Year In ReView Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/year-in-review/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:46 +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 Year In ReView Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/year-in-review/ 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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]]> Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite films of 2025 (so far) https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/half-year-in-review-vanyalands-10-favorite-films-of-2025-so-far/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:15:41 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041935 Boy, this year fucking sucks, huh? Between every shitty thing in the news to the geniuses we’ve lost (RIP David Lynch, Sly Stone, Gene Hackman, Jeff Baena, Val Kilmer, Brian Wilson, David Johannson, Roberta Flack and so many more wonderful people that I can’t mention without this just turning into a memorial wall), it can be pretty hard to see any daylight amid all the clouds. That’s a cute metaphor, but it feels somewhat true: What glimmers of light we’ve […]

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]]> Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite national songs of 2025 (so far) https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/half-year-in-review-vanyalands-10-favorite-national-songs-of-2025-so-far/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:00:56 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041921 It’s said that music helps keep us sane in insane times, and that theory has really been put to the test in this miserable 2025. So as we hit the half-way point of the year, we’re rounding up the new and notable singles that have helped distract from the chaos and provide a little bit of levity during our days. True to form, the bangers we’re feeling the most this year span a spectrum of genres, from SpiritWorld’s hellacious acres […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 12 favorite films of 2024 https://vanyaland.com/2024/12/13/year-in-review-vanyalands-12-favorite-films-of-2024/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:47:11 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040303 To sum up the state of cinema in 2024, it’s best to paraphrase the poets known as Smash Mouth: “Well, the hits keep coming, and they don’t stop coming.” And it was an industry-wide scramble to see, after being fed to the wolves of tumultuous circumstance with COVID and strikes, if they could hit the ground running. The answer was… sort of? The house is still on fire on the Hollywood side. To name a few examples: Warner Bros. is […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 12 favorite national songs of 2024 https://vanyaland.com/2024/12/09/year-in-review-vanyalands-12-favorite-national-songs-of-2024/ Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:38:10 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040253 Not too long ago, nearly every media outlet’s Year In ReView list looked pretty much the same, especially those hyping the (alleged) best songs of the past 12 months. But something seemed to splinter recently, and now these lists are an absolute orgy of heterogeneity. Hey, we’re all listening to our own shit, and that’s easy to do when so many new tracks are uploaded to streamers every single day. The theme of variety also rules the day (and week, […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite national songs of 2023 https://vanyaland.com/2023/12/11/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-national-songs-of-2023/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:07:12 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10036754 It’s always a daunting task to sit here in December and try to recap the Year in Music. In some ways, 2023 flashed by in a blink of an eye, and in other way it dragged on seemingly for forever, as evidenced by the sinking feeling we get when we look at headlines from January and February. Perhaps the past 12 months will not go down as the greatest year ever for music overall, but it did deliver some pretty […]

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]]> Year In ReView: Vanyaland’s 22 favorite films of 2022 https://vanyaland.com/2022/12/15/year-in-review-vanyalands-22-favorite-movies-of-2022/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:55:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032843 The year 2022 was, to say the very least, a bizarre one at the movies. If 2021 was the “pictures are back, bay-bee” celebration, an explosion of pure and unadulterated joy much like an abstinent Redditor when December 1 rolls around, 2022 was the clarity that follows such a release: Things are still pretty mid, even if that did feel really good. One’ll chase the highs of 2021 for a bit and find them otherwise absent at their local multiplex […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 21 favorite film releases of 2021 https://vanyaland.com/2021/12/17/year-in-review-vanyalands-21-favorite-film-releases-of-2021/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:42:36 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10028807 Editor’s Note: Welcome to Vanyaland’s Year in ReView coverage for 2021. It’s been a year, huh? Luckily, we’ve had incredible art across the spectrum of music, comedy, and film to help prevent us from going totally insane. As we raise a glass to the year that was, check out all our 2021 Year In ReView coverage as it surfaces throughout the week and into the holidays. *** I’m gonna drop the facade that I put up this time last year and just go ahead and […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 21 favorite national songs of 2021 https://vanyaland.com/2021/12/13/year-in-review-vanyalands-21-favorite-national-songs-of-2021/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:49:56 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10028748 Editor’s Note: Welcome to Vanyaland’s Year in ReView coverage for 2021. It’s been a year, huh? Luckily, we’ve had incredible art across the spectrum of music, comedy, and film to help prevent us from going totally insane. As we raise a glass to the year that was, check out all our 2021 Year In ReView coverage as it surfaces throughout the week and into the holidays. *** It’s pretty much impossible to do a comprehensive year-in-review roundup in 2021. The volume of great new music […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 20 favorite homegrown songs of 2020 https://vanyaland.com/2020/12/16/year-in-review-vanyalands-20-favorite-homegrown-songs-of-2020/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:25:10 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10024283 End-of-year lists are good for just two things: Remembering and reflecting. And neither sound enticing when glancing back at the still-raging Dumpster fire that is 2020. What is there to recap? What is there that anyone would want to recap? The answer ranges from “nothing” to “very little,” but in the case of Boston’s excellence in the arts, plenty of projects are worth a thorough replay. While we already like to think of Vanyaland as an ever-evolving, year-round “best of Boston” […]

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