Van Halen

Zammuto

7:30 p.m. Monday, October 8. The Luminary Center for the Arts, 4900 Reber Place.

The Six Best YEAHs in Rock & Roll

A well placed, well delivered "yeah" can mean so much more than just a lazy "yes." Here are the six best YEAAAHs in rock and roll. Let us know your favorites in our comments, yeah? See also: -Six Most Overused Rhymes -The Six Best Effect-Enhanced Guitar Solos -Nitpick Six Archives

Florence the Machine at the Peabody, 4/29/12: Review, Photos, Setlist

Florence the Machine Peabody Opera House April 29, 2012 It's been a year since St. Louis last hosted Florence the Machine, but things have changed in the short time that's passed. Florence Welch has been catapulted into a whole other realm of popularity, selling out the Peabody Opera House in ... More >>

Kool & the Gang proves a successful, if unlikely, opener for Van Halen

Grammar Heroes: Four Artists Who Know Their Its From It's

We're exhausted after a long week of running around town, correcting greengrocers' apostrophes in honor of National Grammar Day, which was March 4. (Punctuation over punctuality, we always say!) It's easy to blame technology for society's lazy spelling, but music is also complicit in this pandemic: ... 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 >>

Van Halen Has No Confirmed Shows at the Scottrade Center, Despite Reports Otherwise

Van Halen fans disappointed the band's spring 2012 tour did not include a St. Louis stop saw a glimmer of hope this morning when Ticketmaster posted information about an April 29th date at the Scottrade Center and the Post-Dispatch reported the show. But there was cause for skepticism -- no mentio ... More >>

Entertain Your Brain with a tUnE-yArDs Sudoku Puzzle!

​Editor's note: The first person to email me (kiernan DOT maletsky AT riverfronttimes DOT com) with the completed puzzle attached wins a prize pack grab bag that may or may not include Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Van Halen and/or Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of the Police, both o ... More >>

Win Chickenfoot Tickets!

Chickenfoot​If you've found your way here, we're guessing you don't need to be told. But just in case: Chickenfoot is Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Chad Smith. That makes for two parts Van Halen, one part Red Hot Chili Peppers and one part first-ballot hall-of-fame guitarist f ... More >>

Interview: Sammy Hagar Autobiography Co-Writer Joel Selvin on Montrose and Why Sammy's an Ideal Subject

​In part one of our interview with Joel Selvin, co-author of Sammy Hagar's new autobiography Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, we talked about the early years of Sammy's career and one memorable incident in which Selvin's home phone number became very public. Here's the second part o ... More >>

Interview: Joel Selvin, Sammy Hagar Red Autobiography Co-Author, on How He Collaborated with the Red Rocker

​In nearly 40 years as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Joel Selvin had a unique landscape to contend with as a writer. Some of his most famous subjects that he was writing about lived right there in the same zip code - bands such as The Grateful Dead, Huey Lewis & The News, Jour ... More >>

El Monstero Discusses...Sammy Hagar?

Jon GitchoffEl Monstero at the Pageant, December 17, 2010​In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer tagged along to El Monstero practice and got details about this year's model of the Pink Floyd tribute extravaganza. Tickets are still available for the band's Christmas night show, although Dec ... More >>

Two Cow Garage

8 p.m. Monday, November 22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Sammy Hagar and the Wabos

7 p.m. Thursday, July 1. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Homespun: Tilts

Cassingle EP
(self-released)

Tilts

9 p.m. Wednesday, December 23. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

MP3 Show Flyer: Tilts Plays Its First Show Tonight

Tonight, Tilts -- the band fronted by Andrew Elstner of Riddle of Steel and featuring ex-Shame Club members Ken McCray and Andy White -- is playing its first show at the Firebird. Caporetto and Engine Orchestra are also on the bill. The band's MySpace describes its sound like this: The Immigrant S ... More >>

Review Photos: The Vans Warped Tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Monday, August 3

Warped Tour isn't for the faint of heart, especially on a hot August day in St. Louis. But an unforgiving sun didn't prevent the area's bros, punks, misfits, meatheads, horndogs, scene queens, nerds and foxes from converging on the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater for the tour's fifteenth-anniversary j ... More >>

Cabo Wobble: Strapping on the feedbag Red Rocker-style at Harrah's

Second Spin: Sammy Hagar, Three Lock Box

Artist: Sammy Hagar Album: Three Lock Box From: Vintage Vinyl Year: 1982 Label: Geffen Records What it sounds like: The exhaust pipe of a white trash Ferrari

Valient Thorr

9 p.m. Sunday, June 20. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

2008 Music Awards Nominees: Best Local Release on a Label

Show Review: The Cure in Kansas City at the Starlight Theatre, Monday, May 19

Show Review: Van Halen at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, April 26 Setlist

What You Missed: Alicia Keys, Van Halen, Big Black and more.

Van Halen

8 p.m. Saturday, April 26. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue

St. Louis Weekend Update: March 28-30

Birds of Avalon, live video from the Bluebird, March 21

Van Halen's March 30 St. Louis Concert Postponed

Belle and Sebastian Covers Dinosaur Jr., Van Halen

St. Louis Weekend Update, November 16-18, Plus Monday Bonus!

This Week's Issue

Strummin' with the Devil

B-Sides walks a Mean Street, is saved by the Apostlez.

Sammy Hagar

St. Louis New Concerts, Week of October 24

Van Halen Postpones Its October 28 St. Louis Show because of a "Scheduling Conflict"

Chiaband

Cornucopius Musicus (Self-released)

The Heart Attacks / The Queers

7 p.m. Wednesday, February 7. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Fuck McGwire, Sammy Hagar's in the Hall

David Lee Roth

Friday, November 25; Bottleneck Blues Bar
(inside Ameristar Casino, St. Charles Landing, St. Charles)

Letters

Week of April 20, 2005

Wonk Jams

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

Letters

Week of July 28, 2004

Welcome to the Jungle

Radar Station learns what happens when you mess with Axl

Why Lollapalooza Died

We explore campaign theme songs, examine the death of Lollapalooza and get down verbally with Paul Oakenfold

The Great Debate

We struggle with that most serious of questions: Roth or Hagar?

Rock On and On and On and On

Make Sweet Meat proud in the KSHE 95 March Bandness: Tournament of Rock; plus, give us your juiciest Berger Bite, check out some cranky public art and a Branson Idol hopeful -- and don't pack heat in Dierbergs

What Is the One Thing You Know for Sure?

Week of April 16, 2003

Maserati with the Paper Lions and Southern Rise

Thursday, October 10; Lemmon's Basement Bar

The Misfits

Saturday, July 29; Galaxy