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San Francisco’s Rupa & The April Fishes are causing quite a stir in both world and indie-music circles, corraling myriad stylistic influences into a globetrotting aural mash-up that’s both comfortingly familiar and breathtakingly unique. Led by silk-throated vocalist Rupa — the daughter of Indian immigrants who was born in the U.S. and raised on three continents — the group comes by its duality honestly.... Read more

Regular readers know that I’ve been extolling the virtues of Nectar’s newly minted hip-hop open mike for weeks. What can I say? I’m just ahead of the curve, I guess. If you haven’t been, I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to sample the local hip-hop scene and, if you’re so inclined, compare your skillz with the folks who do it for real.... Read more

“Grace Potter? Holy crap!”... Read more

When this as-yet-unnamed feature was introduced a few weeks ago, we hoped it would give Seven Days an opportunity to include more community feedback/input regarding musical goings-on locally. It’s taken a while for folks to get used to not knowing which album was sixth on the charts in Enosburg from week to week — usually Credence — but, lo and behold, this letter appeared shortly after last week’s paper hit the streets and is exactly the sort of discussion we hoped to initiate.

Here it is, in its unedited entirety:

Dan,... Read more

The ferry ride from Burlington to Plattsburgh isn’t a journey you want to make with folks who can’t hold up their end of a conversation — especially not in an overloaded 1986 Dodge Ram slant-six conversion van that has floor-to-ceiling fake-wood paneling, shag carpets, pictures of naked chicks from low-grade porn mags behind the sun visors, a Gibson SG-shaped air freshener hanging from the rearview, and no air conditioning. Voluntarily traveling in a vehicle of this ilk requires the utmost faith in its cargo.... Read more

Any local music fan over 30 will happily chew your ear about how great the bands were back in their day. Burlington-scene lore is filled with acts that should've gone on to bigger things: In the 1980s there were Pinhead, The Decentz, The N-Zones. The '90s boasted Wide Wail, Chin Ho! and, most significantly, The Pants, whose rise and fall is forever linked to a particularly vital era for Vermont music. What distinguished The Pants from groups of similar vintage? "They were much more daring, musically," opines local cartoonist and fellow rocker James Kochalka. "And a lot more popular."... Read more