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Poor Puppets of Paris
May 21 - It's hard to believe, but Bob Kramer's Marionnettes are celebrating 50 years of pulling the strings in this town. To mark the occasion, the group teams up with Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris for a special night of music and puppetry, The Poor Puppets of Paris. Kramer and company ha...
Soundgarden
8:00 p.m. May 21 - “I’ve been away for too long,” growls Chris Cornell on Soundgarden’s 2012 album King Animal. It’s certainly been too long since Soundgarden has visited the Gateway to the West. Sure, Cornell has been here a few times with Audioslave, as well as on his own, but Soundgard...
The Band of Heathens
8:30 p.m. May 21 - Neither blues nor Southern rock, neither a jam band nor a bar band, the ensemble of Austin, Texas songwriters, singers and guitar-slingers known as the Band of Heathens have drawn buckets of inspiration from all the wells of American music. Its two core songwriters, Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist (co-foun...
Andrew W.K.
8:00 p.m. May 22 - w/ The Fuck Off and Dies - From "Andrew W.K. is Coming to the Firebird May 22:" It has been years since W.K. came to St. Louis on a non-Warped Tour stage. His appearances at Pop's in...
Walter Mosley
May 23 - Much like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes, Walter Mosley apparently killed off his iconic detective, Easy Rawlins, almost six years ago in the novel Blonde Faith. And much like in Doyle's case, Rawlins' fans were not pleased with this final development. Mosley wasn't qu...
Chelsea vs. Manchester City
7:30 p.m. May 23 - English Premier League clubs Chelsea (never met a trophy they didn't try to buy) and Manchester City (also-rans for years until they married a billionaire) meet for a friendly here in St. Louis at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Busch Stadium (Broadway and Poplar Street; El Ten Eleven
8:30 p.m. May 23 - From this 2009 show preview: The danceable, hypnotic loops created by the Los Angeles electro-rock duo El Ten Eleven are a very 21st-century, post-everything artistic expression that borrows very little from the past. But t...
Drive-By Truckers
8:00 p.m. May 24 - w/ Old 97's - For a band that's been hard at it for more than fifteen years, one would think Athens, Georgia's Drive-By Truckers would start phoning it in or churn out some sort of reenvisioned half-baked version of its former self. Not this band. After holing up in the studio throughout 2009...
Charles Walker & the Dynamites
9:00 p.m. May 24 - From his highly-prized recordings for the Excello label — cut in the late '50s when he was just sixteen — to his stint with Chess Records, to his leadership of Little Charles and the Sidewinders, Charles Walker is the greatest living soul man you probably haven't heard yet. The Nashvilli...
Pork Shop
May 25 - It happens all the time; Here you are at a great garage sale, when suddenly hunger strikes. If you have the audacious confidence, you might ask for a glass of water but that does little to calm the temper tantrum inside your stomach. Lucky for you, the Schlafly Tap Room's Pork Shop can meet t...