Daily Newsletter, December 28, 2025

Something for the last weekend of the year pt. 2

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
December 28, 2025

19 Albums From 2025 To Listen To Before The End Of The Year

Lady Gaga, Olivia Dean and Lily Allen are responsible for some of the past year's most talked-about new releases.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/best-albums-released-2025-favourite_uk_6942d7d1e4b0bafbdedd5ae5?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=huffpostuk/magazine/All+Stories

Fragile genius: rock's 15 most tortured artists

15 iconic rockers who battled through addiction, mental illness and tragedy to lay down some of rock's most timeless music

www.classical-music.com/rock/tortured-artists?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy%20music

“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

www.musicradar.com/artists/i-threw-a-party-for-john-lennon-one-night-and-he-sat-there-at-the-moog-for-four-hours-making-flying-saucer-sounds-they-set-the-boyband-template-but-also-introduced-the-world-to-the-synth-bestof25?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

“They said, ‘Play something dumb!’” The Journey single that became “the Biggest Song of All Time” thanks to TV, baseball and Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Read one of Guitar Player's top stories of 2025

www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums-singles/journey-biggest-song-of-all-time-owes-debt-to-bachman-turner-overdrive?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/entertainment

The Fleetwood Mac song used to make fun of Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac always had a tense relationship with each other, but Lindsey Buckingham used this track to make fun of Stevie Nicks's signature style.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/fleetwood-mac-song-used-to-mock-stevie-nicks/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/musicnews

Time Capsule: George Benson, 'Give Me the Night'

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

www.musicradar.com/artists/the-greatest-pop-record-ever-made-a-record-that-never-dates-because-it-lives-outside-time-how-the-beatles-created-strawberry-fields-forever-the-experimental-masterpiece-that-john-lennon-regarded-as-the-best-song-he-ever-wrote-for-the-band-clone?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/thebeatles

Reviewed: Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra | Anne Paceo - Jazz Journal

Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra: Fate In A Pleasant Mood A relatively early release from Sun Ra in his and the ensemble’s far-reaching recording career, Fate In A Pleasant Mood shows early traces of many features that would shape Ra’s later music, but you’d never predict from this album the enormous, risk-taking strides […]

jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/12/27/reviewed-sun-ra-and-his-myth-science-arkestra-anne-paceo/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/jazz

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025

It’s time to fête some fiction. We, the dogged review sleuths at Book Marks, have spent the past 12 months ferreting out raves, pans, and everything in between from more than 150 publications. Yes,…

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Forget Bond, the understated George Smiley is fiction's greatest spy

As a new exhibition in Oxford charts John le Carré’s legacy, Emma Hughes takes a closer look at his most enduring creation, George Smiley

www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/forget-bond-the-understated-george-smiley-is-fictions-greatest-spy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/entertainment

The 10 best films you probably didn't watch this year

It's time to look back at some of the 2025 movies you missed. Now's your chance to stream these hidden gems starring Nicolas Cage, Florence Pugh and more.

uk.movies.yahoo.com/best-under-rated-films-2025-movies-080018166.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=YahooEntUK/magazine/Yahoo+EntertainmentUK

End of Year Mixtape: KLOF No. 67 – A Year in Review Pt. 3

Part 3 of our split series end-of-year Mixtape includes Michael Hurley, Dean Johnson, Rose City Band, Mike Polizze, Sir Richard Bishop, The Burning Hell, Richard Dawson, Nadia Reid, The Weather Station and lots more.

klofmag.com/2025/12/end-of-year-mixtape-klof-no-67-a-year-in-review-pt-3/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FPlaylists