Michael O Connor Marotta

Those headed to see Myles Smith on April 22 and 23 at Boston’s House of Blues are encouraged to arrive early to catch support band Tors. The rising English trio are primed for a highly visible year ahead, joining Smith for his nearly sold-out We Were Never Strangers Tour of North America and releasing new EP Never Give Up via Glassnote Records in February.

We’re starting to see Wallows ‘name listed all across the 2025 music festival circuit, with upcoming appearances at Kilby Block Party and Bonnaroo, as well as a two-night July stand opening for My Chemical Romance at Dodger Stadium. So it makes sense that the Los Angeles alt-pop trio gets the year started right with “Your New Favorite Song.”

The 2025 spring and summer music festival performer slate is quickly coming into view. And now we have Governors Ball to add to the mix.

If obscenity was once infamously defined as knowing it when one sees it, then shoegaze can be playfully described as knowing it when one hears it. So when PANIK FLOWER ‘s captivating new single “alkaline” revs up its guitar engine, it takes mere seconds from the start to be transported into the New York City dreamgaze trio’s hypnotic world of calm urgency.

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.

New Sounds: The scorching and confrontational track emboldens the English indie band as one to keep tabs on in the year ahead.

The first two months of the year are usually the saddest, so it makes sense that Travis deliver a necessary dose of musical melancholy.

New Sounds: FACS' new record was the final album engineered by Steve Albini before his unexpected passing last year.

It’s only Tuesday, and this week has felt like a month. So as we seek out some warm motivation in the coldest of times, we’re greeted with a strange familiarity — taking advice from Your Grandparents. Nah, it’s not those

If it feels like forevher since we last heard from Shura, it’s because it pretty much has. Six years in this day and age is a damn eternity, and it’s been that long since the English alt-pop singer-songwriter and producer last sparked our personal soundtrack and gave us comfort in who we truly are. Shura returns today (January 22) with a glistening new synth track called “Recognise,” and it’s the first dose of sonic seduction from her forthcoming new album I Got Too Sad For My Friends, out May 30 via Play It Again Sam.