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: Bloc Party at MGM Music Hall at Fenway
What a time to be young and alive in Boston during the winter of 2025: The Red Sox were World Series champions, Vice magazine was essential reading, and the indie dance party ruled the rock clubs. And an exciting new English band called Bloc Party soundtracked it all with an iconic and incendiary debut album in Silent Alarm, a rhythm section-fueled mammoth album of emotion filled with essential aughts bangers like “Banquet,” “This Modern Love,” and “Helicopter.” Two decades quickly followed, and we’re still chasing that high. Now Bloc Party bring the record and all its jagged beauty back and up-front percussion to North America for a very attractive dance party tonight at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway, the first of 13 continental dates after Kele and the gang play SoCal’s Just Like Heaven festival. So much music from that unhinged aught-era has come and go, but Silent Alarm is truly timeless. And what some of us would give to go back to that wild time. This will be the family reunion we’ve all been waiting for.
BLOC PARTY + BLONDE REDHEAD :: Friday, May 30 at MGM Music Hall, 2 Lansdowne St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $52 to $88 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
Music: SuperSonic at Sonia
Did you try to get tickets to any of Oasis’ reunion shows? There was no New England date on the Gallagher Brothers’ 2025 itinerary, so most of us suffered the indignity of dynamic pricing all to go spend a night at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. After a few hours of queues and waiting rooms, many of us just gave up. So let’s not look back in anger, and simply hit the next best thing: SuperSonic: North America’s Tribute To Oasis, who play Sonia in Cambridge tonight. Some might say the Canadian gang is definitely maybe a sure thing, and they even played a Pill reunion a few years back — so they’ve been living forever, all things considered. SuperSonic celebrates 30 years of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, so we’ll get anthems from that classic album and a whole lot more. And let’s face it, when it comes to Oasis, it’s truly about the songs and camaraderie. Not some lame-ass cash-grab to help pay off a few debts.
SUPERSONIC: NORTH AMERICA’S TRIBUTE TO OASIS :: Friday, May 30 at Sonia, 10 Brookline St. in Cambridge, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, $26.19 :: Event info and advance tickets
Film/TV: ‘The Life of Chuck’ at Alamo Drafthouse
Last fall, film editor Nick Johnston went up to Toronto International Film Festival and caught a screening of The Life of Chuck, writer and director Mike Flanagan’s science fiction drama based on Stephen King’s 2020 novella. He absolutely loved it, and a few months later we got pull-quoted for the film’s official trailer: “An emotional epic. It’s A Wonderful Life for today” — Vanyaland. Now the tale of Charles Krantz is starting to hit cinemas, and Alamo Drafthouse in the Seaport has a special showing Sunday with a Flanagan taking part via a livestream Q&A, moderated by Kingcast podcast host Eric Vespe. Here’s the word, and be sure to pause the trailer below at the 1:28 mark: “From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes The Life of Chuck, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.”
‘THE LIFE OF CHUCK’ :: Sunday, June 1 at Alamo Drafthouse, 60 Seaport Blvd. in Boston, MA :: 6 p.m., $14.49 :: Event info and tickets