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Monthly Archives: May 2008

The Post-Rockist’s 2008 RFT Showcase Picks

Huzzah! The 2008 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is upon us! Ladies and germs, feast your eyes and ears upon the magnificent, stupendous, astonishing line-up of town troubadors, warblers, and aspiring legends converging from all corners of metro St. Louis for one day, and one day only! Ring the bells! Wave the flags! Blast the trumpets! [...]
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House music (the loving kind, not the dancing kind)

1. Woody Guthrie – I Ain’t Got No Home (from Dust Bowl Ballads) 2. Hank Williams – Ready To Go Home (from The Ultimate Collection) 3. Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner – Better Move It On Home (from The Essential Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton) 4. Eddie Floyd – Bring It On Home (from Chronicle: [...]
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Living Room Music

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music I [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music II [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music III [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Living Room Music IV (all selections from John Cage: Music for Percussion) I don’t listen [...]
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Our house, in the middle of the street

Well, I’ve finally moved into my house. It’s been quite the ordeal: the cable guy accidentally drilled a hole in my brand new kitchen floor, a door had to be removed to fit in some new appliances, and I have a metric ton of cardboard boxes left to dispose of. But at least the hard [...]
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Some Velvet Morning

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood – “Some Velvet Morning” (from Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best of Nancy & Lee) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Primal Scream – “Some Velvet Morning” (from Evil Heat) Sorry for the lack of regular posting as of late, kiddos. As [...]
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Wilco live at the Pageant, Friday, May 16, 2008

(foto credit) When the members of Wilco shuffled onto stage Friday night, dressed like librarians on happy hour, the crowd went bananas. Wild, uncaged, totally unexpected excitement. Don’t get me wrong, I like Wilco. Pretty much everyone I know likes Wilco. They’re a very likeable band. But they’ve been granfathered into that rare indie elder [...]
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A British Invasion (of Sorts) in Detroit: Foals, The Teenagers, Wednesday, April 30

Wednesday nights aren’t too bad if you can spend them running around town to catch international touring bands who have serendipitously converged upon a single city limit–your city limit–on the same night. Sure, you have two more days of work before the weekend, and that big meeting tomorrow morning, and you know you’re going to [...]
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