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Coming Soon: Universe Contest / Missouri Homegrown / Cupcake
WHO’S PLAYING? Cupcake (St. Joseph, MO) Universe Contest (Lincoln, NE) Missouri Homegrown (St. Joseph, MO) WHAT TO EXPECT? A show that will knock your damn socks off… Cupcake has been called St. Joseph’s best band by many and after seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Soon
Tagged Coming Soon, Cupcake, Dharma 2000, Missouri, Missouri Homegrown, St. Jospeh, The Rendevous, The Rendezvous, Universe Contest, weirdness
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Album at a glance: Maps For Travelers – Change Your Name
If you are into amped up guitars and passionate screaming vocals you will love Maps For Travelers’ first full-length album “Change Your Name.” The tracks on the record are painted with distorted guitar textures that will bring to mind Cursive … Continue reading
Album at a glance: Jerkface – JERKFACE!
If you want something unique, look no further than this online only release by Jerkface. Their punkbilly-surf music is perfectly accented by the fuzzy distortion of the guitars and the distinct sound of trombone blasts as heard on the instrumental … Continue reading
Posted in Local Album Reviews
Tagged album at a glance, Alien Girl, Brian Shank, Jerkface, Jesse James, Missouri, ska, St. Joseph, surf, Trainwreck
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250 Word Album Review: Sincerely, Iris – Best Left Free
Sincerely, Iris’ Best Left Free is an interesting listen but you need to work for it. At the surface you hear the steady acoustic strums and get lulled to sleep a bit before you realize there are hidden nuances that … Continue reading
Album at a glance: Wade Williamson – Tomorrow Could Have Been Yesterday
St. Joseph’s Wade Williamson has a heartbroken country croon and the lyrics to match. This EP reads as a Ryan Adams tribute in his most devastated state. “Summer Dress” and “Threw My Picture Away” seep of desperation and pain with their adorning … Continue reading
Tanner Ferguson of Grindstone Creek’s best of 2013
Tanner Ferguson is a guitarist/keyboardist/singer in the St. Joseph, Missouri based band Grindstone Creek. Look for them to have a big year in 2014 as we will hopefully will have some new recorded music from them soon. In the meantime … Continue reading
Vocals On Top’s Top 15 Concerts of 2013
Heading in to 2013 a silent resolution was made to jump in the fire and see as many concerts as possible, the end result being a total of 314 bands. It’s not something I would recommend but it is one … Continue reading
Posted in Concert Review, Lists
Tagged Andy Grooms, Austin Marks, Backyard Tire Fire, Ben Nichols, best of 2013, Best shows of 2013, Colby sings Dylan, Colby Walter, Continue To Move, Cracker, Cupcake, Dsoedean, Ed Anderson, Gas Town Lamps, Gastown Lamps, Get Dead, Ike Reilly, Jacob George, Jeff Tweedy, Jerkface, Johnny Hickman, Langhorne Slim, Lucero, Marc Darnell, Matthew Coman, Megajoos, Michael Coman, Missouri Homegrown, Nightwatchman, Ramey Memo, Rancid, Scruffy & The Janitors, Scruffy and the Janitors, Sticky Throttles, Third Wounded Man, Tim Timebomb, Two Piece Animator, Universe Contest
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Teriq Newton of Scruffy & The Janitors Best of 2013
Teriq Newton is an ace guitarist in St. Joseph, Missouri who is a member of Scruffy & The Janitors and The GasTown Lamps. He is a student of music and watches closely what is going on in popular music. His … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Writers, Lists
Tagged best of 2013, Cage The Elephant, Essential Tremors, Gas Town Lamps, Gastown Lamps, guitarist, J. Roddy Walston and The Business, Katherine McKnight, Melophobia, Modern Vampires of the City, Night Beats, Other Voices, Scruffy & The Janitors, Scruffy and the Janitors, Sonic Bloom, The Orwells, Vampire Weekend, year end lists
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Todd Ward of The GasTown Lamps Top 10 albums of 2013
Todd Ward is the lead singer and guitarist for The GasTown Lamps and is also launching a new project in 2014 named Black The Buffalo that will be far different that the power blues approach of GTL. This is Ward’s … Continue reading
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Tagged best of 2013, Black The Buffalo, Dead Ghosts, Fuzz, Gas Town Lamps, Gastown Lamps, Gilded Pleasures, Hung At Heart, Keep In The Dark, Kyla Ward, Like Clockwork, Night Beats, Queens of the Stone Age, Shelter Song, Sonic Bloom, Temples, The Growlers, Todd Ward, Top 10, Ty Seagall
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