Members of The Slip and The Benevento/Russo Duo got together at Higher Ground on August 13th to perform a special show in the Showcase Lounge. The Slip features the Barr brothers (Andrew and Brad) and...

Practice begins the first day of classes for students in the Theatre Department. They need an early start since the first performance of the year will be Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, which runs...

It's February 21st, and I'm shaking in my boots. For the past five years, I have heard these guys, and every time I have listened to them they have seemed to get better. Now, they are selling out venues...

Curt: There is very little out there that sounds like you guys, where do you get your sound from?Even: I think between the two of us our tastes are like, all over the place. I tend to get really obsessed...

This past Thursday, March 3rd, Jamie Masefield and Doug Perkins played a concert in Slade Hall for what, the umpteenth time? It was a kicking show. As Jaime and Doug agreed, "It started out slow, but...

Saturday night, February 26th, after a hot Medeski, Martin, and Wood show at the Higher Ground, I sat down to have a conversation with virtuoso innovative jazz drummer Billy Martin.Vermont Cynic: So some...

Here at the Cynic we are under a constant assault from aspiring musicians looking for publicity, and most of them don't deserve any. Every day, we editors and writers dread receiving the newest hit singles...

Think of jam songs like dragsters: shaky vehicles flirting with disaster. The tires might blow, the car could hit the wall, and the next one looks to do the same. Bands often lose sight of composition...

Legend has it that in the forties Lester Young was the king of cool. His introverted sax style eased out from his horn like a trail of incense. He was poetry and more than anything his aura was unexplainable-it...

At 8:00 pm on Monday, February 7th,The Students for Peace and Global Justice aired the film "You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train," while previously advertising it as being a film by Howard Zinn. If...

Sound Tribe Sector Nine has played Burlington many times in the past few years. After releasing their new album Artifact on their own independently owned record label 1320, this tour will be one not to...

What do a Japanese sword, stiletto shoes, a penis sheath, and a Barbie have in common? Curated by UVM students, "Collecting the body, Transferring Desire" is one of the new spring exhibits at the Fleming...