Here is the last performance I’m bringing you from the Lot Fest in STL but there will be more video from the other performances at the Metropolis St. Louis Web site in the coming weeks. This episode we also look [See the full post…]

Jumbling Towers have one of the most identifiable sounds of any band to come out of St. Louis in a while. If you like them, check out some more of their stuff on their MySpace page. This performance was taped [See the full post…]

Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir, talks about all his books beginning with Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of ‘Adults Only’ Cinema and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir all the way up to the movie he just finished [See the full post…]

If you’ve been following Lo-Fi Saint Louis you’ll know that we’ve covered these guys before. This time I caught the 7 Shot Screamers at The Lot Festival, an annual music event hosted by Metropolis St. Louis. It’s always a good [See the full post…]

This is a solo performance by Irene Allen that I caught several months ago, but I lost the original tapes. I recently found the tapes, and the performance is really too good not to share with you. Irene is originally [See the full post…]

This conversation about casting for movies is with Davia Nelson, who has worked with Francis Coppola, Phil Kaufman, Barbet Shroeder and she has become a Peabody Award-winning radio creator of Hidden Kitchens on NPR. One of those shows is now [See the full post…]

In this debut episode of The Reboot gaming show, host Rio Pesino takes you back in time to the golden era of video games. Classics like Pong, PacMan, Joust, and hundreds of other old school games were on display at [See the full post…]

Thor Axe is the triumphant metal prog rock side project for an indie band called So Many Dynamos. If you dig bands like Yes, Thin Lizzy and Europe you might really dig this. Me? Prog rock is not my bag. [See the full post…]

Lynn Hershman Leeson has twenty-six venues to show her film, Strange Culture all over the world. She’s also nearly finished editing a documentary she’s been working on for forty years, called Women + Art = Revolution. There are trailers for [See the full post…]

Mark Vickroid makes his own guitars from cigar boxes. Some of them have little amps built in. I first came across him playing in the street when I was shooting the RFT St. Louis Music Showcase in June. His guitars [See the full post…]

This is a first in a couple of ways, this is a video from the first show ever of a new band, The 75’s. And the first time we’ve ever featured a clip of a band at their debut performance. [See the full post…]

Robert Ryan became a movie star working for Paramount Pictures and then RKO in the 1940s while Dana Andrews worked simultaneously for Samuel Goldwyn and Twentieth Century Fox. Their daughters, Lisa Ryan and Susan Andrews, talk about growing up with [See the full post…]

The legendary Blasters performing at Beale on Broadway.

We’re proud to bring you the return of one of the best received acts we’ve ever had on Lo-Fi Saint Louis, Mr. Pokey LaFarge.

Diane Johnson is best known for her novels set in Paris “Le Divorce”, “Le Mariage” and “L’Affaire”. She is in San Francisco for the summer and putting the final touches on her latest novel to be called “Complicity” or “The [See the full post…]

Don’t really know what to say here.

The RFT Music Showcase is a annual event where some of the best music acts in town get to perform on a single day within blocks of one another. It’s actually a pretty incredible event where you get to sample [See the full post…]

Yes, Human Aftertaste is the name of this band. They’re from Iowa. They sell their own brand of canned meat. Their show is disgusting. (It’s part of Dirty Week for a reason.) If you like sick acts, you might like [See the full post…]

Niles is a town in the Bay Area that is dedicated to its Silent Film History. Charlie Chaplin had a formative year there where he created his character, The Tramp. And when you think about his impoverished background growing up [See the full post…]

Blowfly started his career in the 1960s as a songwriter (he’s written songs under his real name, Clarence Reid). He wrote songs for Betty Wright, Sam & Dave, Gwen McRae and KC & the Sunshine Band, among others. But he [See the full post…]

You might know Doc Popular as a nerdcore rapper, or a lo-fi techno musician who plays on bent toy electronics, or maybe you bought one of his crafty blue jean wallets, or read one of his comics, or maybe you’ve [See the full post…]

Tina Brown, turnaround editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, has written her first book, The Diana Chronicles. A bestseller about Lady Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, the book is very well-researched and thought out and ultimately as [See the full post…]

The Story So Far… A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available [See the full post…]

WARNING! This video contains the suggestion of nudity and may not be work safe! The Cowboy Cabaret is a throwback to the good old days of night clubs. You know — when good wholesome family entertainment was in style. When [See the full post…]

Parker Griggs is the powerhouse of Radio Moscow. You really have to see him play to appreciate how good he is. His style of psychedelic blues is reminiscent of Jimmy Hendrix. If you want to see for yourself, you should [See the full post…]