This just in: a new track from My Dearest Darling, “Decay.” MDD — now boasting Villanelles’ Zane Gunderson — have been MIA for the last year or so while finishing up a new 8-song disc. Expect the new disc to drop this month. In the meantime, they’ll be rocking Higher Ground tomorrow night with White Rabbits and Glass Ghost.

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...