Daily Newsletter, December 15, 2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year (for me): Those few weeks when the endless tsunami of music begins to slow to a tolerable trickle. Case in point: Last week’s crop of 280 releases has been halved to a mere 140 new LPs, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues, cassettes […]

Our End-of-Year Album longlist is here. See why these 100 folk, jazz, ambient and experimental albums made KLOF Mag’s Best of 2025. Enjoy deep dives, review highlights, and listen to the music that made 2025 unforgettable.

Following a poll of our writers, much debate and discussion, we begin our count down of our favourite albums of the last twelve months, that will conclude

From hardcore to emo to shoegaze, these are the standouts of the year.

The best classic rock boxed sets, collections and reissues of 2025 include releases from Dylan, the Beatles, Genesis, Pink Floyd & more.

A list of 2025's 20 best-selling classic rock albums.

New jazz music seems to be getting more vital by the day, and these 11 albums from 2025 prove it.

Step into a kaleidoscopic soundworld, as we rank the 15 best and most mind-expanding psychedelic rock albums ever recorded

The 1970s were the age of the Classic Album. But it wasn't all Floyd and Zeppelin. Try these ten underrated Seventies gems for size

The Duke, some Ladies, a bunch of Boys, plenty of Spanish punks, a few Central American Sensations and a truly Canadian Saga — that’s all she wrote (at least for next week). Read all about ’em:   Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions By Luca Bragalini THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions, the culmination of […]

Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. Here are the book…