 17

Everyone's sick this week! I've quarantined myself in my little cube corner all week OD'ing on oranges and gummy vitamins, staring at the box of Kleenex on my desk and nervously awaiting my turn. As a wise man once said, the only prescription for this fever is more cowbell, and while I can't guarant ... More >>

Fresco Kane Releases Video For Latest Single "Fresco Kane"

East St. Louis' Fresco Kane continues his recent rise to hip-hop prominence with the release of a brand new music video for his latest, appropriately named "Fresco Kane." The song itself serves as an introductory banger and may be one of Fresco's strongest singles yet, while the video plays in black ... More >>

Seven Local Artists to Watch in 2013

Timmy Stallone is the St. Louis Rap Rookie of the Year

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

The Six Most Tasteless References To 9/11 In Song

It has been eleven years since the attacks on the World Trade Center, and while the feelings brought up by the events are still complicated, we can view its aftermath with some clarity. With over a decade of hindsight, many of the songs written after the attacks display less than healthy attitudes t ... More >>

Bun B, 8Ball & MJG Promoter Jonathan Burns Talks About This Weekend's Show and His Past

Big time, old school hip hop headlines a weekend of top tier rap acts with 8Ball & MJG and Bun B at the Ambassador in North County this Saturday night (6 p.m., $25-$40). Yo Gotti and his I Got That Sack tour is at the Ambassador on Friday (6 p.m., $35-$75), and Yung Joc is at Posh late on Saturday ( ... More >>

Academy Awards 2012: A Breakdown of the Two Animal Race for Best Original Song

Most people wouldn't care to know who prevails in a fight between puppets and animated birds -- unless they've taken some sort of hallucinogen. But that's precisely the battle set to be resolved Sunday during the latest iteration of the Academy Awards. The Best Original Song award this year is a tw ... More >>

T-Bone Burnett is Good at Winning Awards

Award season has been very, very good for T-Bone Burnett. The musical impresario has won just about every conceivable honor over his decades-long career, from a Golden Globe to a BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award. Heck, Burnett is only one Rugrats sequel away from capturing a coveted Nickelodeon Kids' Cho ... More >>

VH1 Enters Restaurant Reality Show Fray: 10 Famous Food Music Videos

VH1​ Because it's worked so well for Bravo ... VH1, whose motto used to be "Music First," announced Wednesday that it's jumping into the restaurant reality show fray. On the menu: Famous Food, which will feature a bunch of celebrities rehabbing a restaurant with Los Angeles restaurateurs Mik ... More >>

Grammar School: Nearly a decade later, Missouri artists remember the Nelly album that put St. Louis on the map

Teena Marie

8 p.m. Wednesday, July 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Playa Plays On

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Bye Bye Bye

Justin Timberlake kisses his pop roots adios

Exhibit V

Want a Girls Gone Wild video? The city can hook you up. Plus: a box full of even more naughty tapes, and a paean to the cars that go boom.

Paul Wall

The People's Champ (Swishahouse)

Boyz N the Studio

Hustle & Flow is short on action, long on scenes of recording

Grand Theft Audio

Radar Station discovers the soundtrack to crime

Hella Hol'

Da Hol' 9 get released from their major-label contract -- and have a new release to show for it