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Josh Panda recently released a new video for “Stick a Fork in Me,” a song from his forthcoming new album. The riff-heavy tune suggests a harder direction for the singer than heard on his previous roots-tinged soul turns. Still, there’s plenty of Panda doing Panda things, which is to say, gorgeously full-toned vocal acrobatics.

As for the video itself, it’s a timely narrative that concerns a young lesbian woman shamed into hiding her sexuality from her conservative father — which ultimately goes about as well as you’d think. It’s a well-shot and -acted vignette, with far more emotional pull than your average local music vid. Check it out below. And stay tuned for details on that new record.   

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...