Daily Newsletter, December 18, 2025

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
December 18, 2025

The Year's Best Classic Rock Albums - Best Classic Bands

Legends such as Elton John, Ringo Starr, Boz Scaggs, Chrissie Hynde and many others released outstanding albums in 2025.

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Album Of The Week: Theo Bleak's 'Bargaining'

As Theo Bleak, Glasgow-based musician Katie Lynch makes delicately woven folk songs and plush bedroom pop, fashioned with shivering vocals. She released her debut EP Fragments in 2022, quickly followed by a run of EPs — For Seasons, Illiad, Pain — and demo collection Heaven.Wav. Most recently, she released Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers in…

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Label of the Year: AD 93

Daring, heartfelt, and unpredictable, the London label has released some of the best music of the year. We talk to its founder, Nic Tasker, about the evolution of the singular AD 93 sound, and how every leftfield experimental signee has to have just a little pop to it.

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Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire

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The oxymoron that symbolises the modern music industry

It's no secret that a lot of the material published by the music industry is designed for mass appeal, yet one contradiction stands tall above the rest.

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Under the Radar’s Holiday Gift Guide 2025 Part 3: Music Reissues on Vinyl and CD

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“He was shaking the last time I saw him. He had the same thing that killed Lowell George.” Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards on the country-rock pioneer who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26

Despite his tumultuous lifestyle, Gram Parsons delivered transcendent music with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and his own Fallen Angels

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These 11 legendary albums were made shockingly fast

11 classic albums that prove that the greatest rock masterpieces are often captured in a sudden, brilliant blur

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10 classic rock songs that are so bad they're good

Writing a song is always about putting your best foot forward, but sometimes songs are so catchy because of their sheer incompetence.

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The Beatles Fans Are Treated to Two "New" Recently Discovered Recordings » LIVING LIFE FEARLESS

It was big news for all fans of The Beatles when two seemingly new early recordings surfaced on YouTube in early December.

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The Best Music Books of 2025: Cameron Crowe, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne and More

Title by or about Paul McCartney, Cameron Crowe, Ozzy Osbourne, Yoko Ono, the Cars, Mark Ronson and more are among the year's best music books.

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A Documentary About The Beatles Collaborator Billy Preston is Set For A Wider Release » LIVING LIFE FEARLESS

'Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It', the documentary about the famed Beatles collaborator is set for a wider theatrical release.

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The Best Films of 2025

The year’s 10 best movies about devastation and hope.

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20 Great Rock and Pop Holiday Songs - Rock and Roll Globe

It’s that time of year again — when people deck the halls, exchange gifts, drink eggnog and engage in general merriment.  It’s also the time of year when

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