Grade 2 Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/grade-2/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:28:07 +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 Grade 2 Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/grade-2/ 32 32 The V List: Five of our favorite tracks from November 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/25/the-v-list-five-of-our-favorite-tracks-from-november-2025/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:28:06 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042706 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. Scarlet Nicole, ‘Poison’ Scarlet Nicole isn’t afraid of casting a musical spell to defend her sense of […]

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]]> Grade 2 power forward in an unforgiving world with ‘Cut Throat’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/12/grade-2-power-forward-in-an-unforgiving-world-with-cut-throat/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:43:14 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042644 Being dependable isn’t really punk as fuck, but Grade 2 never seem to care about any of that shit. All the British band does is bang out street punk ripper after street punk ripper, taking the classic sound of their shore’s genre strain and filtering it through a piss n’ vitriol lens for the modern day. The trio’s 2023 self-titled record should hold firm as one of the decade’s finest and furious long-players, and we’ve entered the realm where anything […]

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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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]]> Grade 2 raise a fist to the rigged game of life on blistering self-titled album https://vanyaland.com/2023/02/17/grade-2-raise-a-fist-to-the-rigged-game-of-life-blistering-self-titled-album/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:25:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033459 We got nothing clever, cute, or smart to say here. And that’s just fine, because we’re serving up the new album from Grade 2, and the self-titled release from the English punk trio — out today (February 17) via Hellcat — is simply none of those things. Instead, it’s a brash, bold, and melodic as fuck album of punk rock fury, wound tight with the type of fist-in-the-air, fist-to-the-face anthems set to soundtrack our never ending fight in the rigged […]

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]]> Grade 2 punch a melodic punk ticket to catch the ‘Midnight Ferry’ home https://vanyaland.com/2023/01/23/grade-2-punch-a-melodic-punk-ticket-to-catch-the-midnight-ferry-home/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:29:31 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10033128 It’s hyper clear that Grade 2 are one of our new fave bands. The English punk trio outta Isle of Wight saw their spirited single “Doing Time” land on our 2022 Year in ReView shortlist last month, and our eager ears are pointed forward to February 17, when they deliver a new self-titled album through Hellcat Records. Today (January 23) brings a new melodic ripper called “Midnight Ferry”, and it’s another shout-along effort of old-school impactful punk that takes us […]

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]]> Year In ReView: Vanyaland’s 22 favorite national songs of 2022 https://vanyaland.com/2022/12/12/year-in-review-vanyalands-22-favorite-national-songs-of-2022/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:17:01 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032792 Music in 2022 was a wild fucking ride, the type of sneaky-good year that will find memories a bit more favorable a decade on than we might be feeling at the moment. And that’s fairly on brand for the year that was, a period where we looked back in a fit of retro nostalgia while gazing forward towards an undetermined future. There was so much music, so much good music, that the avalanche of Best of 2022 lists decorating the […]

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]]> Grade 2 are going for broke in ‘Brassic’ — just like the rest of us https://vanyaland.com/2022/10/17/grade-2-are-going-for-broke-in-brassic-just-like-the-rest-of-us/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:36:22 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032235 We call it broke, they call it “Brassic.” And we both call it not having any damn money because the rent — and literally everything else — is too damn high. That’s the punch and thrust behind the lively new single from English punk trio Grade 2, who today (October 17) via Epitaph / Hellcat Records unleash a melodic fury of Cockney rhyming slang with “Brassic.” This new one follows last month’s rage against our miserable workday in “Doing Time”, […]

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]]> Grade 2 are stuck ‘Doing Time’ in a dead-end 9-to-5 job like the rest of us https://vanyaland.com/2022/09/20/grade-2-are-stuck-doing-time-in-a-dead-end-9-to-5-job-like-the-rest-of-us/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:06:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10031956 The longer your workday, the shorter your punk outburst. That’s the fury slung by English trio Grade 2, who yesterday (September 19) via Epitaph/Hellcat fired over a new punk rock battlecry across the Atlantic and heard ’round the world in “Doing Time.” Clocking in at 1:39 and clocking out of a dead-end job, the rebellious shout-along thrasher rings the bell so loud we can hear it all the way from their native Isle of Wight. “Tongue in cheek, but delivered […]

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