Sarah Wallis’s self-titled album is a mix of soft harmonies, breathy vocals, and simple melodies. They melt together into a predictable, yet pleasant composition. The [...]

Melissa Auf der Maur is no stranger to success — as the bassist for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa managed to be a serious [...]

Motel, a 13-minute short, marks the debut of Vermont filmmaker William Peters. The film tells a humorous story of two hapless travelers who are swindled by “foreign [...]

On October 25, 2010, the Vermont International Film Festival featured an evening of short films, shot and produced entirely by Vermont residents. While not exactly [...]

How did every morsel on Happy Birthday’s debut LP become as memorable as a first-slow-dance song? How did a first listen to the album feel [...]

“Folk music” is a term used loosely these days; hard to differentiate as something feasibly unique to its own genre — “folk” pertains to a [...]

Simple melodies, finger-picked acoustic guitar, and layered harmonies drenched in rich reverb are all that gets stirred into Mountain Man’s Made the Harbor. Yet the [...]

Hadestown was originally a stage production, lovingly dubbed a folk opera by its creator, Anais Mitchell. The idea was hatched in small-town Vermont by a [...]

Every now and then, artists will get one of those ideas — the kinds of ideas we like to refer to as “concepts.” When these [...]

Anaïs Mitchell’s new album Hadestown is proof that music still has the power to surprise and delight. For starters, the guest list includes some pretty [...]

Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall-Meath met at Bennington College, in the small town of Bennington, Vermont. They are from the West, Midwest and Eastern United [...]

Brattleboro, Vermont’s Happy Birthday are really easy to love — they make indie rock as unpretentious as it comes, heavy on the hooks and light [...]

Vermont’s Happy Birthday are part of that growing contingent of indie rock who forgo skinny ties, flannel, and a frown for beach-y rhythms, girl-group hooks, [...]

How did every morsel on Happy Birthday’s debut LP become as memorable as a first-slow-dance song? How did a first listen to the album feel [...]

April was a 65-year-old woman who lived in a run-down 24-room Victorian mansion, complete with a once-glorious garden designed by the same man who drew up the plans for New York City’s Central Park, in what had been a most elite neighborhood in a small historic New England town.