Best of 2025 Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/best-of-2025/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:10:10 +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 Best of 2025 Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/best-of-2025/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite 617 Q&A recommendations https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-617-qa-recommendations/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:32:24 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042795 One of the best parts of the 617 Q&A series (Six Questions; One Recommendation; Seven Somethings) is the one recommendation portion. Typically, if we haven’t flipped them already with our somewhat standard interview portion, it’s when the artist really comes alive and often provides some deeper insight into what they’re buzzing about off the stage as we ask them to tell us what they’ve been into recently that isn’t their current project. Over the years, we’ve had some doozies, from […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite needle drops in the films of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/09/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-needle-drops-in-the-films-of-2025/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:41:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042785 Every major awards show has a “Best Original Score” and a “Best Original Song” category, and most major critics’ groups at least give awards out for the former. But the landscape of movie soundtracks has changed drastically over the years, and the needle-drop is nearly as important. The Big Chill, Risky Business, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Guardians of the Galaxy, and a billion other examples I can’t be bothered to list out — the needle-drop is an essential part of modern […]

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