Daily Newsletter, February 11, 2025

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
February 11, 2025

Hot Picks 10/2/25 Part One - The Best New Releases - FVMusicBlog

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 10/2/25 Part One – The Best New Releases Photo: Lab Rat 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! […]

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Hot Picks 10/2/25 Part Two - The Best New Releases - FVMusicBlog

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 10/2/25 Part Two – The Best New Releases Photo: RISE 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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Grand Designs: What Makes Epic Music?

How (and why) did musicians make epic music? There's no one answer, as this run through the history of popular music shows.

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16 weirdest albums in rock music that deserve your full attention

These are often some of the best albums around even if they are exceedingly weird.

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10 most underqualified musicians in rock

There's no rulebook as to what makes a band great, but some musicians didn't need to have a basic understanding of theory to be geniuses.

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The Bangles, One of the Biggest All-Female Bands, Want to Reclaim Their Legacy

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new book tells their story.

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Name Yourself: Marianne Faithfull, Fugazi, Miles & More

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"It was pretty shocking to understand what's actually going on": The Black Keys slam "mind-blowing" state of music industry in first interview since tour debacle

The Black Keys have released The Night Before, their first new song since cancelling their 2024 tour and firing their management company

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David Bowie: Fantastic Voyages From Beyond The Hits | The Quietus

God knows he’s good… and so does The Quietus. Our writers plunder his back catalogue to unearth the finest Bowie tracks that weren’t hit singles. Listen to the David Bowie Beyond The Hits Spotify Playlist here. ‘Can You Hear Me?’ from Young Americans (1975) One of the highlights of Young Americans (the album which single-handedly […]

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The None recommend the best album you've never heard

It's embodied by the ferocious new single, 'My People', which bassist Gordon Moakes, formerly of Bloc Party, described as "the archetypal None song".

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“She fell in love with Pink Floyd, The Beatles and David Bowie and combined them all in her neoclassical way”: Even though Kate Bush refused to produce Gavin Friday’s Virgin Prunes, he still loves her

Composer, actor and painter explains why her work is high art in the style of influential writer James Joyce

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