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: Rebuilder at The Sinclair
This summer has seen a host of homegrown bands packing The Sinclair in Cambridge, and tonight (September 1) the Boston beat rolls on as Rebuilder sets up shop at the Harvard Square joint for their Local Support record release party. The friend-to-all pop-punk band dropped the sophomore album last month via Iodine Recordings, and with it came word of upcoming tour dates with Frank Turner and Streetlight Manifesto. But this weekend the spotlight is focused on Rebuilder’s home base, and the record’s title reflects the ethos.
“This record is so appropriately named Local Support because we had so many people jump in to give suggestions or help in any way they can,” says vocalist and guitarist Sal Ellington. Raise a glass this evening, and get stoked with Rebuilder’s “Wedding Day” lyric video below.
REBUILDER + NO TRIGGER + CHOKE UP + TRASH RABBIT :: Friday, September 1 at The Sinclair, 52 Church St. in Cambridge, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $22 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
Comedy: Whale City Comedy Festival
While most are taking off for the Labor Day holiday weekend, Massachusetts’ comedy circuit is putting in the work. Seriously, there’s so much happening across The Bay State this weekend, from Sam Buck at Nick’s Comedy Stop; to Kurt Braunohler & Eugene Mirman at Ralph’s Rock Diner; to Steve-O posting up at The Wilbur (read our interview with the Jackass legend). But we’ve set our harpoon of laughter down south for the inaugural Whale City Comedy Festival.
We announced the news last month, and it landed in this week’s Mic’d Up as well: “Aside from the glory of a BYOB festival, the maiden voyage of the latest comedy festival to crop up in Massachusetts is touting a small but mighty lineup of stand-up star power as Ray Harrington, Anthony DeVito, Neko White, and Sean Donnelly and more make their way to the South Coast for a weekend jam packed with hilarity at the highest level.”
WHALE CITY COMEDY FESTIVAL :: Thursday, August 31 to Sunday, September 3 at Gallery X, 169 William St. in New Bedford, MA :: 7 and 9 p.m. each night, $30 :: Advance Tickets
Film/TV: Barbie’s Roots at The Brattle
By now we’ve all seen Barbie, and Summer 2023 will go down as the time when Barbenheimer fever took over the country. But The Brattle in Cambridge is keeping the pink glow highlighted into September with Barbie’s Roots, a weeklong film series that launches today (September 1) at the indie Harvard Square cinema. Films include The Truman Show, Josie and the Pussycats, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Frances Ha, an others.
“Aside from being a cultural sensation and the latest savior-of-cinema, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is also rife with cinematic allusions and inspirations,” The Brattle writes. “Drawing from an interview that Gerwig gave to Letterboxd earlier this year and including a few of our own ideas (hello there Josie and the Pussycats) we’ve put together a primer of the films that inform the candy-colored blockbuster.”
BARBIE’S ROOTS :: Friday, September 1 to Thursday, September 7 at The Brattle, 40 Brattle St. in Cambridge, MA :: Event info and showtimes