Michael O Connor Marotta

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.

The world is becoming increasingly dark and hostile, but The Vices are imaging a clear path forward. The hot-tipped Dutch band this past Friday (November 8) released a towering fit of indie-psych and guitar-tone-goodness called “Before It Might Be Gone,” the title track to a new album out in February

There are a few rising artists poised to breakout in 2025, and Jillian Lou x is near the top of the list. The Atlanta bedroom-pop performer is set to release a new EP titled Granted later this month, and sets a seductive tone for the record with the stirring “Help Me Remember,” an infectious earworm about struggling to let your guard down after the conclusion of a long-term relationship.

Gloomy times call for gloomy sounds, and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are up to the task with enough riffs to cast the sky in a claustrophobic heaviness. The Newcastle doom metal titans unleashed new noisy and chaotic track “Detroit” this week (November 11), their first since last year’s

When we look to the mountains, how do we feel? Are we gripped by a humbling sense of how small we truly are, or are we emboldened by an ambitious desire to ascend? Oddly, “I See Mountains,” the ethereal new dream-pop and trip-hop single from Oslo Twins, straddles a line between both, marking a far-off horizon that connects back to our own doing and our own willingness to embrace what’s in front of us.

The run features 10 shows across stadiums from coast to coast, including a September 7 romp at Fenway Park in Boston.

Don’t look now, but Hard-Fi’s forever unfuckwithable debut album Stars of CCTV turns 20 next summer. But the past few months have reshaped the enduring British indie band back into a modern-day force, and this Friday (November 15) Richard Archer and the boys drop new EP Don’t Go Making Plans, an incendiary record of intoxicating hooks and whipsmart wordplay that holds up with their greatest hits of yesterday. Back in May we hyped

The rising Irish trio continue a striking new blast of energy from the Ould Sod with “Can We Talk,” a buzzing dose of melodic garage punk that hits the streams with a reckless fervor this morning (November 13). Adore are set to hit the road across the United Kingdom with countryfolx Sprints later this month, and the rival masses should take very well to this blistering new jam.

Spoiler Alert: Our annual Year in ReView series arrives in a few short weeks to close out 2024, and we’re comfortable in revealing that SASAMI’s masterstroke of seismic emotion called “Honeycrash” is certain to be included in our Best Songs list. We mention this because the Los Angeles artist rolls into town tonight (November 14) with a thunder at her back, opening for Destroy Boys for what should be a lively gig at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club.

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.