Hopkinton Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/hopkinton/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:18:28 +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 Hopkinton Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/hopkinton/ 32 32 Charlotte Sands stirs up an alt-pop storm with ‘one eye open’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/04/charlotte-sands-stirs-up-an-alt-pop-storm-with-one-eye-open/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:17:29 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042738 Charlotte Sands‘ brand of empower-pop has gotten more brash and bold with each new release. The alt-pop firestorm and Hopkinton native has sharpened her sound through a string of emphatic singles over the past several months, all leading to the release of new album Satellite in March. Now, Sands delivers “one eye open”, a searing new banger that further blurs the lines between pop and metal while providing a compass towards personal preservation — something we all need as we […]

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]]> This Show Is Tonight: Charlotte Sands unleashes a fury in Boston https://vanyaland.com/2024/04/02/this-show-is-tonight-charlotte-sands-unleashes-a-fury-in-boston/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:32:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10037750 Last fall, when Charlotte Sands unleashed her new single “pity” — which landed on our Year in ReView 2024 — she had the fans in mind. “Making this song was such a fun experience,” she said. “I wanted the production to feel like a high-energy show opener while the melody stayed simple and repetitive so everyone could scream the words together when we finally get to perform it live.” For us here in Boston, that chance arrives tonight (April 2), […]

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]]> Charlotte Sands unleashes a swirling menace of mechanical mayhem in ‘pity’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/11/16/charlotte-sands-unleashes-a-swirling-menace-of-mechanical-mayhem-in-pity/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:28:03 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10036582 Charlotte Sands is about to cause a ruckus. Ain’t that a “pity”? The Nashville alt-pop artist and Massachusetts native unleashed a blitz of a new tune today (November 16), a swirling menace of mechanical mayhem that sets a noisy tone for her forthcoming debut album can we start over?, which hits in January. “‘Pity’ is a song about meeting ‘the perfect person’ and wishing you could be more like them,” says Sands. “It’s about the feeling of jealousy and comparing […]

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]]> Charlotte Sands delivers an emphatic dose of empower-pop with ‘Alright’ https://vanyaland.com/2023/01/26/charlotte-sands-delivers-an-emphatic-dose-of-empower-pop-with-alright/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:37:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033178 One of our highlights of last year was witnessing Charlotte Sands hold court at Boston Calling, a short marathon run from her hometown of Hopkinton. This week, the Nashville-based alt-pop artist flips the switch and brings Massachusetts to the masses, hitting the road with PVRIS for a UK and European tour that stretches into next month. And she’s doing with with a healthy dose of empower-pop via an emphatic new single called “Alright.” The track is said to chronicle a […]

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]]> Sasha Sloan maps out her melancholy on ‘sad girl’ https://vanyaland.com/2018/07/09/sasha-sloan-maps-out-her-melancholy-on-sad-girl/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:45:55 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=181799 Sasha Sloan, the co-writer of Camila Cabello’s current lovestruck smash hit “Never Be The Same,” used to think pop music was “dumb” and “easy.” Really. Before the songwriting sessions with Charli XCX and Idina Menzel, before the collabs with Kaskade and Nina Nesbitt, and before signing with RCA Records, Sloan was a jazz piano player from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, studying music business at Berklee and “spinning her wheels” in the Boston music scene. Amidst gigs at Johnny D’s (RIP) and the […]

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