Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, a new Vanyaland series where we 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: Charli XCX’s ‘Beg For You’ (featuring Rina Sawayama)
Like Big Papi in the 2000s, Charli XCX is now 3-for-3. Fresh off last year’s white-hot singles (Year in ReView standout “Good Ones” and Caroline Polachek & Christine and the Queens collab “New Shapes”) comes our alt-pop queen’s new groove “Beg For You,” this time featuring Japanese-born, London-based artist Rina Sawayama. It’s the third track off her forthcoming March album Crash, and we’re pretty jacked up. “Beg For You” boasts a casual, low-end groove that should sound lovely as you calmly watch the endless show fall across the region this weekend. It’s wistful, it’s willful, and like all XCX jams these days, it stays with you long after first listen. No begging necessary.
Comedy: Valerie Tosi’s Beach Trash
Let’s face it: Perhaps the best television entertainment this weekend as we brace for the oncoming blizzard will be watching the local newscasts covering the storm, sending reporters out to the beaches and coastline to get pelted with Mother Nature’s frigid love fuzz. So as we look to the shores, fire up Valerie Tosi’s new album Beach Trash for some intentional comedy. The Los Angeles-based joke-slinging storyteller hails from Lynn and Salisbury, and is a self-proclaimed “Revere spawn,” so Tosi knows all about our local dalliances by the water, as Jason Greenough points out in our feature and interview from a few days ago. All eyes will be on the shore this weekend, but our ears will be locked into Tosi’s unique brand of storytelling embedded in the region’s personality.
Film/TV: The Runner’s Dead Disco afterparty
There’s pretty much one chance to get out and about this weekend before the storm hits, and it arrives tonight (January 28) as Boy Harsher’s new film The Runner screens at The Press Room in Portsmouth. Earlier in the week, Victoria Wasylak covered the Western Mass electronic duo’s film soundtrack, but we’re here now to request patrons stick around post-film for the Dead Disco afterparty featuring DJ James 808. The resident of Cambridge’s Overdrive synth party and longtime underground NYC club DJ (Limelight, The Bank, Pyramid Club) spins his signature mix of new wave, disco goth and dark Italo for the perfect capper to the film’s New Hampshire premiere. Come Saturday, we’ll be snowed in; but tonight, we’ll be buried under beats at the Dead Disco.
‘THE RUNNER’ SCREENING + DEAD DISCO AFTERPARTY: Friday, January 28 at The Press Room, 77 Daniel St. in Portsmouth, N.H. :: 8 p.m., $7 in advance and $10 at the door :: Advance tickets :: Facebook event page
