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The strange and violent world of St. Louis' bail bondsmen
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Lust for Crust: Katie's ain't your typical St. Louis pizza joint
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Tegan and Sara find their sister act soaring with The Con
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Radio Active: What has Patty Wente done to create such a meltdown at KWMU? (39)
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2007 RFT Music Showcase (6)
Week of May 31, 2007
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Music Showcase Schedule (6)
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Heat Rises: Pappy's Smokehouse elevates humble barbecue to ethereal heights (4)
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Tegan and Sara find their sister act soaring with The Con
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Fifteen things you might not know about the Bottle Rockets, on their fifteenth birthday
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B-Sides gets personal with Alicia Keys, as she is, and examines the parallels between Metallica-worshippers Apocalyptica and Harptallica
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Using Their Illusion: Ferocious — and funny — locals the Livers hope video builds the radio star
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Native-American healing and a Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitarist rejuvenate metal thrashers Testament
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Recent Articles By Kristy Wendt
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B-Sides takes a Jazz Journey and says hello to Ne-Yo
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Musiq Soulchild
8 p.m. Wednesday, April 9. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
National Features
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SF Weekly
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The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo
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Miami New Times
Love is No Contract
A Florida man sues his girlfriend-for dumping him.
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Houston Press
The Myth of the Bachelor's Degree
A growing number of educators face a hard truth: not every kid is college material.
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Family Affair
7 p.m. Friday, May 16. Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Delmar Boulevard, University City
By Kristy Wendt
Published: May 14, 2008
Family Affair's mixtape Daily Situations features the locally flavored lyrics of real-life identical twin brothers Jarrett ("Mr. R.E.P.") and Jason ("QB") Jones, who promise in an early track "At Attention" to be "standing on top of the arches" of the St. Louis hip-hop scene. The string orchestra and choral riffs in the background of "If Da Family Invited" and "Get Get Money," combined with the visceral melodrama of their lyrics, nicely contrast gritty scenes with pop sensibilities. The siblings don't shy away from accessible hip-pop elsewhere on Situations, either; songs feature raps over riffs from 50 Cent's "I Get Money," Timberlake's "My Love" and Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous." But it's the groovy gold nuggets of laid-back street talk Family Affair unleashes mid-album on "We Don't Love 'Em" and "Round My Way" (and most notably, an aptly named track featuring Gotta Be Karim called "We Do Our Own Thang") that stand out. All feature confident, effortless-sounding hip-hop evocative of a late summer night's drive through neighborhoods in the Lou.
