Sudden Unknown Signal, Missy (OnlyBands, digital) Burlington alt-rockers Sudden Unknown Signal (sometimes known as SUS) carry the torch for '90s guitar rock, once the dominant force in the Queen...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/three-quick-hit-reviews-of-local-albums-40731790
Living in the spawning grounds of jam-band giants Phish has some funny side effects. For instance, if the number of locals in their forties and fifties taking sudden trips to Las Vegas has been ...
Justin Crowther comes across as a humble man. Speaking about the decade-long history of the business he helped launch in the Queen City's South End, the owner and founder of Burlington Record Pl...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-burlington-record-plant-on-the-move-40731641
(Self-released, digital) Ever wander around a city at 3 a.m.? Alone under the neon lights, on streets usually thronged with people, you experience a stillness that is at once soothing and concer...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/community-garden-me-vs-me-40679698
(Self-released, digital) The standard trajectory of an on-the-rise Vermont singer-songwriter goes like this: A youngster from a small town makes some waves locally, spends a few years building b...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/frankie-white-brain-dead-40679690
Who doesn't love The Little Mermaid and sex lube? (That got your attention, didn't it?) University of Vermont sex educator Jenna Emerson is back with a new song to make us laugh while teaching s...
Rock and roll and adulthood are strange bedfellows. One minute, you're a kid in a stinky, sweaty room filled with beer bottles and roaches (both kinds), huddled with some friends and playing mus...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-umphreys-mcgee-loves-burlington-40679344
Music-booking collective Waking Windows announced the initial lineup for its 2024 music and arts festival on Friday. The annual indie-rock showcase enters its 12th year hosting a slew of local ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/waking-windows-announces-2024-lineup-40648572
(Ringleader Records, CD, digital, vinyl) Rather than succumb to anguish in the wake of tragedy, one local musician funnels daunting hardship into her debut studio album to offer an impassioned a...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/sarah-king-when-it-all-goes-down-40628819
(Screaming Cow Records, digital, vinyl) River City Rebels have dropped their first recording in a decade, Pop Culture Baby, a brisk yet powerful four-song EP that proves they've still got their ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/river-city-rebels-pop-culture-baby-40628811
Local indie-pop singer-songwriter Justin Levinson has released a new single, but there's a twist. The Berklee College of Music-trained musician is trying his hand at composing classical music fo...
"As I walk through this wicked world, / searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, / I ask myself, 'Is all hope lost? / Is there only pain and hatred and misery?'" So go the opening lines ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-trouble-and-together-at-the-flynn-40628759
At 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 7, Brattleboro radio station 96.7 FM WTSA will launch its new program "Listen Local." The one-hour show will air weekly and be available as a podcast at wtsaradio.com...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/on-the-beat-new-music-from-mavstar-and-tommy-crawford-40574648
Listening to and reviewing all the new releases by Vermont artists can be a daunting task. Try as he might, music editor Chris Farnsworth always misses a few. Every few months he dives back into...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/six-quick-hit-reviews-of-local-albums-40574666
Picture the scene: Ireland, 3340 BC. Early humans are hanging around, hunting and, I don't know ... cultivating grain? Modeling loincloths? Gathering with small furry animals in a cave, grooving...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-the-rise-of-bloodmoon-40574631
Saxophonist and vocalist Joe Moore, a staple of the Vermont music scene since the early 1970s, has died at the age of 75. His family made the announcement via Moore's social media on Wednesday. ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/legendary-vermont-saxophonist-joe-moore-dies-40535678
The Flynn announced on Wednesday that Brooklyn-based soul and funk artist Adi Oasis will serve as the guest curator for the 2024 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. A rising voice in R&B and mode...
(Self-released, digital) Burlington rock outfit Embers in Umbra are a proud oddity. Few bands in 2024 are devoted to the kind of radio rock that dominated the airwaves back when America was run ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/embers-in-umbra-phases-40521361
(Self-released, cassette, digital) On her new sophomore album, Alas, Burlington's Lily Seabird brings listeners on a journey through raw human emotion as she blurs the lines between happiness an...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/lily-seabird-alas-40521370
Get your audition tapes ready, bands. There are battles to be had! First up is the Jam 4 SlamT1D battle of the bands, a fundraiser to support the fight against type 1 diabetes. The three-day con...
I used to think being a music journalist meant being a cross between an anthropologist and a private eye. Before going to a show or listening to a new album, I'd spend days researching the band....
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-surfs-up-with-teke-teke-40521332
(Self-released, digital) I have to say I'm a bit hazy on what counts as a supergroup these days. Traveling Wilburys and the Highwaymen qualify, to be sure. But I recently heard someone refer to ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/licorice-finn-uncomfortably-gray-40470556
(Matador, cassette, CD, digital, vinyl) Long considered one of indie rock's defining figures, Kim Gordon continues defying convention and further solidifies her legacy with her second solo recor...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/kim-gordon-the-collective-40470548
Forest Station drop a single on Friday, March 22. "Yellow Aspens" is the debut song from the bluegrass band, which formed in 2023 after guitarist Eli Martell-Crawford and mandolinist Alex Skowro...
Phil Cohen has some hot takes. As the Westford-born singer-songwriter idly toyed with his chopsticks, moving the bok choy around on his plate of dim sum at a Burlington restaurant, he took on a ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/music/soundbites-feeling-it-all-with-phil-cohen-40470865