Category Archives: Concerts

Last Week in STL Music, In Case You Missed It

This past week has been exceptionally bonkers. First, there was the gigantic shitstorm kicked up by the Crocodiles’ appearance at the Firebird on Wednesday night. Riding in on a wave of moderately not-negative buzz, the San Diego two-piece coifed their carefully crafted Lou Reed circa 1967 look, flicked on their drum machine for approximately 13 [...]
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Review of Deastro – Moondagger (by Jeff Milo)

  Jeff Milo of The Real Detroit Weekly and Deep Cutz blog asked us if we might publish his review of Deastro’s Moondagger. We, of course, said of course.  Moondagger feels so human. For all its synth-wrung furls and precise rhythms pulsing from that preconceived-computer-perfected genre of electro-pop, it is added a fleshy tremulous pound, a [...]
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Quadruple CD Release Prom at The Crofoot, Friday, Detroit

This Friday, Detroit celebrates four new releases by some of our best bands. The highlight of the night is Deastro’s inevitable break-out release, Moondagger. This album is sure to launch Randy and his band onto the national scene. Be sure to catch him tonight, because it’s likely he’ll be touring places other than Michigan widely [...]
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Blase Splee CD Release for Et Cetera | Saturday at Smalls

A few weeks ago, I got to hang out with the gentlemen of Blasé Splee at one of their Royal Oak residences. The result was this article about the band in this week’s Metro Times. It was a very fun and entertaining 3 hours of hanging out, where I got to listen to final mixes [...]
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Concert Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Pageant, St. Louis, June 2, 2009 (setlist + video)

The first time I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was in 2001, when they were opening for Liars at the Magic Stick. The band was in shambles, but it was less a cultivated image than the state of affairs they were in. Karen O was sloppy drunk, falling all over the place, spitting beer into [...]
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Friday Fix: Screaming Females (Opening for Jack White’s Dead Weather on Summer Tour)

“That 3 minute guitar solo was awesome.” Believe it or not, I said that–aloud, to people!–about a month ago, during a set by Screaming Females at The Trumbelplex in lovely Woodbridge, Detroit, Michigan, USA.  I’m not wont to pipe such an utterance aloud, nor under my breathe, nor think it in the least. Ever. But [...]
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Crushing the Cenotaph: Maryland Deathfest 2009

A couple friends and I drove from Chicago to Baltimore in a car with leather seats and no air conditioning, blaring metal so loud we could hear it with all the windows open while doing eighty down the Pennsylvania turnpike. We took turns plugging our mp3 players into the tape adapter and playing songs from [...]
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