Daily Newsletter, December 30, 2025

Isn't it supposed to be less stuff to read, rather than more this time of the year?

Ljubinko Zivkovic
December 30, 2025

Rock Music's 25 Best Songs of 2025 Revealed

A staff-voted look back at the very best classic rock songs issued in 2025.

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Thurston Moore picks the "350 Best Records of 2025"

Thurston Moore fans take note: A) the Sonic Youth co-founder has launched a Substack, and B) his first post is a list of the “350 Best Records of 2025.” That’s a lot of records and his lower 300 includes Chris Brokaw, Gina Birch, Sunn O))), Water From Your Eyes, Smerz, Christian Marclay, Billy Woods, the […]

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The tragedy of Geese’s failure to dominate 2025

Geese get 1.8million monthly listens on Spotify. Cameron Winter gets 1.2million. Three million in total is shoddy, but it is less than Thousand Foot Krutch

faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-tragedy-of-geeses-failure-to-dominate-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

Three Album Run: How Krautrock Never Bettered Can's Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi & Future Days | The Quietus

Darran Anderson nails his krautrock colours to the mast and declares Tago Mago, Egi Bamyasi and Future Days the best 3LP run

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LSD and lost innocence: 6 psychedelic icons obsessed with childhood

From John Lennon to Jefferson Airplane, these six psychedelic icons channelled Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear as they rediscovered imagination, wonder and nonsense

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

If He Was From Venus: Alex Chilton at 75 - Rock and Roll Globe

Alex Chilton would have celebrated his 75th birthday today. Death came calling 15 years ago and, while the former co-leader of Big Star and the Box Tops

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Every #1 hit song from 2005 ranked worst to best

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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Victor Jara: The folk star brutally murdered by fascists

A look at the life and death of Victor Jara, a folk singer and devoted socialist who died for his beliefs in a coup against the Chilean government.

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Medium

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The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2025

While researching the Little Review archives for my book, A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls, I stumbled across an all-time banger of an opening line in Jane Heap’s review of Sherwood Anderson’s …

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Brigitte Bardot: The blonde bombshell who revolutionised French cinema

The cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality who swept away the cinematic cobwebs of the 1950s.

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How taboo-breaker Robert Crumb’s surreal cartoons mock an absurd world—and himself

The father of the underground comic book is still an active artist, satirising the “inner hell that is part of American culture”

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/27/book-reveals-how-taboo-breaker-robert-crumbs-surreal-cartoons-mock-an-absurd-worldand-himself?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=TheArtNewspaper/magazine/The+Art+Newspaper

The 27 best new apps of 2025

From productivity boosters to time-wasters, these were the year's greatest apps.

www.fastcompany.com/91464591/2025-apps-gemini-proton-perplexity-affinity?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/technology

The Monday Morning Brew Playlist #135

The latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist features several artists from French label PAGANS, plus French bassist Kham Meslien, Lucrecia Dalt, Mark Fosson, Steve Gunn & David Moore, Edith Frost and more.

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