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There was something so comforting about how much everyone hated 2020. It's like when there's a villain so loathsome, so despised, that everyone agrees they're...

Waking Windows has released the initial lineup for its 2022 festival. Boston rock legends Dinosaur Jr. and Philadelphia indie rockers Japanese Breakfast headline the bill,...

I've always been obsessed with sophomore albums. Is there a better yardstick for whether or not a band has it? Debut records can be hot...

The 2021 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival won't be the biggest. And it probably won't be the best. Considering the festival's storied 38-year run, that's a...

Ali Nagle A chalkboard that hangs above a high-top table at the Monkey House in Winooski bears a message in faded white printing: "Fuck U Covid & Trump." Those words have remained in place since a customer wrote them last summer. Nearly everything else at the bar has been in a swirl of change and disruption. Since the pandemic arrived in Vermont, the Monkey House has been open, closed, open, closed and open again, in accordance with state re...

JACK Quartet Around these parts, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is known as the gateway to summer. Normally, the annual 10-day event reaches nearly every square inch of downtown, with scores of nightclubs, bars and restaurants hosting music under the BDJF banner, not to mention venues such as the Flynn, Flynn Space, Waterfront Park and Church Street Marketplace. The jazz fest took a pandemic-induced hiatus last year and was replaced by a fully...

Summer concerts, shows coming back to Vermont "Were very pleased to bring music back to our corner of Vermont." Share Updated: 11:20 PM EDT May 7, 2021 "Were very pleased to bring music back to our corner of Vermont." Share Updated: 11:20 PM EDT May 7, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript LOCAL SHOWS CAN HAPPEN THIS SUMMER... AFTER MANY WERE CANCELLED LAST YEAR. NBC 5S CAROLYN SISTRAND SPOKE WITH LOCAL ARTISTS AND ORGANIZERS. ABOUT WHAT THEYRE DOING. ...

Champlain Valley Fair postpones Darius Rucker concert, operating as if fair will happen Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press © Amy Harris/Invision/AP Darius Rucker performs at the Faster Horses Music Festival in the Brooklyn Trails Campground at Michigan International Speedway in 2017. For the second straight year, the Champlain Valley Fair has postponed its planned concert with Darius Rucker, the lead singer of ‘90s rockers Hootie & the Blowfish who has gone on to succe...

San Mateos Matt Hagen (left) and Matt Burr Greetings, music lovers. Apologies for not having a quippy headline to start things off. You see, Ive written and rewritten this section so many times, including its head, because nothing feels right. I desperately want to be something like a cheerleader at the big homecoming game who just did an espresso enema. I want to shout, "Ho ho, hey hey, everythings going to be OK!" But its feeling really hard to mus...

Enemy of the People, from left: John James, Bryan Parmelee, Diane Sullivan and Jeff Baron The outgoing president has called the press the "enemy of the people." So naturally that became the name of the Seven Days house band — an occasional ensemble composed of musical employees plucked from the papers production department. Pre-COVID-19, our designers worked together in a pod, surrounded by dogs and great music. Theyre already a creative ...