<p>Had someone let me know that Kane Parsons’ Backrooms was about the Flea Market Montgomery pitchman finding his way into an office-park bardo, metastasizing the evils within himself, and tormenting his new-age therapist, it would have skyrocketed to my list of the year’s most-anticipated releases. I’m not really kidding, either — one of the leads, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), runs a discount furniture shop with incongruous branding (it’s named after the Ottoman Empire, but inexplicably has a pirate mascot played by […]</p>
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<p>They’ve been in hibernation for a minute, but now the Wolves of Glendale are back in town to deliver a brand new set of musical hilarity that will have some of us howling along with them, and other laughing like hyenas. As part of the sprawling WBUR Festival this weekend, the Los Angeles-based comedy rock trio heads to Boston University’s CFA Concert Hall on Saturday (May 30) for the first ever live edition of their viral Iron Songwriter series. While […]</p>
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Bouncing Souls have released a video for their new song “Only Echoes”. The video was filmed by the band and edited by Bob Sweeney. The song is off their upcoming album Born To Be which will be out on June 26. Bouncing Souls will be touring North America starting in July and will be playing FEST in Gainesville in October. Check out the video below.

<p>Time and time again, we’ve seen what Alex Edelman is capable of on stage and screen. Now, with an all-new slate of what is sure to be a fresh masterclass of comedy writing, he’s back on home turf for a little while to unleash all the goods. Once he finishes up at Honest is Easy, a multi-genre throwdown of music and comedy at his hometown teen center in Brookline tonight (May 29) alongside Ryan Miller of locally grown alt-rock titans […]</p>
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Tits Up have surprise-released a new EP. It is called Never Been Cheddar and features five new songs: “What!?”, “Fat Meat”, “Rat”, “Horny Hornet”, and “Cheese Wife”. Check out the EP in full below.

Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry (who released a song together earlier this year) have announced a co-headlining North American tour. Superheaven and Boundaries will be joining them on all dates. The tour begins on September 26 in Newport, Kentucky and wraps up on November 8 in Mexico City. Check out the dates below.

<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. Glazyhaze, ‘Do You?’ Back when we were teenagers, all we wanted to do was lay out […]</p>
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ALL has a nice little week-plus trip this summer. The trek kicks off in late July and runs through early August. Jon Snodgrass and the Stevensons open along with All my sense. You can see the details below.