<p>Editor’s Note: Vanyaland Film Editor Nick Johnston is back in Utah covering the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and the premieres are already flowing. Scan through our full coverage of Sundance reviews from this year’s festival as they are published, and check out our full archives of past editions. When it comes to festival business matters, I really do my hardest to avoid talking about them in any review – it’s like Oscar prognostications, where you’re likely to be perpetually wrong and have your […]</p>
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Rust Ring have released a video for their new song “Tiny Frame”. The video was directed by Joslyn Vosta. The song will be on their upcoming album North to the Future which will be out on February 24 via Knifepunch Records. Rust Ring will be playing a handful of US shows next month and released their album Genuine Me in 2019. Check out the song, dates, and tracklist below.

Public Serpents have released a video for their new song “Not Forever”. The song is off their upcoming album The Bully Puppet which will be out via SBAM Records later this year. Public Serpents released a split with Escape From the Zoo in 2020 and released their album Feeding of the Fortune 5000 in 2008. Check out the video below.

Sarah and the Safe Word have announced that they will be going on tour with Shayfer James this spring. They will be touring the US and Canada. Shayfer James released a split EP with Kate Douglas called The Ninth Hour and his EP Americanahronism in 2021. Sarah and the Safe Word re-released their album Strange Doings in the Night in 2022 (and we spoke to Sarah Rose about it in December) and released their album Good Gracious! Bad People in 2020. Check out the dates below.

<p>If we could have it our way around these parts, Bob Odenkirk would be, at the very least, in a top three ranking for “Man of the Year” every year. But when it comes to the prestigious honor as bestowed by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding organization, it seems as though 2023 is the year our “Odenking” will officially be crowned. As announced on Thursday (January 19), the Better Call Saul and Mr. Show star will become the latest recipient of the […]</p>
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<p>Mill City is spinning another edition of The Town and The City Festival this spring, and the lineup is looking as vibrant and stacked as a Kerouac poem. The annual two-day event will take over downtown Lowell on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29, bringing more than 50 artists to performance spaces like the Worthen House Cafe, Gallery Z, the Old Court, Taffeta, and perhaps Mill No. 5’s newest addition, The Overlook. Top billing for this year’s lineup goes […]</p>
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Fresh and Cheerbleederz have announced UK tour dates together. The shows will take place in April. Fresh released their album Raise Hell in 2022 and Cheerbleederz released their album Even in Jest in 2022. Check out the dates below.

Jesus Piece have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called …So Unknown and will be out April 14 via Century Media. The band have released a video for their second single (the first was “An Offering to the Night” which was released in December) called “Gates of Horn”. The video was directed by Eric Richter. Jesus Piece will be touring North America with Show Me The Body starting next month and released Only Self in 2018. Check out the video and tracklist below.

Plasma Canvas have released a new song. It is called “Election Year Relapse” and is off their upcoming album DUSK which will be out February 17 via SideOneDummy Records. Plasma Canvas released their EP KILLERMAJESTIC in 2020. Check out the song below.

<p>Actually, it was the worst of times when Winkler’s Justin Schaefers wrote “Call it Good Times.” One minute, the singer and guitarist was scarfing down a tasty pork taco on vacation; the next, he was battling food poisoning and bedridden, “looking the devil straight in the eye, mind and body pushed to limit.” And in a twist no one expected, he pulled a jaunty love tune from the depths of his queasiness.  The Boston band releases “Call it Good Times” […]</p>
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