Marina Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/marina/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:17:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Marina Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/marina/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite national songs of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/08/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-national-songs-of-2025/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:46:50 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042753 It’s said that music helps keep us sane in insane times, and as we noted at the year’s midway point, that theory has been put to the test in this miserable and exhausting 2025. So to wrap up a year where music either inspired action or helped soundtrack distraction, we’re rounding up our 20 most favorite tracks that have helped ease life’s firehose of chaos and provide a little bit of levity during our long and tiresome days. As is […]

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]]> V3 Weekend: MARINA, Morrissey [cancelled], ‘Bring It On’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/19/v3-weekend-marina-morrissey-bring-it-on/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:59:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042365 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: Morrissey at MGM Music Hall at Fenway UPDATE 1:01 p.m.: To the surprise of no one, the Morrissey show has been cancelled. Via MGM Music Hall on Instagram: “In recent days, […]

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]]> The V List: Five of our favorite national tracks from June 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/06/30/the-v-list-five-of-our-favorite-national-tracks-from-june-2025/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:13:50 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041923 Editor’s Note: Anyone who says there isn’t good music coming out these days — and quite literally, every day — simply isn’t paying attention. Vanyaland’s compilation feature The V List highlights the best in new music, both homegrown and national, over the past month, pulling together the sounds that have soundtracked the website in recent weeks. It’s all the stuff we’re bumping here at Vanyaland HQ, one new bop at a time. Nuovo Testamento, ‘Picture Perfect’ Back in the long-gone n’ lawless Allston days of the mid- to […]

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]]> MARINA takes us to the alt-pop disco we deserve with ‘I <3 YOU’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/06/09/marina-takes-us-to-the-alt-pop-disco-we-deserve-with-i-3-you/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:49:07 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041828 Our forever homegirl MARINA wants to take us to the alt-pop disco we deserve, and the playlist en route to features ABBA, Erasure, The Waitresses, Blondie, that one Estelle banger, and all the other sonic strands of care-free DNA we hear pulsating through white-hot new single “I <3 YOU.” This dance party bop of the summer arrived on Friday (June 6) via Queenie Records/BMG alongside MARINA’s all-caps-everything new album PRINCESS OF POWER, and it’s the third mega-jam we’ve hyped from the […]

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]]> MARINA serves up a sexpot anthem with ‘CUNTISSIMO’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/04/11/marina-serves-up-a-sexpot-anthem-with-cuntissimo/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:38:03 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041171 Oh, the knee-weakening ecstasy of MARINA singing about a wrecked marriage and luxury in the same sentence. “On the street, sweet-talkin’ / Push-up bra in my diamonds / Gift from my ex-husband,” the Welsh pop star brags on her new single “CUNTISSIMO,” released today (April 11). The song and its accompanying music video are a decadent revival of MARINA’s Electra Heart ethos: Bubblegum brattiness aged to perfection, delivered over a sizzling bed of synths. The new song arrived with an […]

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]]> Marina spreads her alt-pop wings and shines bright like a ‘Butterfly’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/02/24/marina-spreads-her-alt-pop-wings-and-shines-bright-like-a-butterfly/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:50:10 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040854 We love a new era. And we especially love when that aforementioned new era finds a pop queen coming back for her throne. Enter Marina, the distinguished British alternative royalty who returns with an inspired bounce and an even higher beat through the sprawling “Butterfly,” her first release since 2022. The dramatic, house-infused, hall-of-mirrors psychedelic pop banger hit the streams this past Friday (February 21), the first offering from Marina’s forthcoming sixth album, and swirls around themes of rebirth and […]

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]]> XOHA levels up on emphatic dance-pop anthem ‘Too Late’ https://vanyaland.com/2022/03/04/xoha-levels-up-on-emphatic-dance-pop-anthem-too-late/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:09:14 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10029504 Songs of empowerment are needed these days more than ever, but what we also need these days more than ever is a return to the pop music moods of a decade ago, when that sense of empowerment made us feel like anything was possible and we had the confidence to shake off all the bad mojo in our lives. Teenage pop singer XOHA has skillfully combined both on her new track “Too Late,” which dropped last week (February 25). It’s […]

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]]> MARINA broadcasts her ‘Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land’ https://vanyaland.com/2021/06/12/this-stream-is-tonight-marina-broadcasts-her-ancient-dreams-from-the-desert/ Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:31:55 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10026667 Editor’s Note: We have tweaked our This Show Is Tonight series to reflect the recent phenomenon of live music livestreaming in the age of social distancing. *** MARINA has been yearning for gender equality for so long that her dreams need to be dusted off. Gone are the days of her 2010 debut, when she was self-righteously snapping at “silver spoons” and abusive lovers. So too is the Electra Heart era of idle teens, sardonic housewife worship, and bubblegum bitchiness that would […]

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]]> MARINA exits an overrated ‘Man’s World’ with colorful grace https://vanyaland.com/2020/11/19/marina-exits-an-overrated-mans-world-with-colorful-grace/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:31:44 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10024033 Marylin Monroe once famously shared that “I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.” To which MARINA says, “fuck that.” The Welsh singer (f.k.a Marina and the Diamonds) shared her new single and video “Man’s World” yesterday (November 18), blasting off from a planet of bullshit and into an atmosphere uncluttered by sexism. “Mother nature’s dying / Nobody’s keeping score / I don’t want to live in a man’s world […]

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]]> MARINA live at Boston Calling 2019: Photo Gallery https://vanyaland.com/2019/05/26/marina-live-at-boston-calling-2019-photo-gallery/ Mon, 27 May 2019 00:53:08 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10008940 The post MARINA live at Boston Calling 2019: Photo Gallery appeared first on Vanyaland.

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