Favorites from '19: Buz & Muf's Year End Pick Thru The Litter (Commemorative Edition Redux) 

Our fanzine Zub Alert, featured of cool stuff “selected” by the Zub kitties, Buz and Muf, in each issue. We did this last year and by gum, here it comes again. Here are the 20 or so persons, places, and things that made 2019 memorable.  

Better late than never 

We finally got to see some acts that had long been on the list. 

1 Stiff Little Fingers 

2 Blondie 

3 The Specials 

4 Teenage Fanclub 

5 George Clinton 

6 Fishbone 

7 OMD 

New Sensations 

These were welcome newcomers to our ears: 

1. The Claypool Lennon Delirium 

2. Amyl & The Sniffers debut album 

  

Everything old is back again  

Classic artists making great records. 

1 Joe Jackson Fool 

2 Bob Mould Sunshine Rock 

3 The Rubinoos From Here 

4 Andy Partridge & Robyn Hitchcock Planet England 

5 Buzzcocks Reissues 

 

Old dogs, new tricks  

The Figgs Shady Grove 

Redd Kross Beyond The Door 

The Specials Encore 

  

Cool cats 

In print: Will Birch, Cruel To Be Kind; Deborah Harry, Face It; Frye Gaillard, A Hard Rain 

In film: They Shall Not Grow Old, JoJo Rabbit, and Yesterday  

Small screen: Sherman’s Showcase, Detroiters, Legion, Ken Burns’ Country Music, and Mindhunter