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Ace of Spaidesnew

This St. Louis rapper thinks he's got a winning hand to play.

Riverfront Times | Ben Westhoff | 03-27-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Spaide R.I.P.P.E.R.

Midwestside Storynew

Story of the Year may show love to the scene that spawned them -- but can they survive flagging interest nationwide?

Riverfront Times | Julie Seabaugh | 03-13-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Story of the Year

Although it possesses a stubbornly optimistic core, The Weight is a Gift more often rumbles with varying degrees of betrayal, deception and heartache that sound like rather painful therapy sessions.

Riverfront Times | Annie Zaleski | 02-13-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Nada Surf

Contort Yourselfnew

They have a new label and a new album, but they're the same old Conformists.

Riverfront Times | Annie Zaleski | 01-23-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Conformists, Three Hundred

This Is Pop?new

The Click Five create harmonic bliss.

Riverfront Times | Kristyn Pomranz | 01-18-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Click Five

Ari Upnew

Indiana's Ari Ari starts 2006 on a spazzy high note.

Riverfront Times | Andrew Miller | 01-10-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ari Ari, There's a New Sheriff in Town

In With the Newnew

These St. Louis-area performers helped make 2005 a year of new beginnings for the local music scene, even as there were sad endings.

Riverfront Times | Annie Zaleski | 01-04-2006 | Music

Tags: yearinreview2005, minutes to midnight, adeline, geoff koch, on tracy lane, the bureau, tobi kai and the strays, warhammer 48k

Healthy Distrustnew

On the surface, 2005 was another banner year for hip-hop. But beneath the surface there was an underlying restlessness -- a cultural and an aesthetic agitation that was both hidden and violent.

Riverfront Times | Sam Chennault | 12-29-2005 | Music

Tags: yearinreview2005

Overlooked in 2005new

Most of the CDs on this list are by artists you've likely never heard of, but a couple are by neglected but trusty war-horses.

Riverfront Times | Scott Faingold | 12-29-2005 | Music

Tags: yearinreview2005

Hip-Hop Year in Reviewnew

A tight focus reveals hip-hop thriving in dozens of niches, even if none of the resultant albums can completely refute the sense that the genre is still stuck in a holding pattern.

Riverfront Times | Dan Leroy | 12-29-2005 | Music

Tags: yearinreview2005

Let There Be Rocknew

One writer counts down the ten albums that make it easy to avoid fretting about your old-fashioned, Rockist ways.

Riverfront Times | Rob Harvilla | 12-29-2005 | Music

Tags: yearinreview2005

Heady Metalnew

When it comes to heavy metal, 2005 will be remembered as the year the promising Sounds of the Underground tour debuted, metalcore dominated the scene and Iron Maiden got egged at Ozzfest.

Riverfront Times | Jason Bracelin | 12-29-2005 | Music

Tags: yearinreview2005