NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH
BARBACOA
Tuesday 12.31.24 - 7:00pm - Tickets!
Kicking off New Year's Eve at Radio Bean is Vermont's own Barbacoa! Catch them from 7pm-9pm to kick off your night.
Barbacoa is a Burlington based band that has been playing surf rock music for over two decades. The band features guitarist/songwriter Bill Mullins, bassist Kirk Flanagan and drummer Jeremy Fredricks. Their original songs are a psychedelicized take on early 60’s surf and spaghetti western.
NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH
NEWMANTRA
Tuesday 12.31.24 - 8:00pm - Tickets
We're psyched to have Burlington's own NewMantra rocking the Light Club Lamp Shop DJ boot from 8pm-10pm! UK garage, house, & bass on NYE from 8pm-10pm. We'll see you there.
NYE HONKY TONK:
WILD LEEK RIVER
AND FRIENDS
Tuesday 12.31.24 - 9:30pm Tickets available at the door!
Bring on the New Year with VT's beloved Wild Leek River. They'll be playing all of your favorite country classics and originals from 9:30pm until late, get here early & stay late!
Hailing from Northern Vermont, Wild Leek River is a regular 5-piece country band. The songs they play vibrate with sounds of new and old, steady back-beats and good stories. Their style and performances trace its roots from the honky tonks of days gone by, with rowdy shows across Vermont and throughout the Northeast.
NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH
DJ TAKA
Tuesday 12.31.24 - 10:00pm - Tickets available at the door!
We're psyched to have DJ Taka bringing in the New Year from 10pm-3am in the Light Club Lamp Shop. DJ Taka's been DJing at Radio Bean for over almost 10 years, bringing an iconic and unforgettable dance scene to Burlington, Vermont. There's no one else we'd rather having bringing in the New Year. We'll see you there.
Born in 1978 in Osaka, Japan, Takahiko Matsui (better known as Taka) began collecting and spinning vinyl at teenage. Taking advantage of the lenient age regulations in Japanese nightclubs, Taka spent most nights dancing through the darkness until dawn.
For twenty years, he dug fervently through crates full of genre after genre—Disco, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Afro, Latin, House, Techno, Dub—the list goes on. Armed with a unique talent to select and mix with the same finesse that a violinist would employ to recite Bach or Brahms, Taka moved to the United States to carry on his musical adventures with a new audience.
NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH
CONNOR YOUNG
& FRIENDS
Tuesday 12.31.24 - 1:30am - Tickets available soon!
Ending New Year's Eve at Radio Bean is Burlington's own Connor Young & his high energy jazz band. No better way to end the night. Grab tickets in advance and we'll see you there!
Connor Young was born and raised in Vermont and began playing Trumpet at age 12. He discovered Jazz when he was 13 when a teacher told him of Clifford Brown and later joined the Jazz band. Music quickly became a primary focus in his life and began taking lessons with Ray Vega after meeting at a latin jazz camp. Through high school he was selected to participate in the All-State Music Festival each year. There he learned from the likes of David Dempsey, Peter Apfelbaum, Brian McCarthy, Robert Baca and many other great educators. Following high school, Connor went on to study Jazz Performance at McGill University in Montréal. There he studied under many great professors including: Rémi Bolduc, Jocelyn Couture, Kevin Dean, John Hollenbeck, Christine Jensen, Bill Mahar, Jean-Michel Pilc, Joe Sullivan, Jean-Nicolas Trottier, and André White. Graduating in 2018, Connor is now residing in Burlington Vermont and playing with various people and groups around the New England area including: Brickdrop, Ray Vega, George Petit, Kat Wright as well as his own trio and quartet.v
Little oso
The eyetraps
The Leatherbound books
Thursday 1.9.24 - 8:00pm - Tickets
Little Oso is a dreampop band from Portland, Maine. They blend layers of sparkly guitar sounds with shimmering vocals an upbeat tempos to make you want to dance or get under a blanket or dance under a blanket. Their most recent EP “Happy Songs” commemorates summertime nostalgia and can be streamed in most places.
For fans of The Cranberries, The Vaselines, The Cure, Lush, Shop Assistants, slowdive, and Alvvays.
Raybody
Tuesday 1.14.24 - 7:00pm - Tickets!
Raybody (fka Katy Rea) writes “classic singer-songwriter shit that gets weird.” Her singular vocal is intense, melodic, and endlessly dynamic. Paired with a band that deeply understands her songwriting, Raybody capture’s audiences in her current home of Brooklyn, and across the US.
lily seabird (solo)
emerald ground water
BIG GIRL
Saturday 1.18.24 - 9:00pm - Tickets available soon!
Big Girl is a medicated pansexual originally from Miami, dyeing her hair and making scuzzy indie-glam rock with her BFFs in NYC. For people who like guitars, cars, fishnets, big-ass boots, being gay, and tv.
“Scrappy, uninhibited, and wonderstruck”
- A GRRRL'S TWO SOUND CENTS
“Part tribute and part fiery exorcism”
- UNDER THE RADAR MAG
w/ RABBITFOOT
Nectarine girl
Saturday 1.25.24 - 7:00pm - Tickets available soon!
Nectarines are peaches without fuzz. This makes them sweeter, but also a lot more sensitive to diseases, pests, drastic changes in weather, and more.
w/ summer arachnid
HONEY & SOUL
Friday 1.31.24 - 8:00pm - Tickets
Honey and Soul is what you get when you take a group of soft tender babes and let them take you from quiet, soothing, lullabies all the way to rock and roll. It’s something like unleashing the feminine power in three part harmony while also laughing with your friends about fart jokes. They keep it real, bring the heart, and love each other through the music.
beccs
Friday 1.31.24 - 8:00pm - Tickets
beccs is an alternative pop artist hailed as one of NYLON Magazine’s “favorite cool girls”. Holding up a mirror to herself and society at large, beccs confronts and heals audiences with a soul-stirring voice that is as dynamic as it is vulnerable. Blending a playful modern songwriting with a powerful voice akin to classic 60’s Laurel Canyon, the indie pop artist has become critically acclaimed.
Kahil El'zabar's
Tuesday 2.11.24 - 7:00pm - Tickets available soon!
Legendary Chicago percussionist Kahil El’Zabar, an artist in a league of his own, acknowledged throughout the world as the leader in the vanguard of spiritual and afro-futuristic jazz brings his Legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble to Radio Bean on Tuesday, 2/11 from 7pm-9pm.
LEGENDARY ETHNIC
HERITAGE ENSEMBLE
LUTALO
Friday 2.14.24 - 8:30pm - Tickets
Lutalo’s highly visceral folk goes electric on The Academy, the Vermont multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer’s debut LP. On The Academy, Lutalo embraces a literary approach to self-referential songwriting, turning memories from their adolescence into impressionistic folk and rock compositions that are equal parts searing and vulnerable. With their unique baritone and finesse for lyrical world building, Lutalo cuts to the bone–while only just beginning to reveal the depth of their artistry and vision.
SWEET PETUNIA
Tuesday 2.18.24 - 7:00pm - Tickets
Sweet Petunia, composed of Mairead Guy and Maddy Simpson, is an alt-folk duo based in Boston. Over the last five years, the duo has grown into their own as both powerful songwriters and harmonizers as well as lightning-quick players, beginning every set with explosive double banjo action. Unapologetically queer and unafraid to get loud and angry, they craft music that is informed just as much by their contemporaries in Boston’s punk & DIY scene as it is steeped in rich folk tradition.
CALEB KLAUDER
& REEB WILLIAMS
COUNTRY BAND
Tuesday 3.4.24 - 7:00pm - Tickets
Dust off your boots and gather around for some true and original modern honky tonk music. An all-star cast of master musicians backs these two soul singers of country music, Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms. These two are known to roots music fans across the globe for their soulful harmonies, driving dance tunes, classic original songs, and commitment to the raw truth of rural American music. They live in the San Juan Islands of Washington, though until recently, home was Portland, OR. They are foundational to the exceptional old-time and country music scene in the Pacific NW with the Caleb Klauder Reeb Willms Country Band and their membership in the Foghorn Stringband, of which Caleb was a founding member. Charismatic performers, they bring their unique set of talents to the stage with an eye towards good times and an ear towards the deepest songs and tunes.
Sometimes we get so unnecessarily swept up in who’s rising and falling in music these days that the sheer joy of music is overlooked. One of the great things about Caleb and Reeb is that they are a world apart from all of that nonsense and let you immerse yourself in the melody and story of classic sounding country music until all other cares of life fade away. Country music is the music of working people who use it to pass the time and forget about the ever-present hardships in their lives. After years of touring together, Reeb and Caleb work intuitively.
Caleb’s study and understanding of roots music is so dedicated and rich, that he can hauntingly immerse himself in the same perspective of those old primitive country composers and write as if he was right beside them. Their album Innocent Road includes a clutch of lovingly arranged Klauder originals, along with well-placed and rare covers. The pair bring the spirit of legendary country duos into their contemporary takes on country music. Trading vocals back and forth, they complement each other strikingly well in an attractive meld of honky-tonk that brushes shoulders with trad bluegrass.
Twain (solo)
SOLD OUT
Thurdsay 3.27.24 - 8:00pm - Tickets
“There is nothing remarkable about my life that is necessary to know in order to appreciate the songs,” says Matthew Davidson of Twain. He describes the project as “a modern folk-opera of indefinite length consisting of songs and images from my life, a self-caricature of the musician and writer Matthew Davidson.”
Esther Rose (solo)
SOLD OUT
Thurdsay 3.27.24 - 8:00pm - Tickets
Everything clicks on Safe to Run, the fourth album from singer, songwriter and perpetual searcher Esther Rose. It’s the quiet culmination of years spent fully immersed in a developing artistry, and presents Rose’s always vividly detailed emotional scenes with new levels of clarity and control. As with previous work, her songwriting transfigures the chaos and uncertainty of a life in progress, but here she sharpens the pop elements and attaches unshakably catchy hooks to even the darkest stretches of the journey.
After spending her formative years in Michigan, Rose relocated to New Orleans and got her start in music there while awash in the unparalleled energy of the city’s scene. Over the course of her first three records, an infatuation with traditional country gradually evolved into a more distinctive style and increasingly personal material.
Rose’s music traced her changes as she moved through stages, studios, and home addresses, and she eventually left NOLA for New Mexico where the two year writing process for Safe to Run unfolded. Making the transition to this new environment after spending the better part of a decade building a life somewhere else demanded looking around and taking stock. All the heaviness, sweetness, levity, and self-discovery that had led up to that point began funneling into new songs that moved slower in order to dig deeper, taking on the intricate hues of a desert horizon as they came together.