Editor’s Note
by Evan Sult
Hello Cool World FIRST OFF: I NEVER had any use for a Mayan calendar before, and I don’t intend to start now. Even so, I’ll feel better once 12/21/12 is past, the same way I was glad last October when that preacher’s apocalyptic math fritzed out, and when Y2K did not end civilization as we knew it. There’s just a nervy edge to December’s end-of-theworld hoedown that I’m not enjoying much. The reason is simple: I don’t want the world to end. I’m having too much of a good time. Great shows keep rolling through town, the parties have all been good lately, I keep stumbling upon great bands (check out page 25 for my favorites), and the Fortune Teller Bar has delivered night life to Cherokee Street... You can keep your black holes and dark prophecies, there’s too much cool music going on! This issue covers both December 2012 and January 2013, so let me be the first to wish you a hell of a happy new year. There are so many great things going on in STL music, even with an additional eight pages we weren’t able to get to them all. But that’s what the new year is for, right? Oh yes, and before I forget (it’s very late where I am now, and it’s been so long since I slept): Congratulations are in order! With this publication, we mark ELEVEN’S 50TH ISSUE. Seeing as I’ve only been involved in the magazine for the last four issues, I’d like to send out my congratulations to the people who got the magazine this far, specifically Josh Petersel, Jonathan Fritz, Matthew Ström, Tara Pham—and especially Eleven’s publisher, Hugh Scott. I do believe that St. Louis has a bountiful music scene (check out page 6 for a dissenting opinion), and I do hope to see Eleven make it another 50 issues. This is a weird and cool city in a weird and cool age, so let’s make the most of it, yeah? Cheers, peers.
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