Neutral Milk Hotel Credit: Courtesy of Neutral Milk Hotel

The aftermath of Waking Windows 4 last weekend in Winooski produced a number of intriguing developments, including widespread tinnitus and epic Narragansett hangovers. It has also led to the union of two of the area’s highly respected and successful taste-making teams.

In an email to Seven Days last night, Brian Nagle — aka DJ Disco Phantom — wrote that AM and MSR, the two driving forces behind WW4, have officially merged to form Waking Windows Presents. It’s a natural move, given how closely the two organizations have worked together over the years. And Nagle said that fans can pretty much look forward to the same mix of up-and-coming and cutting-edge music we’ve come to expect from both. 

“We will still be bringing the same awesome shows to town, but now it will just be under a new name,” he wrote.

What kinds of awesome shows, you ask? How about Neutral Milk Hotel at the Higher Ground Ballroom on September 9 and 10? That do anything for ya? 

Tickets for both shows went on sale this morning and will probably be sold out by right … about … nnnnnnnow. 

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...