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: Enumclaw at The Rockwell
Usually when we think of Enumclaw, we think of horses. But Enumclaw, the indie rock band from the town in Washington that inspires their moniker, is packing their own kind of thrust towards something a little more inspiring: Dreams of being “the best band since Oasis.” That’s their ambition, and it suits them well. Fresh off the late-2022 release of expansive debut album Save The Baby, Enumclaw crawl into our northeast corner of the country with a show Sunday night (March 26) at The Rockwell in Somerville. The band’s weathered, detached-cool sound should sound huge in the intimate confines of subterranean Davis Square theater, and opening noise from California duo Nitefire and homegrown post-hardcore chaos-slingers No/Nations ensures we’ll be sleeping in on Monday.
ENUMCLAW + NITEFIRE + NO/NATIONS :: Sunday, March 26 at The Rockwell, 255 Elm St. in Somerville, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $15 in advance and $18 day of show :: Event page
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Comedy: Chris Distefano at The Wilbur
He’s more than just a Brooklyn comic with a self-described “douchebag haircut,” and Chris Distefano knows it just as much as we do. And the co-host of the Super Maximum Retro Show shows us why over four sold-out shows in Boston this weekend. As Jason Greenough breaks it all down in this week’s Mic’d Up: “It’s all coming up Chrissy Clam Chowder in 2023. Aside from a sold out return to The Wilbur, Distefano will also be taking the stage at Radio City Music Hall to a sold-out crowd in his native New York City later this year. The name of his Right Intention, Wrong Move your might suggest differently, but Distefano is certainly making all the right moves as it stands with his off-color and cringingly unfiltered perspective.”
CHRIS DISTEFANO :: Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25 at The Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St. in Boston, MA :: Friday at 6:30 and 9 p.m., Saturday at 6 and 8:45 p.m., $37 to $97 :: Wilbur event page
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Film/TV: Boston Underground Film Festival at The Brattle
The Boston Underground Film Festival has risen this week for its 23rd edition, taking over The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge for a full slate of premieres, features, music video screenings, and all that falls under its “vanguard cinemania” umbrella. After kicking off this past Wednesday, the Brattle rolls with a full slate through Sunday (March 26), with highlights including Bomani J. Story’s horror-drama The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster; Daniel Goldhaber’s heist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and videos from Black Midi, Animal Collective, Kal Marks, Mitski, Tove Lo and others. But the V in Vanyaland sometimes stands for Verypredictable, and so we’re stoked to catch our girl Bella Thorne in Divinity, the Steven Soderbergh-produced 2023 sci-fi thriller directed by Eddie Alcazar that’s described as such: “…this deranged, drug-addled, dystopian vision, where beauty and grotesquery abound, is 100% uncompromising underground cinema.” Sign us up, BUFF.
BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL :: Now through Sunday, March 26 at The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. in Cambridge, MA :: ‘Divinity’ screening Saturday at 11:30 p.m., check listings for full showtimes :: Brattle page :: BUFF page