Daily Newsletter, July 3, 2025

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
July 03, 2025

Our 40 Favorite Albums of 2025 So Far

From Deafheaven to FKA twigs to Turnstile to caroline to billy woods to Pissgrave, here are our favorite albums of 2025 so far.

www.brooklynvegan.com/our-40-favorite-albums-of-2025-so-far/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

How Oasis’s ‘Wonderwall’ Became (and Remained) an International Anthem

We talked to fans, tribute acts, guitar shop workers, and more about a 30-year-old ballad's winding road to cultural domination.

www.gq.com/story/oasis-wonderwall-a-peoples-history?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=GQ/magazine/GQ

The 10 songs that define Debbie Harry

To celebrate the legend's 80th birthday, here are ten Blondie songs that define the artistic excellence of Debbie Harry and everything she achieved.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-songs-that-define-debbie-harry/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

The Band's Pioneering 'Music From Big Pink' - Best Classic Bands

The album offered quiet songs of experience bathed in a rustic glow, with no hints of the futurism and none of the kilowatt drama then prevalent elsewhere in rock.

bestclassicbands.com/band-big-pink-review-5-21-188/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" Reconsidered

A B minus no longer

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He’s Ringo. And Nobody Else Is.

As he turns 85, one of the last surviving Beatles is still musically curious, dispensing his signature wisdom, and preaching the gospel of peace and love.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/arts/music/ringo-starr-interview.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/entertainment

Why we might be witnessing a return to the spirit of Punk

Hanna Chalmers can see the re-emergence of the spirit of punk across music, climate change activists, tech, art and politics...

www.drownedinsound.org/why-we-might-be-witnessing-a-return-to-the-spirit-of-punk/?ref=drowned-in-sound-newsletter

Meet Ally Venable, who's gone from being bullied at school to playing with Buddy Guy

"I really have beat the odds here. It's very surreal"

www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/ally-venable-money-and-power-interview?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Loudersound/magazine/BREAKING+NEWS

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician | The Walrus

It’s easier than ever to make music, and harder than ever to make a living from it

thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-the-middle-class-musician?ref=refind

How Scritti Politti Went From Communism to Commercialism - Rock and Roll Globe

A hard fact of popular music: Sometimes, selling out results in better art. Take Scritti Politti, the scrappy communist punk band turned synthpop

rockandrollglobe.com/pop/how-scritti-politti-went-from-communism-to-commercialism/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music

The collaboration that killed the British invasion

The British invasion was one of the biggest movements in musical history, and it was this classic that brought it to an end.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-unlikely-collaboration-that-put-a-halt-on-the-british-invasion/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/musicnews

With the new trailer for “The Odyssey," Christopher Nolan keeps his devotion to movie theatres

Renowned director Christopher Nolan remains devoted to his support of film theatres - the latest trailer for his upcoming epic The Odyssey will only be shown in

flicksided.com/christopher-nolan-keeps-devotion-movie-theaters-the-odyssey-trailer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2Fpublished+articles

Ezekiel 25:17: The Pulp Fiction Scene That Turned Samuel L. Jackson Into a Legend

How a fake Bible verse, cinematic cool, and one flawless performance turned Ezekiel 25:17 into a legendary movie moment.

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Foxy Digitalis Mix Season 5, #6: Mitseliy

Mitseliy’s music lingers in the fragile space between presence and disappearance. Blurred melodies and glowing textures stretch like fog lifting over a quiet field, carrying the weight of lost mome…

foxydigitalis.zone/2025/05/07/foxy-digitalis-mix-season-5-6-mitseliy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FPlaylists