Starwolf brings a new record home to Off Broadway

The disco-minded trio from just across the river throws an album release show on Lemp Avenue next Saturday, Nov. 7, with DJ Makossa on the decks.

There is a particular kind of Saturday night that Off Broadway does better than almost anywhere in town: a local band with a new record, a room of people who have been following them for years, and a DJ keeping the floor warm between sets. Next Saturday, Nov. 7, that band is Starwolf.

The venue is billing the night as the Starwolf Album Release Show, presented by Proper Cannabis and Off Broadway, with DJ Makossa on the bill. Doors are at 7 p.m. and the music starts at 8. General admission is $20 on Off Broadway's listing, and the venue says the first 50 ticket holders get a free show poster with their purchase. Off Broadway is at 3509 Lemp Ave.

What exactly is being released is still a little coy. Neither the venue nor the band has put a title on it publicly as of this writing, but the band's Bandcamp tells the story of the year in singles: "Dance With You" in January, "Get Yourself Together" in July, and two more, "Back It Up" and "Starship Cruiser," landing this fall. If you have been catching those as they dropped, Nov. 7 is when they get the room-sized treatment.

Starwolf is a St. Louis trio, and they have been at this since 2016, mixing funk, pop and a little psychedelia into something that feels lifted out of a late-'70s AM dial. The EP *Ti Amo, Stargazer* and the album *Astro Lobo* came first. Then came *Tropical Disco*, the record St. Louis Magazine summed up by calling Starwolf a band out of time, and which St. Louis Public Radio described as a galactic disco journey to space. That record also got its release party at Off Broadway, which makes next Saturday something of a return trip.

Nov. 7 is when a year of singles gets the room-sized treatment.

The other part of the story is how the band got back on stages at all. In 2024, the Post-Dispatch reported that Starwolf was headlining its first show in two years after a viral TikTok put them in front of a lot of new ears. Since then they have kept the momentum local: our own records have them playing St. Louis more than any other market, nine shows and counting.

That matters for what kind of night this is. Starwolf's music is built for bodies moving, all four-on-the-floor grooves, warm keys and falsetto hooks, and it lands best in a room where the band can see the back wall. Off Broadway has been that room for a long line of St. Louis acts marking a new record.

Pairing them with DJ Makossa is a smart bit of booking too. It turns a release show into a dance party with no dead air between sets, which is the whole point of a band whose last record had "disco" in the title.

If you have only caught Starwolf on your phone, this is the one to see in person. Get there early for the poster, wear shoes you can dance in, and plan on staying until the lights come up.

Sources: Off Broadway: Starwolf Album Release Show (Nov 7) (offbroadwaystl.com); Starwolf on Bandcamp (starwolftheband.bandcamp.com); Starwolf: Get Yourself Together (Bandcamp) (starwolftheband.bandcamp.com); St. Louis Magazine: Starwolf is a band out of time on Tropical Disco (stlmag.com); St. Louis Public Radio: New Starwolf album takes St. Louis on a galactic disco journey to space (stlpr.org); St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Starwolf headlines first show in 2 years after viral TikTok (stltoday.com)