<p>Editor’s Note: Anyone who says there isn’t good music coming out these days — and quite literally, every day — simply isn’t paying attention. Vanyaland’s compilation feature The V List highlights the best in new music, both homegrown and national, over the past month, pulling together the sounds that have soundtracked the website in recent weeks. It’s all the stuff we’re bumping here at Vanyaland HQ, one new bop at a time. Charlotte OC, ‘God, We Tried’ Around these parts, we simply love a good O’Connor comeback story. […]</p>
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Ursula have released a video for the song "Shan't." That's off I Don't Like Anything on Indecision Records. you can check it out below.

Those Jokers-in-the-pack The Adicts are playing some scattered USA dates. They've got shows spread across the USA in May, July, and October. You can see the announced dates below.

Punk Crush has released a visualizer video for their new song “Inferno”. The video was created by G Leonardo. The song is off their upcoming album FERAL which will be out on May 2 via Sneak Dog Records. Punk Crush have released a handful of singles since 2021. Check out the video below.

Raygun Cowboys have announced Canadian tour dates to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Doghouse Rose will be joining them on select dates, including their date at Pouzza Fest in Montreal on May 16. The tour will begin on May 8 in Regina, Saskatchewan and wrap up on June 6 in Edmonton, Alberta.An Instagram statement released alongside the dates reads in part, I also wanted to let you know that 2025 will be our last tour for quite some time. I’ve spent most of my adult life, pushing the Raygun Cowboys and it has been the focus of my life for more than half my life. Now the time has come time for me to focus on other things. So come out everyone and see us for one more kick at the can. More dates to be announced for Canada and Europe soon, see you on the road friends!Raygun Cowboys released their album Fortune and Glory, Pleasure and Pain in 2023. Check out the dates below.

Butthole Surfers have released a new live single. "Human Cannonball" is off Live at the Leather Fly. That's out May 9 via Sunset Blvd. You can hear the tune below.

The Ophelias have released a new song called “Cicada”. The song is off their upcoming album Spring Grove which will be out on April 4 via Get Better Records. The Ophelias will be touring North America starting in April and released their EP Ribbon in 2024. Check out the song below.

Toronto-based punk rockers Sixteen Scandals have released a new song. It is called “P.L.S.L.V.E” and is off their upcoming EP Dorkmantrois: Whackronyms which will be out later this year via Cartridge Heart. Sixteen Scandals released Nothing to C Here in 2019. Check out the song below.

R4A Fest, the festival put on by Ready4Anything Records, has announced its lineup for this year. Single Mothers, Mvll Crimes (returning after a years long hiatus), The Drew Thomson Foundation, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Donny Crosswell, Sun Junkies, Little Junior, Loviet, Burner, Pro Wrestling The Band, Strawberry Cough, Dumb Crush, Waste Youth, Captain Wildchild, Roach, Accelerant, Cassidy Jane, and Perfect Strangers will be playing the festival. R4A Fest will take place on July 10-12 at the Baby G in Toronto, Ontario.

<p>Val Kilmer, an icon of ’80s and ’90s cinema who had a long and brilliant career inside and outside Hollywood’s margins, died on April 1 from pneumonia, per the New York Times. He was 65. Kilmer’s career started exceptionally hot in the mid-’80s, with roles in the Zucker-Abrhams-Zucker comedy Top Secret!, one of the funniest movies of the post-Airplane! era; Real Genius, which introduced an entire generation to how great Tears for Fears was in their “Everybody Wants to Rule […]</p>
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