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Powering Central Arts
About a month ago, I had this conversation with a longtime Area Band Dude about the state of live music in a post-pandemic Fort...
Concert Review: Sur Duda, FIT, Cool Jacket at MASS
The vehicle for singer-songwriter Cameron Smith, Sur Duda, celebrated a record release party last night at MASS with Dallas’ FIT and local garage-rockers Cool...
2022 Vision
It seems like every year, our fair burg grasps the next highest rung on the gilded ladder of ascension toward Official Gold Star Nationally...
R.I.P., Stephen Sondheim
It’s weird that I just got through watching tick, tick… Boom! on Netflix, in which Bradley Whitford portrays Stephen Sondheim and does an expert...
April Bond’s Invocation of the Divine
Many of the world’s religions are built around the concept of opposing forces. Whether bound in perpetual struggle between each other or held together...
Noteworthy
With the exception of the big Joshua Ray Walker’s show at Lola’s Trailer Park which we wrote about last week, I don’t see a...
Rivercrest Yacht Club Raises Anchor
The moniker “party band” and which groups it’s applied to often carries an undue negative connotation. Somehow, not being “serious” can translate into not...
Noteworthy
T-Totalers Friday at Lola’s
Welp, after watching Uncle Toasty blow the roof off MASS on Friday, I can confirm that they do indeed induce a...
Sleepy Atlantis Rises Again
About six years ago, I was in St. Louis to play the last show of a two-week tour with my old band, and it would’ve...
Who’s Your Uncle Toasty?
Mean Motor Scooter drummer Jeffery Chase Friedman is fronting a new band. It’s called Uncle Toasty, and, at least for its debut show at...
