Another clip from the Showme Blow-out. This is the reformed 2000’s version of Jeff Hess’ legendary garage band from the 90’s, The Geargrinders.

On this Episode Lo-Fi Saint Louis gets green with a visit to the Earthways Festival. The Earthways Festival is a showcase of green technology and practice held once a year at the Earthways Center in St. Louis. The Earthways Center [See the full post…]

About 18,000 people attended the inaugural Entertainment for All Expo video game event in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees were able to play hundreds of games at the event, including Metal Gear Solid 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, NFL Tour and [See the full post…]

Another clip from the Show-Me Blowout, The Rich Boys from Kansas City.

The Cripplers were one of the finest, trashiest garage/punk/rock’n’roll bands to ever come out of the Midwest. Originally from Columbia, Missouri, the band relocated to St. Louis in the late 1990s. Their debut LP “One More for the Bad Guys” [See the full post…]

The Alley Cat Revue at Rue 13 is on the vanguard of fine Burlesque entertainment in the Mid-west. I spoke to the lovely and talented Lola Van Ella about the history of the current state of the “neo-burlesque” movement. Also [See the full post…]

I caught this band at their CD release party a couple of weeks ago. They’re actually making a comeback of sorts from about a year off from the music scene. They’ll be touring around the Midwest — check their MySpace [See the full post…]

The release of Halo 3 was the biggest video game launch in history, garnering more than $300 million in sales in the first week, alone. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives his review of the game, [See the full post…]

The E for All Expo is just days away and one of the major attractions at the event is a friendly competition with NBA stars Derek Fisher, Corey Maggette and the Michael Jordan of video games, Fatal1ty. The three will [See the full post…]

Victoria is a band that seems to have come out of nowhere–well for me anyway. They’re still pretty new but they really rocked Off Broadway about a week ago. Also upcoming on LO-FI SAINT LOUIS, we have a video about [See the full post…]

Women used to be an afterthought in the video game world. Today, more women are involved in the billion-dollar industry as programmers, designers and of course, gamers. According to the Entertainment Software Association, thirty-eight percent of all game players are [See the full post…]

One more from the Lot Fest in August … Tenement Ruth describe themselves as a roots rock band with a twist of Americana. I really dig their two-part female vocal hamonies and the touch of twangy Americana in their music. [See the full post…]

The Humanoids are a hardcore punk band. They say that their influences are BBQ, pig roasts, waffle house, bad brains, dag nasty, wipers, naked raygun, and NOT Domino’s pizza sauce. This performance was recorded at the Blue Bird, St. Louis. [See the full post…]

Editor Tim Sternberg has directed his first documentary short and it’s a peach. Salim Baba, about a man in Kalkota who takes his Lumiere projector into the street to show movies to kids. This talk is with Sternberg and his [See the full post…]

I recently visited Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis. This is one of the newest chapters of Dr. Sketchy’s anti-art School that started in Brooklyn. It’s a unique event thats part figure drawing class and [See the full post…]

I’m happy to announce that Lo-Fi Saint Louis won the “Look At Me” category at the Portable Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia. This is my winning entry. Thanks to everyone for all of their support.

You might remember a video of a band that I posted a few weeks ago called Thor Axe and at the time I mentioned that some of the members were in a nother band calles So Many Dynamos. Well I [See the full post…]

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson have made a new movie called There Will Be Blood, based on the Upton Sinclair novel, “Oil.” After seeing a special edition of Moby Dick, made by Arion Press, they called the San Francisco [See the full post…]

Amanda and Abby are from California. They started their band four years ago. Abby plays guitar and Amanda plays mandolin. They sing in harmony and are joined by their band of boys who play violin, upright bass, lap steel and [See the full post…]

This truly is a legendary band with a legendary front man. J.D. Wilkes (also an acomplished comic artist) has been called by Jello Biafra as “…the last great rock’n’roll frontman” Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers play a white-hot version of the country [See the full post…]

Allan Arkush is an executive producer and director of the TV series, “Heroes”, which begins a new season on September 24th. The series is such a hit that it has engendered spin-offs. Arkush, who was trained by Roger Corman, doing [See the full post…]

Even though the music business has tried to make it obsolete, the vinyl record is still alive and kicking. People still love it, and there has even been a small resurgence of sales of vinyl records in the last few [See the full post…]

Ken Burns was at the Telluride Film Festival last weekend, where I spoke with him on the street, before he came to San Francisco for a special screening of his new series, The War, this weekend at the Letterman Digital [See the full post…]

We had our first live show last week (“Live-Fi Saint Louis“), and it went really well. We’ll probably do it again. This is a performance from that show where we spent an hour with Jonathan Baer.

The Help is a politically charged (yet fun) punk rock band. I think the singer Jason Toon kinda looks like Cory Doctorow. Enjoy!