My time here at Speakers in Code is normally spent offering you clowns a mix of either super-underground indie-rock or rap, to cleanse your sad-bastard-souls for that game Gonulsen throws on the daily. But, hearkening back to a time when I wasn’t an industry giant who knew about all the best music before it was even … Read more
The Smashing Pumpkins will be performing a special show at The Pageant on June 23rd: “In Plainsong — An Acoustic-Electro Evening.” The show is SOLD OUT, but we have TWO PAIRS of tickets to give away. But before we get to details on how to enter, let’s have a listen to “Being Beige” from the … Read more
ALL PHOTOS BY JASON GONULSEN The Smashing Pumpkins played a mostly acoustic show last night at The Pageant in St. Louis. I write mostly because there were electronic moments, like “Ava Adore,” which featured Billy Corgan prancing around the stage like a power forward in search of a rebound (think: Dirk Nowitzki with a shaved … Read more
Joy Williams and John Paul White at The Pageant | Photo by Louis Kwok “How about a happy song?” John Paul White asked the sold-out Pageant audience before launching into “I’ve Got This Friend,” a stellar track off Barton Hollow. “We have one of those.” And although most of the songs played last night at … Read more
As a passionate fan of music, I was delighted to find Act As If’s “There’s a Light” earlier this year — so much, that we at Speakers in Code made it a Pajammy Jam of the Day back in April. It’s a feel-good tune, with the road ahead of us viewed as a positive one … Read more