<p>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. Music: Deep Cuts grand opening It’s been a rough few years for live music venues around the Greater Boston area, so any time we get to celebrate a new venue’s grand opening, we […]</p>
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<p>With the previously announced opening of Medford’s newest music venue Deep Cuts, the anticipation has only mounted ahead of its grand opening. Now, Jerrod Carmichael is adding to the hype with a last-minute trip into town. As a late-week surprise announced today (May 19), the award-winning comedian, writer and actor will be bringing a new run of stand-up material, dubbed Sleepless Without My Boyfriend, to the brand spankin’ new Main Street space for two shows on Sunday (May 21). With […]</p>
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<p>Andy Rourke has left the building. The musician and DJ, best known as bassist of legendary Manchester band The Smiths, has died “after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer,” according to his former bandmate Johnny Marr. Rourke was 59. The new was posted early Friday (May 19), with Rourke’s official social media pages confirming the news. “Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans,” […]</p>
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Today's reviews are: The Interrupters – In The WildGumm – Slogan MachineMerger – Second to LastYou can check out any of our reviews right here. 

Episode #635 of the Punknews Podcast is now up! John's getting ready for soiree VI, Em Moore is going to Pouzza, Sammie B is rescuing the kidnapped mayor of Metro city by beating up the thugs of the Mad Gear Gang one by one, so… John and Ricky recorded this special episode where they talked about RSD 2023, cool records, and cool record shops! You can listen below.

<p>If there’s one thing that the Fast and Furious movies have sorely missed in nearly all nine films, it’s a good heel. Now, they’ve always had villains, and the names have gotten bigger and bigger — once The Rock, Luke Evans, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, and John Cena come into the picture, you’re gonna have some memorable conflicts — but most of them either wind up becoming a part of the extended Toretto family (one can imagine Statham showing up […]</p>
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Bogside Sniper Squadron is the new band that includes members from USA and Ireland. It appears to have at least one member of Devil Master in the group. The band just released a demo that has four tracks, and as per the band, includes Thin Lizzy influences. You can check it out below.

The BellRays have announced that they will be releasing a new two-song single. The single features a cover of “Ball of Confusion” by The Temptations along with a new original song called “I Fall Down”. The single will be out on June 3 via I-95 Recordings. The BellRays will be touring North America with Social Distortion starting on June 30 and will be playing a handful of headlining dates around those shows, the first of which is on June 3. The BellRays released Punk Funk Rock Soul Vol.2 in 2018. See the dates below.

<p>It takes a lot of gumption to storm around TD Garden with a Stanley Cup replica the night of a Bruins game, but The Hangaz aren’t afraid of bear hugs and battle cries from fellow hockey fans. The Dorchester hip-hop duo of Smok-N-Strok and Axestrumentals capture the electricity of the Boston team’s 2023 playoff hopes in their new video “Something’s Bruin,” a call for the Stanley Cup to return to Boston — even if this won’t be the year. And […]</p>
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