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Punk: Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2013 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is tomorrow! Think of it as St. Louis music's own official holiday, and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music have been working hard to make our cases for all 130 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year in 26 categories ... More >>

Scenes From the Todd Akin Campaign Watch Party

In retrospect, the outcome of the evening should have been clear around 8:40, just after FOX2 News (KTVI) announced that Claire McCaskill had a commanding sixteen percent lead over Todd Akin with four percent of precincts reporting. Read more about Todd Akin on Daily RFT: The "legitimate rape" co ... More >>

Midwest Desperado: Wild Bill Young brings the streets to modern country

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 >>

The Ten Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

[Editor's note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city's favorite musical genre: mainstream country.] By Mike Seely With the nation's major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the n ... More >>

A.C. Newman, Aimee Mann, Regina Spektor and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists: Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time

Wait. St. Louis Is Getting Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill?

Talk about burying the lede: Today's Post-Dispatch article on developer Centrum's plans for mall-turned-public-art-space-turned-abandoned-mall Crestwood Court (Watson Road & Sappington Road, Crestwood) drops this bomb in the fifth paragraph: On the east side, what was a Dillard's garage would be st ... More >>

Extraordinary Mommy Blogger Recounts Conversing with Country Music Royalty

Most people don't get to meet with a musician that opened the proverbial door to a genre. But blogger Danielle Smith experienced something close to that when she conversed with Clay Walker, the man who introduced her to country music. Smith - who has won acclaim for her Extraordinary Mommy blog - w ... More >>

Mac Miller and Van Halen Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Nothing raises the hackles of the music-hating snark machines over at Pitchfork like a lil rap album that defies the odds by sticking to formula. Mac Miller's Blue Slide Park was slapped with a 1.0 rating, despite the the fact that it managed to move nearly 200,000 copies it's first week. Miller's a ... More >>

Great American Toby Keith Serenades Red Solo Cups

Solo Co.The ode-worthy red Solo cup.​Drinking beer from Solo brand drinking cups -- the red ones -- is the American way. Sort of like putting a boot in an enemy's ass. So of course the voice of our generation, Toby Keith, has immortalized the cheap party favorite in song. Is it a song? Is it ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: The Ten Worst Songs He Inspired

Image via​Osama Bin Laden is dead, and suddenly countless well meaning, appallingly jingoistic songs made in the wake of 9/11 have taken on a whole new context. We'd call it vindication except we actually listened to this stuff for over an hour, and... let's just say the straight-faced coverag ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of January 27

image viaZola Jesus is Nika Roza Danilova, the 21 year old's operatic tenor and tender age make her Rihanna among noise makers, but Danilova's emotion isn't borrowed, it's wrenched. With Cult of Youth at the Billiken Club April 14.​ 2720 Cherokee *Anthony B, February 2 Atomic Cowboy *Sarah an ... More >>

The Dive Bomber Gets Chapped at Mike's Ten-Pin

Robin Wheeler​At Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, Illinois, the owner tells two young ghost hunters, "I can say from personal experience that there aren't any ghosts in this building, but I've seen some really scary creatures going into the bar next door." Later that evening, no one next do ... More >>

Today! LiveNation.com Has No Service Fees On Everything

After the success of last week's "no service fees on lawn tickets" promotion, LiveNation.com is doing it again today until midnight -- only better. Grab tickets to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at any level -- reserved or lawn -- with no service fees. What a deal! Some of the choicest bargains ... More >>

Second Spin: Tommy Cash, Rise and Shine

A-B Buyout Going Down This Weekend

Obama in Missouri -- Independence, Missouri

Fly Like an Eagle

B-Sides finds its religion with Fred Eaglesmith and traces Charles Walker's circuitous path from R&B obscurity to funk-soul innovator.

Sammy Hagar's 60th Birthday Party Was Way Better than Any of Your Birthday Parties. Ever.

Haggard Glory

Country’s hardcore hard-ass is still bringin’ it.

A Star Is Born

B-Sides explores whether actors can really sing, downloads some Pixies goodness and has some devilish words for Bleeding Through

Poison!

B-Sides lays down the law with Criteria, contemplates potential rock-star deaths and plays a rousing game of Tic-Tac-DeVoe

Down Home Delights

Ten of the best from Nashville and elsewhere

The Ike Reilly Assassination

Wednesday, November 16; the Way Out Club (2525 South Jefferson Avenue)

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

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of January 26, 2005

Wonk Jams

A St. Louis rocker is laying down the Democratic soundtrack. Is that a good idea?

Sounds Around Town

Week of July 28, 2004

Same As It Ever F**king Was

When it comes to censorship, the song remains the same

Shania Twain

Friday, November 28; Savvis Center

Jack Ingram

Saturday, November 1; Off Broadway

Sounds Around Town

Week of July 30, 2003

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not a pejorative

Darryl Worley

Have You Forgotten? (DreamWorks)

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Protest Songs

Songwriter, performer and left-wing activist Steve Earle turns his politics into art

Red, White and Bleaaaah

If Radar Station ran the post-9/11 world, the playlist would change

Sounds Around Town

Week of August 21, 2002

The Boys from Boonville

In 1963, a group of African-American runaways and truants was sent to a rural reform school. Then the nightmare began.