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Crooked Still leaves audience begging for more
As lead singer Aoife O’ Donovan scrawled out her set list at the merchandise table, fans crowded around to buy T-shirts, CDs and to see which songs Crooked Still would be playing on September 15 at Off Broadway. Hailing from Boston, Crooked Still’s first performance in St. Louis was well [...]
St. Louis: a city for music hunters
For concert-goers, the St. Louis music scene is all about adaptation and patience. Yes, certain bands will invariably skip over St. Louis. Let us not forget that invariably, no matter what the genre, a favorite band will skip over not just St. Louis, but any home city. It is an inevitability to be [...]
Strawfoot floods The Firebird with rootsy punk-stomp
Strawfoot, St. Louis’ premiere gang of genre blending rustic musicians, is helmed by the maniacal Reverend Marcus, and supported by a salty brood of banjo, stand up bass, violin, cello and electric guitar. Think drunken country-stop but loud, dark and very raucous. Like Flogging Molly brewed up [...]
Student need live music
Live music is out there, like the rhythmic heart-thump of the jungle’s most feral and fearsome cats and more people, students in particular, owe it to themselves to strike out and enjoy it. Why more of us do not get out to the live shows is a conundrum gnawing at my jelly parts like an army ant [...]
Tapes n’ Tapes sweat pure entertainment
Tapes n’ Tapes blew into The Firebird on August 21 and lit up the sweating crowd with an 18-song set, a tour de-force that rocked from top to bottom. As soon as guitarist and vocalist, Josh Grier, sauntered onstage and told the audience that The Firebird’s air conditioners were down, a [...]