The Mystery Hour turns 4, celebrates with epic concert and, presumably, gross amounts of cake
There’s no party like a birthday party. Inevitably, every one of them is either awesome or obnoxious. Chalk this one up under awesome: The Mystery Hour, the comedic take on a talk show hosted by Jeff Houghton at the Skinnky Improv Theatre just after the Mainstage Show, is turning four. Well, it’s completing its fourth [...]
The Show Report, 7/30: It Begins
Today is a date circled in red on many family calendars, but music fans have been anticipating it, too. The Ozark Empire Fair begins today, and on the Grandstand Stage tonight is a trio of country-rock heavyweights that will have ’70s radio-rock fans salivating: The Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet and The Atlanta Rhythm Section. [...]
The Show Report, 7/29: Time to Crown a King
There will be a new king by the end of tonight. No, SGF hasn’t become a monarchy, though there are moments where one wonders. We’re talking about King of the Roots, a battle of the bands to send the winner to the Main Stage at the Roots ‘n’ Blues ‘n’ BBQ festival in Columbia October [...]
Singer for 7 Dollar Stereo hospitalized with Bell’s Palsy
Tough news to swallow for the local rock community: Matt Eden, lead singer for Lebanon-based band and frequent SGF performer 7 Dollar Stereo, was rushed to the emergency room this morning with numbness in the left side of his face. Matt’s wife, Kayla, posted this to their shared Facebook profile: “please keep Matt in your [...]
The Show Report, 7/28: Is Archeology The Culprit?
The Outland complex on South Avenue welcomes two very different shows tonight, one upstairs at The Outland Ballroom and the other at ground level in The Outland. Upstairs The Culprit brings British style hard rock (same as American style except less angry, in case you’re wondering) with a strong pair of local openers in Assembly [...]
CD & DVD Releases, 7/27
CD Releases It’s a boon week on the album shelf. Rock group Avenged Sevenfold is arguably the headline, but hip hop fans will find a lot to look into with new CDs from Fat Joe, Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest and Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. There’s even a new album from Dru Hill–that’s right, [...]
New (To Us) Music Monday: Fantasies, by Metric
While we do our best to work in local album reviews, we often receive requests for reviews of non-local work, too. Since we love discovering new music, but want to keep a non-local piece helpful for SGFers, we had an idea: What if we review one non-local album per week, whether brand new or just [...]
Sound Bytes: Trent Wilson
- “Have I ever told you the story of how The BoogeyMen came together? So you’ve got this band called The Filthy Thirds, right? So Toad [Wyrick, the Thirds' guitarist] has left for the Army and this is when I brought Nate [Clarkson] in… well, we were playing all these shows and changing our sound [...]
CONFIRMED: Alan Jackson to play JQH in Springfield, MO
Nottingham Productions has just announced their latest major concert. Alan Jackson will be coming to Springfield, MO to play JQH arena at Missouri State University on September 23, 2010.
The Show Report, 7/23: Han’s Trio, Blues’s Duo and One Awesome Fest
For too-day’s Show Report, eets time to count! Ah, ah, ah, ah! Count ay-long weeth me: One! One festival! Summerfest 2010! Eet comes to Sunderland Field on Drury University campus, and eet starts at 6 p.m. Once you’re there you can see seex–seex!–musicians onstage: Sara Evans, Lee Brice, JaneDear, Thompson Square, Noe Palma and Liz [...]
Stolen gear alert! Assembly Line Gods and Tokyo Sauna hit by thieves
It’s not your typical news post, but for the sake of the music community I’m writing about it anyway, because there is nothing I hate more than when hardworking bands have their equipment stolen by opportunistic jerks, thereby taking away from not only a musician’s passion but your ability to enjoy a show, dear reader. [...]
The Show Report, 7/22: The Buzz Band
Don’t know MeTalkPretty yet? Chances are you will soon. The New York-based band was featured on the soundtrack to EA Sports’ NHL ’10 video game, an en vogue way for young bands to break. Oprah.com ran a lengthy feature on the band’s singer, Julia Preotu. The band is headed for the Vans Warped Tour in [...]
Bring on the FREE: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real return to play for you, you pay nada
Think about your typical Sunday entertainment for a moment. A good book? An episode of 20/20? Dump them both, at least on August 1. Lukas Nelson, son of country legend Willie Nelson–and a guitarist who can shred, by the way–is coming back to SGF that night with his band Promise of the Real to play [...]
In the Studio: The BoogeyMen
It’s almost 7 p.m. on a Wednesday night at Wired Woods Studio. The bass is finally set up, the paling-around jokes are in full swing and the window of opportunity is closing. For Trent Wilson, founder and braintrust of local instrumental surf-meets-Morricone group The BoogeyMen, it has already been a 15-hour day, and the next [...]
Under the radar, a big reunion show looms
There’s nothing like a special occasion to shake things up a bit. Christmas has long been a good time of year to see local bands get back together for that “Why not? We’re all in the city at the same time anyway!” show, and, as we learned a few weeks ago, July 4 weekend has [...]
