| By Riverfront Times Staff Each week we bring you our picks for the best shows of the next seven days! To submit your show for consideration, click here. All events subject to change; check with the venue for the most up-to-date information. Radkey, Fight Back Mountain, the Monocles, the Kuhlies 8 p.m. Friday, March 11. Red Flag, 3040 Locust Street. $15. 314-714-8678. Radkey kicked off 2020 on the precipice of the band's collective rock & roll fantasy: opening for the Foo Fighters. Plans change, though, and that dream gig was canceled, much like everything else that year. While that could have derailed the momentum of a lesser band, this trio of brothers (with dad still driving the tour van) saw a fork in the road and went barreling down an arguably better path. Fast-forward to 2022 and not only has Radkey already toured with Foo Fighters, the Missouri-based punk outfit was also featured in Dave Grohl's documentary What Drives Us, a film that also follows St. Vincent, Ringo Starr and Flea, among other artists, as they travel across the country in often rickety and worn-out vans. Despite their relatively young age, Radkey has been around for more than a decade, securing opening spots on tours with the likes of Jack White and the Damned, but the power trio only recently etched their names in the annals of rock history. In late 2021, Grohl tapped the group to cover any song of their choosing as part of the Foo Fighters' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Their choice? "I'll Stick Around," a deep cut from the band's 1995 self-titled debut album, which should tell you everything about Radkey's ability to bridge the gap between punk and alternative rock. This mini-tour precedes an upcoming national tour with the Offspring, so expect to see much more of Radkey in the months to come. Eat Local: Radkey hails from the not-so-distant land of St. Joseph, Missouri, which is located just about an hour north of Kansas City. They're not considered a local band per se, but St. Louis has been a repeat destination for most of the group's career. You know who is local? All three of the openers, including breakneck pop-punkers Fight Back Mountain, sunburnt rockers the Kuhlies and mathy emo duo the Monocles. —Joseph Hess Find out more | By George Elkind Veering from the false realism of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy and the more earnest fantasias of Zack Snyder's work, Matt Reeves' The Batman moves toward a looser and better-humored fantasy space in its treatment of its title figure. With a script that seizes upon even the lowest-hanging sorts of camp morsels — a Catwoman (a game Zoë Kravitz) who makes "nine lives" quips and lingers over the phrase "the Cat and the Bat" — this iteration feels comfortable admitting a level of cheese into its system that Nolan and company could never have stomached. The result is unexpectedly welcome, a comic-book movie that feels buoyed by a mixture of humility and fidelity to its cartoon origins. It stumbles only when it grasps at being more. Find out more | By Jenna Jones Ten thousand handmade roses now hang on the outside of Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road) in tribute to Missourians who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Find out more |
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