Roadrunner Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/roadrunner/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:23:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Roadrunner Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/roadrunner/ 32 32 V3 Weekend: Couch, The Bends, ‘Black Friday’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/21/v3-weekend-couch-the-bends-black-friday/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:29:10 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042698 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: Couch at Roadrunner As we put it so eloquently back in the spring, Couch are getting asses off sofas this fall. And now that autumn has arrived, so has the homecoming gig […]

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]]> V3 Weekend: G Flip, Bobcat Goldthwait, ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/03/v3-weekend-g-flip-bobcat-goldthwait-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:49:53 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042436 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: G Flip at Roadrunner It truly feels like 100,000 years ago by now, but when we first hyped G-Flip and her 2019 alt-pop bop “Killing My Time”, it felt like the […]

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]]> Fest Intentions: Something in the Way Festival 2026 in Brighton, Massachusetts https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/25/fest-intentions-something-in-the-way-festival-2026/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:22:04 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042392 Nothing’s stopping Something in the Way Festival from returning to Roadrunner in 2026. The alt-rock weekend created by Bowery Boston and Run For Cover Records will host its second edition at the Brighton venue on January 31 and February 1. The 2026 lineup is a solid complement to the inaugural Boston edition’s slate of performers, gathering a mix of alternative, emo, and post-hardcore bands, many of which are Run For Cover signees. Sunny Day Real Estate (pictured above) and Explosions […]

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]]> V3 Weekend: MARINA, Morrissey [cancelled], ‘Bring It On’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/19/v3-weekend-marina-morrissey-bring-it-on/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:59:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042365 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: Morrissey at MGM Music Hall at Fenway UPDATE 1:01 p.m.: To the surprise of no one, the Morrissey show has been cancelled. Via MGM Music Hall on Instagram: “In recent days, […]

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]]> Band in the USA: Wet Leg bring ‘moistourizer’ to North America https://vanyaland.com/2025/05/01/band-in-the-usa-wet-leg-bring-moistourizer-to-north-america/ Thu, 01 May 2025 19:47:17 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041297 Wet Leg are coming to North America. Look busy, as the saying goes. The Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers have been plenty busy on these pink digital pages and literally everywhere else lately, dropping certified SOTY-contending banger ‘catch these fists’ exactly a month ago, the first taste of hot shit new album moisturizer on July 11. The animated track landed on our V List roundup of our favorite songs of April, and Fanduel odds are highly lucrative […]

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]]> Boston Thriving: Couch deliver homegrown funk-pop to Roadrunner https://vanyaland.com/2025/04/22/boston-thriving-couch-deliver-homegrown-funk-pop-to-roadrunner/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:41:22 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041235 Editor’s Note: “Boston Thriving” is an ongoing series from Vanyaland highlighting and honoring the national and global success of Boston- and New England-based bands and artists. This fall, Couch are getting asses off sofas. The Boston band today (April 22) announced a headlining tour that will bring them to the largest venues they’ve played to date, culminating with a home turf finale at Roadrunner in Brighton on November 22. The run will bring Couch’s funk- and soul-pop to venues like […]

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]]> Watch Ministry’s first-ever music video for ‘Every Day is Halloween’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/04/01/watch-ministrys-first-ever-music-video-for-every-day-is-halloween/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:47:41 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041086 Today may be April Fool’s Day, but “Every Day is Halloween.” So we’re psyched to finally see a proper music video for Ministry’s goth club anthem, surfacing 41 years since first dropping a beat on underground dance floors around the world and becoming a cult-classic for the subculture. “I’m amazed and honored that folks are still listening to this song 40 years on,” says Al Jourgensen. “Fly that freak flag proudly.” The visual is part of new album The Squirrely Years […]

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]]> This Show Is Tonight: Panda Bear takes the ‘Ferry’ to Brighton https://vanyaland.com/2025/02/12/this-show-is-tonight-panda-bear-takes-the-ferry-to-brighton/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:19:29 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040759 It feels like a hundred thousand years ago by now, but Panda Bear’s “Ferry Lady” was one of the first tracks we vibed to in this soulless 2025. Now the experimental-pop project of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Animal Collective co-founder Noah Lennox bings its cosmic playfulness to Roadrunner in Brighton tonight (February 12), with Toro y Moi also on the bill. “Ferry Lady” will be featured on Panda Bear’s forthcoming album, Sinister Grift, which hits later this month on Domino. It finds Lennox […]

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]]> V3 Weekend: Interpol, Sean Sullivan, ‘Wicked’ vs. ‘Gladiator II’ https://vanyaland.com/2024/11/27/v3-weekend-interpol-sean-sullivan-wicked-vs-gladiator-ii/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:18:47 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040178 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: Interpol at Roadrunner Out of all the acts that sprouted from the early aughts New York City indie rock resurgence, Interpol probably came the closest to the power of their debut […]

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]]> This Show Is Tonight: King Diamond on Halloween in Boston https://vanyaland.com/2024/10/31/this-show-is-tonight-king-diamond-on-halloween-in-boston/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:51:14 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10039994 There’s going to be a moment later tonight, on this unreasonably warm Halloween night, when the mighty King Diamond, shortly after taking the stage at Roadrunner in Boston, kickstarts his 1986 classic “Halloween” by screaming “Oh, it’s Halloween!” — and every single person in the room will orgasm in unison. That’s it, that’s the fucking post. KING DIAMOND + OVERKILL + NIGHT DEMON :: Thursday, October 31 at Roadrunner, 89 Guest St. in Boston, MA :: 6 p.m., all ages, […]

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