Daily Newsletter, December 25, 2025

Relaxing (and mostly healthy) holiday reading (and listening)

Ljubinko Zivkovic
December 25, 2025

Uncut's Top 50 new albums of 2025

Includes Pulp, Suede, Robert Plant, Bon Iver, Big Thief, Wednesday, Geese, Little Simz, Paul Weller and more… but where did they all place?

www.uncut.co.uk/features/lists/uncut-top-50-new-albums-of-2025-152616/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Editor's Picks 141: Witch Post, DM Arthur, TOLEDO, Sly Jr., Chelsea Jordan, & Lucia! - Atwood Magazine

Curated by Mitch Mosk, this week's Editor's Picks features music from Witch Post, DM Arthur, TOLEDO, Sly Jr., Chelsea Jordan, & Lucia!

atwoodmagazine.com/ep141-editors-picks-2025-12-23/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

10 (More) Truly Strange Christmas Albums

From funk icons to Canadian body-builders, we rank some of the oddest figures gunning for the holiday music canon.

floodmagazine.com/213943/10-more-truly-strange-christmas-albums/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy%20music

Uncut's Top 30 archive releases of 2025

Includes David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Bruce Springsteen, Brigitte Fontaine, Bill Evans and more… but in what order?

www.uncut.co.uk/features/lists/uncut-top-30-archive-releases-of-2025-152629/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Listen to a recording of Debussy playing Debussy from 1913

Listen to a recording of Claude Debussy on a Welte-Mignon recording piano in 1913. He played the classic 'La soirée dans Grenade.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/genuine-recording-of-debussy-playing-debussy-from-1913/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

“There’s something to that song that touches people. I don’t know what it is but I’m really glad it happened”: The classic Fleetwood Mac hit that Stevie Nicks wrote in just 10 minutes!

Nicks’ performance of the song on stage every night “was like an exorcism”

www.musicradar.com/artists/theres-something-to-that-song-that-touches-people-i-dont-know-what-it-is-but-im-really-glad-it-happened-the-classic-fleetwood-mac-hit-that-stevie-nicks-wrote-in-just-10-minutes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/bands

Donovan on Macca, Dylan, John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

Bob Dylan introduced Donovan to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/donovan-and-friends?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/entertainment

The 20 best new jazz albums of 2025: Jazzwise critics' poll

Results from our end-of-year poll with Mary Halvorson and Sylvie Courvoisier claiming victory...

www.jazzwise.com/features/article/the-20-best-new-jazz-albums-of-2025-jazzwise-critics-poll?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2Fjazz

Best Music Journalism 2025 - Rock and Roll Globe

While music scribing has almost always been a mostly unloved type of work that’s not well paid or gets most anyone any kind of respect outside of the

rockandrollglobe.com/music-journalism/best-music-journalism-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2Fbooks

The Best Books of 2025

Our Best Books of 2025 draws from inventive authors and scrappy publishers. Has there ever been a better time to be a reader than in tumultuous 2025?

www.popmatters.com/best-books-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2Fbooks

The perfect dinner party playlist, curated by David Byrne

Including songs by the likes of Post Malone and Jeff Beck, this is the perfect dinner party playlist, curated by David Byrne. Read more here.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-byrne-ultimate-dinner-party-playlist/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=FarOutMagazine/magazine/Far+Out+Music

Mixtape: KLOF No. 66 (Ambient, Experimental, Improv, Folk)

Journey through a borderless world of medieval synthesis, Sufi-Andalusian fusion, and folk traditions. This mixtape explores the unexpected, from outdoor improvisations to instruments carved from ancient wood.

klofmag.com/2025/12/mixtape-klof-no-66-ambient-experimental-improv-folk/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FPlaylists