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"It's over. The old days are gone." So proclaimed no less of a music luminary than Neil Young in a March 19 post on his...

I recently had a first in my Seven Days career: Working on a feature for our annual Money & Retirement Issue, I came to the...

(Self-released, digital) Composer and multi-instrumentalist Brian Boyes isn't afraid to go all out. Witness his massive, musically complex Saturn People's Sound Collective. Featuring more than...

The 2022 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival has a different vibe from that of past years. The annual 10-day celebration of jazz in the Green Mountains...

(Chant Records, CD, digital) I was at a house party in 2008 with some bandmates. It was a pretty tame affair for the most part, but a failure to ask the important questions led me to ingest a rather robust mushroom chocolate. Long story short: I suddenly no longer desired the company of other humans. So my iPod and I took a walk around the city that lasted what seemed like days, listening to music that turned to colors before my eyes. Now, Im not claiming guitarist and composer Xander Nay...