Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
12.04.2009 4:12 pm

Electro dance duo LA Riots play Sol Lounge Sat.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sol Lounge at 4239 Lindell Blvd. will be the place to be on Saturday night as internationally-known DJs LA Riots will rock the house. The well-traveled electro dance duo, which played Chicago’s Lollapalooza in August, are making a special stop…

  • Comments (0)
  • Email this
12.02.2009 5:50 pm

From the vault: Neil Young plays Kiel in 1973

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On Feb. 28, 1973, 27-year-old Neil Young played Kiel Hall touring in support of Harvest. He should come back and play the Kiel Opera House someday. In fact, he’d be a good choice to open it. Get on that, Sports…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
12.01.2009 1:53 pm

Caleb Travers streams new song, new record out in Spring

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Hard-working alt-country songwriter Caleb Travers has released a breezy sounding tune called “Break My Fall” on his MySpace page. It’s a little less country than past efforts with bright keyboard notes, a muscular chorus and an overall Mellencamp meets Pearl…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
11.30.2009 12:07 pm

Q&A: Scotland’s Camera Obscura play rare St. Louis show Tue. at Off Broadway

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The new album by Glasgow’s Camera Obscura, My Maudlin Career, was released in April, just a few weeks after Zooey Deschanel’s She & Him released their very Obscura-sounding debut. With respect to M. Ward, I’ll take Tracyanne Campbell’s voice over…

  • Comments (4)
  • Email this
11.20.2009 3:15 pm

Show Flyer: Boorays reunite Sat. at Blueberry Hill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Boorays will come together once again tomorrow night at Blueberry Hill — the same spot as so many of their early 1990s gigs at the old Cicero’s. The Helium Tapes will play last.

  • Comments (3)
  • Email this
11.19.2009 11:42 am

Q&A: Rockabilly icon Dex Romweber plays Atomic’s Fox Hole Friday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Don’t miss an icon of underground music tomorrow (Friday) at the Atomic Cowboy’s Fox Hole.

Sandwiched between ‘Kentucky porch-stompers’ The Dirt Daubers, Carbondale’s Whistle Pigs and Bob Reuter’s Alley Ghost is Chapel Hill’s Dexter Romweber Duo. Dex is best known for…

  • Comments (0)
  • Email this
11.18.2009 4:24 pm

Out this week: Them Crooked Vultures, Bowie re-issue

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Them Crooked Vultures s/t (DGC/Interscope)
Pretty much just need to know the line up to get a sense of what’s going on here: Josh Homme on vocals and guitar (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss), John Paul Jones on bass and keyboards (um,…

  • Comments (0)
  • Email this
11.13.2009 12:04 pm

Q&A: Getting to know the Helium Tapes

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s CD release time once again for the Helium Tapes, the local power pop quintet whose debut came out just over a year ago.

Ghost Wave, another stellar effort, will be released Sat. at the Off Broadway. On it, the band…

  • Comments (0)
  • Email this
11.12.2009 4:44 pm

Q&A: Peter Bjorn and John

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s a banner weekend for the Gargoyle Club on the Wash U campus as those crazy Swedes Peter Bjorn and John and El Perro Del Mar team up on Friday followed by RJD2 on Saturday.

PB&J are touring in support of…

  • Comments (0)
  • Email this
11.12.2009 10:49 am

So. Ill. band joins forces with film festival this weekend

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis International Film Festival, running today through Nov. 22, is offering a musical twist to a few of their film presentations this weekend.

The late film director Oscar Micheaux, a Metropolis, Ill. native, will emerge from obscurity this Friday…

  • Comments (0)
  • Email this