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2010: The Year In Music

Review Photos Setlist: Sleigh Bells Tells 'Em How It's Done at the Firebird, Thursday, October 28

Jon GitchoffSleigh Bells at the Firebird.​A deafening buzz surrounded Sleigh Bells even before the duo released its debut, Treats. The hype was somewhat perplexing: While its elephant-sized crunkbeats, razor-honed guitar riffs and Alexis Krauss' slam-poet-butterfly vocals are certainly arresti ... More >>

New York City Says No Food Stamps for Sodas

Despite possible legal roadblocks, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg issues a plan to make sugar-sweetened soft drink ineligible for food stamps. The New York Times reports that New York City requested permission from the USDA to perform a two-year experiment to ban soda purchases with food stam ... More >>

Show Review Setlist Photos: Wavves Gets High, Rages at the Billiken Club, September 11

Jon GitchoffWavves last night at the Billiken Club. (Drinking locally, we see.) View an entire slideshow here.​That's it. Summer is over, and Wavves sent it packing last night with an adrenaline- and pot-fueled rager. Crowd surfing at the Billiken Club isn't something you see every day, but Wa ... More >>

Ten Things To Do This Weekend

image via1. Dogtown Street Musicians FestivalThis weekend marks the first ever Dogtown Street Musicians Festival. Located between the 1200 - 1300 block of Tamm, this event will run Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 2. Funk Fest 5Go get funked up at Broadway Oyster Bar Saturday night, starting at ... More >>

Wavves

9 p.m. Saturday, September 11. The Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of August 2-8

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. ARCADE FIRE---Suburbs 2. BLACK CROWES---Croweology* 3. RICK ROSS---Teflon Don 4. EMINEM---Recovery 5. BUN B---Trill O.G. 6. GOV'T MULE---Mulennium 7. LOS LOBOS---Tin Can Rust 8. MENOMENA---Mines* 9. ROOTS---How I Got Over 10. DRAKE---Thank Me Lat ... More >>

Wavves, Prefuse 73, Times New Viking Highlight Billiken Club's Initial Fall Line-up

fatpossum.com​The Billiken Club -- Saint Louis University's student-run concert venue -- just announced its initial slate of shows for the fall semester. As expected, surf-fuzz act Wavves is confirmed for September 11. That show's joined by a Prefuse 73/Royal Bangs/Chain Gang of 1974 triple bi ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of July 29

Lucy HamblinYou have until September 20 to learn the words to "Frankie's Gun" and up your whiskey tolerance, lest the The Felice Brothers laugh you out of the Old Rock House.​ 2720 Cherokee *Caspa, August 5 *Hellfire Machina, August 7 *Soundscape, August 6 The Billiken Club *Wavves, September ... More >>

Wavves Apparently Confirms a St. Louis Show

According to an email from the publicist, Wavves will be playing at the Billiken Club on Saturday, September 11. No word yet from the venue about confirmation, but as always, shows there are free. Wavves' newest album is King of the Beach. Listen to "Post Acid":

Into the Groove: Yo La Tengo stays the course — with a little bit more soul — on Popular Songs

According to an email from the publicist, Wavves will be playing at the Billiken Club on Saturday, September 11. No word yet from the venue about confirmation, but as always, shows there are free. Wavves' newest album is King of the Beach. Listen to "Post Acid":

2009's Pitchfork Coverage: Videos, Interviews and Photos of Flaming Lips, Vivian Girls, Fucked Up, Black Lips, M83, more!

Last weekend, Nick Lucchesi headed up to Chicago to cover this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. In case you missed his reports, here's a handy-dandy list of links to his photos, interviews and reviews: *A Flaming Lips photo essay *A video interview with M83's Anthony Gonzalez *Black Lips and the N ... More >>

Wavves at Pitchfork Music Festival

Nathan Williams of Wavves on Saturday at Pitchfork Music Festival, during his cover of "Nervous Breakdown" by Black Flag. Wavves, the one-man recording project of 23-year-old California boy Nathan Williams -- managed to avoid much of the press attention so fervently sought by bloggers and photograph ... More >>