Longtime St. Louis favorites Quintron and Miss Pussycat are making their way up the Mississippi from their home in New Orleans this Friday. The band brings its mix of homemade electronic instruments and puppet craft in support of "Sucre Du Sauvage," an album recorded as an art exhibit last year at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

It's been a big spring for Brothers Lazaroff. They stormed South by Southwest, armed with genre-bending remixes of Austin pal Elizabeth McQueen's retro jazz before returning to St. Louis to release their new album, "Science Won."

There is nothing conventional about the Polyphonic Spree. Sonically they throw down with as many as 22 members simultaneously jamming, dancing and prancing about while creating layered grooves that are part gospel choir, part indie rock show and part cultish love-fest.

When you dig beneath the shimmering textures and ethereal vocals of Sweden's I Break Horses you will discover that the duo of Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck make soundscapes of depth and substance.

Ray Wylie Hubbard's latest record, "The Grifter's Hymnal," has been in constant rotation in my truck for the past week. Living with it as I did, many questions arose, and I was lucky enough to be able to run them by the esteemed Mr. Hubbard recently via phone from his front porch in Texas.

Palace plays like an indie band on their way to Broadway. With post-angst four-part harmonies and themed live shows, the St. Louis locals energetically perform pop somewhere in between Queen and Fun.

Kentucky Knife Fight offers up a sound full of razor-edged riffs, incendiary rhythms and enough darkly hopeless love stories to entertain even the most heartless bastards among us. Oh, and don't forget the harmonica.

An 88.1 KDHX DJ for 17 years, Rob Levy still calls Juxtaposition, his show that airs every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. Central, "a work of chaos."

Hot off his newest release "The Ones Who Wait," Denison Witmer brings introspective, acoustic indie-folk to St. Louis' the Firebird on Saturday, March 31 in support of William Fitzsimmons.

Chuck Prophet's 10th full-length solo record, "Temple Beautiful," is a spare, rocking homage to his adopted home of San Francisco, both the town and its denizens.

Before kicking off the West coast leg of Galactic's latest tour guitarist Jeff Raines shed some light on what it's like to have been "touched by Treme."

Every Saturday night JJ Loy keeps the two-decade run of Ska's the Limit bouncing from one foot to the other.

At the intersection of music and perfume, your choices...well, your choices stink, frankly. "Fantasy" by Britney Spears is best used as some sort of anti-sex stink bomb, and we believe Justin Bieber's perfume was the perferred choice of particularly vicious Occupy Wall Street riot cops.

Rusko's energy at the Pageant on Monday night was inescapable -- especially for him.

With an album released last October and a new video for the single "Allies" recently posted, MuteMath has set its sights on St. Louis for a show at the Pageant.

The California Guitar Trio are starting a three-month-long tour here in St. Louis at the Old Rock House on Friday, February 24 as part of the club's Listening Room Series.

An 88.1 KDHX volunteer for more than 17 years and KDHX radio personality for 14 of those years, Mark Silverstein hosts Louisiana Stomp on Sundays 5-7 a.m. Central.

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears play upbeat blues injected with influences that include soul, punk and rock 'n' roll. Hailing from Austin (though now living in Montreal), Joe Lewis' dynamic vocals and heavy guitar licks provide the lead for a turbo-charged ensemble of horns and percussion.

"You shouldn't do a job just to do it; you should do a job because you give a damn," says Jason Robinson, host of the Mixtape on 88.1 KDHX.

Railroad Earth is perhaps best known for its vast array of influences which include bluegrass, jazz, classic rock and traditional Irish, just for starters.

Samantha Crain is a traveling soul. Whether touring with her band the Midnight Shivers or lending her voice to another band's recording (Small Houses, Night Reports), Crain will most likely be passing through your town.

Just because Austin vocalist Elizabeth McQueen has been a part of Texas swing institution Asleep at the Wheel since 2005 doesn't mean she's just just a singing cowgirl.

Possessing a humor that draws fans in, singer-songwriter Todd Snider often covers topics that run much deeper.

St. Louisians D-Ex and Furius "Iceman" Stylz, the award-winning DJs and hip-hop diehards behind Deep Krate Radio, have a combined 50-plus years of experience as DJs.

Brendan Kelly of Chicago punk group the Lawrence Arms took some time out from his kids and music to give KDHX the rundown on the current state of his bands, his family and the music industry itself.