Photograph by Matt Marcinkowski
Jack Grelle.
New format, new arrival day of Thursday, but lots of the same music coverage you’ve been seeing on SLM's arts blog over the years. And don’t miss that important disclaimer at the bottom of the page.
FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE: If you find yourself scrambling to keep up with new music, there’re few better resources than the YouTube channel of Seattle’s KEXP, which does a remarkable job of blending live performances from household names and newcomers alike. That station’s STL cousin, KDHX, has recently offered a selection of the best tracks recorded at the midtown station over the past year, via a service called VuHaus.
A press release reads like so: “Founded by a collective of public music radio stations, VuHaus is a video site for music discovery. It pools and curates the stations' video content, including live video streams, videos of station exclusives, interviews and more. VuHaus' mission is to support local and emerging artists, and help them gain national exposure on their platform.”
Different stations around the country are releasing top tracks playlists through December 30 and KDHX’s list is now live, featuring music by locally-based performers Foxing, Brian Owens and Pokey LaFarge, along with variety of national acts that’ve recorded at St. Louis’ long-running community station, like Dengue Fever and White Denim. You can VuHaus’ playlist for KDHX here.
READING AROUND: If you missed it elsewhere on the site, we’ve caught up with Jack Grelle (above) for a feature piece in the January edition of SLM. You don’t have to wait until then to read about him and his latest project, the album Got Dressed Up to Be Let Down. You can read the piece here.
It’s always a funny feeling, to be working on a piece about an act and see the same one featured elsewhere. Kevin Johnson got the jump on our upcoming story on The Knuckles, but there’s no ill will here, as this unique collaboration between Aloha Misho and Rockwell Knuckles is deserving of every keystroke they get. You can read Johnson’s piece here and check out the band’s new(ish) track “Ugly People” via YouTube, from their next-up release, “Set 2”:
A really remarkable site about local restaurants of days past has crossed our digital path recently. While Lost Tables will be of more-direct interest to local foodies than music fans, it’s no great jump to think that folks interested in local culture, generally, will give this resource a once-over. The site’s short history of Gaslight Square, of course, neatly links music and dining cultures and contains some photos that fans of the district will know well, in addition to some new images.
DISCLAIMER: In addition to writing about local music for a pair of local outlets (the one you’re reading, obviously, as well as The Riverfront Times) this writer serves as music booker for a small local bar called The Tick Tock Tavern; he also does social media work for the local band The Schwag. When there are any real or perceived conflicts of interest, he’ll note those in the body of that column.
