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 [...]

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 [...]

David Wolk of Cranky Yellow | Photo Chase Macri “Overall I’d say I was just relieved. To have had the experience, and it was awesome, and being able to just kind of move on from there.” As previously reported on this site, last we left David Wolk he had decided to shut down Cranky Yellow, [...]

Fifteen years is a long time to be doing anything. It is an especially long time for a band. On Friday November 18th, The Conformists celebrated fifteen years of playing music together. Despite the joyous setting, the evening was also bittersweet as the bands vocalist, Mike Benker, feels that fifteen years is enough for him. [...]

The above video is an example of basic video storytelling that describes the songwriting process of the band Jack Buck. The bands songs are melodically disharmonic and rhythmically complicated, and their assembly involves more counting than it does feel initially. The video shows the band working through their songs and was shot in the bands [...]

For young people with passionate drive, it is easy to feel cranky when roadblocks impede your progress. But that crankiness has turned into near despair for the local St. Louis art emporium Cranky Yellow and its owner David Wolk. After years of doing business, the retail art shop that sells kitschy odds and ends as [...]

I wrote a piece for Eleven in June about the Baltimore based indie rock/shoegaze duo Wye Oak. It went through a couple of edits before arriving at the version that was printed. I don’t like the printed version much, but I’ll eventually scan it for the portfolio. Here’s two different versions of the article, plus [...]

For the April issue of Eleven Mag I wrote a piece on the St. Louis power pop trio The Blind Eyes. You can see the version that ran in print here, and the full text below. “Could you please mention that I’m really cool and good looking?” I hadn’t needed any encouragement to write highly [...]

This is a features piece I wrote about ((Thorlock)) for the January issue of Eleven Magazine. The best bands have a mystique about them. Some shroud themselves in mystery and intrigue while Cape Girardeau’s ((Thorlock)) shroud themselves literally in black robes. The self-labeled extraterrestrials have been gently probing the St. Louis area metal scene for [...]

Here is my article for the September edition of Eleven on the local band Union Tree Review. Union Tree Review like to keep things local. By local, I don’t simply mean to the city of St. Louis, but to the very neighborhood they live and play music. Union Tree Review describe themselves as a Cherokee [...]