Thurston Moore

Tone Rodent's Latest, A Bit Disconnected: Read Our Homespun Review and Listen

Guitarist/vocalist Adam Watkins and bassist Matty Coonfield have been the anchors in the member-shifting Tone Rodent, a band that swerves from psych to shoegaze to no-wave without losing a thumbprint of foreboding ambiance. The current six-piece lineup locks in nicely on this four-song EP, with Ashl ... More >>

Homespun: Tone Rodent

A Bit Disconnected
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The Six Most Uncool Members Of Cool Bands

Last week in this very column, we counted down the six coolest members of uncool bands. This week, we flip the script. Here are the six most uncool members of cool bands, and they're all probably really nice people. See Also: -The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

A Pilgrimage to the Church Of Steve Albini: Is He a Dick?

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. Almost one year ago, I crammed my guitar, my xylophone, and myself into a crowded midsize car with half ... More >>

In the Galleries - James Nares: Street CLOSES January 27 at the Saint Louis Art Museum

The Most Popular Dude on the S.S. Coachella is Pulp's Jarvis Cocker

No one's really interested in reading about the actual performances taking place on this musical ship of contradictions, the S.S. Coachella, amirite? Instead, you want a spoonful of gossipy anecdotal sugar, straight from the decks of this funny ship. By Liz Tracy As you might have seen, Pulp was ... More >>

The Six Strangest Crossover Attempts By Jazz Musicians

About a week ago, our Northwest sister paper Seattle Weekly ran a post about the diminishing popularity of jazz. Watch for a lengthy reply by RFT Music's devilishly handsome resident jazz guitar school dropout later this week. In the meantime, here are the six most bizarre crossover attempts by jazz ... More >>

Street Walkin'

The Six Best Renditions Of "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me"

As we mourn the passing of Hal David, the lyrical genius on the Burt Bacharach/Hal David dream team, we also revisit his timeless contributions to music. Here are the six best renditions of one of his best songs, "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me." See also: Hal David, Songwriting Part ... More >>

Chris Corsano

7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28. Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 North Grand Boulevard.

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 >>

The Year Punk Broke Finally Gets Reissued: Where The Featured Bands Are Today

​About twenty years ago, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore asked his friend, filmmaker Dave Markey, to document the band's short European tour, including its performance at the massive Reading Festival. Markey (best known for his underground classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls) left with his passp ... More >>

After 52 years, the New Music Circle still lives up to its name

Pitchfork 2011: Fleet Foxes, No Age, DJ Shadow and Other Highlights From Day Two

DJ Shadow.​It's funny--spend a few minutes in the sun surrounded by 18,000 of your closest friends, and suddenly Maslow's hierarchy of needs takes on new significance, ie: We need sunscreen. I gotta pee. Someone needs water or they're going to faint. Dudes, I'm hungry. Beeeeeer. We need beeeee ... More >>

Pitchfork 2011: tUnE-yArDs, Guided By Voices And Other Day One Highlights

Guided By Voices​The weather was perfect and apparently -- horrifically -- it is mom-jean-short-season. It was a day for eccentric acts, the line-up carefully curated to force superfans into buying Friday tickets. The will call line stretched around the block and then some. 4:32 pm:tUnE-yArDs ... More >>

Patrick Stump Is Coming To Fubar (!?!)

​Patrick Stump, the Fall Out Boy singer who is finally free to pursue the pop and R&B he's always loved, is coming to St. Louis. His former band's last show here was at the Pageant. His solo career has seen him on tour with Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae, and he'll be playing Lollapalooza this s ... More >>

Blankety-Blank City

Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa chats about the band's new album and vices of choice

Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa Talks Gaga, Van Smells, Hip-Hop and the Band's New Album

LA's Warpaint play tonight at the Luminary Center for the Arts. From left, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Stella Mogzawa, Emily Kokal(front).​The Los Angeles four-piece Warpaint crafts haunting dreampsych with iridescent harmonies and filmy reverb, but don't label them as an all-girl band ... More >>

Eleven Documentaries About Music's Grandest Artifact: The Record Store

I Need That Record chronicles the events that led up to the demise of many record stores​Before there was an iTunes "store" and torrent sites, the record store played a vital part in thousands of people's lives -- a church for the sinners. For some this hasn't changed. But by and large, peop ... More >>

Jemina Pearl

8 p.m. Monday, February 8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

You Can't Kill Kill

Destroy All Monsters Survey Opens at White Flag Projects This Weekend

On Saturday night, a very cool exhibit is set to open at White Flag Projects. Destroy All Monsters: Hungry for Death is billed as "a survey of survey of artwork, music, video, and archival material by the seminal pre-punk/psychedelic noise group and art collective Destroy AllMonsters." Founded in 19 ... More >>

Photos Review Setlist: Sonic Youth and Awesome Color Under the Arch, Live on the Levee, Friday, July 17

At around 7:45 p.m., sunglasses-clad Thurston Moore strode onstage to thunderous cheers. Deadpan, the lanky Sonic Youth vocalist/guitarist said, "Hi, we're the Sonic Youth. We're going to start things off with a little love song called 'No Way.'" Cue a heavy, punkish version of the tenth track from ... More >>

Electric Youth: Sonic Youth and Kim Gordon continue to age gracefully with a new LP, The Eternal

Video: Sonic Youth on Jimmy Fallon, "No Way" Thurston Moore's Too-Hot-for-TV T-shirt!

Thanks to the Village Voice, who posted this video of Sonic Youth performing last night on Jimmy Fallon's show and debunked the totally too-hot-for-TV shirt Thurston Moore was rocking. (Confidential to Kim Gordon: I love your dress.) Everyone beyond stoked yet for the band's July 17 show under the A ... More >>

The Curse of Alternative Nostalgia and the Class of '93: A Response to the Chicago Sun-Times' Article

The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts t ... More >>

Awesome Color

9 p.m. Tuesday, September 30. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard

Mogwai to Reissue Young Team -- Plus Win a Signed Copy!

SXSW: The Random Picture Post

Awesome Color at Spooky Action Palace, Monday, December 10

Last Night's Show: John Vanderslice

Still More SXSW Coverage, Part Two

Turbo Fruits

7:30 p.m. Friday, January 19. The Acoustic Café at the West County YMCA (16464 Burkhardt Place, Chesterfield).

Pet Smarts

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

Living in Oblivion

Neither meeting Sonic Youth nor covering seminal '80s songs fazes Grant-Lee Phillips.

The Other Basement Tapes

"I Drink Sody." "Disco for Drunks." "Pull My Finger." Pearls from the overlooked oeuvre of Bruce Cole and the Screamin' Mee-Mees.

The Ponys

Thursday, May 19; the Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

Ben Lee with Har Mar Superstar

Thursday, April 7; the Gargoyle (on the Washington University campus, Forsyth and Skinker boulevards)

Sonic Youth

Sonic Nurse (DGC)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of March 31, 2004

Kill Me Tomorrow

The Garbageman and the Prostitute (GSL)

BOC T.C.B.

Put away those cowbells and show the Blue Oyster Cult some respect

Zeena, Warrior Harpist

The sounds Zeena Parkins coaxes from her hand-built electric harp are odd and beautiful

DJ Spooky

Optometry (Thirsty Ear)

Champing at the Bit

The Fucking Champs wage their solitary war on the wuss hegemony, the indie-rock cabal, the bass and soundmen

Joe McPhee, Davey Williams and Philip Gelb

Tuesday, April 3; Forum for Contemporary Art.

By the Book

Bassist Darin Gray learns that the library is where they have to take you in

Fred Frith and Ensemble Modern

Traffic Continues (Winter & Winter Records)