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Click the above pic for the press release, sent out this morning.

Tickets for the Tom Waits "Glitter and Doom Tour" stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on June 26 go on sale a week from today (May 16) at 10 a.m.

The tickets range in price from $70 to $102.50.

[Update, Sunday, May 11: The Metrotix link to the show has more info about the show; read it carefully below:]

PRIORITY SEATING:
The following are considered PRIORITY SEATING (subject to change):
* Orchestra Pit
* Orchestra Sections 2 & 5, rows A-U
* Orchestra Sections 3 & 4, rows A-Z
* Mezzanine

These tickets will ONLY be available for pick up at Will Call ON THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW. They will not be mailed to you in advance. The ticket purchaser must present photo ID and the entire party must enter the venue at the same time. Please read the restrictions below on picking up Will Call tickets BEFORE purchasing.

TICKET INFORMATION:
* Tickets are ONLY available at metrotix.com and by phone at 314-534-1111.
* TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE BOX OFFICE OR METROTIX WALK-UP OUTLETS.
* Tickets for selected priority seating areas (see above) WILL NOT be mailed, and must be picked up at at the theatre Will Call THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW. Detailed instructions on picking up tickets will be mailed to ticket purchasers shortly before the concert date.
* Tickets are non-transferable.
* LIMIT OF 2 TICKETS PER ORDER, ONE ORDER PER HOUSEHOLD/CREDIT CARD/ADDRESS. Duplicate/multiple orders will be cancelled.

WILL CALL PROCEDURE:
All Will Call customers must present the credit card used to purchase their tickets AND a valid government-issued photo ID. Immediate theatre entry is required after pick-up. Your entire party must enter the venue at the same time.

SERVICE CHARGES:
$15 per ticket

Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight after the jump.

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Friday, May 9
*The Hood Internet/Robb Steele, Bluebird
*Gotta Be Karim/Black Spade, Vintage Vinyl
*Black Spade and friends, the Gramophone
*Victoria/Hibernauts, etc., Pageant
*Vijoy Rao/The Takedown, Off Broadway
*Strata-G/Ruka Puff/County Brown, Duck Room

Saturday, May 10
*Breeders, Pop’s
*Sean Kelly (of the Samples)/Birdie Busch, Bluebird -- CANCELLED
*Band Scramble, Off Broadway
*MU330 Springtime BBQ with the Livers/My Boy Ox/MU330, Off Broadway (3:30 p.m.!)
*The Bel Airs, BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups
*Sex Robots, Mangia
*Fragile Porcelain Mice/LucaBrasi, Lucas School House
*My Other Side (CD release)/Models Need Sleep/Upright Animals/Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, Cruisin' Rte. 66
*The Mirror Stage/Chapters, Duck Room

Sunday, May 11
*Coke Dares/Prizzy Prizzy Please, Bluebird
*Black Hollies/Blind Eyes/Nevermores, Off Broadway
*A Life Once Lost/Arsis/Lye By Mistake, Cicero's

RFT/Keegan Hamilton

Just got an e-mail update from the man known as V-Majorz bringing me up to speed on a whole slew of new projects. Since it included free music, I thought I'd hit A to Z with some hips and hops while Annie is on vacation.

Here's what Van had to say:

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I'm in the process of securing an interview with the folks behind this new venture (which includes Bob Fancher of Ultraman/Creepy Crawl fame). When I return from vacation -- don't worry, the blog's still posting stuff -- I'll have more info.

For now, here is Fubar's MySpace.

-- Annie Zaleski

Scottish post-rock noiseniks Mogwai are joining Air and Liz Phair as the latest artists to release expanded editions of seminal albums. In Mogwai’s case, the quintet is reissuing its 1997 debut, Young Team.

Due May 26 from Chemikal Underground, the definitive edition of Young Team will be available as a double-CD or limited-edition, quadruple vinyl box-set; new liner notes were penned by journalist/writer Keith Cameron.

**CONTEST**
I'm pleased to announce that I have a signed copy of Young Team to give away. To enter the contest, email me with “Mogwai: I Want My Young Team” in the subject heading by Tuesday, May 20. A winner will be chosen at random and sent the release.

Of course, everyone wants to know what goodies are on the second disc – and so courtesy of the press release I just received, Team’s expanded tracklisting includes:

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Wow, Trent Reznor's making us all look like slackers. Courtesy of NIN's publicist:

NINE INCH NAILS
THE SLIP
FIRST EVER COMPLETELY FREE FULL ALBUM DOWNLOAD
AVAILABLE NOW AT NIN.COM

Trent Reznor to Fans: “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years. This one’s on me.”

As of 12:01 a.m. PST May 5, Nine Inch Nails’ brand new full length album The Slip is available as free download at NIN.com.

Unlike NIN’s recently released Ghosts I-IV, there are NO paid options available for The Slip, nor are there any retail partners. At present, The Slip is available exclusively as a free download at NIN.com. A physical configuration on CD and vinyl is in the works for a July release.

The Slip marks the first time Nine Inch Nails–or any artist of NIN’s stature–has made its new album available completely and exclusively for free as a DRM-free digital download. The Slip is available as a high-quality MP3 or in a variety of lossless formats including, for the first time, a higher-than-CD quality 24 bit 96k version. All downloads include a PDF with credits and artwork.

Like the free single “Discipline” released last week to terrestrial radio stations and their websites and the track “Echoplex” appearing on iLike, The Slip is a classic straightforward NIN album, featuring Trent Reznor on vocals and various instruments as well as Josh Freese, Robin Finck and Alessandro Cortini. The record was produced by Reznor, Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder. Art direction by Rob Sheridan.

As with previous Nine Inch Nails releases Year Zero and Ghosts I-IV, the complete multi-track files to The Slip will be available free at launch, allowing anyone who wants to create his or her own remixes and reinterpretations of the songs. As always, the Remix.NIN.com community will provide a sire and infrastructure for fans to upload, share, stream and download these various remixes as well as the original masters, all free of charge or restrictions.

The Slip, like Ghosts I-IV, is being released under a Creative Commons license, allowing fans to distribute the songs and files freely and without fear of copyright infringement. More details regarding this license can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

For the first time in decades, Tom Waits will be coming to St. Louis and playing the Fabulous Fox. Read all about it at his official Web site now -- although you heard about it here first last week...

Edit: Please see this video, posted at tomwaits.com. Ha ha.

-- Annie Zaleski

It's temporary, as far as I know. Keep checking back later today or this weekend, our Web site is being worked on.

-- Annie Zaleski

Friday, May 2
*William Elliott Whitmore/Strawfoot/Geoff Koch, Off Broadway
*Gold Tooth/Texas Justice/Cheap Heat, 2 Cents Plain
*Uh Huh Her, Duck Room -- think it's SOLD OUT
*Scriptz 'n Screwz CD release show, Vintage Vinyl

Saturday, May 3
*Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo fest, all day!
*My Chemical Romance, Pageant – SOLD OUT
*Femme Fatality (CD release), Creepy Crawl
*Bottle Rockets (15th anniversary show), Duck Room -- SOLD OUT
*Matt Pond PA/Pete Francis (Dispatch), Bluebird -- CANCELLED
*Ben Kenney/DJ Kilmore (Incubus), Pop’s

Sunday, May 4
*Royce da 5’9”/Esham/NATAS/J Fresh/Havok, Bluebird -- CANCELLED
*Tegan and Sara/An Horse, Pageant -- SOLD OUT
*Bob Schneider/Dead Rock West, Duck Room
*Randy Newman, Sheldon

Bonus Monday shows:

Monday, May 5
*TSOL/Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting/Bridgeburners, 2 Cents Plain -- CANCELLED
*Streetlight Manifesto, Pop’s
*Steve Earle/Allison Moorer, Pageant

Thanks to my pal Aaron Berkowitz (he of F5 Records, among other places), we scored some exclusive Ghostface Killah remixes of "Charlie Brown."

MP3: Ghostface Killah, "Charlie Brown" (DJ Mehdi remix)"

MP3: Ghostface Killah, "Charlie Brown" (Orgasmic remix)"

MP3: Ghostface Killah, "Charlie Brown" (Yuksek remix)"

MP3: Ghostface Killah, "Charlie Brown" (Guns N' Bombs remix)"

-- Annie Zaleski

That tattoo-esque logo right there is for The TRADE, a new bar opening on Friday, May 9, in the same building as gay bar the Complex Nightclub (3515 Chouteau; 314-772-2645). Occupying a ground-level space that's been vacant for about a year-and-a-half, the 125-person-capacity bar is described by its proprietors as "tattoos and rock & roll."

Still, the TRADE won't have live bands or shows; instead, it will often feature a variety of familiar DJs from around St. Louis, spinning all permutations of the rock & roll genre. Moreover, perhaps one of the coolest features of the venue will be its jukebox: a vintage model donated by co-owner Joe Hedgpeth's grandmother that contains old-school country & western 45 RPM records

"This city needed a place to chill out and listen to rock & roll," says co-owner Wil Pelly.

Pelly and the other three co-owners of the TRADE - Hedgpeth, Jason (Homey) Smith and Rachel Smith -- are largely seasoned bar veterans who have worked at the Complex, the Hi-Pointe and the Creepy Crawl, so they know quite a bit about music.

But says Hedgpeth, "it was Wil's brilliant idea to get us all into this." They approached the owner of the Complex, Howard Meyer, who was immediately enthusiastic and supportive.

"This is a really hot space," Meyer says.

And despite the fact that the TRADE is in the same building as a gay bar, Pelly is quick to say that it's "a completely everything-friendly bar." Adds Hedgpeth: "Leave your ego at the door."

On the day I visited, the four co-owners were still in the midst of working on the space to make it presentable to the public. The general layout is like this, though: Walk into the Complex's entrance (see photo below) and head directly to your right. When you walk into the TRADE, the bar is on your left (see the snazzy orange chairs and picture of Sid Vicious), while in front of you toward the back will be dartboards and tables.

Here are the bar's vital statistics:

Name: The TRADE

Web site: MySpace page

Address: 3515 Chouteau

Phone: 314-772-2645

Hours of Operation/Days: Tuesday through Sunday, 4 p.m. until 3 a.m.

Cool upcoming events: The movie Heavy Metal Baghdad will have its premiere there on June 20.

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Whoa. Helmet just announced a show in St. Louis, at the Bluebird on July 25.

According to a MySpace tour update, Sigur Ros is playing Kansas City on Thursday, June 12 at the Uptown Theater. It's not on the venue's Web site yet, but soon, most likely. Yeah, I'm going. Sorry, Raconteurs.

[Update, 5:30 p.m. The Pitch has the pre-sale password here, for anyone interested.]

St. Louis, I have a confession to make: Lately I've felt restless. Bored. In a rut. Perhaps this is spring fever talking -- although the heat I have to blast at home to stay warm begs to differ. (It's almost May. Why am I still wearing sweaters?) Either way, the whys and wherefores of my moods are beside the point.

aBut I am looking for the shock of the new, as it were. (Click on the link; it's an obscure new-wave song by Trees I love; I'll post the MP3 of it below.) What bands should I go to see? What places should I go to find new musical gems of all stripes? Are there any music stores, news nuggets or general community goings-on that I'm missing?

I'm being totally serious. I feel like I'm wearing a well-worn tread to the same places and seeing the same people. Give me some new places, people and sounds to experience. I'm all ears. Post in the comments what I should be seeing and doing, and where I should be going.

-- Annie Zaleski

So, the RFT Music Showcase is merely a month away: It takes place on Sunday, June 1. The voting will go live on our Web site this week! Bands will be contacted shortly to play the showcase. The ballot? Still here.

Feel free to chime in with any questions/comments in the space below.

-- Annie Zaleski