TODAY – THURSDAY, August 11rd

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The Heavy Anchor has STL electronic punk rawkers (yes, really) Bug Chaser and Estevan, plus absolute face-melters Organized Sports from Portland and Brain Idea from Chicago. $5 for a killer 9pm show.

Latest tracks by Bug Chaser

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KDHX brings Grammy Blues Award winner John Lee Hooker, Jr., to the Gramophone. Paint the town red to these Detroit-born Delta blues.

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7. $8 adv/$10 door.

FRIDAY, August 12th

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Awesome local acts Paper Dolls and The Reeling Gilly open for Chicago’s LUSTER at the Firebird, presented by the Loud Label and Do314. Jam out at 9pm. $8 gets you in, and an online RSVP gets you some free digital downloads from LUSTER and Paper Dolls.

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The Gramophone hosts Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and The Stone Sugar Shakedown for a night of straight funk. If you wanna get funk’d up, go to this show. That is all.

$8 for 8pm doors/9pm show with free BBQ on the patio on a first come-first served basis.

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There’s an RFT Music Party at Off Broadway. We at Eleven have to admit: it’s gonna be rad. Kentucky Knife Fight, Bruiser Queen, Ra Cailum, and The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra performing an original score to Buster Keaton’s “The High Sign.” Need we say more?

$6 to get in at 8pm, show at 8:30.

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Embrace your inner (and outer, you mustachioed beast) creative by attending the Luminary Center for the Arts‘ FORM Design Show‘s VIP Preview Party. The Art Institute of Chicago’s Curator of Architecture and Design, Zoe Ryan, is keynote speaker, while silent auctions on designer wares, free food and drank, and DJ’d tunes rock your world. Duff’s, Harvest, Labeebee’s, Randall’s, and Schlafly provide the libations.

$40 buys you in. And holy frack, here’s the lineup for the weekend: http://formdesignshow.com/participants/. Clearly, FORM is doing awesome things to get STL on the design map!

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2720 Cherokee has Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow spinning. #dancedancedance

Andrew Wyatt, while performing with Miike Sno:

SATURDAY, August 13th

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St. Louis is a music city and a river city – both influences evident at Saturday’s multiple record release parties for one of STL’s finest Americana groups, the Rum Drum Ramblers. Influenced by both punk rock and the Delta blues, the Rum Drum Ramblers, on the local Big Muddy Records label, have taken the city by storm. Their second album and first vinyl LP release Mean Scene drops on Saturday, August 13th, followed by two release shows with great music and free giveaways. Hear it first at STL’s own Vintage Vinyl at 4pm, and enjoy free Stag beer. Continue the party through the night at the Gramophone with BBQ, compliments of the venue. The Gramophone kicks off their celebration with the cookout at 6pm and Chicago’s Mississippi Gabe Carter at 7pm, followed by the Rum Drum Ramblers. The Ramblers don’t need the free booze or food to keep your attention—but who’s complaining about those perks? Cheers to a full day of music and fun the good ol’ STL way.

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Apop does it again – this weekend bringing The Men. Yes, The Men. Bad Drugs (from Chicago) and Shaved Women join them. All we can say is GO. AND. RAWK. OUT.

Shaved Women, at Apop before:

Shaved Women live @ Apop Records from Chizmo.tv on Vimeo.

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Chicago’s ever-catchy lo-fi pop rockers Animal City return to the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. They’ll play with kazoo-clad, acoustic Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra, San Luis Obispo, CA, and St. Charles’ own Nathan Ponzar. As always, $5 gets you into this 8-11pm show. Check it out.

Animal City at the Lemp in December:

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Lola on Washington Ave has Funkin Right and Nappy DJ Needles
If the lineup alone doesn’t excite you, perhaps their Spike Lee (read: Rose Perez) -themed promo can get your body werkin’:

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BIKE RIDING. YES. Tonight, the 48th annual Moonlight Ramble and the FBC‘s 78th Full Moon Fiasco coincide. It’s will be one crazy night of wheeled shenanigans.
The Ramble starts begins at Soldier’s Memorial downtown (14th & Chestnut) at 9pm, including glow-in-the-dark tee shirts, an 18-mile route, vendors, and after-party! (Buy tickets before the price goes up by $2.50 the night of).
The Fiasco starts at 11pm at Turtle Park (Oakland & Tamm, in Forest Park by the Zoo) and goes as late as the crew can ride/yell/drink/dance.

We won’t pick favorites… but we do tend to root for the free and the late-night.

SUNDAY, August 14th

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Southern hardcore comes to the Old Rockhouse in the form of Nashville Pussy, along with veteran punks The Dwarves and local openers The Scam. You’ve seen the electric pink and yellow posters around, haven’t you? Prepare for chaos.

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Catch more Sunday night RAWK at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center: 2 Ton Bug, Bees, We Are Empire, Carrion Decay, and Orion Pax. Word is that this show’ll be your last chance to see Orion Pax for a bit. Check it outttt.

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Now get out there, St. Louis. 

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Lyrics Born (above) rocked the house with cuts from his latest album, As U Were.

Skins & Needles (above)

Nato Caliph (above)

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-Where: The Gramophone
-When: Wednesday, April 13th @ 9 PM
-How Much: $10 ($3 minor surcharge)
-Why: These dance music producers from Spain have traveled all the way to St. Louis to share their electro-pop music with you. You shouldn’t leave them hanging.

2. Lyrics Born w/ Skins & Needles and Nato Caliph
-Where: 2720 Cherokee
-How Much: $15 (21+)
-When: Thursday, April 13th @ 9 PM
-Why: Bay Area hip-hop at it’s finest, Lyrics Born brings technical prowess behind the mike and funky instrumentals.

3. Ezra Furman and The Harpoons w/ Apache Relay and Tristen
-Where: The Firebird
-When: Friday, April 15th @ 9 PM
-How Much: $10 ($2 minor surcharge)
-Why: The band just dropped Mysterious Power, and it’s damn good.

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1. Signal Path w/ Goodness Gracious, 18andCounting

-Where: 2720 Cherokee
-When: Thursday, February 10th @ 9 PM
-How Much: $10 ($3 minor surcharge) (18+)
-Why: Signal Path’s live electronic infused set is a perfect match for 2720 Cherokee’s artistic interior.

2. Unwed Sailor w/ Paisley Birch
-Where: the Firebird
-How Much: $10
-When: Friday, February 11th @ 9 PM
-Why: Layered indie-rock with an ear toward the interplay of carefully crafted sound.

3. The Dive Poets w/ Blood Pony, and Bo and the Locomotive
-Where: the Pageant
-When: Saturday, February 12th @ 8:00 PM
-How Much: $5
-Why: Three great local bands – and if you’re over 21, scour the city for a free tickets distributed in (hopefully) your favorite coffee shop or record store.

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Eleven met up with the lively crowd at 2720.

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1. The Bad Plus

-Where: Jazz at the Bistro
-When: Wednesday, Jan 5th – Saturday, Jan 8th (8:30 PM and 10:15 PM)
-How Much: $30 – $35, $15 for students
-Why: The Bad Plus at Jazz at the Bistro is becoming a post New Year’s tradition.  What better way to start of 2011 than with some edgy, complex jazz with slight rock undertones?

2. Designer Drugs w/ Cor(e)yography and Andy Mon$y
-Where: 2720 Cherokee
-How Much: $12 adv / $15 doors (18+, $3 minor surcharge)
-When: Friday, January 7th @ 9 PM
-Why: Besides an awesome cyberpunk reference, Designer Drugs’ has hard hitting dance music that should keep 2720 moving ’till its 3 AM close.

3. Old Lights w/ Pretty Little Empire, Magic City, and Benjamin Riley
-Where: Off Broadway
-When: Tuesday, January 11th @ 9 PM
-How Much: $8 (21+)/$11 (under 21) adv / $10 (21+)/$13 (under 21) doors
-Why: A solid local lineup, and make sure to arrive early to catch the excellent but lesser-known Magic City and Benjamin Riley.

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1. The Blind Eyes w/ Kentucky Knife Fight and Dino’s House Band

-Where: Off Broadway
-When: Friday, December 31st @ 9 PM
-How Much: FREE (21+)
-Why: Ring in 2011 with some great rock ‘n’ roll and a few inevitable, drunken sing-a-longs with STL supergroup Dino’s House Band.

2. DJ Grocery’s 80s and 90s party
-Where: The Gramophone
-How Much: FREE! (21+)
-When: Friday, December 31st @ 9 PM
-Why: Throw back beers and throwback jams ’till 6 in the mornin’. Or at least ’till close.

3. Funk n’ Horny NYE Party w/ Hip Grease, Funky Butt Brass Band, Dogtown Allstars, DJ Alexis, DJ Alejan and DJ Cory Thomas
-Where: Upstairs and Downstairs of 2720 Cherokee
-When: Friday, December 31st
-How Much: $10 adv/$15 doors (21+)
-Why: Tons of music – from funk to house – will shoot you dancing straight into 2011.

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1. Off the Wall – a Cherokee St. Holiday Ball

-Where: 2720 Cherokee
-When: Saturday, December 11th @ 7 PM
-How Much: $10 adv / $20 doors
-Why: Great music, great art, and a great cause – Art Dimensions is raising money to send art ambassadors to Indonesia.

2. The Sword w/ Karma to Burn and Mount Carmel
-Where: The Firebird
-How Much: $15
-When: Monday, December 13rd@ 8:00 PM
-Why: The Sword’s loud, stoner rock will eradicate any case of the Mondays.

3. Tim Kasher w/ This City of Takers and David Beeman
-Where: Off Broadway
-When: Wednesday, December 15th
-How Much: $12 (21+) / $14 (under 21)
-Why: A mid-week Tim Kasher rant is worth the cover alone.

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-Where: Third Degree Glass Factory
-When: Friday, November 26th – Sunday November 28th
-How Much: $15 on Friday, $3 on Saturday and Sunday
-Why: Forget hitting Macy’s at 4 AM on Black Friday – shop local and independent at the Rock n Roll Craft Show to find some unique and awesome gifts.

2. Fresh Paint II: Black Friday
-Where: 2720 Cherokee
-How Much: $5 (21+)
-When: Friday, November 26th@ 9 PM
-Why: DJs, art, and music from So Many Dynamos, Hawthorne Headhunters, and Illphonics. This is going to be awesome!

3. The 6th Annual Baby Blues Showcase
-Where: BB’s Jazz, Blues, and Soups
-When: Sunday, November 28th
-How Much: $15 or $10 and 3 cans of food
-Why: Cap off your Thanksgiving weekend with a hefty portion of blues with Rum Drum Ramblers, Marquise Knox, and more.

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1. Warpaint w/ Troubadour Dali

-Where: the Gargoyle
-When: Friday, November 19th
-How Much: $10 (18+), Free with WashU ID
-Why: Recent Eleven “Through the Grapevine” alums, Warpaint’s (and Troubadour’s) thick sonic layers will put you in a good type of trance.

2. PBR Me in St. Louis 3
-Where: 2720 Cherokee
-How Much: FREE (21+)
-When: Saturday, November 20th@ 7:30 PM
-Why: Music, skateboarding demo, live art, and…PBR!

3. DJ Audra Angelique w/ Cora Camille, Byran Elliott, and Brandon B.
-Where: Club Dantes
-When: Saturday, November 20th
-How Much: $5 (21+)
-Why: It’s Saturday night, and you want to party – Dantes’ has got the beats to keep it going ’till 3 AM.

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