Daily Newsletter, December 29, 2025

As the year closes still something to cheer for

Ljubinko Zivkovic
December 29, 2025

Next Week in Music | December 29 - January 4 • The Long List: 165+ Releases On The Way - Tinnitist

Who the hell drops new music during the holidays? These people. Close out 2025 — and kick off 2026 — with this list of 165-plus new LPs, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues, cassettes and steaming releases: Orkun A. | Iridescent Acidgvrl | You Stupid Pink Girl 2 Katie […]

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Staff Picks

The Best Albums of 2025: The 50 best releases of the year.

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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.

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Hot Picks 27/12/25 - The Best New Releases - FVMusicBlog

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 27/12/25 – The Best New Releases Photo: Tequila at Dawn Today we bring to you our hottest finds of the week. We have curated a list of the best releases from our musical travels this week and are putting them all in one place for your listing pleasure! This […]

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When the CIA attacked Eartha Kitt and called her a "nymphomaniac"

Looking back upon the bizarre CIA investigation into the life and times of Broadway icon and legendary performer, Eartha Kitt, during the Cold War's peak.

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How ZZ Top's 'Eliminator' Embraced Drum Machines Yet Somehow Managed to Retain Their Trademark Texas Roadhouse Groove

Although deeply rooted in blues, ZZ Top managed to keep their core audience while also shifting to the new popular trends in the industry.

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Dylan Has Returned With 'John Wesley Harding'

So John Wesley Harding has been on the turntable for a few days now and this is a preliminary report

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“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

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The 10 best Brigitte Bardot movies

Including directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim, these are Brigitte Bardot's 10 best film performances.

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Next Week in Music | December 29 - January 4 • 4 New Books - Tinnitist

You know what they say: Out with the old. In with the new. Then again, they also say everything old is new again. So who the hell knows? All I know is, there are only a handful of new music titles hitting the shelves next week. Read all about ’em: Lazarus: The Second Coming […]

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David Bowie book reveals lengths ‘heartbroken’ singer went to hide terminal cancer

Biography also claims singer was ‘lucky to survive’ health incident year before death

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Fall/Winter (Numero Group)

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