Victoria Wasylak

Boston

Music Editor @Vanyaland617 📻 Music Columnist @BostonGlobe ✍️: NYLON, Paste, https://t.co/YqJMVymvhp, Under The Radar. Award-winning journalist & Recording Academy member

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Echezona reaches out to neighbors and friends with new LP 'Ényì'

1 week ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

Depending on who you ask, the meaning of Echezona’s new record Ényì changes. A fan of the Boston artist might immediately recognize the title as an abbreviation of his community-forward mantra, “every neighbor yields impact.” To someone who speaks Igbo, though — like some members of the city’s Nigerian community — it literally translates to “friend.” But no matter how you interpret it, the record is a stamp of Echezona’s M.O. as a musician.
Echezona reaches out to neighbors and friends with 'Ényì'

1 week ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

Depending on who you ask, the meaning of Echezona’s new record Ényì changes. A fan of the Boston artist might immediately recognize the title as an abbreviation of his community-forward mantra, “every neighbor yields impact.” To someone who speaks Igbo, though — like some members of the city’s Nigerian community — it literally translates to “friend.” But no matter how you interpret it, the record is a stamp of Echezona’s M.O. as a musician.
Our favorite local music from May

1 week ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason |Lukas Harnisch |Victoria Wasylak |Noah Schaffer

Left: Cover art for DeevoDaGenius, Kil The Artist and BLUEHILLBILL's "Bleu Magic" (Courtesy Jackson Hallaws and Chop The Head). Center from top: Album art for Kim Perlak and Francisco Mela's "Spaces" (courtesy); Art for Pile's single "Born at Night" (Courtesy Mark Lapriore); and single art for Tuxis Giant's "Last Laugh" (courtesy). Right: Album art for Suriel's "Pressure" (courtesy).
Boston Calling V List: 5 questions with SNACKTIME

1 week ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

Sunday’s early birds at Boston Calling know that SNACKTIME is actually a full sonic buffet. When kicking off the fest’s final day, the crew of Philadelphia bandmates served up heaping portions of funk and party-pop, plus a side of contagious goodwill.
Boston Calling V List: 5 questions with Mo Lowda & the Humble

1 week ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

Maybe Boston Calling’s Green Stage should have been rebranded the Eagles-Green Stage on Sunday. The final day of the Memorial Day weekend festival brought a one-two punch of Philadelphia talent: A smooth transition between the party-pop funk of SNACKTIME and the groovy alt-rock of Mo Lowda & The Humble (who, as we learned, actually know each other — small world).
Here’s what’s in store for the Stage at Suffolk Downs this summer - The Boston Globe

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Victoria Wasylak

When The Stage at Suffolk Downs opened in the summer of 2023, the outdoor venue started at an “intentionally slow” pace, explains Josh Bhatti, senior vice president of concert promoter The Bowery Presents. The East Boston compound, which previously hosted crowds of between 50,000 and 60,000 people for thoroughbred horse races, trotted into its first concert season two years ago with just a handful of festival dates.
Boston Calling V List: 5 questions with Copilot

1 week ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

Boston Calling, this is your captain speaking. Not to alarm you, but festival performers Copilot have decided to change their well-rehearsed set while onstage with absolutely no warning. This will not impact the quality of their sun-dappled Americana-pop. You are free to move around Orange Stage area, and please refrain from smoking. Thank you.
Boston Calling V List: Top 5 songs heard Sunday at the festival

1 week ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

Sunday at Boston Calling — or as we like to say, Boston Calling, now with 100 percent less precipitation — popped. Maybe the weekend’s lone dry day lent everyone some subconscious spring in their step. Or perhaps the anticipation of an incendiary tag team like Tom Morello and Public Enemy revved up even the muddiest festival-goer trudging between the Green and Allianz Blue Stages for the umpteenth time. Whatever the reason, Sunday felt like a Monster Energy Drink straight to the soul.
Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, and more took over Boston Calling day two

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Victoria Wasylak

Go ahead and call this year’s Boston Calling the “eras edition” — and let it be known that millennials loved it. How could anyone old enough to have a MySpace account resist the siren’s call of early aughts angst? When the 2025 lineup for the Memorial Day festival arrived earlier this year, some regulars scoffed at the volume of acts from the 1990s and 2000s, which left limited room for buzzy up-and-comers.
Boston Calling V List: 5 top songs heard Friday at the festival

2 weeks ago | vanyaland.com | Victoria Wasylak

In the rain, full sets don’t matter as much as songs do. Hear me out: Even under the flimsy shelter of a poncho, bearing a stiff upper lip in a festival downpour, you’re more likely to remember how you felt that day than the nuances of every artist’s motions and messaging. Then, enter a song — the song that will make you, a shivering prune of flesh, know that the rain-soaked struggle was worth it. Here are five of those songs from Friday.