20 from '18: Buz & Muf's Year End Pick Thru The Litter (Commemorative Edition)

Our fanzine Zub Alert, featured of cool stuff “selected” by the Zub kitties, Buz and Muf, in each issue. In that spirit, here are the 20 or so persons, places, and things that made 2018 memorable. 

Everything old is new again 

1. The Beatles 2018 (The White Album) 

2. Susan Ciani live score for 1920 silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Moogfest) 

3. Pylon Reenactment Society with new music + Pylon classics 

4. New vinyl sales continue to rise 

5. Posies stellar deluxe reissues on Omnivore 

 

Everything old is back again 

6. Zub Records Ltd. Co. is back, baby. 

7. Blasters/Dickies/X/Posies/PiL/Utopia still getting it done on the road 

8. New film series MovieDiva featuring strong women of Hollywood’s golden age 

9. Joan Jett reminds us she is the real deal in doc Bad Reputation 

10. Psychic TV plays blistering multi-media set at Moogfest 

 

Old dogs, new tricks 

11. Beef People are back, now in pod form: Singles Going Steady Podcast debuts 

12. Look Now released:Elvis Costello’s best album in decades, spectacular live date 

13. New Peter Holsapple Combo/Game Day Solo album 

14. Guided By Voices, Squeeze both release new music and bring great live gigs 

 

Cool cats

15. Singles Going Steady Podcast T-Shirts (available for sale, BTW) 

16. Spectacular Chihuly installation at Biltmore 

17. Introducing Gritty, the pinnacle of sports mascotry 

18. Spectacular TV shows: Legion, Mr. Robot, Mindhunter, Mrs. Maisel 

19. Georgia O’Keefe exhibition at NCMA featuring contemporary kindred artists 

20. Grandma style pizza at Hutchins Garage 

Bonus: Zombies’ Odessey And Oracle 50th reissue (now available)