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"As I walk through this wicked world, / searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, / I ask myself, 'Is all hope lost? /...

As I sat on a high chair at Tippy’s Restaurant in Eleuthera, waiting to be called up to play with a local band, my phone rang. It rang at the

Boone County Commissioners again failed to appoint members of the county’s health board on Tuesday. And the county’s top health official wants to know why.

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, it's time to look back at the year in Vermont music. It's been a strange one, but considering how...

To those who knew him longest, Bruce McKenzie had always been a drummer. The youngest of 11 kids, Bruce was born six months after his father, Harold, drowned in Burlington Bay; he was raised by his mother, Lennie, and his eldest siblings, sister Thelma and brother Joe. It was Thelma who first noticed her baby brother's inherent sense of rhythm: He would keep time with a knife and fork on any surface he could find.

Founding member of the N-Zones and Sambatucada! believed that music was for everyone

Local music festival celebrates its 17th season with eight stages and 120 musical acts

Since he co-founded it with his longtime friend and bandmate Patrick Pearsall in 2006, Mark Ransom has steered the Bend Roots Revival through a dizzying array of obstacles, adjustments and

Heart of Oregon Corps, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young adults ages 16-24 through employment, job training, education, and service to

It was a sweltering late summer day in 2001 when I wandered into Burlington's Red Square, curious about the sounds emanating from the club in...