Daily Newsletter, February 4, 2025

Grammy's recording weirdness, and all the rest

Ljubinko Zivkovic
February 04, 2025

Grammy Awards 2025: Winners and nominees

A guide to the main prizes at the 67th Grammy Awards, which are taking place in Los Angeles.

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Hot Picks 3/2/25 Part One - The Best New Releases - FVMusicBlog

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 3/2/25 Part One – The Best New Releases Photo: Y is Nature 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 […]

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Hot Picks 3/2/25 Part Two - The Best New Releases - FVMusicBlog

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 3/2/25 Part Two – The Best New Releases Photo: Quaint Delusions 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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10 classic albums that artists never matched again

Any artist is looking to make that one watershed record, but these albums ended up coming at a cost for the legends who made them.

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11 famous albums with strange circumstances around the recordings

Did stranger things make these 11 albums even greater?

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Ecstatic Meditations

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Bay Area music legend Sly Stone vanished for decades. A new film explains why.

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Laura Nyro: a woman in full

If you don’t own much of Laura Nyro’s music and have a couple of hundred quid to spare, a newly released 19-CD set of her complete studio and almost complete live recordings titled Hear…

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'Respectable Street': XTC bursting Britain's stiff upper lip

Making a name for themselves as one of post-punk's most unique songwriters, 'Respectable Street' from XTC poked fun at Little England's small town hypocrisies.

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25 books out in paperback this February!

It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as thoug…

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