What's in a name? Everything! (or almost)
We're brainstorming for names for the new community radio station. You can help!
As you’ve probably heard, LOVE of Community Radio STL (that’s us, a motley band of volunteers dedicated to creating a new community radio station for St. Louis) is preparing to launch our new online radio station. This station will be a precursor to our FM radio station (that will take a little while, but fear not, it’s coming.)
We couldn’t be more excited.
The station will feature LIVE broadcasting with dozens of the voices you know and love from the glory days of KDHX. It will share all the eclectic music, culture, and information that only a true grassroots, community radio station can provide. We are currently building out the temporary studios at Lindenwood Park Place Social Club, assembling gear, creating a new program schedule, training volunteers, and planning events to welcome the community into the space and into the sounds. There’s a lot to do!
We haven’t quite set a date for the launch of the online station, but it’s coming soon.
We are also in the process of naming the new station. That’s where you come in. We’d love to hear your ideas. We are especially looking for names that capture the independent, creative, eclectic, and local-to-St.-Louis essence of community radio. (Call letters are fine, but those will probably come later.)
So leave a comment and let us know your ideas! Or you can share your ideas via this Google form.
Ready for Fanetti?
This Sunday, October 19, LOVE of Community Radio STL is proud to partner with Carondelet Living for Fanetti Fest Four! This free music festival features eight St. Louis bands performing on two stages in Fanetti Park, right across the street from Stacked STL Burgers in the Carondelet / Patch neighborhood (7637 Ivory St, St. Louis, MO 63111).
Music runs from Noon-7PM. Bands include: ComRad!, the River Company, Bruiser Queen, Midwest Avengers, Beth Bombara, Adam Gaffney, Turner Cody, Rough Shop and more. This is a free, day-long, family-friendly music event so bring your lawn chairs and coolers.
And don’t miss the car and motorcycle show hosted by Bruhy Body and Paint on Fanetti Plaza!
LOVE of Community Radio STL will have a booth set up with information and stickers. Come by and say hi and learn more about our efforts to build a new community radio station for St. Louis!
Upcoming LOVE events and spins
Tonight, veteran DJ and writer Rob Levy will be bringing the sounds of his great KDHX (RIP) show Juxtaposition to Taps & Tunes at 4 Hands downtown. 6pm-9pm. Come on out and play stump the DJ (jk — there’s no stumping Rob); a portion of your likely extensive beer tab will benefit LOVE. RSVP on Facebook.
On Saturday October 25, bobEE Sweet, John Wendland and Rich Reese — all former DJs of KDHX and future DJs of our new community radio station — will get you in the Halloween spirit (get it?) with an all vinyl Spin Spooktacular at The Royale from 6PM to close. This will be a scary good night at one of our favorite joints in town!
And a heads up to mark your calendars: Our RECORD FAIR takes place on Saturday, December 6 at Lindenwood Park Place Social Club (the site of our forthcoming studios).
Proceeds will benefit our efforts to launch a NEW community radio station in St. Louis. If you’d like to donate records or other musical goodies to the sale, get in touch!
The LOVE of Community Radio STL Record Fair will take place at the Lindenwood Park Place Social Club at 3460 Jamieson Ave. St. Louis, MO 63139.
Stay up to date on all of our events by following our Events section on our new website!
The Weekly Playlist
DJ Brian Lock (Of Universal Default) has the latest and greatest playlist of for you to spin. Read On!
From the DJ archive, we have an October 2022 show from Roy Kasten’s Feel Like Going Home program.
All our original playlists are built from scratch, but the titles are usually stolen. This week’s comes from the menu at Robert’s Western World in Nashville, where six bucks buys you a fried bologna sandwich, chips, a PBR, and a Moon Pie.
Recession Special is a mix for lean times: songs about stretching a dollar, dodging the landlord, getting laid off, and a little exposure to precious metals to hedge against inflation.
If you’re enjoying these weekly playlists, you don’t even know what you’re missing! Please consider supporting Community Radio of STL. Your donation helps support our efforts to revive authentic community radio in St. Louis.
The Concert Calendar for 10.17.25-10.24.25
LOVE of Community Radio STL member Ken Laster, and his support team led by Shawn Greene, have the big run down on upcoming shows through the first week of October. Be sure to follow Ken’s Concert Calendar Podcast on Facebook. Every Monday Ken and Shawn break down the upcoming concerts and even play snippets of songs with great info about the bands and ticket costs!
What shows are you hitting this weekend? Leave us a comment and let us know!
Friday October 17
Keller Williams-Atomic Pavillion
They Might Be Giants-The Pageant SOLD OUT
Revis, Emerge-Delmar Hall
Stacey Ryan-The Golden Record Co.
Saturdays At Your Place, Carly Cosgrove, Riley-Off Broadway
Arcy Drive, Mercury-Old Rock House
Southern Avenue-City Winery STL
Head Cannon, Toy Husband, Smokies, Cazadores-Moshmellow
Lesser Care, Candy Apple-The Sinkhole
Beppe Gambetta, Hayes Griffin-The Focal Point
Jeff Pinkel Jazz Quartet-Jazz St. Louis
Ann Hampton Callaway-Blue Strawberry
The Gaslight Squares-Das Bevo
Kind Of Blue Sextet-Jazz St. Louis
Ann Hampton Callaway-Blue Strawberry
Joslyn and The Sweet Compression-Broadway Oyster Bar
Saturday October 18
Pines Fest featuring The Mighty Pines, Hunter Peebles, Jakes’s Leg, Falling Fences, Armchair Boogie and more-Atomic Pavillion
Mali Music-City Winery STL
They Might Be Giants-The Pageant
Jonathan Richman-Delmar Hall
Destroyer, Jennifer Castle-Off Broadway SOLD OUT
Lily Rose, Payton Smith-Old Rock House
The Reverend Horton Heat, The McCharmlys-The Sovereign
Nopoint, Mid Tempo Death March, Safely Off, Stay Sane, Breakmouth Annie-Platypus
Soft Crisis, Seashine, Wirebirds-The Heavy Anchor
Kind Of Blue Sextet-Jazz St. Louis
Joe Bozzi Band-Evangeline’s
Ann Hampton Callaway-Blue Strawberry
Joslyn and The Sweet Compression-Broadway Oyster Bar
Day Drinkers Band-1860 Saloon
Nick Gusman and The Coyotes-Das Bevo Biergarten
Tuvergen Band-The Focal Point
Sunday October 19
Brunch w/Jim Manley Jazz Band-Evangeline’s
Devon Kay and The Solutions, Tiny Stills, Suzie True, Fight Back Mountain-The Sinkhole
Autechre, Mark Bloom, Deep Glens-Delmar Hall SOLD OUT
Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Wet Willie featuring Jimmy Hall-The Factory
Abi Carter, Carter Rubin-Off Broadway
Mind Of A Mango, Nothing Club, Hopeful Utopian, Best Noodles IN Town-Moshmellow
Sweetie and The Toothaches-Broadway Oyster Bar
Curt Copeland and The Consequences-1860 Saloon
Monday October 20
Big Mike Aguirre (matinee)-Broadway Oyster Bar
Luisa Sims-Yaquis
Natchez Whistle-1860 Saloon
Soulard Blues Band (evening)-Broadway Oyster Bar
Tuesday October 21
Drew Lance (matinee)-Broadway Oyster Bar
Born Of Osiris, The Drowning VCTMS, AXTY-Red Flag
Saxsquatch, Elektrik Blvnkvet-Off Broadway
Grateful Shred-Old Rock House
Eric Lysaght-(evening)-Broadway Oyster Bar
Wednesday October 22
Rogers and Niehaus-Broadway Oyster Bar
The Drew Project-City Winery STL
Indigo Girls, Kristy Lee-Stifel Theatre
Ellis Paul-Blue Strawberry
Adam Maness Trio-Jazz St. Louis
Xceptions-Evangeline’s
Songbird Concert Featuring Kip & JJ Loui, Mattie Schell and Gerald Erker-The Focal Point
Tifanny Ann, Logan Barnhill-The Heavy Anchor
Andrew Dahle-1860 Saloon
Thursday October 23
Butch Moore-(matinee)-Broadway Oyster Bar
The Forestwood Boys-Das Bevo
Louis York-City Winery STL
Emmaline-Blue Strawberry
The Bloodletting Ball featuring MSTKS, Second Salem, Torchlight Parade, DJ Sketal-Red Flag
Adam Maness Trio-Jazz St. Louis
The Pheiffer Quartet featuring Debby Lennon-Evangeline’s
Madison Ryann Ward-The Golden Record Co.
BeBe The Neo Soul-Joe’s Cafe
Moe-The Pageant
Margo Price, Eliza Thorn-Off Broadway
Lera Lynn-Off Broadway
Motherfolk-Old Rock House
Randy Rogers Band, Cameron Albright-The Sovereign
Low Cloud Windhorse, MADS-The Sinkhole
Zach Flock (evening)-Broadway Oyster Bar
Friday October 24
Steve Reeb (matinee)-Hammerstone’s
Buster Williams, Dawn Clement and Matt Wilson-Jazz St. Louis
Emmaline-Blue Strawberry
The Broken Hipsters-Das Bevo
Lord Huron, Kevin Morby, Chaifetz Arena
T-Pain-The Factory SOLD OUT
Arturo O’Farrill Quintet-The Sheldon
Daniel Neihoff, Ryan Biter-The Focal Point
Ludo, Thor Axe-The Pageant
The Down Bads, Michael Blakey and The Bandits Of Time, Halcyon-Off Broadway
Tanner Usrey, Fox N’ Vead-Old Rock House
Sacred Leather, Jaded Entity, Ex Cathedra-The Sinkhole
Church Snakes, Sine Nomine, Ryan Werner-Platypus
Norcos Y Horchata, Petty Grievances, The Haddonfields, Feet Pics-Moshmellow
Madahoochi-Broadway Oyster Bar
LOVE of Community Radio STL is on Gofundme
Our first and most successful fundraising venture was our Gofundme, which launched two years ago. Since then we have raised over $82,000. Those donations helped back our legal fight to save KDHX (which proved impossible) and are now providing a foundation for building a new community radio station for St. Louis. Hundreds of you have supported us through Gofundme — we can’t begin to thank you enough!
Our Gofundme is still live, and you can still donate there — both one-time gifts and monthly donations. If you haven’t donated yet or want to make an additional gift, there’s no time like right now. Thank you for all that you do for community radio in St. Louis!
Album Release Update for 10.17.25
DJ Allen Dahm, former host of Bittersweet Melody on the former radio station KDHX, has the scoop on all the upcoming album releases. And as always, what are you looking forward to? Leave us a comment and let us know!
Here are some of the key albums released today, October 17, 2025
All Time Low – Everyone’s Talking!
Anne Wilson – Stars
Animal Collective – FEELSLive 20th Anniversary
Animal Collective – FEELSLive 04/05
araabMUZIK – Electronic Dream 15th Anniversary Edition
Ashnikko – Smoochies
bar italia – Some Like It Hot
The Bats – Corner Coming Up
Battle Beast – Steelbound
Biohazard – Divided We Fall
bloodsports – Anything Can Be A Hammer
Boris – dronevil (Vinyl Reissue)
Boris – Pink (Vinyl Reissue)
Brògeal – Tuesday Paper Club
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition
Camp Cope – Live at Sydney Opera House
Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION (10th Anniversary Edition)
Carter Vail – Coydog EP
Casey Dienel (fka White Hinterland) – My Heart is an Outlaw
Chicks on Speed – HEARTopia
Chrissie Hynde & Pals – Duets Special
The Cult – Choice of Weapon (Vinyl Reissue)
The Cult – Hidden City (Vinyl Reissue)
Cusp – What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back
David Gilmour – The Luck and Strange Concerts
Dear Boy – Celebrator
Destiny Bond – The Love
The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Fall Out Boy – From Under The Cork Tree (20th Anniversary Edition)
Felt – Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet (20th Anniversary)
Good Luck – Big Dreams, Mister
HAIM – i quit (Deluxe Edition)
Harmless – By Them, By You, By Me
Howlin’ Wolf – Moanin’ in the Moonlight (Vinyl Reissue)
I, Jordan – Free Falling EP
I Was A King – Until The End
Imogen Heap – Speak For Yourself (20th Anniversary Remaster)
Jane Inc. – A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH
Jouska – How Did I Wind Up Here?
julian maas – Cherry
Julie Odell – Disappearing Act EP
Katie Schecter – Empress
Kool & The Gang – Greatest Hits
The Last Dinner Party – From the Pyre
Leon Majcen – Making A Livin’ (Not a Killin’)
Living Hour – Internal Drone Infinity
Makaya McCraven – Off the Record
Maneater – Curb Your Appetite
Mariel Buckley – Strange Trip Ahead
Miles Kane – Sunlight in the Shadows
Militaire Gun – God Save the Gun
Monaleo – Who Did The Body
Monkey on Mars – Monkey on Mars EP
The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree (20th Anniversary Edition)
Muddy Waters – The Best of Muddy Waters (Vinyl Reissue)
Nathan Sykes (of The Wanted) – Ultraviolet
Of Monsters and Men – All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade
PARTYOF2 – AMERIKA’S NEXT TOP PARTY!
Paz Lenchantin – Triste
Poliça – Dreams Go
Queen – A Night At The Opera (Vinyl Reissue)
Rachel Bobbitt – Swimming Towards the Sand
Randy Newman – Trouble in Paradise (Expanded Edition)
Robin Taylor Zander (of Cheap Trick) – Robin Taylor Zander
Ron Gallo – Checkmate
Ruel – Kicking My Feel
Ruen Brothers – Awooo
Sabaton – Legends
Sam Ryder – Heartland
The Scorpions – From The First Sting
Show Me the Body – Body War (10th Anniversary Edition)
Skullcrusher – And Your Song is Like a Circle
Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
Simple Minds – Once Upon A Time (40th Anniversary Edition)
Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying
The Subways – When I’m With You
Sudan Archives – The BPM
Suzie True – How I Learned To Love What’s Gone
Tame Impala – Deadbeat
Ted Hearne – Farming
Todd Snider – HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME.
Tombs – Feral Darkness
Ty Dolla $ign – Tycoon
Vince Gill – 50 Years From Home: I Gave You Everything I Had EP
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal – Mossy Oak Shadow
William Prince – Further From the Country