Reviews Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/category/music/reviews/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:18:34 +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 Reviews Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/category/music/reviews/ 32 32 Rolling With It: Oasis capture elusive American ‘Glory’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/02/rolling-with-it-oasis-capture-elusive-american-glory-in-chicago/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:50:54 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042285 A single live show on American soil is all it took for the hyperbole surrounding the reunion of a certain Britpop outfit to reach its apex. “Oasis finally conquer America,” screamed one headline following the gig last Thursday at Chicago’s Soldier Field. “Oasis rewrite history,” went another. Even CNN got involved with their quasi-thinkpiece, “Oasis never really cared about America. Is America ready to care about them?” Ok, let’s everyone slow their roll with it. Like any other act that […]

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]]> Live Review + Photo Gallery: Pantera flex an older display of power https://vanyaland.com/2025/08/05/live-review-photo-gallery-pantera-flex-an-older-display-of-power/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:27:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042170 Editor’s Note: All photos by Jason Greenough for Vanyaland. Before a note from third-billed King Parrot even rang out this past Saturday (August 2), a man in the Xfinity Center parking lot was stretchered away by Mansfield’s emergency services after taking a couple of hits on a joint that probably wasn’t bought at a business searchable on Weedmaps. It was an early indication, in case there was any doubt, that a Pantera show was about to go down. The Texas […]

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]]> Live Review: Lambrini Girls fuel a punk frenzy, one statement at a time https://vanyaland.com/2025/05/06/live-review-lambrini-girls-fuel-a-punk-frenzy-one-statement-at-a-time/ Tue, 06 May 2025 16:04:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041328 Lambrini Girls’ debut album Who Let The Dogs Out is 29 minutes and 25 seconds long. It’s 11 tracks of heel-on-your neck punk — rippers all, spit out at a whiplash pace by vocalist and guitarist Phoebe Lunny. Operating at maximum efficiency, a tour date supporting the record could, hypothetically, clock in at less than a half hour. But punk is never a simple run-through of material, and based on the way that the English band took the stage Friday […]

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]]> Live Review: The Dare resuscitates fun in the club at Sonia https://vanyaland.com/2024/09/11/live-review-the-dare-resuscitates-fun-in-the-club-at-sonia/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:04:52 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10039534 “Send it to The Dare / Yeah, I think he’s with it” — Charli XCX, June 2024 “Upon further review, The Dare is most definitely with it” — Vanyaland, right this second, September 2024 And The Dare has been with it, but it took a Charli XCX bonus track called “Guess” (and subsequent Billie Eilish remix) to get most of the world hip to the New York producer, born Harrison Patrick Smith. The 350 savvy people packing Sonia in Cambridge […]

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]]> Live Review + Photo Gallery: Metallica master the art of no repeats https://vanyaland.com/2024/08/05/live-review-metallica-master-the-art-of-no-repeats-at-gillette-stadium/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:17:56 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10039207 All photos by Jason Greenough for Vanyaland. Heard in the men’s room following the Metallica show Friday night (August 2) at Gillette Stadium: “And we get to do it again Sunday!” [followed by a gleefully sloppy – and perhaps alcohol-infused – high five] Also heard in the men’s room following the Metallica show Friday night at Gillette Stadium: “Who would want to see them again after the worst fuckin’ setlist of their entire career?” Such is the pendulum swing of […]

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]]> Live Review: Ava Max turns dilemmas into diamonds at the Paradise https://vanyaland.com/2023/06/07/live-review-ava-max-turns-dilemmas-into-diamonds-at-the-paradise/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:07:50 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10035046 In most scenarios, a performance plagued by flooded hallways and a malfunctioning encore would be labeled a disaster. But with Ava Max running the show, somehow fans left the Paradise Rock Club last night (June 6) wearing smiles that sparkled like diamonds, even as their shoes squished into a carpet soaked with mystery fluid. The positive reaction might just be the crown jewel of Max’s current tour in support of her 2023 album Diamonds & Dancefloors — and provide all […]

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]]> Live Review: Lovejoy’s successful trip ‘Across The Pond’ lands at Royale https://vanyaland.com/2023/06/06/live-review-lovejoys-successful-trip-across-the-pond-lands-at-royale/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:29:59 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10035027 It was hardly apparent, prior to Friday night, that Lovejoy had never before performed live in Boston. The English band, nearing the end of their aptly-titled Across the Pond Tour, had sold out Royale well in advance, and despite the heat and waves of thunderstorms, fans were allegedly camped out all day for the show, eager to see a band that was only just beginning to tour. Rumors spread through the crowd between sets that those at the barricade had […]

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]]> Foo Fighters return to the stage with contagious energy and gratitude https://vanyaland.com/2023/05/25/foo-fighters-return-to-the-stage-with-contagious-energy-and-gratitude/ Thu, 25 May 2023 18:15:45 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10034579 The healing properties of music are no joke, and throughout the very sold-out crowd that huddled together on a chilly and wet weeknight to welcome hall of famers and all-around gents Foo Fighters back to the stage, the evidence of its continued power was present in bunches. But what became even more obvious as the band took the stage to an earthquaking reception, led by the radiating gratitude of Dave Grohl who blew the frenzied gathering a simple but heartfelt […]

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]]> Live Review: The Killers surprise with ‘Sawdust’ and The Smiths at TD Garden https://vanyaland.com/2022/10/04/live-review-the-killers-surprise-with-sawdust-and-the-smiths-at-td-garden/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:41:55 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032124 Oh, to pick a clever song reference that can encapsulate Monday night’s (October 3) encore at The Killers concert. “Johnny Was A Friend of Mine?” “Uncle Jo[h]nny?” No matter how you frame it, The Killers gave fans at TD Garden something they’ve never seen before: Johnny Marr shredding to a “Mr. Brightside” remix from Sawdust. After nearly 20 years of slinging the finest rock from Sin City, there’s not many surprises that Killers frontman Brandon Flowers can sneak under the his […]

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]]> Live Review: Kings Elliot inches closer to her crown at Fenway Park https://vanyaland.com/2022/08/22/live-review-kings-elliot-inches-closer-to-her-crown-at-fenway-park/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:40:25 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10031716 If you take Kings Elliot’s song “Butterfly Pen” at face value, she and the dog days of August aren’t exactly pals. “Cool summer breezes on me only burn,” she laments on her newest single, describing the drone of sticky, meaningless days lost to malaise.   But it’s funny how the perspective from the Fenway Park stage can change things. As the sun slipped behind the clouds over the Boston stadium Saturday evening (August 20), Elliot beamed during a summer cruise […]

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