Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

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According to folklore, garlic, crucifixes, silver, holy water and sunlight are among the weapons one can employ to repel vampire attacks. What then to make of New Hampshire’s Tan Vampires, who are undead and bronzed? As their acclaimed 2011 debut, For Physical Fitness, reveals, the band also bucks musical tradition — not to mention sunblock — melding disparate influences from Neil Young to Radiohead to Bon Iver into “well-crafted songs that soar, twist and never blend into one another,” as NPR put it. This Sunday, August 26, Tan Vampires headline the monthly Listening Room series at Signal Kitchen in Burlington. Locals Bob Wagner and Brett Lanier open.