Hinesburg teen wins talent contest (The Burlington Free Press)

Brown stars in First Night Burlington's Rising Star Competition

Rock Music Menu: One man’s view: Top 10 albums for ’08 (Delaware County Times)

Take a look at the deluge of year-end best-of lists from the past few weeks and you’ll find dozens of albums that you’ve either never heard of, or ones that have you wondering how someone could actually listen to “that” CD, let alone put it in a top 10.

— Jared Story (Uptown Magazine)

FM-approved metal. Aerocar Model Four plays the kind of radio-ready hard rock that will please fans of Disturbed, Shinedown and Godsmack.

Year in singles: Fresh tracks (Columbus Alive)

Not many albums blew me away in 2008, but the crop of singles was top-notch - epic songs from familiar faces and new artists I'll be following for years to come. Here are the year's 10 best tracks.

Another take on pop's top 10 (Denver Post)

Many critics have pointed to albums from Lil Wayne, TV on the Radio and Guns N' Roses (seriously) as 2008's heirs to the music throne, and while they will certainly be remembered, none of them struck me the way the following albums did.

The best indie music of 2008 (Lancaster Online)

Every year around the holidays, my husband and I compile music on a disc for our family and friends, a collection of the top indie tracks of the past year. Putting the disc together was difficult this year, given the diversity of the music scene.The top albums of 2008 hearken back to the days of fol...