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: Jamaica Plain Music Festival at Pinebank Field
If September 1’s move-in day around Boston is the great inhale, then the early-September Jamaica Plain Music Festival is the great exhale. The free, all-ages, all-inclusive community music and arts fest at Pinebank Field at Jamaica Pond returns for its 12th edition this Saturday (September 7), and this year’s lineup may be its best ever. In the spring, JPMF organizers announced it was opening up the field to all performers around Boston, and not just those with work or residential ties to Jamaica Plain as in years past, and the result is a colorful spectrum of styles and sounds that fills its seven hours of programming with non-stop highlights reflective of the city’s music scene.
Taking part this year are ’24 Rumble winners The Ghouls (pictured), as well as Alien Ginsburg, Merrie Amsterburg, The Attractors, Bob Bradshaw Band, Brunt of it, Crooked Mowth, EVERFINER, Honey Cassette, Lemonshiners, Ray Liriano, Mamadou, The New Limits, People of Earth, Prateek, SheBoom, TELL, Three At Home, Time and Place, Travels With Brindle, and Matt York & The Hassle-Free Roses.
That’s pretty damn solid. And it means that attendees can literally roll up at any point of the day and catch something interesting. Hit the JPMF homepage for full details, and peep the set times below.
JAMAICA PLAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL :: Saturday, September 7 at Pinebank Field, 345 Jamaicaway in Boston, MA :: Noon to 7 p.m., all ages, free admission :: Event homepage
Comedy: Sam Jay at The Wilbur
We’re still not over Netflix’ Roast of Tom Brady back in the spring, and some appearances hold up as more memorable than others. Sam Jay absolutely crushed the assigment, and provided some much-needed homegrown sass up on the dais. Now Jay is back in town for an appearance at The Wilbur on Saturday (September 7), and Mic’d Up sets the scene:
“Not everyone can look Tom Brady in the eyes, verbally eviscerate the sculpted football icon, and still make their way back to Boston to a raucous applause — but Sam Jay is just that special, and a homecoming with the Dorchester native is never something to miss. With her latest hour in tow, Jay has quite a bit of stuff to comb through after a full year of touring and other creative opportunities that have made the stand-up powerhouse all the more powerful.”
SAM JAY :: Saturday, September 7 at The Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St. in Boston, MA :: 6 p.m., $26 to $36 :: Advance tickets
Film/TV: ‘Mad Max’ at Alamo Drafthouse
We’ve been so horny for this new wave of Mad Max films — peep our review of Furiosa if you dare — it’s easy to forget about the OG trilogy that jumpstarted the iconic franchise. George Miller’s 1979 Australian dystopian action film holds up something fierce, with an apocalyptic vision of a future that gets closer by the day and more sweaty leather than a fetish night at ManRay. Alamo Drafthouse in the Seaport is running it back today and Sunday (September 6 and 8) as part of its Time Capsule series, and suddently this landscape from 45 years ago feels like it’ll arive any day now. Her’es the word from the cinema:
“Roving motorcycle gangs terrorize rural Australia, and only one thing stands in between total anarchy and peace in this nearby dystopia: Leather daddies! Before he became a road warrior, went beyond Thunderdome, or rolled down Fury Road, Max wasn’t even all that mad. He was on the Main Force Patrol, the aforementioned leather-clad law enforcers who patrol the roadways in souped-up muscle cars. Enter the Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne, who went on to play Immortan Joe in Fury Road), leader of a vaguely homoerotic gang who declares war on the MFP after they kill The Nightrider (remember him when you look at the night sky). Fuel-injected action rules as George Miller kicks off this immortal series with a humble cop vs. biker gang story that still manages to thrill and shock with breathtaking stunts and gut-wrenching violence. Find out what made Max so dang mad!”
‘MAD MAX’ :: Friday, September 6 and Sunday, September 8 at Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, 60 Seaport Blvd. in Boston, MA :: Friday sold out, Saturday at 12:30 p.m. :: Event info and tickets