"They’re a crazy, creative, combustible mix, these Deserters … and you can’t take your eyes off them. When plugged in, they simply demand your attention. And you don’t have to be another musician to share in the idea that this band matters. Nah, it’s obvious. It has 'it'. Talent. An idiosyncratic look. And a glorious sound that’s its alone." --Sauce Magazine.
"Made up of members of such local bands as the Commons and Fred's Variety Group, the Deserters have quite the rock & roll pedigree." --Riverfront Times.
"[The Deserters are] an amalgamation of six local musicians, five of them songwriters. The group emphasizes a rough-hewn, peculiar strain of rock 'n' roll, with influences stretching all over the map — and, for that matter, dating back a couple decades. On a given night, the band may find a strange, elusive groove that makes you wonder how far it can take it." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This weekend marks the 112th anniversary of The Haymarket Affair! On May 3rd, 1886, police in Chicago killed a number of striking workers, On May 4th, the workers organized in a peaceful gathering. Once again, the police disrupted the gathering, this time the workers fought back. After the streets were cleared, a number of workers and police lay dead, and many more injured. 8 men were arrested and charged with inciting a riot and the throwing of a bomb. Despite the overwhelming evidence that these men were innocent, they were sentenced to imprisonment and even death, to be carried out by the state, simply for being anarchists. This Saturday, May 3rd, we recall this event and celebrate the struggle of the working class @ Picasso's Coffee House, 101 N Main St. Saint Charles, MO 63301 12:00 noon, with a parade for workers solidarity and a day of music by The Tillers, www. myspace. com/thetillersthree Ian Fischer, http://www. myspace. com/ianfishermusic Ryan Spearman, www. myspace. com/tatercooks and the introduction of Holy!Holy!Holy! admission is 2 used books you enjoyed everyone leaves with a book they didn't bring and the remaining books go to Books2Prisoners.
Also, sticks&stones books, an anarchist book source will be opening to the public for the first time! Finally a truly leftist books source in Saint Charles!
REPOST THIS!!! help keep original music wedsndays going!!
charlack pub needs at least 2 more bands for this wednsday april 30th,or he will have to cancel the show...this will be his second in a row that he has to cancel & if this happens,then original music wednsdays are over
if youre a local music fan these are free shows that you can come to every other wednsday & see 3 or 4 bands for free so theres no reason not to get out & see some live music
if youre a band,then this is a win win for you because you get a PAYING gig in the middle of the week where there isnt alot of other competing shows,at a new place youve probably never played before so you have the potential to make new fans,this venue /promoter buys local bands cds,tells the crowd to buy them as well & they play them over the speaker system in the bar for the regular patrons & this bar may be small but it does get packed up with probably a hundred people & on a wednsday night thats a hell of a crowd also for playing the charlack pub you get special deals on videos...you can either get one or two songs free(they pay me so you dont have to)or you can get a half hour set for only $10 & they will use your video to promote you so you get free promotion as well you cant beat it!!!
help the stl music scene by helping those that are busting their ass to help you!!! get ahold of jason at myspace. com/liveatthecharlackpub
Get Born reads at the Way Out Club for the first time next Monday, April 14th at 8 p.m.
Featuring:Aaron Belz,Jason Wallace Triefenbach,Joseph Sulier,Erin Wiles,Brock Walker,Brett Underwood,Mathieu Paul,and 10 yet to be determined local poets.
Also featuring the solo blues stylings of Mat Wilson,frontman of The Rumdrum Ramblers
The Way Out Club is just north of Gravois on Jefferson Avenue on the South Side of St. Louis at 2525 S. Jefferson with a big vintage neon sign out front that reads "The Palms".
Sherman S. Sherman and the Dirty Peckers tonight! Another free show at the Schlafly Tap Room in St. Louis tonight! 9 p.m to Midnight, Friday, October 12th: Theodore http://www.myspace.com/theodoreacoustic/ with Sherman S. Sherman and the Dirty Peckers http://www.myspace.com/peckofdirt
Sunday, October 14th: Stuart Johnson, 6-9 p.m. in the dining room
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Saturday, August 18th: Piedmont Chris Johnson http://www.myspace.com/piedmontjohnson Riverfront Times and No Depression critic Roy Kasten has written: "Johnson plays well, but his music is rarely pretty: his worn, almost Tom Waitsian voice spades through earthy, witty songs, and his banged up but beautiful Gibson rings with a raw thwack and sting that may hail from the blues but also sounds like nothing else in town." "Chris Johnson would be better known if his voice wasn't such an irascible instrument, if his guitar work wasn't so taut and fraught with the densest blues, if his songs didn't cut so damn deeply. His brand of acoustic folk isn't easy listening, but then neither is the best of Townes Van Zandt or Bob Dylan, the two masters whose lessons he has absorbed. Though he occasionally appears with a barely electrified combo called Pye-Dog, you're more likely to hear the wail and pine of his harmonica and the stomp of his boot heel when he performs solo at coffee shops or Frederick's Music Lounge. And though he's been writing and performing in St. Louis for about a decade, he keeps getting better, as anyone who has heard his recent, heart-crushing song 'Down in Lemay' will tell you." with Hot Liquors Schlafly's very own drunken brewers and bottlers together with a seasoned drummer and some alt-country for the altered state of your mind. http://www.myspace.com/thehotliquors /Peck of Dirt http://www.myspace.com/peckofdirt The Dirty Peckers bring their living room set back to the Tap Room to make you wish you could stay with them all night, reclining on a pillow of smoke.
