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 [...]

For their EP My Heart Is The Eastern Horizon, the Nashville band Clemency decided to release each of the EP’s five songs individually a month at a time as singles, a tactic bands are increasingly exploring. But what makes Clemency unique is each single was also released as a music video. “We’ve never really shot [...]

Video of Kevin Harris performing at Floating Labs Floating Laboratories is one of a crop of new underground, do-it-yourself venues hosting alternative, experimental and noise music in St. Louis. Most of the events are spread through word of mouth, or announced via blog posts on sites like Josh Levi’s Flood Yr Face blog (check out [...]

Josh Levi Interview by chasemacri The word “success” can mean many things. It can be measured by the level of income an individual makes a year. It can be shown by owning a house, a car, by having a certain prestige in your field or title at your job. For musicians, “success” could be having [...]