<p>Editor’s Note: Vanyaland film editor Nick Johnston is back in Canada this week covering the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. And as usual, we wish we were up there with him! Check out our continuing 2025 coverage, get rolling with our official curtain-raiser, and revisit the complete Vanyaland coverage archives from past TIFF editions. In retrospect, it looks like the worst thing that ever happened to Guillermo del Toro’s filmmaking career was The Shape of Water, though I imagine he’d argue that it was At the Mountains of […]</p>
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Today, we are pleased to debut the new track by Faulty Cognitions! "The Only One" starts off with a bright, soaring sound before submerging down into a sort of coldly, vicious takedown. "Your not the only one" sneers vocalist Chris Mason while the band rumbles out big, broad, riffs. At once, it has the cold brutality of the 80s post-punkers like Gang of Four and Tubeway army, while retaining that heart-on-the-sleeve affect of classic orgcore. Also, it has a handbreak stop, which makes it that much more vicious… Lou Reedian, even.Speaking to Punknews about the track, Mason stated: ""I wrote 'The Only One' over 5 years ago for a different band that never got off the ground because of Covid. Around the time Faulty Cognitions were finishing up the writing process for the new record, I stumbled upon a demo of the song and brought it to practice. We locked in pretty quickly and decided to record it. I'm pretty sure we did it in one take. 4 chord punk FTW!"You can pick up the new album here and here! And, you can hear "the only one" below right now!

<p>Bet on Juliana Hatfield to deliver a gritty dose of faith when the world needs it the most. The Boston rock staple this week (September 9) released “Scratchers,” the first single from her forthcoming December album Lightning Might Strike. It’s a straight-faced narrative about balancing that “born to win” feeling and a string of bad news — and putting money down for a pile of scratch tickets anyways. “It was a difficult time for me when I started working on […]</p>
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Integrity and Skarhead are releasing an EP. The release features one new song from each band, plus a third track where they collaborate. That's out October 31 via Static Era Records. You can see the cover art below.