On the Beat: Cricket Blue Goes Over the Garden Wall, Odd Fellows Hall Rocks Again
Violet Crimes are holding a record fair on Sunday, October 22 in Burlington. Odd Fellows Lodge is hosting live music,...
Soundbites: The Tuesday Jukebox Series Rolls On
Wilder musician Jakob Breitbach started the Tuesday Jukebox series in response to the music industry slowdown, giving touring acts a...
On the Beat: New Music From Narrow Shoulders, Twiddle Announce Hiatus
Summer’s End by Narrow Shoulders captures the end of summer with its electronic and ambient sounds. Vermont’s music scene offers...
Brass-fueled, Swinging Music of New Orleans by the Soggy Po’ Boys
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series and Twilight Music present an evening of brass-fueled, swinging music of New Orleans by...
Next Stage Arts presents Internationally renowned composer Felipe Salles
Next Stage Arts presents Internationally renowned composer and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Felipe Salles’s groundbreaking multimedia work “The New Immigrant Experience”,...
On the Beat: Matt Hagen’s Murder Ballads and Point CounterPoint Celebrates 60 Years of Chamber Music
Matt Hagen brings spooky murder ballads to 126. Point CounterPoint turns 60. Indigenous Peoples’ Day Rocks on October 7 with...
Soundbites: A Festival for Bent Nails Bistro
Montpelier music fans are coming together to help Bent Nails Bistro recover from flood damage with a music festival fundraiser...
Vermont Jazz Center will present Cyrus Chestnut in a Trio Concert
The Vermont Jazz Center will present Cyrus Chestnut in a trio concert on October 14th at 7:30 PM. Called “the...
On the Beat: New Music From Rivan, and Noah Kahan Makes the List
Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan made Time magazine’s 2023 TIME100 Next list, while rapper rivan released a new single. Burlington City Arts...
Soundbites: Hammydown Throws a Big Gay Block Party
Vermont lacks gay bars despite a high LGBTQ population. Hammydown organizes the Big Gay Block Party in hopes of creating...
Next Stage Arts presents a double bill featuring Priya Darshini, and the Alejandro Brittes Quartet
Next Stage Arts presents a double bill featuring the Hindustani and Carnatic-influenced New Age music of Priya Darshini, and the...
Soundbites: Vermont Author Ray Padgett’s New Book on Bob Dylan
12-year-old saw Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and became obsessed with Beatles. Later, Chris Padgett wrote a book “Pledging My Time:...
On the Beat: New Music From Moira Smiley, and Comedian Ash Diggs Makes His Vermont Return
Singer Moira Smiley showcases her new album The Rhizome Project 9/16 with a live performance. Comedian Ash Diggs also visits...
Chris Smither and The Suitcase Junket Return To Bellows Falls for Ray Massucco Concert Series
Chris Smither and The Suitcase Junket Return To Bellows Falls for the third Ray Massucco Concert Series show on Saturday,...
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents genre-bending ensemble Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on Saturday, September 16 at 5:00...
Soundbites: Art Dealing With Low Cut Connie
Music journalist commends Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie for genuinely loving Vermont and include it in his tour. Their...
On the Beat: New Flood Benefit Shows in Burlington and Montpelier
Vermont musicians are rallying with benefit concerts to assist flood relief efforts, and presenting new singles and upcoming arts festivals.
Soundbites: David Cross Looks on the Bright Side
Comedian David Cross talks about fatherhood, his upcoming tour, the Hollywood strike, and the changing entertainment industry.
On the Beat: New Videos From Marcie Hernandez and Konflik
Indie Latin singer releases new video. Vermont singer wins competition. Celebrate with shows in the Green Mountains. Rapper releases new...
Soundbites: What Doth Life Fest Returns
Urian Hackney talks Vermont rock scene and his hope of reviving it, wanting to organize a rock festival and talking...
On the Beat: A_Dog Day Turns 10, New Music From Princess Nostalgia
Stowe Jazz Festival & Burlington’s A_Dog Day keep the Vermont music scene alive, featuring local and international talent, free to...
On the Beat: Cricket Blue’s Laura Heaberlin Goes Intercontinental, and the VSO Goes to the Movies
Laura Heaberlin of Cricket Blue collaborates with Hank Midnight on “River Song,” a track with over 10,000 streams. VSO &...
Soundbites: Grace Potter Returns With ‘Mother Road’
Grace Potter discusses her new album, new found outlook on life and home state, Vermont. Her new album, “Mother Road”...
Soundbites: The Wallflower Collective Throws a Birthday Music Festival
When Lauren McKenzie and her husband, Matt Simpson, pulled up stakes and left Austin, Texas, for Burlington in 2020, they...
Soundbites: A Theft at Radio Bean
I’m sure I’m not the only one guilty of this, but whenever something bad happens to people or places I...
Soundbites: Zach Nugent’s Dead Set Ascends
As a teenager growing up in Royalton, Zach Nugent would often roam the halls of his high school barefoot, strumming...
Soundbites: Lisa Loeb’s Next Act
No musician wants to be part of a “Where are they now?” conversation. When artists are fortunate to score a...
Soundbites: Josh Panda Joins the Grift
The concept of the supergroup has always fascinated me. For every Traveling Wilburys and BoyGenius record, there are atrocious experiments...
Soundbites: Burlington Celebrates Juneteenth
Full confession time: I was feeling nervous about this year’s Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Between the fest slimming down from...
Soundbites: Myra Flynn Shoots Her Shot
For all of its charm and beauty, Vermont has struggled to be a place of acceptance for people who are...
Soundbites: Burlington Electronic Department Throws a Birthday Bash
Few things annoy me more in this world than when friends invite me to their children’s birthday parties. What an...
Crocodile River Music to Perform at Next Stage Bandwagon
Crocodile River Music, the critically acclaimed world music ensemble, is set to perform as part of the Next Stage Bandwagon...
Two Nested Steinway Concert Grands: Duo Piano Magic at the VJC
The Vermont Jazz Center welcomes Renee Rosnes and Bill Charlap who will perform on two Steinway concert grand pianos at...
Soundbites: Honey & Soul Get It Just Right
It’s one thing to dream up a cool idea — we all have those. I wanted to start a speed...
Soundbites: Talking Folk Music and Abortion Access With Judy Collins
I’d been speaking with country and folk music legend Judy Collins for about 15 minutes or so when she started...
Soundbites: The Crystal Method Keeps Rolling
As I drove through downtown Burlington on my way to work and passed the latest generation of college students, I...
Soundbites: Barishi Is Dead; Long Live Ordh!
The first time I saw Barishi play live, I dumped an entire whiskey down a young man’s shirt, lost a...
Soundbites: Xander Naylor’s Indian Excursions
I recently had a first in my Seven Days career: Working on a feature for our annual Money & Retirement...
Soundbites: Rocking Out for Mark Ransom
It was a sweltering late summer day in 2001 when I wandered into Burlington’s Red Square, curious about the sounds...
Soundbites: King Tuff’s Homecoming
Despite all the years of music lessons I took and all the wonderful instruction I received from a host of...
Monthlong Fest at Brattleboro’s Stone Church Promotes Women in Music
Humanity has long associated the creation of music with female figures, from the muses of Greek mythology to the Yoruba...
Soundbites: The Last of Jim’s Basement
I was never a punk. I never had a studded belt or haunted the steps of 242 Main, the late,...
Soundbites: On Her New LP, AliT Does It All on Her Own
While sampling some of Burlington’s finest indie rock at Radio Bean recently, a friend turned to me with something like...
Vermont Shines in Two Days in King Tuff’s Brattleboro, Celebrating Local Culture and Community
The article “Two Days in King Tuff’s Brattleboro, Vermont” by Patrick King highlights the vibrant artistic community of Brattleboro, a...
Soundbites: The New, Leaner Look of the Jazz Fest
As ’80s hair metal outfit Cinderella will tell you, you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone. If being...
Soundbites: Putumayo Embraces the Digital World
Human beings just love to categorize things. Eighty percent of human history is just nerds roaming around doing inventories, from...
Soundbites: Life After Waking Windows
When you spend enough time in a music scene, you start to notice shifts, passages from one era to another....
Soundbites: Francesca Blanchard Says Goodbye to Burlington — For Now
For all the idiosyncratic charms of our local music scene, the specter of loss always lingers nearby. We know that...
Soundbites: Vermont Musicians Get Experimental and New Music From Toni Catlin
We talk a lot about how music moves us — how it can make us smile with nostalgia, cry over...
Soundbites: The VSO Dreams Electric and Epsilon Spires Hosts a Pipe Organ Series
Being the music editor can occasionally feel a little like being Sloth from The Goonies. If you’re not familiar with...