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Boston Globe
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Somerville welcomes SOMEDAY Fest, a new free music and arts festival
Somerville resident Ryan DiLello, who edits SOME and co-founded the festival, describes SOMEDAY Fest as a 'scrappy' and accessible gateway to the city's arts community, citing free entry and a 2-to-10 p.m. runtime as factors that might pique the interest of folks passing through Union Square. Perhaps the rock riffs of Jonny Tex – two performers on the outdoor stage – will catch residents' attention and lead them to the festival's indoor stage, where folkier and pop-adjacent acts such as Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The event's grassroots nature was inspired by (who will also take the stage at SOMEDAY Fest). The free event paired live music with a variety of community-oriented workshops that empowered guests to learn skills like DJing and bike repairs. DiLello says he walked away from the festival feeling like a part of a 'very visible' creative community, and was galvanized to build upon that visibility with his own iteration. Advertisement After finding inspiration in his own backyard, he found financial support, too; neighborhood businesses like Remnant Brewing and Field & Vine stepped up as sponsors to supplement the $2500 grant. DiLello hopes that SOMEDAY Fest's impact will demonstrate the importance of arts grants in creative communities, especially in the face of executive orders that terminated National Endowment for the Arts grants for organizations like Advertisement 'This festival absolutely could not have happened without that grant money to get us off of the ground,' DiLello says. 'To create a lot of community joy around money that was placed within the trust of the arts I think is a huge way to stand up to that real misfortune.' It's also a way to help maintain the momentum of Somerville's music scene. The city's popular event DiLello says that SOMEDAY Fest isn't a replacement for NICE, but hopes that the event will offer guests a similar sense of connection that will empower them to be more active in the community. 'Whether that's event organizing, or releasing that next album, or forming a tenants' association, I just want that energy to be continued and passed between events and people,' he concludes. Advertisement GIG GUIDE At Roadrunner on To celebrate the highly-specific 22 ½ anniversary of her 2002 record 'Lost In Space,' and later brings the tour to Yola brings her shimmering, supersized "My Way" EP to The Sinclair on Friday. (Valeria Rios) Valeria Rios Also on complements the fluid funk and R&B of Leader Bank Pavilion kicks off its concert season on Advertisement On Friday, Sleigh Bells raise an art-rock ruckus at the Paradise Rock Club. (David Perez) David Perez The Paradise Rock Club shimmies with variety this weekend, courtesy of art-rock duo will also stick around for repeat performances this week, as the band holds court at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Judy Grunwald, left, in the Elvis shirt, and Beth Kaplan in the Ramones shirt, performing at the Rathskeller in Boston. Paul Robicheau NOW SPINNING New Zealand band Phoebe Rings offer their own slant on city pop with their debut LP 'Aseurai.' (Frances Carter) Frances Carter Phoebe Rings, 'Aseurai.' The debut record from Phoebe Rings is a fresh listen for fans of jazz and dream-pop – yet it doesn't fit squarely under either category. 'Aseurai' finds the New Zealand band stepping out with their own slant on city pop, twisting prismatic synths to project a rainbow of emotions. Advertisement Mt. Joy's fourth LP feels like a 13-track thesis on why they're a great fit for headlining festivals. (Caity Krone) Caity Krone Mt. Joy, BONUS TRACK Victoria Wasylak can be reached at . Follow her on Bluesky @
Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Steph Tolev: Filth Queen OTT Release Date - When and where to watch Canadian star's no-holds-barred comedy special
Steph Tolev: Filth Queen OTT Release Date - Get ready for an unfiltered, uproarious ride as Canadian comedian Steph Tolev brings her debut Netflix special, Filth Queen, to screens worldwide on June 24, 2025. Known for her raw and fearless humour, Tolev delivers a performance that's both shockingly honest and hilariously relatable. More about Steph Tolev Steph Tolev has been making waves in the comedy scene with her bold, unapologetic style. She was recognised by Vulture as a "Comedian You Should and Will Know." Her comedy often explores candid personal stories, dating mishaps, and sharp observations, delivered in a raw style. The Special: Filth Queen With a runtime of approximately 56 minutes, Filth Queen is Tolev's first solo Netflix special, showcasing her unique brand of humour. Produced by Bill Burr under the All Things Comedy banner, this special was filmed at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Burr said the first time he saw Steph Tolev was in a video promoting a New York show, and he instantly became a fan. He called her one of the most unique and fearless comedians performing today. Steph Tolev is known for her bold, uncensored style of comedy. She's worked with Burr before, including a breakout appearance in Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill, alongside comedians like Michelle Wolf, Jimmy Carr, Dave Attell, and Ronny Chieng. She also had a memorable part in Burr's 2023 Netflix movie Old Dads, and appeared as herself in a roast scene on the HBO Max show Hacks. Tolev is a regular performer at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and has toured across the U.S. with her shows Filth Queen and Keepin' 'Em Hard. She's also released two stand-up albums: Hot N' Hungry and I'm Not Well—the latter earned her a Juno Award nomination. Up next, she'll be acting in the second season of Shane Gillis' Netflix show Tires, which comes out on June 5, 2025.
Boston Globe
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Billy Corgan on playing Smashing Pumpkins songs solo, and Pope Leo XIV being a White Sox fan
'I think that's the great hubris of a creator,' Corgan said on a Zoom call from his home in Chicago. 'You feel these are your sculptures and your paintings, and you have the ability to once more reframe and re-illuminate why they're attractive to you.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up His 'A Return to Zero' solo tour begins this weekend in Baltimore, then heads to the Paradise Rock Club on Advertisement Altogether, Corgan will draw from a pool of over 100 songs for the tour, although he won't necessarily cull enough material for a grandiose three-hour performance, as he's done in the past with the Smashing Pumpkins. Advertisement 'I'm 58 now, so I do have to temper myself,' he said with a laugh. To Corgan, enmeshing the different eras in one setlist felt like 'coming home,' and 'more resonantly consistent' with the band's first era, before their — in his words — 'quote-unquote breakup' in 2000 and quasi-reformation around 2007. Following a rotation of lineup changes over the years, the band currently performs with three of the four founding members. Guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are back in the saddle with Corgan, while original bassist D'Arcy Wretzky has not rejoined. From an outside perspective, Corgan's claim to the Smashing Pumpkins' two album anniversaries might look like a catalyst for another fallout within the band. But the frontman said he's been chatting with his bandmates 'for years' about how to honor anniversaries in a way that was personal, rather than an opportunistic cash grab. 'One thing we've done successfully, I think, in this decade of our knowing each other, is if there's not an even consensus, we don't persist,' he said. 'That was some of the problems in the '90s — not taking into account, let's call it, a balanced view of everybody's take.' So when the band had unspecified 'differing views' on the two upcoming anniversaries, Corgan took the reins with his new solo group, which includes the Smashing Pumpkins' touring guitarist, Kiki Wong. Advertisement 'The fact that these significant anniversaries were going to go by with no particular unified voice of how to present them, I said, 'Well, I'm just gonna do it myself,'' Corgan said. Add that to the list of sizable projects that Corgan has taken on in recent years. Directly prior to this interview, Corgan described himself as occupying a '12-year-old brain space' while working on his memoir. (Per his wife Chloé Mendel Corgan, he said, he's tried to write it on four separate occasions since they met, and 'as far as I'm concerned, this [time] is the last.') Corgan has also owned the National Wrestling League since 2017, and this year launched a podcast called 'The Magnificent Others,' in which he interviews fellow cultural bigwigs like Gene Simmons and Sharon Osbourne. Corgan's extracurriculars involve his local community, too. Alongside his wife, he runs a plant-based tea shop and cafe called With a daily routine that typically involves 12 to 14 hours of work across his various projects — fueled by an average of six hours of sleep — Corgan has continued to expand his identity as an artist and cultural figure. But that complexity sometimes gets muddled within the public's narrower perception of Corgan and his role in the Smashing Pumpkins. Advertisement 'One has to deal with the complication of, I'm so closely identified with the band that most people don't really understand who I am without the band,' he explained. 'The band's history after 2001 is rife with incredible external pressures on who the band needed to be in, let's call it, this second era: a greatest hits band, an artistic band, a mixture of both,' he added. 'Not that you'd want to, but you could find a voluminous treasure trove of material of people criticizing me for not being the band that people want me to be in. And me saying, over and over again, 'The band you think I was in, I was never in. So why would I be in that band now?'' To Corgan, the name under which he performs is 'sort of inconsequential.' But in this case, performing with the Machines of God — especially to revisit some of his older work within the Smashing Pumpkins — casts off many of those notions about how he and the band should operate. The freedom is the ultimate trade-off for any nitpicks the public might have about him striking out on his own. 'It's very attractive to me to present this material without dilution — meaning, I don't really care in this setting for that pressure,' he said. 'If you don't embrace the freedom, then you're kinda wasting, let's call it, 'the upside of the downside,'' he concluded. BILLY CORGAN AND THE MACHINES OF GOD With Return to Dust. At the Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, June 9, 7 p.m. Tickets available on the secondary market. Advertisement
