Is a baked bird celebrating the pummeling of Native American society really so dope, anyway? Eff that noise and hit up your local scene for an eclectic weekend void of smallpox.
Thursday, November 24th
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The Cuban Missiles
Get served by a broad-shouldered and babe-tastic bartender and listen to the stellar sounds of punk rock outfits The Cuban Missiles, The Haddonfields, and the Disappeared. Mangia is pretty small, and the acoustics are pretty fantastic, expect to get consumed by rancorous melodies all night.
They recorded their album in 200 year old barn, rattle off quasi-existential lyrics and call West Plains, Missouri home. If Ha Ha Tonka was an author, they’d be William Faulkner. Additionally, KDHX reps them, and that’s as good a reason as any to peep their show.
Plainly speaking, you’re an idiot if you haven’t listened to Harry Nilsson…ever. “Early in the Morning” is a gem, man. Nilsson is one of the best singers of all time. I know that, other people know that, and whether you do or you don’t know that, you need to hit up the What is the Point? A Tribute to Harry Nilsson this weekend. To elaborate on the event’s apathetic-sounding title, The Point!was Nilsson’s fable-tastic concept album revolving around Oblio and his intrepid dog, Arrow. Without points adorning their foreheads, the pair are ostricized for being different. Yeah, this is an acid-induced morality tale about acceptance, but all you need to know is that it’s brilliant. Also, it will be one of the definitive albums I’ll play my children over and over. But lest I digress, there will be a screening of The Point!‘s film, and bands like Theodore and Ransom Note will be covering some of Nilsson’s jams. Joining them will be Rats and People’s Motion Picture Orchestra, Old Lights and many more.
Times: Door 8PM/Show 9PM
Tickets: $10 if you’re 21. $13 if you’re a damn dirty minor.
If you bike, have biked, will bike, wanna bike…then listen up! Spoked STL and South Grand Delievered are hosting their second Alley Cat Race toooooonight. Find the lit-up landmarks, capture a glowstick and race back to The Handlebar to receive yo priiiiiiize.
Times: Pre-Party and registration/5PM – 7:00PM. Race starts at 7:30PM. Entire event lasts until 1:30AM.
Chris Jordan takes portraits of America’s current ecological disasters and rabid consumerism. The picture above depicts the 320,000 light bulbs wasted each year in America. As part of The Aggregate Series, Jordan’s photographic exhibit, Running the Numbers will be on display until January 6th, 2012.
St. Louis’s The Urge will be playing The Pageant tonight and November 25th. We implore you to check out this show before it gets sold out. The Urge are ska-core legends and are only reuniting for a finite amount of time. Recording sessions were promised (and one new song has been released), but our hawk in the sky says this could be a no-go. So, check them out while they are amped for action. Also, go back in time and check out Hugh Scott‘s September article on the band!
She so darn cute! Look at that dang tiara! Oh, golly!
A little bird, not our night hawk we keep stationed at 11 Headquarters, told me “never sleep on VH1′. While this little bird might have been an acid flashback, she certainly had great advice when Ximena Sarinana‘s colorful music video for “Different“ popped up one Saturday morning. A voice so sweet, it mimes the peculiar lightness of honey dew, Sarinana packs both earnesty and fun into her lyrics for an all-around pleasent experience.
Scotty recommends the quintessential sounds of a “70s blacksploitation soundtrack” this evening. Kings Go Forth are a Milwaukee-bred band of musicians who’s Harlem horns and funk bring the fun to a docile night in St. Louis.
Ou Ou (that’s Where, where en francais for you non-francophiles), Mikey Wehling and Eric Hall are coming together for the release of their albums. This double-release show, as it is being dubbed, highlights these electron outfits in all their newly created glory.
Times: 11PM-12AM Mikey Wehling
10PM-10:50PM Ou Où
9PM-9:50PM Eric Hall
Money for Guns‘s cigarette-stained vocals and woeful strumming is appeasing enough to quell a hangover and interesting enough to actively listen word-for-word.
My editor Tara and I brought you a review of their show at The Crack Fox a few weeks ago, and I highly recommend you take my sage advice to heart and check out Theodore live.
Well, I love the Ninja Turtles. Okay, no…but really it’s my eternally six sister who loves cartoons and pizza eating reptiles. And while I’ll pause for some Samuri Champloo and Domino’s, it’s really just the men the Ninja Turtles are named after that I love. Speaking of those cats, I’d really like it if someone took me to go see the Leonardo DaVinci Machines Exhibit. It’s the first (and probably only) time these primitive versions of hang gliders (above), cars and bicycles will be in St. Louis.
Times: 10 AM – 6 PM daily
Tickets: $9 – $14
Where: 800 Market Street
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Artwork from the album "Returning and Leaving".
I’ve officially began the Radiohead fandom part of my life’s journey. Kid A has secured its place in my Top 5 Albums and I stand by the fact that under its hypnosis, I can write a badass paper on Manifest Destiny. Lest I digress, it’s easy to see how my aural aesthetics may have changed course these past month’s. Already a fan of the experimental jams of Adult Fur, Eleven urges you to consider Ra Cailum. Their seriously beautiful ambiance is perfect for an afternoon slow dance. Thank goodness they’re in town today.
Times: 7:30 PM
Tickets: $7
Where: Cicero’s
Opening Acts: Corpse Pose, US English and Bloody Knives
The Pevely Dairy has been in our midst since the 1880s. It’s earned its place as a St. Louis landmark and an example of the Neoclassical architecture of that period in time. Now, with the threat of demolition looming, The Pevely Preservation Coalition is asking for your support in keeping Pevely in tact.
Who: The Pevely Preservation Coalition
What: …invite you to demonstrate your disapproval of the demolition of the Pevely Dairy
A press release from The Pevely Preservation Coalition (and local urbanist and STL STyLehouse owner Randy Vines) said:
On October 26th, Saint Louis University applied for a demolition permit for the historic Pevely Dairy complex at Grand Boulevard and Chouteau Avenue. A week later, SLU announced plans to build new SLUCare facilities on the site, but tentatively stated that it would consider preserving the 1943 Pevely smokestack and the façade of the 1915 Pevely Dairy building on the corner.
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SLU is a major employer and healthcare provider in the St. Louis region, and we support its need to expand. Yet the university could preserve both of these structures and still have enough land area on the Pevely site to double the size of its current facilities (using the existing structure or in a separate new structure) and provide surface parking for almost 500 cars. That gives SLUCare ample room to grow, even by suburban standards.
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The Pevely Dairy complex is on the National Register of Historic Places. Under our city’s preservation ordinance, such buildings should not be demolished if they are structurally stable and have rehabilitation potential. The Pevely buildings are both, as evidenced by the numerous plans to rehab them using historic tax credits prior to SLU’s purchasing the site in August 2011.
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The city’s Preservation Board will review the demolition permit for the Pevely complex on Monday, November 28th. Though these buildings should be protected by law, this citizen board is often swayed by the powers that be to approve plans for large institutions such as SLU. That’s why we MUST speak out against these plans, and ask local officials to do the same.
Looking for a good time (and not exactly the “good time” promised by the nebulous phone number scrawled in lip stain on the doors of The Jade Room’s bathroom stalls)? Walk, bike, drive, fly, or teleport down to Cherokee Street for Eleven‘s 11/11/11 event. Or, “Eleven-Cubed” if you would like your tongue untied. Seriously, say it fast, “11/11/11″… it’s hard!
***Check out…***
4:45 – 5:45 // The Hobosexuals @ The Nebula
5:00 – 6:30 // Bootigrabbers Delight @ Black Bear Bakery
5:30 – 6:15 // CANCELED *** Owen Pye @ Drew Henry Salon & Gallery
5:45 – 6:45 // Bredon of Last to Show First to Go @ The Nebula
6:00 – 6:45 // Caleb Travers @ PHD Gallery
6:00 – 6:30 // Spastic Plastic @ Aisle 1 Gallery
6:30 – 7:15 // Beth Bombara @ Firecracker Press
6:45 – 7:30 // Volcanoes @ Aisle 1 Gallery
7:00 – 7:45 // Kid Scientist @ Paper Boat Studios
7:30 – 8:15 // Last to Show First to Go @ The Archive
7:30 – 8:15 // The Campfire Club @ All Along Press
8:00 – 8:30 // Since 1902 @ Apop Records
8:45 – 9:30 // Kid Counselor @ Apop Records
8:30 – 9:30 // Arthur & the Librarian @ All Along Press
9:00 – 9:45 // PALACE @ FOAM
10:15 – 11:00 // Bear Hive @ FOAM
@ Off Broadway: STL LOUD 3 Release Show
- Fire Dog
- Funky Butt Brass Band
- The Reedling Gilly
- Rockwell Knuckles
- Superhero Killer *Doors open at 8:00 P.M.*
@ 2720 Cherokee
- Stank Nasty
- Jon Eric “Electric Banjo Man”
- Justin Torres Loop Project
- Mikey Wehling *Suggested $5 donation upon entry*
@ ArtMonster
- 18andCounting
- Dylan Hassinger
@ Fort Gondo (poetry series)
- Chris Martin
- Ted Mathys
- Mary Austin Speaker *Starts at 7:00 P.M.*
*** Participating:*** 2720 Cherokee
Aisle 1 Gallery
All Along Press
Apop Records
ArtMonster
The Archive
Black Bear Bakery Cherokee Street Bikes
Drew Henry Salon & Gallery
Firecraker Press
FOAM
Fort Gondo
I Scream Cakes
Labeebee’s Mid-East Cafe
Off Broadway / STL LOUD 3
Paper Boat Studios
PHD Gallery
STL STyLehouse *** … and more! ***
*** Consume… ***
Flowers to the People arrangements
The Tin Can food
Labeebee’s Mid-East Cafe food
Urban Chestnut beer
Sicily Streat food truck
*** … and more! ***
Shows on-going from 4pm. Schedules and maps available on the street!
The celebration kicks off in the afternoon at Eleven’s office in The Nebula, 3407 S. Jefferson, St. Louis, MO 63118.
I recommend you pay your respects to Friday’s activity. Kayyyy. Thank yyyooouuu.
TODAY, Thursday, November 10th
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The Jayhawks play The Pageant. Doors at 7PM, Show at 8PM. $25adv/27.50dos. Reserved balcony $30.
Friday, November 11th
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Fists up!
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE IN THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS OCCURING TONIGHT ASIDE FROM ELEVEN‘S 11/11/11 BASH.
Got it? But, seriously, your beloved publication is putting together a slew of business along Cherokee to peruse for the sake of Cherokee itself. Food, drinks, entertainment all ddddaaaayyyy. Well, noon til whenever, really. And, from what I’ve heard as I sit here doing my intern business, it’s mostly FREE!
*** Check out… *** 2720 Cherokee
Aisle 1 Gallery
All Along Press
Apop Records
ArtMonster
The Archive
Black Bear Bakery
Drew Henry Salon & Gallery
Firecraker Press
FOAM
Fort Gondo
I Scream Cakes
Off Broadway / STL LOUD 3
Paper Boat Studios
PHD Gallery
STL STyLehouse
food trucks – complete list TBA
*** … and more! ***
*** Listen to… ***
18andCounting
Arthur & the Librarian
Bear Hive
Beth Bombara
Caleb Travers
The Campfire Club
FIRE DOG
Funky Butt Brass Band
The Hobosexuals
Jon Eric “Electric Banjo Man”
Justin Torres Loop Project
Kid Scientist
Last to Show First to Go
Mikey Wehling
PALACE The Reeling Gilly
Rockwell Knuckles
Stank Nasty
Superhero Killer
Volcanoes
*** … and more! ***
*** Consume… ***
Flowers to the People arrangements
The Tin Can food
Urban Chestnut beer
*** … and more! ***
Shows on-going from 4pm. Schedules and maps available on the street!
Hit up The Nebula around noon, 3407 S. Jefferson. I’ll be the one looking dazed and confused.
Saturday, November 12th
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Off Broadway is playing host to a bizarre collective of musicians. Bobby Conn, Skarekrauradio and M.S.I.F tonight at 9PM. Look for his experimental jams to cost about 7 bucks to listen to. This Bobby Conn cat is a trip, check out the video below.
Heralded as the best “indie dance party” (…whatever the fuck that means. Literal is the interpretation.) in STL, London Calling is lookin’ to erupt at The Gramophone around 10:30PM. Hopefully they’ll have the photo booth again…heh heh heh.
Sunday, November 13th
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Laumier Sculpture Park is the largest art fostering environment in America. The outdoor sculptures take the lead in terms of attention, but it’s Laumier’s Kranzberg gallery exhibit hat requires your focus this week. Running until January 22nd, Electric is the Love extends the discussion of interactive environments to the viewer. STL region sound artists, collaborative architects and sculptors transform mobile devices, mobile networks and surveillance technologies into allegorical artwork on how technology organizes our lives.
Sorry for the hiatus there, noble Eleven readers, but have no fear, I’m back to hit you with a triple pack of hot wax from The Record Exchange and Vintage Vinyl.
First up, a timeless dance floor groove from Gary’s Gang, “Keep On Dancin’.” While the first half this 1978 track may have moments that boarder on cheese, the whistles, raw toms and top to bottom synths keep it stylish after the breakdown (cocaine may or may not authenticate experience).
This next track, “Dancin at the Disco,” by Lax from 1979 on legendary disco label Prelude turns up the energy. Switching back and forth from smooth and dreamy to punchy and bright, Lax hooks you in with a huge, driving sound full of brass, synths, percussion and feverish vocals.
Jumping ahead about 10 years to a release from iconic Chicago house label Trax, artists Marshall Jefferson, Curtis McClaine and Rudyard Forbes deliver a pounding, deep track in “Let’s Get Busy,” and we’ll be taking a look at the dub mix. Featuring a dark four on the floor filled in with machine gun claps and snares, as well as a rubber band bass line that pushes and pulls your body along, the trio bring soul and house into one raw, heart-stopping groove.
Charlotte Posenenske, Vierkantrohre (Square Tubes) (Series D), 1967
The new White Flag Projects‘ group exhibition, Day of the Locust, begins its cycle this evening. From 6PM – 8PM they will be having a reception honoring the exhibit’s opening. Featured artists include Charlotte Posenenske and Lee Lozano. The art will run the gamut of Expressionism to Conceptualism, sculpture to painting and will articulate a message condemning the contradictory climate of America. (Hoo-rah!) The exhibition runs until December 10th.
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Sweet graphic, huh? No Coast Skateboards is making a run at being the new venue in town. Check out what they have to offer tonight. All the info you need is on the image! BYOB!? Unheard of and awesome. I’m honestly pissed I’m missing this show. You can tell my boss.
You truly owe it to yourself to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show in all its cultish glory. The first cinematic midnight movie will be playing tonight at The Tivoli would be a good opportunity to experience a real Time Warp. Show, and I mean this literally, will start at 11:55 PM. Anticipate people dressing in drag, singing along, throwing rice, ect…in the name of Rocky Horror. You can thank me later.
While we’re on the subject: Take a gander at his Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary proposal here.
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Local artist, Joshua, would like it if you help him build an installation. Drop off any materials (Doors, Lights, Radios, Clocks, Phones, Computers, Broken Musical Instruments, Fabric and whatnot) you are looking to discard. He’ll take ‘em and give ‘em a new life as a work of art. Contact him via telephone: 314.276.2700 or e-mail: joshua@loyalfamily.com.
Sunday, November 6
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Maurice Sendak with a bit of Max and co.
Maurice Sendak is the Dr. Suess of the Millenial Generation. Pay homage to the dude who’s stories rocked you to sleep at night by heading to the St. Louis Public Library Headquarters. In A Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak features illustrations and texts to accompany an explanation of Sendek’s fictional settings.
If you did not make it to Caleb Travers EP Release show on October 14th, you definitely need to be sure and keep a look out for his upcoming concerts. Not only is the new EP, Ain’t No Jukebox, one of the best folk albums to come out of St. Louis this year but the live show is nothing short of energizing and entertaining.
The night began with a set by local singer/songwriter Owen Pye. Typically, I anticipate an acoustic set as being somewhat hypnotizing. However, Pye was quite the exception. His joking stage banter and active stage presence combined with the bold guitar parts and story telling lyrics (“He wants to give her time to think & catch up on some sleep, he needs some time to define our barriers.”) were the perfect distraction from the exhaustion of the week.
Next up was Caleb Travers. The local music vet has by far released his most powerful and gorgeous ballads yet on Ain’t No Jukebox. The strings and drums that accompanied him on the EP were also present for the set at Off Broadway and they added the perfect atmosphere to the evening. The transitions were smoothly reflective of the mood of the tunes as they related to his experiences in the city, with his family, and other life encounters (“I’m tired of nothing being right, driving ‘til we see the light.”)
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