Tom Petty

Open Highway Music Festival at Off Broadway, 8/11/12: Review, Photos and Setlists

A block away from Off Broadway at sundown, you could see the glint of light on pearl snaps and smell the macaroni and cheese, bacon and apple butter melting on Texas toast. It was the final night of the first Open Highway Music Festival and the Cheese Shack food truck was cooking. Looking for jam ba ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From July 9 to 15

The Monday after Independence Day weekend is one most brutal. After a full weekend of barbecue and beer and illegal fireworks, going to work seems all the more objectionable. I'm too damned hungover on Freedom to be productive, personally. My "word of the day" today is "aliquant," which even my spel ... More >>

The Ten Best Juke Boxes in St. Louis

​Selecting the Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and scattin' our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. There is no surer way ... More >>

Blues Score Three, Take Two Points From Senators

David Perron, wicked handsome, wicked awesome. And no longer singing for the Eurythmics. ​David Perron, you magnificent bastard. Perron scored twice last night, helping the Blues to a 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators, who have suddenly gone from playoff contender to Tom Petty. (As in they ... More >>

The Last Waltz Tribute is Back: A Mercifully Flashing-Free Chat with Johnny Vegas

Once a year, the Stag Nite All-Stars form a ramshackle convergence to pay loving, egg-nog-addled tribute to The Last Waltz, arguably the most famous concert in history. Spearheaded musically by Mark Moynihan of Racketbox, the group also includes members of a dozen-odd other south city mainstays. Thi ... More >>

St. Louis Punks Form Factory, a Springsteen Tribute Band: Tonight at the Heavy Anchor

​The folks at the Heavy Anchor have been consistently booking solid shows -- both local and national -- since it opened earlier this year, and their lineup tonight is no exception. While a solo set by Tom May of Pennsylvania's punk-rock purists the Menzingers (Epitaph Records) would be perfect ... More >>

Taylor Swift at the Scottrade Center, 8/14/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Photo by Jon Gitchoff​Taylor Swift | Hunter Hayes | NeedToBreathe Scottrade Center August 14, 2011 Taylor Swift has documented her detractors well: They make frequent appearances in her overtly personal lyrics, most recently in her revenge jam "Mean." The song's music video even finds her t ... More >>

Tom Hanks ages into mid-life obsolescence in the middling Larry Crowne

Contest! Win a Concert for George Deluxe Prize Pack!

​On March 22, Concert for George -- the 2002 tribute concert in honor of the late Beatle George Harrison -- was released on Blu-ray for the first time. The night featured artists such as Eric Calpton, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney and Tom Petty playing Harrison's songs and honoring his life and l ... More >>

Eight Songs Less Than Jake Should Cover

​Less Than Jake's upcoming February 11 show at Pop's has inspired A to Z to reminisce over the lost art of the ska/punk cover. The beauty is in its simplicity: It's the same song you know and love, just played faster and louder and splattered with horn lines. Less Than Jake has mastered the co ... More >>

Grizzled country-rockers Bottle Rockets and power-pop songsmith Marshall Crenshaw form an unlikely touring alliance

Review: Lucero at Off Broadway, Tuesday, December 7

Jon GitchoffLucero's Ben Nichols at Off Broadway​When I interviewed Ben Nichols a couple weeks back, the singer recognized that St. Louis was due a proper Lucero show. After the band's LouFest set was cut short due to Nichols' health, and its previous Off Broadway gig was slightly interrupted ... More >>

The Gaslight Anthem's Jersey-born American slang is finally resonating all over the globe

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of June 14, 2010

* = coming to town, = local act Gaslight Anthem's American Slang​Vintage Vinyl 1. Drake---Thank Me Later 2. Nas & Damian Marley---Distant Relatives 3. Black Keys---Brothers 4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers---Mojo* 5. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals---Grace Potter & The Nocturnals 6. Gaslight A ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, May 7-9, 2010

It's that time of week again: In these hours before the weekend, you're left to wonder how to spend the next 50-60 hours. Before you begin the YouTube marathon on your couch, scan our weekly list of suggestions for affordable entertainment and then get out there! (But first, get dear old mom somethi ... More >>

Country sweetheart Leslie Stevens brings her band to St. Louis for a homecoming

Local News Rodeo: Bunnygrunt, Union Electric, Sex Robots Band Break-Ups

Firecracker Press​It's time for a local news rodeo! Yee-haw. Bunnygrunt is having what it's calling a Wedge-i-dency every Monday in April at the -- you guessed it -- Wedge, at the corner of Bates and Virginia. "We're using these shows as a chance to work up some new songs in a low pressure -- ... More >>

Top Sellers At Area Record Stores for 2009

Who says the record store is dead? Not us here in St. Louis, where both Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records sold a lot of tunes. Below, please find the top selling albums from both stores, including a separate top vinyl list from VV. Enjoy! Vintage Vinyl: Top CDs ​1. Murphy Lee - You See Me 2. ... More >>

Review Setlist: Brendan Benson & Cory Chisel at the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, Friday November 13

In the middle of his song "Spit It Out," Brendan Benson declared "for every bubble you blow, I'm gonna pop it." The line offered a pretty good insight into the singer-songwriter's methods. For all his unstoppable power-pop moves and clear-eyed, harmony-enhanced bubblegum tunes, a bittersweet current ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Green Day and Franz Ferdinand at the Scottrade Center, Tuesday, August 11

Photo: Todd OwyoungFrom last night's show at the Scottrade Center. See more photos of Green Day last night.​ Caveat: I've been a Green Day fan since 1994 or so. And so I have a sneaking suspicion that last night's Scottrade Center show wasn't for me - even though the band ran through plenty of ... More >>

Review Setlist: The Wallflowers at the Pageant, Sunday, July 26

REVIEW BY KATIE MOULTON Seven songs in, I was afraid I wouldn't make it out awake. Eight songs in, and the Amp energy garbage I had chugged to prevent just such an experience was crashing hard against Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers' mellow vibes. Dylan emerged quietly last night, his thin frame ... More >>

Photos Review Setlist: Jenny Lewis, Farmer Dave and Deer Tick at the Pageant, Sunday, June 14

Twangfest 13 closed out on Saturday, June 13 at the Duck Room, but you could consider the Pageant debut for Jenny Lewis (supported by indie twang-blues rockers Deer Tick and the droll and self-consciously eclectic Farmer Dave) an unofficial fifth night. And yet the vast majority of the capacity crow ... More >>

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 >>

Show Review Setlist Photos: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Scottrade Center, Saturday, August 23

Over the Weekend: Springsteen, Obama, Festival of Nations, The Lot Concert, South Grand Nightlife

"Weird Al" Yankovic dares to be honest about Straight Outta Lynwood and his songwriting process, while Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin takes B-Sides on a ride with his new album, The Glass Passenger

Gentleman Auction House Tour Diary, Day Eleven: Cambridge, Massachusetts

St. Louis Gigantic Concert Calendar, April 7 through August

AA Bondy reinvents himself as an indie-folk artist

Kick Out the (Holiday) Jams

Here are ten holiday releases to deck your halls.

Julien Temple talks Joe Strummer, His New Movie, The Future is Unwritten

Parlour Games

Limbeck gets classical and Nick Acquisto releases a compilation of classics.

Lucinda Williams: Outtakes from the Riverfront Times' interview and music feature this week

Get Busy Livin'

The moans on Dylan’s latest aren’t exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety.

Smells Like Indie Spirit

Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

Live Baby Live

Danny Deckchair sends an upbeat message from Down Under

Leon Russell

Saturday, March 6; Off Broadway

Wheat

Wednesday, February 11; the Gargoyle

Various Artists

Concert for George (Warner Strategic)

Plucky Seven

The New Pornographers play the sounds of summer. Hawaiian shirts optional.

Triple Play

Local college station KCLC-FM proves that adult album alternative radio doesn't have to suck

Dwight Twilley with Bob Reuter and Kamikaze Cowboy

Wednesday, July 31; Creepy Crawl

Cripple Effect

A serendipitous record deal resuscitates one of the Midwest's primo garage acts, the Cripplers

The Strokes

Is This It? (RCA)

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Steve Earle

Transcendental Blues (E Squared)

Jim Roll

Friday, Feb. 4; Off Broadway

Sun Dance

Sound advice on the summer's hottest concerts

Listening Post

Sound Checks