Knayte Lander News Today

A trio of Vermont comics who currently live in New York City are returning for a one-night-only Thanksgiving eve show at Foam Brewers in Burlington...

Buch Spieler Records owners Knayte Lander, left, and Xavier Jimenez celebrate the reopening of their shop on Langdon Street in downtown Montpelier on Tuesday. The pair lost about 70 percent

Theaters, music venues, libraries, bookstores and other cultural institutions were among Vermont businesses damaged by floodwaters last week. Hundreds of artists have been forced to...

The Montpelier Bridge Fred Wilber had been waiting weeks for this day, and he wasn’t going to blow it now. So he arrived early at his store, on Langdon Street in Montpelier, well before it was time to open.  But it wasn’t his own opening Fred was thinking about on this spring morning in 1979. It was the restaurant near the end of the block, just before the small bridge that arches across the North Branch of the Winooski River, where ducks quack and ice floes flow, dependi...

(Self-released, digital) Surprise, surprise. The record store proprietor with a dedicated post-punk/new-wave section in his shop now finds himself in a brand-new post-punk/new-wave band. A cadre of Montpelier badasses — including Buch Spieler Records co-owner Knayte Lander, recent Long Island transplants Ian Denning and Rob Tav, and mononymous vocalist Henri — have formed as New Erotics, a neon-streaked throwback outfit with modern sensibilities. Leaning hard into the synth-ified soun...