This St. Louis songwriter's self-proclaimed spacegrass (like astro-turf?) record sees its release this month as the product of three years of intensive collaboration. His story-based Americana came to fruition thanks to a huge roster of like-minded musicians.
If you're going to tackle the apocalypse as the concept behind your album, you'd better give yourself more than five songs to play around in. King Thief's The End of the World EP claims to be only volume one of an ongoing series, so we might eventually see them continue to wrangle with the doomsday theme. For now, though, their grandiose and cinematic alt-rock stands as an interesting start.
The CD version of this 3-track EP takes full advantage of the frame of the liner notes by including a 34-page booklet of high-quality black and white photographs. There are only 7 CDs left in this limited run, so be sure to hop on over if you want to snag one. If it's just the gorgeous instrumentals you're after, you can stream them below or download them for $5 at Corpse Pose's Bandcamp.
If you’re searching for a good music class for your baby, toddler, preschooler, or kindergartner, you probably won’t go wrong with Kindermusik. I cannot speak for every Kindermusik class, of course; we’ve only been to class with one teacher. That one teacher, though, has made a believer out of me! Read more about Kindermusik in St. Louis: A Wonderful Introduction to Music and Movement
Naming records after weird animals is a good career move. Aspiring bands take note--critics are at least 17% more likely to listen to your debut if it's named for a critter like the Tapir. Read more about Pachyderm - Tapir EP
You don't hear rock operas about time travel and dinosaurs just every day, but some bands are awesome enough to put them out into the world. Ludo is one such band. Their EP Broken Bride once inspired some theater kids at the University of Chicago so much that they staged it as an actual opera, with actors and sets and everything. It's some pretty epic stuff. There's no official video but someone cobbled together some Final Fantasy X footage instead, which works well enough thematically.
As I posted last month, St. Louis is the place to be for concerts this summer. From Journey to Heart, Def Leppard to Poison to Lynard Skynard, there are more concerts that I want to attend than there are not. That said, I have never purchased concert tickets before (though I have purchased musical tickets before, which I guess are similar), and I’d love to hear about how to go about it from someone who’s been there and done that. Read more about Best Concert Deals in St. Louis
In all of our 16 years together—we’ve been a couple since junior high, see—my husband and I have never attended a non-school related concert together. Can you believe that? We’ve spent much of our lives working; we both got jobs as soon as we were 16 and between that and school, then college, and caring for our families, and participating in dozens of service organizations, we just never had the time for traditional dates, and now we both really regret it. Not that we wouldn’t have done the things we did, of course; we just wish that we’d maybe gone to a bar, shot a little pool, and attended a concert or two. Read more about Best Summer Lineup Ever in St. Louis!
Tickets on sale February 19: Lil Wayne "I'm Still Music Tour" with Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Travis Barker & Mixmaster Mike, which will be performing April 10, 2011 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Tickets on sale at 10 a.m. with no service charge at box office and starting out around $50. Get yours at ticketmaster or livenation. Read more about St Louis: Lil Wayne "I'm Still Music Tour"
Before Julie Andrews made being a nun romantic and fun, The Sound of Music was a live musical enjoyed by children and adults alike. Now through Sunday, St. Louisans can see the performance live at The Muny in Forest Park.
I remember watching The Sound of Music as a child and just being enchanted by Andrews in the film. “A Few of My Favorite Things” is a song I like to hum when I’m in a sticky situation—at the dentist or about to throw up, for example—that seems to make me calm down. (I have no idea why.) Since then, there have been dozens of remakes of the song by artists such as Tori Amos, Luther Vandross, Barbara Streisand, Outkast, and many others; Andrews’ version remains my favorite. Read more about The Sound of Music Playing at The Muny