Daily Newsletter, October 24, 2025

Jamie’s songwriting has a substance that firmly holds things together here, and instrumental and vocal help from guests like Josephine Foster make things (darkly) intriguing throughout.

DAVID GARLAND THE SPARK INDEPENDENT Looking at the track records of many artists, it is no wonder anymore that some old hands keep on producing music at later stages in their life. Some keep making great music, some don’t, and others keep making great music but don’t fully get the credit they deserve. The latter […]

BADLANDS NOBODY DIES RITE Badlands is transboundary Swedish producer, composer, and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna, who has so far released some quite intriguing albums, and her latest, Nobody Dies, is her fourth. So, what would that intriguing tag entail here? Some languorous, deep Ambient folk with touches of dream pop along the way with Jaunviksna’s […]

The debut album by the Iceboy Violet and BABii collaborator drifts through the non-places of supermodernity, devastated by grief – a stirring and tender work of mourning in which traditional instruments combine with electronics with verve and ambition

The late singer-songwriter's painstakingly-crafted studio albums changed modern music forever—but for anyone who got to see him in person, the raw power and intimacy of his stage show may be his real legacy.

With our feature 'Unlucky for Some' we're paying some much needed attention to the most underrated songs of the 1970s, all 100 of them.

1973: all four Beatles, Bowie, Zeppelin, Roxy Music, the Stones and early Queen! What a year for the rock connoisseur - here are 25 of the best tracks and singles.

One night in January 1985 Bonnie Raitt was joined on the stage at the Arie Crown Theatre in Chicago by John Prine. They sang Prine’s “Angel from Montgomery”, which had first been …

Thanks to the dominance of digital music, there’s a new generation of streaming amplifiers that are slowly reshaping the hi-fi landscape

Here are the best movie plot twists of all time, ranked from least to most great.

Including Reese Witherspoon's newly released debut novel

The best new songs right now include fakemink's "Fidelio," Hurricane Wisdom's "Rich Dropout," Gabriel Jacoby's "baby," and more.