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It's one of those rodeo blog entries, where we round up various bits of info about various Vermont musicians, such as these folks: - Don't know if you've caught the spare rock creativity of the Burlington duo The Vacant Lots , but they're pretty cool.

Throwing around descriptors like 'indie' and 'pop' can sometimes be to the detriment of bands they're applied to.

Still more suggested shows from our music writers: FRIDAY James Hinkle, Chad Pope, Wendy Colonna at Luna The nightclub on San Pedro Avenue celebrates its sixth anniversary with a variety of music.

MGMT's Ben Goldwasser shares a few tracks that influenced his songwriting, and talks about working with up-and-coming director Ray Tintori, in this week's Playlist podcast.

Andy Warhol is now best known for his mass production of images of mass-produced objects, such as Campbell's soup cans and celebrities, but he also was responsible for an impressive number of experimental films shot during the 1960s.

When the Andy Warhol Museum decided recently to hire a band to write a soundtrack for Warhola TMs famous silent-film screen tests, it couldna TMt have picked a more appropriate act than Dean & Britta.

The Classic Luna Album? If you ask me, you could pick pretty much any of Dean Wareham's Luna albums and they'd be classic.

The music writers try to cram everything into their columns, but there's just not enough room.

Vashon venues will overflow with musical acts in the next few days, with shows for every taste on tap.

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How's this for a birthday celebration on a summer's eve? This past Saturday, indie-rock stalwart Dean Wareham popped the cork on his 46th in Brooklyn's Prospect Park with wife Britta Phillips - as well as Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Nico, and Edie Sedgwick.

An informal office poll reveals that the most common descriptors of our music editor, Rob Harvilla , are almost always variations of "brilliant," "unassuming," and "really fucking tall." Experience his extremely wry wonderment, live and amplified, at Stories in High Fidelity, Union Hall's evening of "musical readings." He'll read from his works ...

When President John F. Kennedy ordered NASA to play golf on the moon way back in 1961, few people knew that we also were embarking on a computing revolution.

By David Pollock WHO knows what Andy Warhol's intention was in creating the series of almost 500 "screen test" films he made between 1964 and 1966? Static film portraits of acquaintances the artist discerned to have a certain "star quality" , some of these would ultimately end up as backdro ps to early Velvet Underground shows or collated as ...

It used to be that when your shelf-life as a rock musician had expired, all you had to look forward to was a day job and a shot at someday appearing on VH1s "Where Are They Now." But a growing number of indie rockers are using their spins on the musical wheel of fortune as grist for memoirs.

Sonic-Youth The Eternal Matador Records Dean Wareham, late of Luna and the pioneering late 1980s indie band Galaxie 500, is regaling audiences on his current tour with an anonymous e-mail from a fan who argued that the mantle of the Grateful Dead was Luna's for the asking.

Dean & Britta Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, former members of the New York alt-rock band Luna, write and record their own sweetly swooning pop music as a duo while keeping their old band's successful sound alive and strong.