Music News

Al Holliday is a 25-year-old, white, Collinsville, Illinois-bred pianist and singer who makes his debut with twelve original songs on Made It Through the Mill, Again .

What if St. Louis music fans never missed a live concert? Imagine if every single sold-out Saturday at the Pageant, every DIY basement mosh pit or soundtracked park picnic was available online the next day for those who missed out.

When I'm nudged into Erykah Badu's backstage dressing room at the Brooklyn Museum, she's still recovering from a spontaneous outbreak of extended public adulation.

On Saturday night, the Proper Nang Night at Maria's Taco Xpress hosts a fundraiser for Austin High School that includes the Belle Sounds , Mike McCoy's Tontine , Pangia , the Bare Feat , and my band the Seaside Swifts .

Last night's Mind Over Music at the Palm Door had all the wonder and suspense of your usual trivia night, only with a score more geeks who hang out at record stores.

Gambit has joined other local organizations in an effort to raise funds for the victims of the Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans.

On Sunday night the 2013 Billboard Music Awards went down and as if performances from Justin Bieber, Prince, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and Bruno Mars didn't entice you, we bet their walk through the Billboard blue carpet did! Check out the photos from the blue carpet below and tell us whose looks you liked the best! Did you like ... (more)

Last week, actor and LSD-enthusiast Shia LaBeouf and synth-pop duo Future Unlimited debuted the gloomy video for "Haunted Love" directed by none other than everyone's favorite Michael Bay leading man.

The most distinctive voice to enter the blues-rock scene in a long time belongs to - the postwoman? Brittany Howard, the front-woman for the Alabama Shakes, was a mail carrier up until last year, when the release of the band's album Boys & Girls allowed the members to finally quit their day jobs.

Artizan are a band who have released Ancestral Energy. This is very melodic heavy rock which straddles the line between metal and hard rock.

The Last Bison's chamber-folk style is built on homespun, organic elements: The plink of a banjo, the thud of a single drum, soaring harmonies from violin and cello.

Carl Hunt, an original member of the party band Slapwater , was fired from the popular, Peninsula-based group in an acrimonious dispute that surfaced last year.

Country music singer Chely Wright and her music exec wife, Lauren Blitzer Wright, welcomed twin boys Saturday, reports People.com . The babies arrived a little earlier than expected, but George Samuel and Everett Joseph are thriving, the singer's rep says, adding that the boys are named for their great-grandfathers. "We are grateful for all the ... (more)

The Doors' founding keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, died at 74 in Germany on Monday, May 20, after a long fight with cancer, his publicist said.

Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, at the RoMed Clinic after a battle with bile duct cancer.

Seeking a reprieve from the unyielding noon sun at the 2012 Summer Camp Music Festival, I head to the Soulshine Tent for a bit of shade and cold drink.

Our sunburned skin is peeling and we've got a mix of sand, glitter and cake in our ears, but damnit if we don't miss Hangout Music Fest already! Cue Boyz II Men , ya'll, because we're not ready to say goodbye.

It's a commonly held view that covers suck. They can be lame, unimaginative and tantamount to stealing someone else's thoughts.

Over on our sister blog Fork in the Road they've got a pretty thorough recap of Friday's Great GoogaMooga.

"I want you all to scream as loud as the people on that roller coaster," shouted rapper Jake Miller.