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Putting St. Louis back in LouFest
ONCE MORE IN LOCAL HANDS, THE CITY’S BIGGEST MUSICAL EVENT IS SITTING PRETTY AS ORGANIZERS HEAD INTO THEIR 7TH YEAR by Stephen Johnson At a Lafayette Square wine bar one recent afternoon, Mi...
This Means War!
THE MANESS BROTHERS STRAIGHT-UP EXPAND THE STL MUSIC COMMUNITY WITH THEIR FIFTH WHISKEY WAR FEST by DANIEL W. WRIGHT Indiana’s JOSHUA POWELL AND THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY V WHISKEY WAR F...
REVIEW: Preoccupations
PREOCCUPATIONS JAGJAGUWARFirst it was Women. Then it was Viet Cong. And now it’s Preoccupations, the third chapter in the narrative of existential unease and beauty from bassist/singer Matt Fl...
REVIEW: Various Artists
NEW MUSIC/FREE IMPROV: LIVE AT THE TAVERN OF FINE ARTS Music theorist Johann Philipp Kirnberger once famously proposed that “the true goal of music — its proper enterprise — is melody.” ...
REVIEW: Tok
GOLD DOLLAR HEN HOUSE VOL. 4 To anyone even remotely familiar with music in St. Louis, the phrase “Tok has a new album” should produce an electric sense of anticipation. The band has been na...
REVIEW: Dinosaur Jr.
GIVE A GLIMPSE OF WHAT YER NOT JAGJAGUWAR When J. Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph reformed the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr. for a tour in 2005, few figured the trio would still be making musi...
REVIEW: The Chills
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD REISSUE FLYING NUN CD Like The Beatles, The Smiths, and Buzzcocks, it is impossible to understand New Zealand’s The Chills by their full-length albums alone. They were ve...
REVIEW: Petit Biscuit
PETIT BISCUIT Never ever have I wanted to live inside a song so bad. Petit Biscuit conjures images of frost and snow; an organic ice castle erupts from the frosty ground. From inside the castle,...
REVIEW: Jayrone
VOICE OF A HUSTLER Safe is not good, according the motivational speech at the beginning of Jayrone’s Voice of a Hustler album. A man tells a story to a crowd of how his father could’ve been ...
REVIEW: Jonezy
SOCIAL NOMAD St. Louis’s Jonezy is the everyman emcee. He is the blue-collar worker who sticks to meat-and-potatoes breakbeats and direct rhymes about real life. Hip hop as a culture is very ...
REVIEW: Theresa Payne
GET MY HEART BACK Heartbreak is a funny thing. It can cripple you or be a learning experience. Post-heartbreak, you can become bitter and jaded, or you can take time for yourself and dust yourse...
Almost Persuaded
AN INTERVIEW WITH LEGENDARY COUNTRY TEASER BEN R. WALLERS, AKA THE REBEL Ed note: What rough beast’s hour has come at last? Evidence indicates it is one Ben R. Wallers, leader of the vitupe...
“Mom, I want to play drums.” A conversation with Kevin Bowers
BY JEREMY ESSIG FROM THE TIME HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD, KEVIN BOWERS KNEW HIS FUTURE EXISTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE FIELD OF MUSIC. AFTER STUDYING DRUMS AT THE MUSICIANS INSTITUTE IN HOLLYWOOD, CA, ...
The glorious disaster of Ariadne on Naxos
By ROB LEVY Opera Theatre of St. Louis has crafted the ideal mixture of mindless frolic and creative artistry with their production of Ariadne on Naxos, a multilayered treat filled with lavish ...
The Tracks of His Tears
OPERA THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS’S SHALIMAR THE CLOWN IS A POWERFULLY RESONANT NEW WORK By ROB LEVY To close out its 41st season, Opera Theatre of St. Louis has chosen to present the world premiere...
REVIEWS: FRUIT BATS
ABSOLUTE LOSER EASY SOUND I am very nostalgic for a new Fruit Bats record in 2016, as their early ’00s records soundtracked several years of my early twenties. But those records already sound...
Summer Guest List: Allie Vogler
Allie Vogler sings and write songs in River Kittens, where her harmonies with bandmates Martha Mehring and Mattie Schell will strike you right in your South City heart. “Steal My Sunshine” b...
Summer Guest List: Greer Deerling
One of St. Louis’ most bad-ass new bands is, without a doubt, Baby Baby Dance With Me. The band collects some of the city’s grittiest lifers to make sexy, sleazy, ‘60s inflected rock music,...
REVIEWS: Trashcan Sinatras
WILD PENDULUM RED RIVER RECORDS For their sixth studio album, Scotland’s Trashcan Sinatras have returned with Wild Pendulum, an unabashedly sugary dose of sweets that doesn’t completely de...
Summer Guest List: Dave Grelle
If you’ve got a really big gig in town and you need keyboards, Dave Grelle is probably the guy on the other end of the line. He plays with Incurables, Celebration Day, Street Fighting Band, and...