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05/22/2024

I just woke up, WTF is going on?

06/04/2019

Our big party in the Grove is gonna be nuts this year....

One hundred bands, eleven stages, one weekend. Jack Daniel's presents ShowcaseSTL, an event where local legends, longtime favorites and fresh faces all converge in the...

03/15/2019

A rundown of the worst -- those goddamn electric scooters -- to the best of the first three days of SXSW 2019

It's the scooters' world. I just tried to see bands in it. My experience of SXSW Music 2019 began on the afternoon of Tuesday, March...

01/15/2019

Musical and romantic partnerships can be tricky, but sometimes the couple who plays together stays together.

Most good love stories have a memento of the relationship's first blush — a mash note or a snapshot tucked away in commemoration. For Andrew...

08/23/2018

The shooting took place on the highway after the show as the van headed to a hotel for the night.

A van transporting Florida-based rapper/R&B singer YK Osiris was shot up following his performance at the Pageant Wednesday night, according to multiple posts by the...

06/06/2018

The guys accused of helping themselves to the vans of oh-so-many musicians visiting St. Louis? Their bond was set at just $5,000. Now they've fled.

Two suspects connected to more than 100 car break-ins around St. Louis apparently had one more heist to pull — slipping their GPS monitors and...

12/08/2017

Ryan Koenig, a longtime fixture of Pokey LaFarge's band as one of the original South City Three, has been hospitalized after being struck by a car during a tour stop in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ryan Koenig, a longtime fixture of Pokey LaFarge's band and one of the original South City Three, has been hospitalized after being struck by a...

10/24/2017

"I think it's time for a white senator."

Bob Romanik, the self-professed "Grim Reaper of Radio," is contemplating another run for office in Illinois. The St. Clair County Freedom Coalition, a Belleville, Illinois, organization...

10/07/2017

The incident allegedly took place on the rapper's tour bus, which was parked in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

Nelly has been arrested early Saturday morning on r**e charges. According to TMZ, a woman says was r**ed on the tour bus belonging to the...

09/19/2017

Standing in the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke of his dream for a nation, Insane Clown Posse addressed a large crowd -- and talked about buttholes.

Rusty is having serious second thoughts about going through with this. A large man with wire-frame glasses and a goatee — clad in an Insane...

09/11/2017

"As the son of a police officer I'd like to encourage police officers to be more about community policing and upholding the constitution versus simply meeting quotas."

When Run the Jewels last performed in St. Louis, everything was different. It was the night of November 24, 2014. St. Louis county prosecutor Bob McCulloch...

09/10/2017

"St. Louis, y'all alright with me."

Snoop Dogg sure does have love for St. Louis. The legendary Long Beach rapper closed out day one of LouFest this year, delivering a set...