Author Archives: VocalsOnTop

Coming Soon: Dsoedean’s Continue To Move!

WHO’S PLAYING?  Dsoedean (St. Joseph, MO) Cupcake (St. Joseph, MO) Scruffy & The Janitors (St. Joseph, MO) WHAT TO EXPECT?  A new addition to your record collection! Get a copy of Dsoedean’s full length album Continue To Move on CD. You can also … Continue reading

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250 Word Album Review: Mike Cooley – The Fool On Every Corner

Mike Cooley is one of the founding members of the Drive-By Truckers and many members of DBT nation have long waited for his first solo album. A live album isn’t exactly what they had in mind but it is still … Continue reading

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Concert Review: Colby Walter sings Bob Dylan at Cafe Acoustic 6/13/13

  It was an ambitious task by local musical talent Colby Walter but one he could handle. I don’t know if any other musician in town could have pulled it off but Walter nailed it. A night covering all Bob … Continue reading

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250 Word Local Album Review: Andy Grooms Living Room – Grateful To Burn

Andy Grooms is a past member of the Memphis band Pawtuckets that made some noise around the year 2000. Pawtuckets were an alt-country outfit that had their share of twang but Grooms has shed most of that for his first … Continue reading

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250 Word Album Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito

Let’s get this out of the way: What the hell were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs thinking with this awful, piece of shit album cover? I instantly put it among the worst album covers of all time, possibly in the #1 … Continue reading

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Coming Soon: Colby Walter sings Dylan

  WHO’S PERFORMING?  Colby Walter (St. Joseph, MO) WHAT TO EXPECT?  A lot of Bob Dylan songs… Even one Bob Dylan cover is about enough to get me dressed and out the door but a whole night of them? What … Continue reading

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250 Word Album Review: Overseas – Overseas

Overseas reminds me of Vic Chesnutt. Not in the fact that the supergroup sounds like Chesnutt a whole lot but the main members of Overseas (Will Johnson and David Bazan) were once in another supergroup together; with Chesuntt and Mark … Continue reading

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Coming Soon: Colby Walter sings Dylan

WHO’S PERFORMING?  Colby Walter (St. Joseph, MO) WHAT TO EXPECT?  A lot of Bob Dylan songs… Even one Bob Dylan cover is about enough to get me dressed and out the door but a whole night of them? What good … Continue reading

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250 Word Album Review: Langhorne Slim & The Law – The Way We Move

Langhorne Slim has improved with each of his first four full-length albums. The Way We Move is the most recent being released in 2012 and therefor the best in his/the group’s catalog. This album shakes no ground musically and doesn’t … Continue reading

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250 Word Album Review: The Strokes – Comedown Machine

Sometimes you really want to like an album and you just can’t. I hate being the person that wants a band to just sound like they used to; but sometimes you just can’t help it. After slowly losing interest in … Continue reading

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