@RecordStoreDay 2013 in #STL #MUSIC scene & the #RiverBend!

Here is your break down for Record Store Day in the St. Louis metro area. I'm going to throw in one download by a random artist playing at each location. There are six store locations are having events and they are as follows:

Apop Records is having an outdoor block party with live music, DJs, RSD specials and much more in the store. Spinning that day will be DJ RYAN SNOWDEN, KDHX's JEFF HESS and COSMIC SLOP: the unstoppable duo of Mark Willy and Mike McHugh. Plus, check out these bands: 12:00PM Wax Fruit, 12:45 NRML PPL, 1:30PM Broken Prayer, 2:15PM Bad Dates, 3:00PM Grand Inquisitor, 3:30PM ReDeMeR, 4:00PM Trauma Harness, 4:30PM Brainstems, 5:15PM Union Electric, 6:00PM Ou Où, 6:45PM Lumpy, 7:30PM Black James, 8:15PM Shaved Women. They'll be stocking more RSD releases than you can handle, with sales and specials store-wide! Plus: outdoor booths from St. Louis labels and groups: Freezerburn Industries, Rankoutsider, Extension Chord, Rerun Records, BDR Records, KSLU Encapsulated, Acid Kat, Dudes Magazine.

Afterward, the party is just down the street: CHIKAMORACHI (Darin Gray & Chris Corsano) performs at Foam, supported by the luminous GHOST ICE. RSVP for that HERE or watch the trailer HERE.

*Click HERE to RSVP to the Apop Records event on 4/20 and get all the extra details.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Happy Birthday Little" Jesus by Black James.

CD Warehouse has four bands performing live there at the store and the music starts at 1PM I was told by Walter, but I don't have an order of set times for these groups: Soul Kiss, Greek Fire, J. Boozer and Fivefold. They will have tons of cd/dvd/vinyl specials, FREE concert tickets and Record Store Day only releases!

*There is not an event page to RSVP to the CD Warehouse event on 4/20.



*Click HERE to stream/download "When Saturday Night Turns Into Sunday Morning" by J. Boozer.

Euclid Records has three days of celebration! On Friday, April 19th they have: 5PM Troubadour Dali, 6PM The Vanilla Beans, 7PM Black James, 8PM Adult Fur. Then on Saturday, April 20th they have: 11AM The Jungle Fire, 12PM Bo and The Locomotive, 1PM Fumer, 2PM née, 3PM Cotton Mather, 4PM The Love Experts, 5PM The Jans Project, 6PM Sleepy Kitty, 7PM The Bottle Rockets. Finally, on Sunday, April 21st they have: 12PM The Deciders, 1PM Superhero Killer, 2PM CaveofswordS, 3PM Dibiase, 4PM Karate Bikini, 5PM Yowie. DJs outside include, food and drink available from Cyrano's, Tiny Montgomery and Hwy 61 Roadhouse, free beer courtesy of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Classic local music footage on the big screen courtesy of The STL Music Video Preservation Project.

In addition to the RSD exclusives, there will be a sidewalk sale.

*Click HERE RSVP to the Euclid Records events page.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Harder With Time" by Bo And The Locomotive.

Slackers has two locations doing events. Record Store Day is April 20th this year, and Slackers wants you to come out for a day of great tunes and great deals! They’ll have live music, exclusive Record Store Day Vinyl, and more! Special Deals: Buy 2 Get 1 Free on pre-owned CDs, Vinyl, and Cassettes*, 50% Off All T-Shirts & the lesser of the items is free. Exclusive RSD Vinyl available! The first location has some slots not filled out on their site. I will email Luke and see what he may have not had time to add to their blog yet and will keep this post up to date as I get more info. Here is what they have posted: 3PM Skinney Boy, 4PM N/A, 5PM The Weekend Routine, 6PM N/A, 7PM N/A, 8PM Losing Controllers. Stay tuned to their blog post HERE for specials and RSD vinyl listing or the event page below for last minute new additions.

*Click HERE to RSVP to the Slackers in St. Charles event on 4/20.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Robotic" by Losing Controllers.

The Alton, IL. location has the following posted: 11AM I Could Sleep in the Clouds, 12PM 3 Of 5, 1PM Ardor Glowing, 2PM Same Old Explosion, 3PM Sweet Dirt, 4PM Seminary Villains, 5PM 33 on the Needle, 6PM N/A, 7PM Skinney Boy.

*Click HERE to RSVP to the Slackers in Alton, IL. event on 4/20.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Invisible Man" by I Could Sleep In The Clouds.

Vintage Vinyl's Record Store Day 2013 will have FREE Schlafly Beer and FREE Monster Energy Drink! Live music as follows: 10:30AM The Chainsaw Gentleman, 11:00AM Tower Groove Records showcase with Kisser, Beth Bombara and Accelerando. 12:00PM Bruiser Queen, 1:00PM Josh Ritter, 2:00PM The Incurables, 3:00PM FarFetched Records showcase with Mathias & The Pirates, Scripts N Screwz, Thelonious Kryptonite, Adult Fur and CaveOfSwords. 4:00PM Brothers Lazaroff, 5:00PM Black Spade, 5:30PM Beat Street featuring Da Fly D-Ex, G-Wiz, DJ Alejan, DJ Needles and DJ B-Money.

Guest DJ spins are happening too! 10:00AM Jesse Raya & Holly Renshaw - The Pageant, 11:30AM Lern from - KSHE 95, 12:30PM Ryan Kelley - Pop's Music Venue, 1:30PM Bryan Sutter - Music Photographer, 2:30PM Chris Bay - KDHX, Gold Soundz, 3:30PM John Wendland - KDHX, Memphis to Manchester, 4:30PM Dean Minderman - St. Louis Jazz Notes, 5:30PM Jay Chandrasekhar - Broken Lizard, 6:30PM Justin & Jerid Saffell - Heavy Riff Brewing.

*Click HERE to RSVP to the Vintage Vinyl event on 4/20.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Middling" by Kisser.

This weeks #VideoOfTheWeek! is provided by the STL Music Preservation Project mentioned previously in this post. HERE is the link to their YouTube channel. This video below is from '97 and was performed by The Trip Daddys. Enjoy some vintage daddy...

Witness Rowsdower's heavy-blues groove, plus some Carpathia! #STL #MUSIC

Rowsdower has a lot of influences, yet one can say that they possess a blues oriented groove with a heavy sound. Music to head-bob too. For sure. Visit HERE for additional free downloads by Rowsdower. In addition, this week's #VideoOfTheWeek! is also by the group and was recently shot at Fubar.



Click HERE to stream/download "Starchild" by Rowsdower.



Carpathia released this song in 2011 and dropped me a line to share this with you. They have additional free downloads available on their Purevolume account HERE, as well.



Click HERE to stream/download "Giovanni" by Carpathia.

Coming soon is the Record Store Day post for 4/20!

Moritat, Earth Program, Boreal Hills, Moon Glampers @ Heavy Anchor Fri. April 12th! #STL #MUSIC

Moritat will be rolling through St Louis again, playing at Heavy Anchor on Friday, April 12th with Earth Program, Boreal Hills, and Moon Glampers. HERE is the event page on facebook. On our Soundcloud, you can download "I Forgot to Kiss Her" of which they'll be releasing a video for it in the very near future, as well as "Cats" which was the single premier off their debut LP CLiLL BLaNZIN. Plus, I went down the artists on the bill for that night's show and all have downloads available for sampling purposes, as well. We have a track by another Chicago act below and then the two original music groups based in St. Louis offer up a complete album digitally on Bandcamp.



*Click HERE to stream/download "I Forgot To Kiss Her" by Moritat.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Cats" by Moritat.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Oh, Russia" by The Earth Program.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Dope Hugz" the album by Boreal Hills.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Moon Glampers" the album by Moon Glampers.

Daniel Dwyer "Sincerely," EP Release this Friday @ Foam! #STL #MUSIC

This Friday night is a big one for one Daniel Dwyer as he will be joined on stage at Foam with his friends Carson Burke on upright bass, John Lee on cello and Chris Princivalli on acoustic guitar. They will be celebrating the "Sincerely," EP release along with Austin Jones and the Bootheel Boys, plus Jack Nations. This will be an all-ages show and is $5 at the door. Show starts at 9pm. Daniel shared on the event page HERE that "All the music on the EP will be recreated into something live, up close, genuine, and sincere." Sounds like a night of good music to me. Check out a song by Daniel Dwyer below and also this week's #VideoOfTheWeek! by Jack Nations below.

*Click HERE to stream/download "I Don't Know feat. IQ" by Daniel Dwyer.

Flyswatter Maestro - Little, Little, Late, Late #STL #MUSIC

Brandon Petit of The New Madrid Fault Line has a side project called, "Salt Creek Coyotes" and he heads up the production end of it. He also has released some experimental sounding electronic music with some hip-hop, rap and instrumental influences under his production monicker "Flyswatter Maestro". I'm digging the name for sure. Sample his track below and if you like it you can download the full nineteen-track album, as well.



*Click HERE to stream/download "Little, Little, Late, Late" by Flyswatter Maestro.



*Click HERE to stream/download the full album "Bill Malloney & The 2 Step Crew" by Flyswatter Maestro.

Richie Callison - The Story Behind "Do I Know You?" #STL #MUSIC

Richie Callison just so happened to be logged into his facebook account last year promoting his music when that little box popped up on the right. You know, the one that shows "Here's someone you may know", "Would you like to add them as a friend?" Before he sends a friend request, aside from having mutual friends, Richie always check to see what their musical tastes are. He uses it to promote his music. As it turned out, it was a hot chick that has mutual friends and loves hard rock music, so Richie sent the request. Not a day later, he get this snotty message from her "Do I Know You?" Richie thought about it for a while and wrote back,"No, but thanks for the song title!" True story, he also obviously created a story around this encounter. For the lyrics to this song and more of his music downloads visit HERE. His next single drops 4/16 on Itunes. The title is "Easy on the Eyes"!



*Click HERE to stream/download "Do I Know You?" by Richie Callison.

@BatallionMO stand up w/ their new effort "Resilience" #STL #MUSIC

The uplifting St. Louis Metal artist Battalion really does not disappoint with their sophomore release. It is the follow up to 2009's "Seasons" by them. "Resilience" was recorded in the fall of 2012 at The Nook Recording Studio in New Lenox, IL with studio engineer Nick Nativo (Oceano, Monsters). I saw them live this past year at Fubar and enjoyed their set. Vocalists Clint Kesinger and Jamey Kroesen bring it and duel throughout the entire effort. Then you have Josh Masten on guitar, Shad Baldes on the bass and Justin Bess on drums. Initially, they were from rural Green County, Illinois. After some time, they decided to move to St. Louis and get more exposure. Battalion is scheduled for an exclusive interview to be featured on The Black Sheep Radio Show (88.3FM, www.wqna.org) in Springfield, Illinois later this month. Battalion has been asked to perform, fellow St. Louis local, Tear Out The Heart's (Victory Record's) album release show on March 22nd at "The Mad Magician" in St. Louis. Tear Out The Heart is an aggressive and catchy metal-core band which signed to Victory Records in August of 2012. Below is a quick review of the album by Battalion, followed by a free download of one of their new songs. Note that the album can be purchased on Itunes and ordered on CD Baby through the band's facebook page, which is linked at the top of this paragraph.

The first track "Chump Change" starts out with a short, but powerful introduction to the new eight-song effort by Battalion called, "Resilience". The second song, "Semper Fi" shows off elements that the listener will discover throughout the album, as a whole. Time signature changes, sweet grooves and original sounding builds. It ends with silence, followed by an echo that is reverberated a few times which then brings the listener to the next song. The guitar work on "Riot Control" is real cool. The drummer really sets the pace with this one. I also liked the atmosphere on the bridge of this song too. An excellent choice for track three and this one really stood out to me.

On "Thieves" the listener finds out just how brutal these guy's sound is. A polyphonic symphony for the metal-head heading out to war, so to speak. "Heartland" has a particularly upbeat groove with some interesting time signature changes. On the bridge, there is a guitar effect that really makes the song hit home and also the vocals seem to be chanted by their vocalists as the reverb added to their tracks give this part a different feel. Thus proving that these guys are a threat from the heartland. "Armistice" is an instrumental song with a nice delay on the guitar and a clean tone. The drummer paces the timing out with some snare beats. The bass plays a low melody to fill it out further. Appropriately, timed out too. Which then brings us to the title track.

"Resilience" is a rousing number. Quickly I figured out why. This is an anthem. Not just for the listener, but for the group itself. At the end of the song, the lyrics state the following,"Take a look at where you are, Where you've been, and where you're going. You only have one life, achievement sustained through believing in myself. Tighten the grasp on what is dear to you, We are at the top of the bottom, we are a band of brothers standing resilient." The back ground vocals stand out well with the effect that is chosen as the last two lines of the lyrics above are repeated a few times as the song plays out. "The Maniac" is the final song and just leaves you wanting more. This one is merely unpredictable and the changes come out of nowhere throughout, whether it be the drums, the guitar or the vocals.



Click HERE to stream/download the song "Resilience" by Battalion.

This week's #VideoOfTheWeek!