The Met Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/the-met/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:51:37 +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 The Met Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/the-met/ 32 32 V3 Weekend: Dangerous Toys, Iliza Shlesinger, ‘Enter The Void’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/14/v3-weekend-dangerous-toys-iliza-shlesinger-enter-the-void/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:42:33 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042656 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: Dangerous Toys at The Met Hard n’ heavy rock n’ roll is having a moment. From Pussycat to Pearcy, bands of the retroactively rebranded “hair metal” scene are once again packing […]

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]]> Diet Cig are ‘Thriving’ but let’s be honest you already knew that https://vanyaland.com/2020/03/04/diet-cig-are-thriving-but-lets-be-honest-you-already-knew-that/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:59:19 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10019464 A few weeks back Diet Cig announced a spring tour with Sad13 and Thin Lips, and that was enough to get us properly excited for the changing of the seasons. This week, they’ve upped the ol’ ante, as the New York guitar-rock duo of Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman drop a banger new tune with a lyrical refrain that we’re going to start incorporating into daily conversations with pretty much everyone: “I’m thriving thanks for asking.” That tune is called […]

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]]> Layto emerges free from a toxic break-up on ‘Little Poor Me’ https://vanyaland.com/2018/10/18/layto-emerges-free-from-a-toxic-break-up-on-little-poor-me/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:41:51 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=187796 Studio 52 is a community artist space located in the heart of Allston, and is proud to support the Boston music scene and local artist community. A wise man outside a street corner bodega somewhere once said that when one door closes, another one opens. And that appears to be the case for Boston musician Layto, who drops a thunder boom today in the sonic shape of new single “Little Poor Me”, an alt-rock, pop, and hip-hop hybrid joint that […]

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]]> Layto emerges free from a toxic break-up on 'Little Poor Me' https://vanyaland.com/2018/10/18/layto-emerges-free-from-a-toxic-break-up-on-little-poor-me-2/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:41:51 +0000 http://www.vanyaland.com/?p=187796 Studio 52 is a community artist space located in the heart of Allston, and is proud to support the Boston music scene and local artist community. A wise man outside a street corner bodega somewhere once said that when one door closes, another one opens. And that appears to be the case for Boston musician Layto, who drops a thunder boom today in the sonic shape of new single “Little Poor Me”, an alt-rock, pop, and hip-hop hybrid joint that […]

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]]> The Problem With Boston: Shellac announce October tour, including three New England dates https://vanyaland.com/2016/08/22/problem-boston-shellac-announce-october-tour-including-three-new-england-dates/ Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:02:45 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=138662 By: Michael Marotta

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]]> Not Lying: Henry Rollins announces new Dinosaur Jr. album ‘Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not’ https://vanyaland.com/2016/05/24/henry-rollins-announces-new-dinosaur-jr-album/ Tue, 24 May 2016 15:28:32 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=133810 By: Rob Duguay

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]]> Sky Ferreira’s boyfriend’s band announces North American tour, covers Elliott Smith https://vanyaland.com/2016/02/23/sky-ferreiras-boyfriends-band-announces-north-american-tour-covers-elliott-smith/ Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:22:40 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=128771 The sophomore album from DIIV has only been chilling on digital shelves for a few short weeks, but we’re already getting new music from Sky Ferreira’s boyfriend’s band. Yesterday, the Brooklyn lads, led by heartthrob Zachary Cole Smith, shared a cover of Elliott Smith’s “Ballad of Big Nothing,” off the late songwriter’s 1997 album Either/Or, for HERO Magazine’s online HERO Sessions, and today we get a look at DIIV’s full upcoming spring tour to support Is The Is Are. After […]

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]]> Don’t Drop The Ball: Five things to do around Rhode Island on New Year’s Eve https://vanyaland.com/2015/12/29/dont-drop-the-ball-five-things-to-do-around-rhode-island-on-new-years-eve/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:13:40 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=125851 By: Rob Duguay

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]]> Video Premiere: Watch Pals LARP it up in the forest of noise in ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ https://vanyaland.com/2015/07/30/video-premiere-watch-pals-larp-it-up-in-the-forest-of-noise-in-nebuchadnezzar/ Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:28:22 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=113136 Some music videos can be weird, some don’t even make sense. Sometimes there’s a music video that has people Larping it up with weapons that look like they came straight out of the Nerf factory, and the casualties profusely bleeding fluorescent paint as they are being killed off. Sounds like just another day in the forest, huh? That’s the look from North Attleboro sci-fi prog-rock maniacs Pals, who will be celebrating the screening of their brand new music video for […]

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]]> What Happens Next: Gang Of Four announce Pawtucket show; here are two locals we’d like to see open https://vanyaland.com/2015/07/23/what-happens-next-gang-of-four-announce-pawtucket-show-here-are-two-locals-wed-like-to-see-open/ Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:30:39 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=112205 In an exciting announcement made earlier this week, British post-punk icons Gang Of Four will be coming to the Met in Pawtucket this October 3 — with tickets going on sale tomorrow — for what should be an interesting occasion. The current state of the band is a unique one, with guitarist Andy Gill being the only founding member left and leading a crew that includes Jonny Finnegan on drums, Thomas McNeice on bass, and John “Gaoler” Sterry taking over […]

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