LO-FI SAINT LOUIS

Beth Bombara performing her song All Along at Retro 101. This is Bombara’s second appearance in this series after her appearance with Cassie Morgan as the “Lonely Pine”. She really brings the goods here with this great catchy tune. We’ve had it on heavy rotation here at Lo-Fi HQ ever since our engineer Matt Giant delivered the audio master for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is one of our favorite local acts trying out some new material at the Firebird last month. The Blind Eyes are due to have a new album out in June so we look forward to that. This video was entirely produced by our intern Trent Hover. We think he did a nice job. Let him know what you think ...

So a few months ago we got an email from a young musician named André with a link to some videos that he had posted on Youtube. Normally we ignore unsolicited contacts like this but there was something about this guys video that really made us take a second look–he had great energy and enthusiasm if not some musical chops. ...

I caught this act at Stag Night last month at El Leñador on Cherokee St. I didn’t know anything about this band before this performance. It’s just random luck that I was able to capture this performance by two members of what is normally a four piece group. Loved them I hope they make it back to St. Louis. They’re ...