Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Alpha Dogs

Since dropping their original surname, Orchestra, and relocating from Vermont to Brooklyn (though a few members still call the Green Mountains home) eight-piece art-rock ensemble Rubblebucket have turned heads, and ears, from coast to coast. Their genre-pulverizing 2011 record, Omega La La, was praised by media outlets of all stripes, from hip rags such as Paste and Spin to the stuffier scribes at the Wall Street Journal. The lesson: Everyone loves to cut loose and get down, even financial noobs. This Friday, January 27, the band plays a homecoming gig at the Higher Ground Ballroom with Superhuman Happiness, Ryan Power and DJ Disco Phantom.