The 2026 edition of Green River Festival is slated for June 19 through 21 at the Franklin County Fairgrounds. Here's the full lineup. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/11/13/f... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social @greenriverfest.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: Providence band Wooll deliver 19 minutes of seasonally-appropriate shoegaze with their latest project. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/11/06/w... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: Boston's Fai Laci make their debut on Easy Eye Sound with the breezy Dan Auerbach-produced track. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/31/f... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

"Greer’s latest work is a practice in radical honesty, revealing the often-unspoken weight that comes with inking razor-sharp rallying cries (and putting them to work)." Read @vickiwasylak.bsky.social's writeup on AMAB/ACAB for @vanyaland.bsky.social. i feel seen <3 vanyaland.com/2025/10/27/e...

Aw, thanks for this lovely and thoughtful writeup @vickiwasylak.bsky.social! So appreciate the deep dive into the record. I take "vulnerable" as a real compliment :-)

Boston Thriving: Tunes from Leo the Kind and Lainey Dionne help soundtrack the ninth season's assortment of romances and messes on Netflix. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/24/b... @leothekind.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: On her new single, Somerville artist Shandelle pledges allegiance to a budding crush -- and soul/R&B nostalgia. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/09/s... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

New Sounds: The six-track project finds Boston artist Clark D mid-move and revisiting his roots and his dreams. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/10/c... @sirclarkd.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

New Sounds: Celebrated Boston hip-hop group STL GLD tears open a portal to the 20th century with their first single from their fifth LP. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/10/17/s... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: ToriTori new tune is a shiver-inducing home run of a first (solo) release since the Boston artist's 2023 EP. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/29/t... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fest Intentions: The 2026 lineup of Something in the Way Festival, returning to Roadrunner, is a complement to the inaugural Boston edition's slate of performers, gathering a mix of alt-rock, emo, and post-hardcore acts. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/25/f... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

New Sounds: The slash-and-burn single aligns three of metal's modern sirens, including Boston-born artist Poppy. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/18/p... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

New Sounds: Boston rock staple Juliana Hatfield's new tune is a dogged kernel of hope for anyone who's not thrilled with their odds. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/12/j... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

New Sounds: Astral B.itch's scorched earth single is a 'a rallying cry for youth frustrated by institutions beholden to corruption'. 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/09/05/a... @astralbitch.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

The collection of music, featuring Boston rapper Clark D's 'Locked In', will be used for in-game broadcasts and the NFL's social platforms during the 2025-2026 season. vanyaland.com/2025/08/28/b... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Hey if people who love cracker barrel like it because of the mom and pop feel how about checking out real mom and pop places in their state that serve actual home cooked meals. help small businesses not a giant corporation

Fast Tracked: Vermont singer-songwriter Ali McGuirk mixes catharsis and venom in the third single from her upcoming album. vanyaland.com/2025/08/21/a... @alimcguirk.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

The fifth edition of No Hype Fest, which heads to Harvard Square next month across from The Sinclair, appears to be the largest yet. Here's who is performing. vanyaland.com/2025/08/15/f...

Fast Tracked: The future's cancelled, and Boston's slow quit are leading its funeral procession. with Stygian, echoey shoegaze. vanyaland.com/2025/08/15/s... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Writing is funny because both my biggest brightest dream and stomach churning dread is having people read my book.

You sure about this, Google?

Boston Thriving: FELIX!, the Brockton artist and member of VAN BUREN Records, appears among 77 songs on the new EA Sports Madden NFL soundtrack. vanyaland.com/2025/08/08/b... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Another amazing late night grocery shopping session spent dancing to David Bowie

New Sounds: Boston's Clara Kay's new song offers an idyllic snapshot of starting over in a garden variety New England town. vanyaland.com/2025/08/07/c... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

I hate being sick when the weather is beautiful. I could be frolicking right now.

New Sounds: Boston emcee Billy Dean Thomas's latest tune is a muscular proclamation of their M.O. - and a commentary on receiving basic respect. vanyaland.com/2025/08/01/b... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: Roxbury rapper Vintage Lee's latest project reaches into her catalog to juxtapose 'vintage' tracks with gyrating new jams. vanyaland.com/2025/08/01/v... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

proof 😤

What if we kissed on the Green line (White Claw edition)

My Lyft driver’s check engine light is on and beeping but he has a big Yoda statue on his dashboard, so I trust him

I want my grandkids to call me Labubu

this is a really good song and also reminds me how i once saw guerrilla toss (who would go on to open for phish and pavement) in an allston basement many years ago

New Sounds: Boston band Tiberius blistering spool of alt-rock contemplates the 'Allston to Bushwick pipeline'. vanyaland.com/2025/07/25/t... @audioantihero.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

This fall's edition of the long-running Boston Fuzzstival, going down at Arts at the Armory, offers another brigade of fuzz 'n' buzz with 18 performers spread across two days. vanyaland.com/2025/07/25/f... @artsatthearmory.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Earnestly delighted with this @vanyaland.bsky.social writeup for Tiberius. Thank you so much @vickiwasylak.bsky.social! “The blistering spool of alt-rock catches vocalist and guitarist Brendan Wright “aggrandizing self-importance,” thrashing to the sound of their own existential unease.”

The movie ‘Clueless’ and the Fontaines D.C. singer Grian Chatten were released 30 years ago today 🎂

Fast Tracked: New York-via-Boston band Coral Moons offer a breezy 'peace out' and a contagious sense of relief with their new visual. vanyaland.com/2025/07/18/c... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: Oompa and Lily Rayne double the love on new serenade ‘BETTER’ 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/07/11/o... @oompoutloud.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fest Intentions: North Shore music festival Moon Over Salem returns to downtown Salem this September with more 50 artists and bands. vanyaland.com/2025/07/15/f... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Fast Tracked: New Hampshire band Chainlacing's new single is a droning curtain of 'gloomgaze' that's soaked with humidity. vanyaland.com/2025/07/18/c... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

A real treat to meet May Pang at her pop-up gallery of John Lennon photos in Cambridge today. Get the scoop in this week’s Sound Check -

i am seven minutes into the 17 minute version of inna gadda da vida and i don't think i can do it

Fast Tracked: FELIX! struts with style on new single 'MARGIELA MADMAN!' 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/07/10/f... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

📍TD Garden

Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite homegrown songs of 2025 (so far) 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/h... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

Boston Thriving: Michael Christmas remixes Will Smith -- the rapper put some pep back in the Fresh Prince's flow by speeding up 'Pretty Girls.' 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/07/08/b... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

If this flag offends you, I’ll help you pack

Happy 80th birthday Debbie Harry! 🎂

Fast Tracked: Boston's Ringpop! exclaim the pain away with ‘Sick of Being Sad!’ 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/06/25/r... @vickiwasylak.bsky.social

New Sounds: Megan From Work pony up more soft punk on ‘Back On The Saddle’ 🔗 vanyaland.com/2025/06/27/m... @meganfromwork.bsky.social @vickiwasylak.bsky.social