Have Another Year!

[Found here, and that’s not us.]

Happy New Year’s Eve 2025 – End of Year Playlist

The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, so here’s a compilation of tunes that tugged on my earballs in 2025. Each set is in chronological order by date of recording.

Set 1 – January, February, March & April

Set 2 – May, June, July & August

Set 3 – September, October, November & December

I omitted seasonal tunes from the Halloween and Christmas  playlists. Last year’s playlist (2024) is here, and the 2023 EoY list is here.

And one more thing:
May You Have a Happy & Prosperous New Year!

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Wash Your Sticks

[Found here.]

Ethel’s Cafe 1969

Portland, Oregon – Burnside Looking W. To 4th Jan. 1969 – Kodachrome slide – Bob Bailey

[Found here via here.]

Corvifobic Hot Links

Moonlight Serenade, The Volcanics (2013)
A warning from this blue-sweater-clad retro surf rock band from So Cal:
Squares beware, if you hang ten on their nose they’ll hang five in your face.

Shelter.

Hot town.

Hornblower.

Campertime.

Frau Perchta.

Great service.

Hair Dysphoria.

A gift from Dad.

R.I.P. Joan Wytte.

75 year old homer.

Coniferous cuisine.

Keepin’ the faith, baby.

Caring for pet bloodworms.

The 12 Days of Monochrome.

The days of dangerous living.

Drama on Google Street View.

Van Wolfwinkle’s pet portraits.

Berry Bars [via Memo Of The Air].

The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004.

Santa on the Interstate [via Everlasting Blört].

Stayin’ Alive in the 16th Century [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Resting Schnabelperchta found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – The Detonics, Wolf Mail & Shinyribs

Founded in 2014, The Detonics won the Dutch Blues Challenge in 2016 and wound up representing Europe in the 2017 International Blues Challenge. That same year they were semi-finalists at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis.

Canadian-born guitarist, singer-songwriter Wolf Mail began playing at the age of fourteen and has recorded eight full-length internationally distributed albums and has toured in over twenty-six countries. Backing Wolf is John Rinkevich / bass, Alex Polovinkin / drums, and Alexei Sechkin / keyboards.

Based in Austin, Texas, and fronted by Kevin “Shinyribs” Russel,
Shinyribs “defies genres as a sonic melting pot of Texas Blues, New Orleans R&B funk, horn- driven Memphis Soul, country twang, border music, big band swing, and roots-rock.”

Whoa. What a week, and it’s not over yet. More food and visitors are on their way (along with more rain) but it’s all good. Porch might be crowded tomorrow but we’ve got spare benches. If we see you, we’ll see you.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 935 – Doggo Under Glass, Free Samples & The Winter Washer

[Found here, here and here.]

Christmas Morning 2025

Peace on Earth & Goodwill Towards Men

Christmas Eve Rock


A random selection of tunes to wrap presents by.

Bonus: Previously posted Christmas tunes can be found here.

[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]

Japanese Christmas Trees

[Found here via Everlasting Blört].