Fred Friction performing his song I’m Goin’ Blind at Flowers to the People. Fred might be best known as the former proprietor of Fredrick’s Music Lounge, or maybe you know him from some of his other endeavors around town. He was one of the first features of this site when we started over seven years ago and we’ve been fans ever since. He’s performing here with Anne Tkach who you might recognize from one or two other Lo-Fi Cherokee videos.
Flowers to the People is a unique little independent flower shop on the east side of Jefferson and they specialize in custom floral arangements and gifts. It’s a cute little store you should stop in some time and support a great local business.
This is number ten of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
Cassie Morgan and the Lonely Pine performs their song Wake Up at Foam Coffee and Beer. First let me apologize for the audio quality on this one. Our audio engineer Stephen Oppenheim (who, by the way, was total a champ and did a great job for us all day–as all the engineers did) got the wrong address for Foam and was running late so we had very little time to set up for this and this was the best take we got. And, while it’s not terrible, we almost considered not posting this because the vocal level was very low. In the end we decided to go ahead and share it anyway. We hope you can still enjoy it. Honestly this is one of the few serious technical errors we had on this epic day of shooting fourteen live music videos in one day, so we’re thankful for that.
Cassey Morgan and the Lonely Pine is an acclaimed folk duo consisting of Cassie Morgan accompanied by the versatile Beth Bombara. They were named “Best Folk Band” in the 2011 Riverfront Times Music Awards and Cassie was named “Best Female Vocalist” in the same survey in 2009 and 2010. This song: Wake Up is a new unreleased composition.
Foam has become a favorite hangout on the corner of Cherokee and Jefferson serving a ecclective mix of coffee and beer. They regularly feature live music and host open mic performances hosted by Ellen the Felon.
This is number nine of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
Ransom Note performing their song “Taken For Granted” at Art Monster on Cherokee. These guys blew us away at the Tower Groove Carnival last summer. We were taken off guard, we sort of half expected a band named Ransom Note to be a punk band or something and not the soulful music these guys make, and make well. They’re all veterans of the St. Louis music scene in various styles.
Chris Sabatino’s Art Monster has become a staple on Cherokee as purveyors of art in the form of Tattoos and air brushed … well anything from t-shirts to motorcycles. Check them out some time if you’re in the market for something like that.
This is number eight of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
Demonlover performing “Tequila Rockingbird” at El Torito Market on Cherokee St. As we understand it, Demon Lover is a project that came from the ashes of the band Theodore. These guys are multi-instrumentalists and you can tell they enjoy experimenting with non-traditional musical instruments often switching them up in the middle of the song. I think everyone who was at this shoot was taken with this band and the setting in the middle of Cherokees largest market.
El Torito (2753 Cherokee Street) is a Mexican supermarket that carries almost any kind of ingredient you might need to make your own Mexican feast as well as dry goods, clothing, and cookware.
This is number seven of fourteen (half way!) music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
Jason Hutto’s latest project Warm Jets USA performing “Anesthesia” from their forthcoming album (maybe this summer?) at Apop records. Jason is one of the organizers of Tower Groove Records and a stable of the St. Louis Music scene for somewhere around fifteen years now. He not only has had a number of projects of his own he’s also recorded and/or produced a number of bands around town. And on top of all this he’s just a nice dude. We’ve covered his work in the past here and here and here. (and here and here too). He’s even made some of his music available for free download here too.
Apop records is a great spot on Cherokee and (sadly) a rare thing to see in any neighborhood anymore; an honest to god record store. It’s worth a trip to the neighborhood to check it out.
This is number six of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
The Skekses performing Lonely Cowgirl at Cherokee Street Bikes. The Skekses were one of the bands that we knew very little about but were very pleasantly surprised by their performance. We’re looking forward to hearing more from them in the future. They have an EP expected out in June entitled “Curse My Name”. Learn more about them here.
We shot this in Cherokee Street Bikes where I’m sure you can find a deal on a nice ride or get yers fixed.
Audio recorded and mixed by Matt Giant.
This is number five of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
This weekends curated video is from Jarred Gastreich’s local one take video series the Show-Me Shows. In this video he presents the folk group Dots Not Feathers.
This is the band Catholic Guilt playing their song “Ol’ Man Gold” at Firecracker Press. Not sure how to describe this band … maybe the video does the best job of that. If you dig them you can hear their full length record entitled Beyond Pleasuredome from their bandcamp page here.
We’ve featured Firecracker Press on Lo-Fi Saint Louis a long time ago, before they moved to their current location. They print cool stuff will old technology.
This is number four of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
This is number three of fourteen music videos we shot on April 7th in St. Louis on Cherokee street. We’ll be posting them every Tuesday and Thursday for the next few weeks. Full project credits here.
Black James is normally a solo act but on this particular occasion Jennifer McDaniel had invited a organist, a zither player and a Thereminist to acompany her on this performance of this country murder ballad. Murder ballads aren’t really something you hear much of anymore. Most music about killing people is done in rap music these days, but there is a long tradition of murder songs in both classical and folk traditions.
You can find Black James here and here and hear more of her music here.
Audio for this video was produced by Steven Oppenheim.
New music video from Kentucky Knife Fight produced by First Punch Film . Awesome. Thank you.
This is a video produced by Johnny Andrews for Listen at STLToday.com. We’re posting it here because it’s awesome!
Magic City performs “Good Times Ride” in St. Louis, Missouri.
Band members include Larry Bulawsky, JJ Hamon, Adam Hesed, Sam Meyer and Anne Tkach.
Special thanks to Matty Coonfield, Kate Eddens, Taylor J. Huff, Kevin Insinna, Jacob Jones, Chris Keith, Ophelia Meyer, Duane Perry, Jeff White, Zeng and members of the band Bug Chaser.
Audio engineered by Tazu Marshall
Video produced by Johnny Andrews
For more Magic City go here.
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Pretty Little Empire performing their song “The Way You Say It” at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts. This is part of our Lo-Fi Cherokee collaboration with Tower Groove Records which you can read about here.
Pretty Little Empire (band Facebook page) have generated a lot of buzz and critical acclaim in town since the formed in 2008. Christian Schaeffer of the River Front Times sez: ”Pretty Little Empire trades in sweet acoustic melancholy, a kind of slow-drip dream-folk that skirts the edges of twang and pop.”
You can catch them live at Off Broadway on May 5th which is a fundraiser (to raise money to finish their forthcoming album) sponsored by our fellow local music blog I Went To A Show.
This is something new for us. A new series of fourteen videos shot on Cherokee St. in a single day featuring bands from Tower Groove Records. We’ll be posting two of these a week (on Tuesdays and Thursdays) for the next seven weeks.
This first band was shot at STL-Style a great local T-shirt shop run by Jeff and Randy Vines. We made a video about them a few years ago which you can see here. They make locally (St. Louis) themed t-shirts and sell other locally themed goods.
The band is Humdrum playing their song I’ll Find You from their second full-length release The Arrangement. They’re currently working on a third to be produced by Steve Albini. (Official band website, Official Facebook Page)
Thanks to everyone who helped out with this project. Audio for this performance was recorded by Aaron Ruby see this page for the full credits for this project.
This is a sponsored video. These videos are made for a fee and help suport this site. If you would like a video made to promote your business/project/event feel free to contact me via our contact page.
EVIL PRINTS is proud to present a new suite of 14, 16″x 16″ linoleum cuts by Tom Huck entitled, “The Hillbilly Kama Sutra”. Having taken over 2 years to complete, “The Hillbilly Kama Sutra” is Huck’s first portfolio of prints since 1998′s seminal, “2 Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities”. Housed in a black velvet lined portfolio made of paneling and duct tape, this signed and numbered limited edition set of 20 will be an essential addition to any collection of contemporary prints. As an added bonus, collectors who purchase the complete set will get a 15th “mystery print”. The mystery print will only be available in the portfolio set.
“The Hillbilly Kama Sutra” is part of a long tradition of thematically unified suites in the history of printmaking. Inspired by artists such as Hogarth, Holbein, and Goya, Huck has chosen the timeless theme of sex, albeit with a slight “hillbilly” twist. “The Hillbilly Kama Sutra” is now available from Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. info@sherryleedy.com
The 15 print portfolio is available for $11,500.
View the whole set here: evilprints.com/site/?page_id=158
Visit EvilPrints.com for more info
Video produced by Bill Streeter (billstreeter.net)
Music: Dirty South by Bob Reuter and Alley Ghost (facebook.com/alleyghost)
We’ve been trying to get Ellen Cook (AKA Ellen the Felon) to come do a session for a while and as you can see she finally relented to our requests. She’s one of the newer musicians that’s been making waves in St. Louis in the last year.
It took us awhile to finally decide to shoot this session on the lovely roof of City Museum with Mattronome‘s drum kit set up at the bottom of the giant slide there.
Here Ellen performs two songs, ‘Where the Heart is’ and ‘Oh Timmothy’ and you can keep up with her via her website here.
You might recognize the Paper Dolls keyboardist here as Jenn Malzone from our session with Tight Pants Syndrome. Well this is her other band, one of two other bands actually. So she keeps busy. She told me about the Paper Dolls at the TPS session so when we got a chance we booked this one too. They play three songs here ‘Sparks’, ‘I Was Too Obvious’ and ‘Trash & Suicide’ and you can listen and buy their album ‘Sparks’ here.
Some nice folks from Nebraska came through town last weekend, they’re traveling cross country making these videos of local bands. The videos are similar to the videos I’ve been making for my Lo-Fi Sessions project and their project is part of an effort to promote Nebraska music via a website called Hear Nebraska. This video was produced by Lovedrunk Studios. My son Travis can be seen at the beginning of this video performing duties with a clapboard. .Cassie Morgan can be found here.
Our intern Trent Hover went out and produced this piece on the anual celebration of record stores in St. Louis. We’re blessed for a city of our size to still have as many options as we do for buying vinyl or any kind of physical media. We visited Euclid Records, Vintage Vinyl and Apop Records for this piece but there are even more options than those in the St. Louis area. And remember you don’t have to wait for Record Store Day to go and check out your local record store. Music for this video: Stellar Day by the Phonocaptors.
Fred Friction performing his song I’m Goin’ Blind at Flowers to the People. Fred might be best known as the former proprietor of Fredrick’s Music Lounge, or maybe you know him from some of his other endeavors around town. He was one of the first features of this site when we started over seven years ago and we’ve been fans ever since. He’s performing here with Anne Tkach who you might recognize from one or two other Lo-Fi Cherokee videos.
