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: Touché Amoré at Paradise Rock Club
There was a lot to Lament about 2020, but it’s time to move on — for me, you, and Touché Amoré. The Los Angeles post-hardcore band returned this fall with their first new album and tour in four years, unleashing Spiral in a Straight Line a few short weeks back via Rise Records and now crashing Paradise Rock Club in Boston this Sunday (November 3). The new record was produced by Ross Robinson and features guests like boygenius’ Julien Baker and Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou Barlow. The first lethal dose of sonic architecture arrived in “Nobody’s,” a fiery lead single that sets an immediate tone. “‘Nobody’s’ is the opening track on our upcoming album, Spiral in a Straight Line. In just a handful of lyrics, it gives the broad strokes of the album,” offers up Touché Amoré vocalist Jeremy Bolm. “A song and record about forward movement while everything around you becomes destabilized.” Sounds a lot like 2024.
TOUCHÉ AMORÉ + SOUL GLO + PORTRAYAL OF GUILT + SOFT BLUE SHIMMER :: Sunday, November 3 at the Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston, MA :: 6 p.m., all ages, $25 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
Comedy: Comics Come Home at TD Garden
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about what passes as comedy these days, but that should be well-defined this weekend as Comics Come Home returns to TD Garden for its 28th edition. Mic’d Up takes us home: “One of our favorite unofficial holidays around these parts, the first Saturday in November once again boasts a full-on drenching of comedy greatness in the belly of the TD Garden as Denis Leary leads the way for another year to support the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care with the help of Bill Burr, Ronny Chieng, Alec Flynn, Zarna Garg, Lil’ Rel Howery, Sam Morril, and of course, the one and only Lenny Clarke. Every year brings fun twists and surprises, and this one is shaping up to be no exception, so let the dirty water flow as freely as the $14 Sam Adams drafts in the name of charity and community.”
COMICS COME HOME 28 :: Saturday, November 2 at TD Garden, 100 Legends Way in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., $54 :: Advance Tickets
Film/TV: IFFBoston Fall Focus
With Halloween in the rear view, the only horror we’re left with is the reality that surrounds us. So we once again head to the indie cinema to absorb a different reality, and IFFBoston’s Fall Focus is here to provide the escape. Film Editor Nick Johnston previewed five films worth checking out this weekend, including the buzzy Nightbitch, which he reviewed at TIFF. Here’s the set-up: “The weather may be unseasonable, shitloads of leaves might be on every single car and sidewalk, and you might be three more cups of cider away from never wanting to hear the word “apple” again, but it is unmistakably fall in Boston. And with the complete shift of the seasons comes IFFBoston’s Fall Focus, once again returning to the Brattle (and now the Somerville Theatre!) from October 31 to November 4 to bring you the best of festival season – no plane ticket to Venice, Toronto or Telluride required.”
IFFBOSTON’S FALL FOCUS :: Now to Sunday, November 3 at The Brattle and Somerville Theatre :: Event info and tickets