For The Morning Benders, the comparisons of their newest album, Big Echo, to the whimsical sounds of Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest will be inevitable. After all, it was produced by GB’s, Chris Taylor, but the pacing of Big Echo demonstrates a Grizzly Bear like patience in regards to creating the emotional texture of a song. While [...] Continue Reading

Only white music geeks like the five who make up The Down Motif could have the impudence to squeeze so much funkiness out of a song that’s about Plattsburg, NY. I’ve only been to Plattsburg once, but I must ask, what is so funky about a place like that? Nothing, I don’t think. I got [...] Continue Reading

My first experience with SMALLBOYPANTS came at 3 in the morning on Rt. 3 near Giants Stadium. Returning from Jersey City, my friend Kenny and I found ourselves parked on Rt. 3 as construction crews dicked around a mile up the road. The traffic wasn’t moving and we were slowly going insane. We looked at [...] Continue Reading

Goldtown plays bluegrass night at Nectars one more time before taking a break. Continue Reading

A random search through MySpace band pages shows an interesting variety of genres. “Rock/ Jazz/ Progressive.” “Reggae/ Funk/ Rock” “Experimental/ Jazz/ Reggae/ Funk/ Stoner Rock/ Children’s Music/ R&B/ Motown/ New Age/ Death Metal.” All right, I made that last one up, but my point is that no one wants to pigeonhole themselves within [...] Continue Reading

Club Metronome certainly rocked February 4th during their Burlington Rocks For Haiti benefit. Pulse Prophets, The Gordon Stone Band, Bearquarium, Events Are Objects, and the Haitian drumming ensemble, Guayoyo, sang, strummed, and drummed as the crowd danced and donated ($10 at the door) into the early morning hours. Pulse Prophets—the five-man band—passionately played their reggae rock, [...] Continue Reading

As Bluegrass Thursdays enters its fifth week at Nectar’s, some changes might be coming in the near future. Resident bluegrass band Goldtown has enjoyed an incredibly successful start to the recurring event, due in no small part to their ability to lay down solid sets week after week. Although bluegrass night has been met with [...] Continue Reading

Blurring the line between meticulous song craft and cohesive improv, Bearquarium has been testing the structural integrity of many dance floors with their fiery Latin-infused afro-funkified groove music. Their influences run the musical gamut, which makes it hard to pin a genre on them, but that’s been the key to their success: rather than picking [...] Continue Reading

The Davis Center is UVM’s LEED certified claim to green supremacy, a resource friendly student center that feels more like a mall. It even has its own pub, Brennan’s, which served as the first host of Nectar’s newest campaign to expose people to music that might not be flooding the airwaves, but in all reality, [...] Continue Reading

Chad Bechard aka Pres has been going hard at the DJ game for seven years now. Ever since scratching his first record back in his home state of Maine, Bechard hasn’t stopped doing what he loves most. Slowly but surely he has honed his skills and improved his craft. Now, with years of experience at [...] Continue Reading

RoneBreak will be launching a new site, which will be taking a slightly different twist on covering music. While music publications are a dime-a-dozen (especially online) we were trying to figure out how to differentiate ourselves from everything else. Then it dawned on us: venues typically don’t cover music, and they have the best opportunity [...] Continue Reading

The Dawson Leary Project (DLP) left the floorboards, the walls, and people’s bodies pulsating to their electronic-psychedelic-rock sounds Monday night at Burlington’s downtown restaurant and lounge, Nectar’s. The University of Vermont seniors, Alex Schwartz (guitar, bass, synthesizers), Tobias Green (guitar, bass, synthesizers), and Steve Putnam (drums), the trio that is DLP, had friends, fans, and people [...] Continue Reading

The most exciting thing about music in this peculiar era is the ability for musicians to cut out the fat middleman and be self-sufficient music makers. Lendway, the melodic rock quartet from Burlington, Vermont certainly fits the mold of the self-sustaining band that does their thing for the mere sake of doing it, and because [...] Continue Reading

Walking through the doors of Nectar’s on a Thursday night leads you into a world that you might not expect. As people shuffle out from the weekly pub trivia, a new crowd settles into the confines of the landmark establishment. The anticipation builds among the patrons, to see what is in store for them, for [...] Continue Reading

Andy “DJ A-Dog” Williams has been spinning turntables for about 10 years—he got his start in Burlington. He borrowed money from a friend, bought a used pair of turntables, and has been creating sounds ever since. Williams moved to Vermont when he was 10-years-old, and attended high school in St. Albans. As he grew older, he [...] Continue Reading