St. Louis Concert Calendar, February 5 through June

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-- Annie Zaleski

Tuesday, February 5
*Natalie MacMaster, Sheldon Concert Hall
*The Mirror Stage/Syna So Pro, Cicero’s

Wednesday, February 6
*Flogging Molly, Pop’s AND acoustic at Vintage Vinyl. Pop’s is SOLD OUT.
*Bob Marley (birthday party), with Joseph Israel/Jah Roots, Broadway Oyster Bar
*Cheap Heat/Gold Tooth, 2 Cents Plain
*Giant Bear/Bad Folk/Jesse Irwin, Off Broadway

Thursday, February 7
*Jumbling Towers/Witch’s Hat/The Bureau/Banshee Lips, Cicero’s
*Reba McEntire/Kelly Clarkson, Pop’s – SOLD OUT
*U-Melt, Broadway Oyster Bar

Friday, February 8
*Early Day Miners/Victoria/Gentleman Auction House, Bluebird
*Valentine’s Day Classic Soul, featuring The Whispers, Stephanie Mills & After 7, Fox Theatre
*Hurt, Pop’s
*Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Sheldon
*Mock Orange/LaPush, Cicero’s
*Petur Ben/Walkie Talkie U.S.A., Schlafly Tap Room
*Cindy Woolf/Molly Healy, Off Broadway (early)
*Teenage Rehab/Pubes/Middle Class Trash/Haddonfields, Off Broadway (late)
*Whoremoans, Vintage Vinyl In-Store
*Cumberland Gap, Broadway Oyster Bar

Saturday, February 9
*Nina Nastasia/Tree Heart Orchestra, Bluebird
*Caleb Travers (CD release)/The Feed/Via Dove, Off Broadway
*Dark Star Orchestra, The Pageant
*Marleyfest IV with Tony Rome/Prince Phillip/Murder City Players, Duck Room
*Petur Ben/Gentleman Auction House, Schlafly Tap Room
*Stella Mora/LucaBrasi, Cicero’s
*De Novo Dahl/Foreign Islands/Banshee Lips, Billiken Club
*Sleep State (CD release)/Ultraviolents/.e, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
*The Deserters, Mangia

Sunday, February 10
*Jim Ward (of Sparta/At the Drive-In), 2 Cents Plain
*Marilyn Manson/Ours, The Pageant. SOLD OUT!
*(hed)p.e., Pop’s

Monday, February 11
*A.K.A.C.O.D. (featuring former members of Morphine)/Aviation Club, Bluebird
*Richard Thompson’s 1000 Years of Popular Music, featuring Judith Owen and Debra Dobkin, The Pageant
*Supersuckers, Pop’s

Tuesday, February 12
*Soft/Incurables/The Sham/The Mirror Stage, Bluebird
*Black Dahlia Murder/Three Inches of Blood/Hate Eternal, Pop’s
*Grace Basement/Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship/The Takedown, Cicero’s

Wednesday, February 13
*AA Bondy/Kevin Devine/the Jealous Girlfriends, Off Broadway
*Sara Gazarek, Jazz at the Bistro (through Saturday, February 16)
*B.B. King, Family Arena
*Glossary/Ghostfinger, Bluebird

Thursday, February 14
*Bret Michaels, Bottleneck Blues Bar at Ameristar Casino, St. Charles
*The Whigs/Waxfang/Tulsa, Creepy Crawl
*Clownvis Presley, Way Out Club
*Cascada, Gargoyle – ADVANCE tickets sold out
*Mr. Goodbye’s God Sex Immaculate Valentine’s Day Revue, Bluebird
*Speakeasy (CD release), Broadway Oyster Bar

Friday, February 15
*Esther Macomb/The Feed/Upright Animals, Bluebird
*Gloria Gaynor/Village People, Ameristar Casino, St. Charles
*Stacey Earle/Mark Stuart, Focal Point
*St. Louis Folk Festival, featuring Leo Kottke/Catie Curtis, Sheldon Concert Hall
*Wooden Kites/That’s My Daughter/Miles of Wire, Way Out Club
*The Lonely H, Lemmons

Saturday, February 16
*The Loved Ones/Gaslight Anthem, 2 Cents Plain
*Kid Rock/Rev Run, Scottrade Center
*Tesla, Pop’s
*TASTiSkank, Old Rock House
*Bunnygrunt (vinyl release show)/That’s My Daughter, Mangia
*The Bureau/Riddle of Steel/So Many Dynamos/Traindodge, Bluebird
*Jessica Sonner, Off Broadway (early)
*Jonathan Baer/Dirty 30s/Earl/The Saps, Off Broadway (late)

Sunday, February 17
*High on Fire/A Life Once Lost, 2 Cents Plain
*Galactic/Chali 2Na/Ohmega Watts, Pageant. Ohmega Watts also doing an in-store at Vintage Vinyl
*Junior/Midwest Avengers, Feisty Bulldog
*DJ Dan/Rob Lemon, Home Nightclub
*Tom Rush, Espenschied Chapel, Mascoutah, IL

Monday, February 18
*Health/Shooting Spires/Cold Bear Scout, Billiken Club
*OneRepublic/Josh Kelley, Pop’s
*Macon Greyson/Wormwood Scrubs, Off Broadway

Tuesday, February 19
*Sara Bareilles, Duck Room – SOLD OUT
*Ill Nino, Pop’s
*Dead to Fall/Winds of Plague, etc., Bluebird
*The Last Almanac/Groupthink, Cicero’s

Wednesday, February 20
*Hackensaw Boys, Duck Room

Thursday, February 21
*RFT DJ Spin-Off, Atomic Cowboy
*Bettye Lavette, VooDoo Lounge @ Harrah’s Casino
*Alan Parsons Live Project, Bottleneck Blues Bar at Ameristar Casino, St. Charles
*Chico Macunias/Amino Acids, Way Out Club
*Papa Smiley and the Brain Bananas, Broadway Oyster Bar

Friday, February 22
*RTX/Shame Club/Banshee Lips, Bluebird
*Slightly Stoopid, Pageant
*Jon Hardy and the Public/Jeremy Lister, Off Broadway
*7 Shot Screamers/High 5s, Way Out Club
*Gateway City Bluegrass Music Festival (through Sunday, 2/24) featuring Ralph Stanley II, Dailey-Vincent Band, David Davis & Warrior River Boys, Sally Jones & the Sidewinders, more, Sheraton Westport Chalet Hotel

Saturday, February 23
*The 75’s (CD release)/Kentucky Knife Fight/Blind Eyes, Lemmons
*The Box Social/The Help/Tight Pants Syndrome, Schlafly Tap Room
*People Noise/Troubadour Dali/Daydream Astronauts, Bluebird
*Toasters/Deal’s Gone Bad, Off Broadway
*Yonder Mountain String Band, Pageant
*Bunnygrunt, Feisty Bulldog
*The Transmitters, Mangia
*Heroes of the Kingdom/Losers Make Good, Way Out Club
*Orbz/PFIC, Cruisin’ Rte. 66

Sunday, February 24
*Horropops/Pink Spiders, Pop’s
*Haymarket Riot/Hitch/Balloons, Bluebird -- CANCELLED
*Traffic Music Awards, featuring Joka and Tha Deck/Gena/Ludy/Toyy/Da Bangaz/Hakeem the Dream/Vic Damone/Ruka Puff, Roberts Orpheum
*30 Years of Punk, with Holy Python/Red Light Runners/Chico Maciunas/The Skulls, Throttle

Monday, February 25
*The Riverboat Gamblers/Humanoids/Holy Python, 2 Cents Plain
*Sex Robots/Bunnygrunt, CBGB
*Jonas Brothers/Rooney, Fox Theatre

Tuesday, February 26
*Ace Frehley, Pop’s
*Tubring/Foxy Shazam/Peachcake/Femme Fatality/Karate High School, 2 Cents Plain
*Shat/Trash & Suicide, Creepy Crawl
*J. Holiday/Trey Songz, Pageant
*Ludo, instore and clerking, Vintage Vinyl

Wednesday, February 27
*Emery/Mayday Parade/As Cities Burn/Pierce the Veil, Pop’s
*Twilight Sentinels/Serengeti/Nato Caliph (with DJ Crucial)/Earthworms, Gargoyle
*Ravi Coltraine, Jazz at the Bistro (through Saturday, March 1)
*Ghost to Falco, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Thursday, February 28
*Angels and Airwaves/Meg & Dia/The Color Fred/Ace Enders, Pageant
*Gone City/Von Guarde/A Bit Shifty/Tone Rodent, Bluebird
*Berlin Whale/Jumbling Towers/Elsinore, Gargoyle
*Nerve Parade, Mangia

Friday, February 29
*Drive-By Truckers/Felice Brothers, Pageant
*Bill Callahan (Smog)/Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater), Duck Room
*Redwalls/John Henry and the Engine/Marlow Honey, Bluebird
*Mavis Staples, Sheldon
*Humanoids/Dead City Dregs/Bridgeburners, Way Out Club
*The Zydepunks, Gargoyle

Saturday, March 1
*Mucca Pazza/Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, Bluebird
*Jesse Irwin, Feisty Bulldog
*The Octopus Project/Pattern is Movement/My Dear Disco, Gargoyle
*Haddonfields (CD release)/Kentucky Knife Fight/Sex Robots, Way Out Club
*Robin Trower, Pageant

Sunday, March 2
*Pelican/Black Cobra/Unearthly Trance, Gargoyle
*St. Louis Blues Festival, Scottrade Center
*Ludo (CD release), Pageant

Tuesday, March 4
*Chapters/Maxtone 4, Cicero’s
*Brooke Waggoner, 2 Cents Plain
*Winger, Pop’s
*Elusive Parallelograms, Way Out Club

Wednesday, March 5
*Taste of Chaos tour, featuring Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Bullet for my Valentine, others, Family Arena
*Sick Puppies/Dropping Daylight/Saving Abel, Pageant
*Michael Buble, Scottrade Center
*David Bowie edition of Stag Night, Off Broadway
*Arlo Guthrie, SIU-E

Thursday, March 6
*Dollyrots/Suffrajett, Creepy Crawl
*Elsinore/Grampall Jookabox/Gentleman Auction House, Bluebird
*The Ghost of the Forest/Tree Heart Orchestra/The Marching Ohs/Target Market, Cicero’s
*The Fabulous Thunderbirds, VooDoo Lounge
*The Motion Sick (Boston)/Mirror Stage, Midwest Music Pit
*Broken Letters/Tonya Gilmore/Tyler Davis, Way Out Club
*Airbourne, Pop's

Friday, March 7
*Big Head Todd & the Monsters/Paul Kelly (yes THE Paul Kelly, of Paul Kelly and the Messengers), Pageant
*Von Bondies/Makeshift Gentleman, Creepy Crawl

Saturday, March 8
*Headlights (CD release)/Evangelicals/Catfish Haven, Billiken Club
*One Lone Car (CD release), Bluebird
*Carrie Newcomber, Lucas School House

Sunday, March 9
*Canada/Cotton Jones Basket Ride (ex-Page France), Ryne Watts, Bluebird
*Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) in-store, Vintage Vinyl

Monday, March 10
*A Place to Bury Strangers/Holy Fuck, Bluebird
*Dropkick Murphys/Big D and the Kids Table/Everybody Out!, Pageant

Tuesday, March 11
*Jonathan Richman/Vic Chesnutt, Off Broadway
*Tom Jones, Family Arena
*Watermelon Slim, BB’s Jazz, Blues and Soups
*Deer Tick/Brimstone Howl/Theodore, Billiken Club -- NEW DATE

Thursday, March 13
*Lifehouse, Pageant

Friday, March 14
*Kinetiks/Hibernauts, Bluebird
*This Is Hell/Elysia/Ruiner, etc., 2 Cents Plain
*Poison Control Center/Bunnygrunt, Tap Room

Saturday, March 15
*Built to Spill/Meat Puppets, Pageant
*Bald Eagle/Call Me Lightning/Ring, Cicada, Bluebird
*Lorene Drive/The Fairwell/Just Surrender, 2 Cents Plain

Sunday, March 16
*M.O.D./Head On Collision/Cross Examination/Whoppers Taste Good, 2 Cents Plain

Monday, March 17
*X, Pop’s
*Cloud Cult, Bluebird
*Comeback Kid/Cancer Bats/Crime in Stereo/Daggermouth, 2 Cents Plain
*Minmae, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Tuesday, March 18
*Genghis Tron/Apes/An Albatross, 2 Cents Plain
*Gil Mantera’s Party Dream (late), Bluebird
*Tally Hall/Spinto Band/The Sham (early, all ages), Bluebird
*Parts and Labor, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
*Limbeck/John Ralston/House of Fools, Off Broadway
*Secret Shine/Tears Run Rings/Stella Mora, aPop Records
*Clutch/Murder by Death/Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, Pop’s

Wednesday, March 19
*Jose Gonzalez/Mia Doi Todd, Graham Chapel at Washington University
*Delta Spirit/Port O’Brien, Bluebird
*Islands/Supreeme, Off Broadway
*Kaspar Hauser/Cobra Skulls/Bent Left, Way Out Club

Thursday, March 20
*Mystery Palace/Digata, 2 Cents Plain
*Dropkick the Robot, Cicero’s
*The Valley Arena/The Photo Atlas/1090 Club/Target Market (early, all ages), Bluebird
*O’Death/Langhorne Slim/The Waymakers (late), Bluebird

Friday, March 21
*Black Mountain/Birds of Avalon/Nordic Nomadic, Bluebird

Saturday, March 22
*Lollipop Factory/Strawfoot/Bad Folk, Bluebird
*Anavan/Gravity Propulsion System, 2 Cents Plain

Sunday, March 23
*Icarus Himself, Bluebird

Monday, March 24
*Blind Melon, Pop’s
*Bunnygrunt/Tight Pants Syndrome/bed, Cruisin’ Rte. 66
*The Independents/Johnny Saint and the Princes of Hell, Bluebird

Tuesday, March 25
*Silverstein/Devil Wears Prada, Pop’s
*The Paper Chase/Sinkane, Bluebird
*Marlina -- an opera, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

Wednesday, March 26
*Cowboy Junkies/Mary Gauthier, Sheldon
*Jill Scott, Fox Theatre
*The Starting Line/Bayside, Pop’s

Thursday, March 27
*Mike Doughty’s Band, Gargoyle
*Patty Larkin, Duck Room

Friday, March 28
*’70s Soul Jam, featuring The Stylistics, The Emotions, Heat Wave, Enchantment and The Manhattans, Scottrade Center
*The Monads (CD release), Off Broadway
*Tape Deck Sonata/Erin Hagan/Vivian Girls, Lemmons

Saturday, March 29
*Explosions in the Sky, Pageant
*British Sea Power, Billiken Club
*Anti-Flag/Street Dogs/Briggs/Fake Problems, Pop’s
*The Livers/Wooden Kites, Schlafly Tap Room

Sunday, March 30
*Van Halen, Scottrade Center

Monday, March 31
*Brian Vander Ark, Gargoyle
*Xiu Xiu, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
*AntiProduct/Retardobot, Pop’s

Tuesday, April 1
*Bunnygrunt/Keith John Adams/Velcro Stars, CBGB

Wednesday, April 2
*Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/Clue to Kalo, Bluebird

Friday, April 4
*Broadzilla, Bluebird
*SeepeopleS, Cicero’s

Saturday, April 5
*The Safes/The 75’s, Bluebird
*Waymakers/Rum Drum Ramblers/Boxcutters, Way Out Club

Sunday, April 6
*Cursive/Capgun Coup, Gargoyle

Monday, April 7
*J.B. Beverly and the Wayward Drifters, Way Out Club

Friday, April 11
*The Minus Story/Tre Orsi/The Coke Dares, Billiken Club
*DevilDriver/Napalm Death/Walls of Jericho/36 Crazyfists, Pop’s
*The Alice Rose/The Blind Eyes, Lemmons
*Semi-Precious Weapons, Cicero’s

Saturday, April 12
*Dan Deacon/Ad Astra Per Aspera/The Pragmatic, Billiken Club
*Feist, The Pageant
*Bunnygrunt/That’s My Daughter/The Besties, Lemmons

Sunday, April 13
*Unwed Sailor/Ryan Lindsey (Starlight Mints), Bluebird

Wednesday, April 16
*John Vanderslice, Billiken Club
*Chevelle/Finger Eleven, Pageant -- NEW DATE

Friday, April 18
*Dropsonic/Shame Club/Quatre Tet, Bluebird

Saturday, April 19
*New Pornographers/Okkervil River, Pageant
*The Cops/Architects/Victoria/Banshee Lips, Bluebird

Sunday, April 20
*Rogue Wave, Gargoyle

Wednesday, April 23
*Enon/Victoria, Billiken Club
*All Time Low/Rocket Summer/The Matches/Sonny, etc., Pop’s
*Santana/Derek Trucks Band, Scottrade Center

Wednesday, April 30
*Destroyer, Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room
*Velella Velella, Bluebird

Thursday, May 1
*Caribou, Billiken Club

Sunday, May 4
*Tegan and Sara, Pageant

Wednesday, May 7
*Saves the Day/Valencia/Metro Station/Set Your Goals/Lydia, Pageant

Saturday, May 24
*Dirtbombs/Dan Sartain, Creepy Crawl

Wednesday, May 28
*Nightwish, Pop’s

Friday, May 30
*Panic At the Disco/Motion City Soundtrack/The Hush Sound/Phantom Planet, Pageant

Monday, June 16
*Ladytron/Datarock, Pageant

Sometime this summer:
Radiohead!