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#273 // CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Legacy, loss, and a double album that almost never happened

Apr 3, 2026

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#273 // CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Legacy, loss, and a double album that almost never happened

Voice: I dropped everything this week. The newsletter. The routines. The weekly review. The content schedule I'd been white-knuckling for months. All of it. I've got a brain that

Lance Marwood

#272 // AGAINST THE CURRENT: Chrissy Costanza on Outlasting Everyone

Mar 20, 2026

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#272 // AGAINST THE CURRENT: Chrissy Costanza on Outlasting Everyone

Voice: This week I want to talk about showing up ugly. Not the curated vulnerability kind. Not the "I'm a mess, but like, a photogenic mess" kind. The kind where your kid is screaming in the back seat, you've been a monster all morning, and every cell in your body is telling you to turn the car around and go home.

Lance Marwood

#271 // Gaerea: The Album That Started with a Funeral

Mar 13, 2026

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#271 // Gaerea: The Album That Started with a Funeral

Voice: This week I want to talk about the backup plan. Not the one you hope you never need. The one that saves you when the real one falls apart. My kid had surgery this week. The house was being painted. I had contracts to review, taxes to finish, a living room to rearrange, and a four-year-old who was doing his level best to test every last nerve I had left.

Lance Marwood

#270 // The Guess Who: Touring for First Time in 23 Years

Mar 6, 2026

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#270 // The Guess Who: Touring for First Time in 23 Years

Voice: This week I want to talk about staying. Not the motivational kind. Not the "never give up" poster in a dentist's office. The real kind. The kind where the scoreboard reads zero, the week fell apart, every system you built to hold yourself together quietly collapsed, and you're still here.

Lance Marwood

#269 // Swae Lee: ‘FLAMMABLE’ Ignites the Road to ‘SAME DIFFERENCE’

Feb 27, 2026

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#269 // Swae Lee: ‘FLAMMABLE’ Ignites the Road to ‘SAME DIFFERENCE’

Voice: Why 13 matters to us. This isn’t a branding gimmick. For our CEO and founder Christopher Gonda, 1’s and 3’s have mattered his whole life. It’s a pattern he’s noticed forever. For me, 13 got real when I realized the house numbers of my first and last home addresses added up to 13.

Lance Marwood

#268 // Foo Fighters: ‘Your Favorite Toy’ Kicks Off a New Era

Feb 21, 2026

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#268 // Foo Fighters: ‘Your Favorite Toy’ Kicks Off a New Era

Voice: This week, I want to start with something unglamorous but frankly the theme of the week: the work behind the work.

Lance Marwood

#267 // Tame Impala: Arena Tour Locked with Djo & Dominic Fike

Feb 13, 2026

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#267 // Tame Impala: Arena Tour Locked with Djo & Dominic Fike

Voice: I woke up and remembered what day it was. Friday the 13th.A lot of people see 13 and flinch. They treat it like a warning label. Like the universe is trying to tell them to drive slower and keep their hands inside the ride.

Lance Marwood

#266 // Def Leppard: Phil Collen on the 40-Year “No Excuses” Bar

Feb 6, 2026

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#266 // Def Leppard: Phil Collen on the 40-Year “No Excuses” Bar

Voice: We’re all working on a million things at once. Not just here at V13 (though that’s 100% true), but most of us. In fact, probably you reading this as well.

Lance Marwood

#265 // Alter Bridge: When a Band Relearns Why It Started

Jan 23, 2026

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#265 // Alter Bridge: When a Band Relearns Why It Started

Voice: Cover Stories are the backbone of what we do. The long-form conversations. The ones that go deeper than the press cycle allows, across different scenes, genres, and decades. But always with the same commitment to that unfiltered version. That’s what Veritas is all about.

Lance Marwood

#264 // Robyn: ‘Sexistential’ Marks a Bold New Era

Jan 16, 2026

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#264 // Robyn: ‘Sexistential’ Marks a Bold New Era

Voice: Welcome to 2026. New years demand declarations. Big ones. Loud ones.We're choosing something smaller and more deliberate.This is the first issue of V1LLAG3 Voice this year, and the start of a new rhythm: from now on, this newsletter arrives once a week, on Fridays.

Lance Marwood