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(Self-released, CD)

When I was 9 years old, I was playing my first year of Little League baseball. I finished the season with exactly zero hits and considerably more dropped balls than caught ones out in right field. That’s a summer of my youth I’ll never get back. So it is with no small degree of jealousy that I report 9-year-old Aidan Patterson Deutsch is making far better use of his childhood than I did.... Read more

(GTD Entertainment, CD)

Burnt MD and Tha Professor’s self-titled album opens in cinematic style, with the orchestral majesty of the Universal Pictures theme song. It’s an appropriate first gesture, as the Vermont hip-hop duo then takes us on a journey that transcends the mere aural. Like any epic movie or hip-hop album there’s an award-worthy supporting cast, high-profile cameos and a smart script that suggests Webster’s dictionary was close at hand when these two were growing up.... Read more

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(JamFlow Records, CD)

True confession: I am not a jam-band kind of girl. I’ve gone to local shows, listened to Phish blasting out of dorm room windows, and friends have made me Béla Fleck mixes. Still, nothing has changed my mind. That said, I have to give credit to Hubbardton-based quartet Twiddle. With their first full-length studio effort, Natural Evolution of Consciousness, they’ve almost made me a believer.... Read more

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(CD, self-produced)

Central Vermont musician "Banjo" Dan Lindner takes his sweet time when it comes to releasing CDs with his Mid-Nite Plowboys. The group is undeniably Vermont's longest-running, uninterrupted bluegrass combo — Banjo Dan, his brother Willy and guitarist and crooner Al Davis have been playing under the Plowboys moniker for at least 35 years. Fire in the Sugarhouse, the band's first recording since Some Rust . . . Runs Good in 2000, was worth the wait.... Read more

(Delta Groove Productions, CD)

Too many modern musicians are seemingly devoted to fighting even the merest suggestion of genre classification. So it's refreshing to come across an album that the most acoustically challenged record-store employee could properly file on the retail shelf. On their self-titled debut, longtime friends and collaborators Bill Sims Jr. and Mark LaVoie never stray far from time-tested Delta blues. But that suits them — and the record — just fine.... Read more

(Notable, CD)

While Naquele Tempo's musical loyalties are varied, the Burlington quartet strays sufficiently south of the border to earn them a perennial slot in Vermont's Latin Fest. Unlike local revelers GuaGua, however, the Tempo lack those vibrant, sangria-soaked beats our northern hips crave. You could blame it on the bossa nova, but it's really the flute that capsizes this earnest Latin effort.... Read more

(Merge Records, CD)

Baltimore duo Wye Oak is variously described as noise, indie pop, folk and shoegaze. Those clever categorizations aside, the imaginative duo have refined an evocative style, as evidenced by their Merge Records debut If Children.... Read more