Music

Gateway Studios & Production Services in Chesterfield has worked on 40 tours in recent years, including outings by jam kings Phish and high-flying contender Goose. One recent day at the Factory reveals the work that goes on before a band can take the stage.

A free concert series produced by the International Institute and Music at the Intersection is making more music and performances from around the world available to St. Louisans this summer.

If you're lucky enough to find yourself in the path of totality Monday you'll likely be tempted to focus on the visual experience, but what about the soundtrack to set the mood?

Musician Mike Mills looks back at his work with R.E.M. in “R.E.M. Explored,” a program including symphonic interpretations of the band’s songs, and Mills’ concerto written for violin, rock band and symphony orchestra.

Heil is noted as the inventor of the talk box, the original featured in a display at the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on Saturday will perform “Brahms X Radiohead,” a musical fusion by conductor/composer Steve Hackman.He said it draws on the intense anxiety present in each.

Jazz great David Sanborn, a Kirkwood native, got his start playing teen hangouts and clubs around St. Louis. Jazz St. Louis will honor him with its first lifetime achievement award on Thursday.

Royce Martin’s “Memories on Morgan Street” brings Scott Joplin’s classics to the 21st century.

Music at the Intersection will return to Grand Center in September with kickoff and finale concerts, and partnerships with MvsterCamp and werQfest. Festival headliners will include Big Boi, Esperanza Spalding, Trombone Shorty and Chahka Khan.

St. Louis arts saw a lot of change in 2023, with new music venues and festivals, attendance struggles for theaters and an embattled community radio station seeing a DJ revolt. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy D. Goodwin and Chad Davis recap trends from the year in the arts.