Cut The Kids In Half Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/cut-the-kids-in-half/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:56 +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 Cut The Kids In Half Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/cut-the-kids-in-half/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite homegrown songs of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/10/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-homegrown-songs-of-2025/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:54:47 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042791 Well, that happened. 2025 was definitely a year, a whole 12-month rollout of the most absurd political and economic developments in recent memory. (A presidential administration accidentally texting out military strike plans? Kim Kardashian hawking faux-hair thongs? The tsunami of AI slop rapidly overtaking the equally-vapid Internet ragebait made by actual humans? How can a loving god permit such lunacy?) But the end of the year is always ripe for counting blessings, and as 2025 comes to a close, we’re […]

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]]> Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite homegrown songs of 2025 (so far) https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/half-year-in-review-vanyalands-10-favorite-homegrown-songs-of-2025-so-far/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:27:45 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041944 We’re at that point in 2025 when it’s time to say “what a year, huh?” To which you respond, “it’s July.” But whether the months have zipped by or moved like molasses, the homegrown tunes released over the last six months have provided a soundtrack for powering through whatever nonsense 2025 and its hellions hurls at us. From Western Massachusetts alt-county to pops of punk and shoegaze from Providence, here are 10 of Vanyaland’s favorite homegrown songs of the year […]

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]]> The V List: Five of our favorite homegrown tracks from January 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/02/04/the-v-list-five-of-our-favorite-homegrown-tracks-from-january-2025/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:08:10 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040651 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. Jordan Duffy, ‘Not Your Dream Girl’ Movie endings can often be so unrealistic that they feel […]

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]]> Cut The Kids In Half spin a soured ‘Song of Two Humans’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/01/22/cut-the-kids-in-half-spin-a-soured-song-of-two-humans/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:10:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040534 There’s being bad at small talk, and then there’s engaging in a conversation that’s “stillborn.” Care to guess which one stymied a friendship for Cut The Kids In Half? The Boston-via-New Jersey band dredge up a soured exchange in “Song of Two Humans,” a tune that untethers its narrator from someone they no longer want to be involved with. The song and its accompanying music video arrived last week (January 16) to tease the group’s forthcoming debut album, What We […]

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