A social media response to my final project

Preview of my upcoming final project — Behind The Scene: Those Building St. Louis’ Indie Music Community It’s almost here. My final project over the St. Louis indie music scene will be officially published this weekend on this site and today we have the second of two previews of “Behind the Scene”. Tuesday’s post featured [...]

Preview of my upcoming final project — Behind The Scene: Those Building St. Louis’ Indie Music Community Coming to you this weekend is the publication of my final project for my journalism masters degree. The project is over St. Louis’ indie music scene and those working hard to build it into something special. A major [...]

St. Louis metallic noise rock band Jack Buck will perform live at The Fox Hole in St. Louis tonight, Saturday April 28th, at 8pm. Video by Danny Matteson Jack Buck has quickly developed a reputation as one of St. Louis’ most exciting bands in the short time they’ve been performing live. Described by musician and [...]

Video by Spotify How many songs do you have in your music library? 10,000? 30,000? 50,000? Do you have Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, and Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien”? Speaking of aliens, what about Alien Ant Farm’s Michael Jackson cover? Or perhaps the King of Pop’s original? Can you fit your entire library on your [...]

“Ten bands. Ten secret tribute sets. One awesome weekend.” This is how Michael Tomko describes his annual concert series, An Under Cover Weekend (AUCW), on its website. He considers it an “opportunity to have diverse collection St. Louis’ best bands under the one roof for one amazing concert.” Over two nights, five bands perform an [...]

“At a show in Columbia, [MO] this band’s trailer had their band logo and ‘facebook.com slash this band’ and we’re like ‘Woah!’ Do you guys know that even if you put none of your band stuff on this you are already a target? You’ve put a spotlight on this saying ‘Steal this stuff.’ I think [...]

Last week’s post was the first introducing the topic of my master’s thesis: how people of faith relate to anti-religious music. Particularly, do Christians dig anti-Christian metal? As outlined in the video in the last post, “Christian music” isn’t limited to just music for church services or for accompanying prayer. There are bands who profess [...]

The latest barrage of hate on the band Liturgy

Jack Buck and Coward tour the midwest Photo by Chase Macri On January 12-14th, the bands Jack Buck and Coward set out across the midwest to play four shows in three days. The tour, entitled the “Home Turf” tour, went through each of the three cities the members of the bands live: Kansas City, Columbia [...]