Second Set

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 19, 2012 - Over the past half year, this space has nodded in the directions of various clubs,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 12, 2012 - We can blame a lot on the heat of this summer, including the tendency to lurk around…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 5, 2012 - It’s become the stuff of local legend. Kevin Renick, a struggling songwriter who’d…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 27, 2012 - Ultraman was a group with serious history by 2007, a time when it released a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 21, 2012 - In some respects, The Bishops were the perfect rock band of their moment, constructed…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 14, 2012 - If the story’s not 100 percent accurate, it’s still true.There’s this night, sometime…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 7, 2012 - Commercial radio stations, we know, can change without any advance warning. In fact,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 31, 2012 - At some point in my mid-30s, I decided that one last run at amateur boxing was a good…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 17, 2012 - All classic rock concerts are not created equally. This much we know. Some acts take…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 10, 2012 - During my junior year of college, I spent winter break in Los Angeles, visiting a…