Daily Newsletter, October 15, 2024

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 14/10/24 – Part One – The Best New Releases Photo: BOYFRN 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! […]

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

Concept albums range in quality, but you should have these 17 albums on heavy rotation.

We're taking a look back at the track Neil Young wrote about Joni Mitchell to help mend the broken heart of Graham Nash.

It’s Sisyphusian, Bob Dylan and the Band, The 1974 Live Recordings (Columbia Legacy), these twenty-seven CDs drawn from the shows they played that year from Chicago on January 3 to Los Angeles on February 14. The songs change only rarely. At the start the old, unreleased “Hero Blues” is the first song and after one more show it disappears. “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” come in late in the tour. Except when the songs draw something from the performers—as with “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” which seems to grow more soulful, more spiritually open, every time (and it can be a shock to look again at the brutal shootout in Sam Peckinpah’s

The most streamed Beatles song isn't 'She Loves You,' 'Hey Jude,' or 'All You Need Is Love.' It isn't even 'Yesterday.' If you were about to guess 'Something,' you're on the right track, at least as far as the source album and songwriter.

A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical edge.

The biker movie was a commercial and critical hit in 1969, but its director, Dennis Hopper, was "a bit of a megalomaniac"

While science fiction might not be the first thing you think of when you think of Gram Parsons, he was in an experimental film decades ago.

Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat