Lynguistic Civilians and Kat Wright & the Indominitable Soul Band...
Hip-hop outfit Lynguistic Civilians and R&B dynamos Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band are currently two of Burlington’s most popular and successful bands. Just for example, the former has...
View ArticleInterview With Emma Beaton of Joy Kills Sorrow
When we called Emma Beaton, vocalist for the indie-folk band Joy Kills Sorrow, we wanted to ask her all about the Boston-ish quintet’s recent developments. Those include an appearance on the famed...
View ArticleVermont's Surf-rock Mavericks Make Waves
Just past the halfway point in Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch’s 1992 full-length prologue/epilogue to “Twin Peaks,” Laura Palmer, the sort-of-protagonist, makes out with a guy named Buck and then drags...
View ArticleMayer Hawthorne Talks Steely Dan and French Fries
On his new record, Where Does This Door Go, Mayer Hawthorne sheds the fitting but confining “retro soul” label affixed to his previous studio albums, A Strange Arrangement (2009) and How Do You Do...
View ArticleVolcano Choir Discuss Their New Album, Repave
Justin Vernon was recording vocal tracks for Repave, the new album by Volcano Choir, in his April Base Studios in Wisconsin last winter. Though his bandmates had been working on material for the album...
View ArticleCharles Bradley Talks Soul, Sadness and Savation
When Charles Bradley answers his phone on his tour bus to speak with a Seven Days reporter, his voice, that glorious geyser of a voice, is a barely audible croak. The Screaming Eagle of Soul’s tired...
View ArticleAlejandro Escovedo Talks About His Early Influences
If you ask the current crop of country-rock acts to name their most formative influences, before too long you’ll hear the name Alejandro Escovedo. Few folks this side of Neil Young or Gram Parsons are...
View ArticleJohn Lackard's Open Jam Gives Barre the Blues
It’s a Wednesday night at Gusto’s, Barre’s venerable neighborhood pub/entertainment complex. It’s quiet at the bar. But near the stage at the back of the room, things have started to percolate. The...
View ArticleAngelique Kidjo Talks About Her Upbringing in Africa and her Latest Album,...
Angélique Kidjo lives to serve. The 53-year-old native of Benin, a small country in West Africa, is a tireless social activist and advocate who is particularly passionate about women’s rights. She has...
View ArticleClaude VonStroke Talks About His New Album and the Future of EDM
San Francisco-based electronic dance music DJ and producer Claude VonStroke— aka Barclay Crenshaw — has long existed on the fringes of house music. He built his sterling reputation in electronic dance...
View ArticleEDM Star and VT Expat Morgan Page Will Rock You … in 3-D!
On the surface, the names Morgan Page and Michael Jackson wouldn’t seem to belong in the same sentence. And yet Page, a native Vermonter and two-time Grammy-nominated DJ and producer, and the late King...
View ArticleHappy Jawbone Family Band’s Luke Csehak Talks About Writing, Punk and Crystals
There has gotta be something in the water in Brattleboro. Or maybe it’s in the bedrock. How else to explain the seemingly endless strain of unusual sounds, and equally unusual bands, emerging from the...
View ArticleDave Keller Gets Personal on His Latest Record
In early February 2012, Vermont soul man Dave Keller found himself far from his physical home — and as close to his spiritual home as he’d ever been. Since the age of 18, Keller, now 46, had idolized...
View ArticleCatching Up With Pete Bernhard of the Devil Makes Three
Read up on Santa Cruz-by-way-of-Vermont outfit the Devil Makes Three and, within the first paragraph or so of practically any article, you’ll encounter some reference to the group’s proclivity for...
View ArticleBurlington's Japhy Ryder Celebrate 10 Years
The Japhy Ryder of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums is a peripatetic Zen Buddhist poet, based upon the real-life Gary Snyder, who, as Kerouac describes him, answers questions, “right off the bat from the...
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In the Footsteps of Seeger and Guthrie, Vermont Folk Singer Rik Palieri...
Rik Palieri has an unusual pen pal. The 58-year-old Vermont folk singer dutifully keeps all of his correspondence from the past 30 years in a finely bound scrapbook. (His wife, Marianna Holzer, is a...
View ArticleBen Taylor Talks About His Music, a Surprising New Project and, Yeah, His...
Ben Taylor is a celebrity brat. Yes, it’s cool to call him that. It is, after all, how he refers to himself. Taylor’s parents are James Taylor and Carly Simon, two singer-songwriters who hardly need an...
View ArticleBlues Man Guy Davis Talks About Music, Acting and His Formative Years in Vermont
Guy Davis, 61, wears a lot of hats. He is a well-regarded actor, writer, composer and director. But first and foremost, Davis is a blues man. Blues music and all its attendant traditions are at the...
View ArticlePhosphorescent’s Matthew Houck Talks About His Brilliant 2013 Record, 'Muchacho'
At the end of a tour for his band’s 2010 record Here’s to Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent front man Matthew Houck was beyond burned out. He had been touring almost constantly for nearly a decade, and...
View ArticleReggae Star Tarrus Riley Talks About His New Album, 'Love Situation'
Jamaican American reggae singer Tarrus Riley, 34, is fond of saying that reggae music is “the newest old music and the oldest new music.” At first, that’s a bit of a head-scratcher. But a listen to his...
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