Ljubinko Zivkovic June 05, 2025
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of May 2025
Here are the albums and songs from the last month that we think you should hear, as selected by tQ's staffers
thequietus.com/tq-charts/music-of-the-month/music-of-the-month-the-best-albums-and-tracks-of-may-2025/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Fri+30+May+2025&utm_campaign=The+Digest+30+May+2025
The best new albums out May 30
KXT's Jackson Wisdorf joins Stephen Thompson to discuss their favorite records out this week — and shed a few tears in the process.
www.npr.org/sections/all-songs-considered/2025/05/30/g-s1-69635/new-music-friday-miley-cyrus-sufjan-stevens?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music
"Essentials" | New Music Recommendations — POST-TRASH
Welcome to “Essentials,” a sporadic column for new music recommendations from one lifelong chucklehead with questionable taste. It’s similar to “Fuzzy Meadows” except the title makes more sense and we’ve removed the words “best” and “weekly”.
post-trash.com/news/2025/6/3/essentials-new-music-recommendations
Harry The Nightgown - Ugh
Essentially, we get a meticulously crafted modern avant-pop album that works at every level. Harry seems to be quite a glittering nightgown.
echoesanddust.com/2025/06/harry-the-nightgown-ugh/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2Fpublished+articles
Album Of The Week: Lifeguard 'Ripped And Torn'
There are people who make a fine living by closely monitoring this nation’s youth sports leagues in hopes of finding players to replenish America’s college and professional teams. I wonder if Matador Records has a similar program, but for potential next-generation indie rock stars? The tastemaking institution established its rep by plucking Pavement, Guided by Voices, and Liz Phair from the tape-trading micro-release deep underground, and in the past decade or so it’s shown a keen interest in what the young people are getting up to, ushering young acts like Snail Mail, Car Seat Headrest, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus into the big leagues after they built up varying degrees of buzz. More recently, the “cool parents and after-school music programs to Matador Records” pipeline remained remarkably strong with the young Chicago trio Horsegirl, and now it’s given us the young Chicago trio Lifeguard, an outstanding coup by Matador’s perhaps apocryphal youth development division. Raises all around.
www.stereogum.com/2310280/album-of-the-week-lifeguard-ripped-and-torn/reviews/album-of-the-week/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music
How Mood Music Came to the Foreground
Instrumental mood music by artists like Khruangbin has surged in popularity. The reasons reflect our changing lives, Spotify playlists, and more.
consequence.net/2025/06/mood-music-spotify-playlists-khruangbin/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Consequence+Daily:+The+10+Best+Movies+of+2025+So+Far&utm_campaign=Consequence+Daily+-+6/4&vgo_ee=6wDUhJ7LPmqvVn/F33olFyEnS98WU5ypwZpQEAHb7xFq:s5ZyKeBWNyHEVJGlQXqal5Dt3dPUkFBd
A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums
AOR might have come truly blossoming into platinum-tinged life in the 1980s, but the genre had been holding lighters aloft and weeping in its beer in the 1970s. These are the best albums
www.loudersound.com/music/albums/70s-aor-10-essential-albums?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/musicnews
Prog-rock robot wars: The expansive world of Gotho
Exploring the weird and wonderful world of Genoa-based duo Gotho, whose 2024 album 'Gothron Versus Fartark' tells the tale of two warring robot overlords.
faroutmagazine.co.uk/inside-world-of-gotho/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music
The Monkees' 10 defining songs that shaped pop-rock history
They may have been a manufactured band, but the Monkees nonetheless created some of the greatest pop-rock music of the 1960s.
audiophix.com/monkees-10-defining-songs-that-shaped-pop-rock-history?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/entertainment
HOT HALF DOZEN 6.3.25
Today I am going to do something a little different. I am recommending music that is off the beaten path, experimental, a little – or a lot – away from the mainstream. Some of it may be an acquir…
indiepulsemusic.com/2025/06/03/hot-half-dozen-6-3-25/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=LjubinkoZiv2tpu%2Fmagazine%2FMy+music
Jazz pianists: the 15 greatest magicians of the piano, ranked | Classical Music
From Brubeck to Basie, our jazz expert Geoffrey Smith digs deep and selects the 15 greatest jazz pianists of all time
www.classical-music.com/features/jazz/jazz-pianists
Nine YouTube Music Features You Should Be Using
There's a lot to explore in YouTube Music, from smart downloads to autoplay playlists. Here's what you can do.
lifehacker.com/tech/best-youtube-music-settings?ref=refind
The Best Thrillers of the Year (So Far)
Our columnist on the twisty, suspense-laden books that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/books/review/best-thrillers-books-2025.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/culture
Numero Discover Weekly
Playlist · Numero Group · 31 items · 2.8K saves
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