You’ve heard of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Well, this year over at Vanyaland, we did something like that…but not really like that at all. The staff compiled a dozen of their favorite songs, films, comedy moments, and more from the past dozen months to close out another loop ’round the sun for “The Year in ReView.” Doing my part, I wrote about 12 of the best revelations from my 617 Q&A interview series.
I’d have to dig back through the archives, but with 18 of them conducted in 2024, I think that’s the most I’ve ever done in one year. The (not literally) patented interview format saw me sitting down with a variety of individuals, most of them musicians, for a run of six questions, requested they provide one recommendation, then field our tailored-to-the-individual seven-of-something.
Click the link above to check out the story, and for the full slate of 617 Q&As from this past year, here they are individually:
Matthew Caws [Nada Surf, The Salt Collective]
Juliana Hatfield [The Juliana Hatfield 3, Blake Babies]
Claudio Sanchez [Coheed and Cambria, Prize Fighter Inferno]
Courtney Taylor-Taylor [The Dandy Warhols]
Dan Andriano [Alkaline Trio]
Billy Bragg [Singer/Songwriter]
Johnny Dynamite [Johnny Dynamite and The Bloodsuckers]
Jyrki 69 [The 69 Eyes]
George Thorogood [George Thorogood & The Destroyers]
Brian Fallon [The Gaslight Anthem]
Mark Tremonti [Creed, Alter Bridge, Tremonti]
Gavin Rossdale [Bush]
Jeff Gutt [Stone Temple Pilots]
Richard Patrick [Filter, Nine Inch Nails]
Stephen Perkins [Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros]
John Christ [Danzig, Samhain]
Chazz Palminteri [Actor, Writer A Bronx Tale]
Spencer Albee [Spencer and The Walrus]
The Chronicles of Michael Christopher 
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