Michael O Connor Marotta

New Sounds: The New York City creative builds a mood of gentle tension and delicate urgency in a gripping new single via IS NOT MUSIC.

It’s time to take two potential names off the headline rumor board for Boston Calling 2025. Less than two weeks after dropping surprise album GNX, Kendrick Lamar and longtime collaborator SZA have announced the Grand National Tour, and included in the co-headlining run is a May 12 stop at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.

It was only fitting that when the northern lights stretched high across Northeastern skies back in the spring, AURORA unveiled her North American tour, appropriately dubbed the What Happened To The Earth? Part 2 Tour. Now after several months of starry-eyed anticipation, the Norwegian electronic-pop songwriter and producer tonight (December 4) brings her ethereal sounds to Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway, helping close out a year that delivered new album What Happened To The Heart? in June.

There are two types of bands on the road: One that lives and breathes tour life, and one that cannot wait for the ride to be over. BRONCO fall distinctly in the former category, as the doom metal and Southern sludge trio, which formed from the ashes of TOKE, unleash a heavy ode to the road in “Ride Eternal.” The crushing debut single, which hits the streams today (December 4), will be featured on the North Carolina band’s forthcoming

Usually we have to wait until January to get all the big-ticket music festival lineups, but that doesn’t seem to be the case these days. Not long after Coachella unveiled its 2024 lineup, K ilby Block Party

Control yourself, take only what you need from this newly-unearthed video of MGMT performing 'Kids' four years before its release.

Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, Vanyaland ‘s guide to help you sort out your weekend entertainment with curated selections and recommendations across our three pillars of Music, Comedy, and Film/TV. It’s what you should know about, where you need to be, and where you’ll be going, with us riding shotgun along the way.

At this point in the game, we’ve heard and seen it all, so rarely does any tour announcement make us jump up and yell “OH SHIT!” But that’s exactly what happened back in May when The Blood Brothers unveiled a 20th anniversary reissue of 2004 time capsule album Crimes, as well as the Seattle post-hardcore band’s first tour in a decade. Crimes hit on vinyl in October via Epitaph, and the tour delivers the boys to Boston tonight (December 9) for a sweaty lil’ get-together at the […]

With standout tracks from Urban Heat, SASAMI, Artemas, Cock Sparrer, julie, Unto Others, Cardinals, The Mysterines, Chappell Roan and more.

Let’s face it: This is already an awkward holiday season. The world is on fire, the unscrupulous are in charge, and Christmas just doesn’t feel so Christmas-y, even with Santa expected to slide down our collective chimneys in 15 short days. And as a result of this, that, and *gestures broadly at everything*