Jill McCracken Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/jill-mccracken/ 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 Jill McCracken Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/jill-mccracken/ 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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]]> Jill McCracken finds reassurance in new single ‘just right’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/02/24/jill-mccracken-finds-reassurance-in-new-single-just-right/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:11:22 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033522 There are certain experiences in this world that inexplicably make sense. Smothering peanut butter with jelly. Color-coordinating your bookshelves. Running out of shampoo and conditioner at the same time. They’re all things that are oddly satisfying; things that are just right. And Jill McCracken counts herself — and her listeners — among them. Last year, the Boston artist emerged with a plea to be helped, held, and healed, but these days she finds herself doing all of the above, nourishing […]

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]]> Year In ReView: Vanyaland’s 22 favorite homegrown songs of 2022 https://vanyaland.com/2022/12/13/year-in-review-vanyalands-22-favorite-homegrown-songs-of-2022/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:30:37 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032799 In case you haven’t noticed, everything since 2020 has been a big, queasy blur. A pandemic came and never left, the world attempted to cope, entertainment as we know it reinvented itself, and suddenly time either slogs or sprints forward — there is no between. Often it feels like the only thing grounding us for more than a minute at a time is the escapism of music. Despite the industry’s unpredictable post-pandemic outlook, musicians from Boston and the surrounding cities […]

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]]> Jill McCracken asserts her needs with soul on ‘help me, hold me, heal me’ https://vanyaland.com/2022/05/12/jill-mccracken-asserts-her-needs-with-soul-on-help-me-hold-me-heal-me/ Thu, 12 May 2022 13:17:02 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10030333 Jill McCracken’s new single is brought to you by ghosts. Specifically, by Ghost Hit Recording in West Springfield and by the ghost of an unwelcome — but ultimately revelatory — panic attack. The Boston singer-songwriter drops “help me, hold me, heal me” today (May 12), just one week before her headlining show May 19 at Brighton Music Hall. The new track finds her asking for the care she deserves in explicit terms — but don’t confuse her belting for begging.  […]

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]]> Jill McCracken accepts imperfection in order to ‘Get It Right’ https://vanyaland.com/2020/10/01/jill-mccracken-accepts-imperfection-in-order-to-get-it-right/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:37:49 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10023313 When Jill McCracken stared songwriting in the eyes during quarantine, a single square stared back at her. The symbol was a sporadic one-word prompt shared by her boyfriend, and in the moment, it was the only metaphor she needed to pen her new tune “Get It Right,” out today (October 1). “Thinking on it, I drew some freehand squares in my notebook. I realized that, try as I might, I was never going to draw a perfect one,” she shares […]

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]]> Jill McCracken shimmies through the Canopy Room in video for ‘Do You?’ https://vanyaland.com/2019/05/22/jill-mccracken-shimmies-through-the-canopy-room-in-video-for-do-you/ Wed, 22 May 2019 16:06:06 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10008398 When it came time for Jill McCracken to put her natural habitat on display, she knew exactly where to turn in Somerville. Shimmying around vintage furniture, houseplants, and twinkling string lights, the Boston songstress and her band recorded a live video for her track “Do You?” in the Canopy Room at Bow Market, released today (May 22). Following the release of her debut album, 2018’s spry opus Shake Me Up, McCracken wanted to spotlight her energy beyond the studio, filming […]

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