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Year in and year out, author and nearly 20-year Ink 19 staff writer Christopher Long remains committed to the discovery and mass consumption of new music. In this rockin’ year-end roundup, Chris reveals his Video Jukebox Playlist of songs that thwacked him hardest in 2025.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Sometimes you’ve got to look back several decades to discover fresh “new” music. And this week, Christopher Long stumbles accidentally upon a true vinyl treasure — a clean copy of Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, the critically acclaimed 1968 sophomore set from Laura Nyro — for only three bucks!
Episode 006 is a live review of new music by Aldous Harding, Suki Waterhouse, Destroyer, and Earth From The Moon. Catch it while it’s hot!
Indulgence (Desperate Spirits). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Technicolor (MonoMundo). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Touch/Are You Alone (Bigmac Records). Review by Stacey Zering.
Before the Dawn. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Uses For Humans . Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Unrepentant Geraldines (Mercury Classics). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Matthew Moyer unveils the secrets of this month’s 45 Grave.
May Terry awakens from a synth-pop slumber to enjoy the off-the-beaten path music of Sasha Siem at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC.
Banga (Columbia). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Gemma Ray slams one clever cultural retro-reference into another, all the while wielding her harmonies alongside the tones from her Gretsch – deliciously awry. At least that’s how May Terry hears it.
Zola Jesus creates a surreal and magical concert experience, Jen Cray learned at the songstress’ first ever Orlando date.
Conantus (Sacred Bones). Review by Jen Cray.
The Glitter End (Critical Heights ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Check Yo Ponytail Mixtape. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Songs for Other People (Holidays for Quince). Review by James Mann.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.
