Most Popular
-
Deadbeats Ho!: Did you pay your tax bills last year? Of course you did — unless you’re called out in this story.
-
OldestProfession2.0: A new generation of local "providers" and "hobbyists" create a virtual red-light district
-
Cheesesteak Quest: Can Ian find a decent Philly cheesesteak in St. Louis? Yes, he can!
-
Stone Temple Pilots
2 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
-
Bet the Ranch: What were the odds? Lumière Place has a steak house!
-
Paintless in St. Louis? St. Louis Alderwoman Donna Baringer wants to treat cans of spray paint like they're handguns. (11)
-
Rare On Air: St. Louis' own RiverfrontRadio.com is changing the way Web radio is done (8)
-
Cheesesteak Quest: Can Ian find a decent Philly cheesesteak in St. Louis? Yes, he can! (6)
-
Magnum Pi: Can Ian make peace with Provel? Solve for Π. (4)
-
OldestProfession2.0: A new generation of local "providers" and "hobbyists" create a virtual red-light district (4)
-
Stone Temple Pilots
2 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
-
Midwest Mayhem
7 p.m. Thursday, May 22. City Museum, 701 North 15th Street
-
RFT Music Awards Nominees: St. Louis' Best and Brightest
-
Rare On Air: St. Louis' own RiverfrontRadio.com is changing the way Web radio is done
-
Forever Changes: Chick Corea's Return To Forever reunites and shows neo-jazz fusion groups how it's done
-
Loop's Moonrise Hotel to Open April 2009
01:17PM 06/18/08 -
Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: The Pointer Sisters, "Slow Hand"
02:26PM 06/18/08 -
Rushing Molina into Line Up Could Be Huge Mistake
08:52AM 06/18/08 -
Hell's Kitchen: Episode 12
04:03PM 06/18/08
What we are writing about
- 7-Up
- A Closer Walk with...
- Araka
- Central West End...
- COCA
- Cory Spinks
- Craft Alliance
- foie gras
- Kevin Kline Awards
- Ludo
- Mensa
- Mexican cuisine
- Mosaic
- musicals
- Othello
- Playstation
- RFT DJ Spin-off
- sexual harassment
- St. Louis theater
- The Black Rep
- The Ghost of the Forest
- Three Monkeys
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- University City
- Vashon High School
- Washington University
- White Flag Projects
- Wii
- Xbox
- ~scape
Recent Articles By Shae Moseley
-
Clouds
8 p.m. Saturday, June 21. 2 Cents Plain, 1114 Olive Street
-
The Raconteurs
8 p.m. Thursday, June 12. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
-
Home on the Range: The Old 97's gets back to its roots on the new Blame It on Gravity
-
Bill Mallonee
8 p.m. Monday, June 2. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue
-
Pela
9 p.m. Monday, June 2. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street
National Features
-
Westword
Dr. Eternity
If Terry Grossman lives forever, he wants you to be there to see it.
By Joel Warner -
Dallas Observer
The Man Who Would Be King
Freddy Haynes seemed a shoo-in to lead the NAACP. Then Obama's pastor came to town.
By Jesse Hyde -
Phoenix New Times
Visions of Allison DuBois
There's no proof the real-life Medium has ever cracked a case, but her fans don't care.
By Megan Irwin -
Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Shark Huggers
Tourists can't wait to get next to them--even though they're eating machines.
By Amy Guthrie
Singer
8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 21. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street
By Shae Moseley
Published: June 18, 2008-
Photos © Robt A.A. Lowe
Singer: An all-star post-rock cast.
Details:
Subject(s): Singer
The members of Singer represent an all-star cast of Midwest post-art-rock experimentalists, all of whom hail from brain-bending, mathy and progressive outfits such as 90 Day Men, U.S. Maple and Town and Country. But while Singer's songs take cues from late-'70s No Wave and the drifting wooziness of '90s bands like Slint and Tortoise, more often than not its debut, Unhistories, has more in common with the simple, solitary strum of wayward bluesmen like Robert Johnson. Gang vocals and dissonant harmonies propel meandering arrangements from hook to hook, with each song calling to mind a circus-tent tour of oddities. Each seemingly disconnected motif combines to form a strangely unified whole, while Singer's dark soulfulness sets its music apart from anything any of its members have done in the past.
