Ljubinko Zivkovic

4 days ago | ljubinkos-newsletter.beehiiv.com | Ljubinko Zivkovic

The 50 Best Albums Of 2025 So FarI don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly speaking, did not exactly begin on the highest of notes. And yet, we here at Stereogum have once again spent Q1 and Q2 playing a never-ending game of catch-up with all the new music being released, filtering through the best of it so that you don’t have to.

5 days ago | netflixlife.com | Ljubinko Zivkovic

From MMA and soccer to a Sintonia spin-off and elsewhere. Netflix has prepared a series of films, TV series, and documentaries from Brazil that will surely pique the interest of its viewers. Sintonia series, about three teens from São Paulo shanty town that ran for five seasons on Netflix, and is probably the biggest show on the streamer’s Brazilian service, will now get a movie spin-off that is supposed to continue the story where the series left off.

6 days ago | audiophix.com | Ljubinko Zivkovic

These songs just might be a dirty dozen. Everybody makes mistakes, even those who are the greatest or just great. There isn’t a band or an artist out there that hasn’t come up with a song that is a true dud. Of course, it is all in the ear of the beholder, but simply, put there are those song about which there is a more or less a general consensus that that they are not up to the par, not only compared to the rest of the output of a certain artist, but in general.

6 days ago | ljubinkos-newsletter.beehiiv.com | Ljubinko Zivkovic

Next Week in Music | June 2-8 • The Long List: 425+ Releases On The Way - TinnitistApril showers bring May flowers, they say. So what do June cloudbursts bring? Easy — another deluge of albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues, cassettes and steaming releases. Here are the first drops from the big tap.

6 days ago | ljubinkos-newsletter.beehiiv.com | Ljubinko Zivkovic

The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine Shares Previously Unreleased Collab With Neil Young & Flea: ListenAl Jardine got to know Brian Wilson when the two of them played high school football together in Hawthorne, California, and he started off as a founding member of the Beach Boys in 1961 — the only one who wasn’t related to Wilson by blood. Jardine remained with the Beach Boys until Carl Wilson’s death in 1998, and he’s spent much of the time since then recording and performing with Brian.