OK, Villanelles are not playing on any rooftops that I know of. However, the increasingly excellent local indie outfit is opening for Grammy-nominated rockers Plain White T’s tonight at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge. As regular readers know, I love it when local folks get the nod to open for bigger bands at the area’s marquee juke joint. Can’t happen enough, in my not-so humble opinion. Anyway, they will also be unveiling a new quickie EP, leading up to a full-length release at some point in the (relatively) near future.

You can take a listen to those songs below. But please don’t be a jerk and rip them. If you dig the tunes — and I think you will — head over to HG and support good local music.

“She Found Someone”:

“Bedbug”:

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...