Welcome to the Thursday edition of Pressing Concerns! Today we’ve got four brand new records to talk about: albums from Leor Miller’s Fear of Her Own Desire, Low Praise, and Dan Lurie, and an EP from Charles the Obtuse. It’s been a busy week on Rosy Overdrive: on Monday, we looked at new albums fromContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Leor Miller’s Fear of Her Own Desire, Charles the Obtuse, Low Praise, Dan Lurie”
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My 1981 Listening Log (Part 1)
Back in January, I listened to one new-to-me album from 1997 every day for the entire month, and posted a few sentences about each one in the Rosy Overdrive Discord channel. When I was done, I cleaned it up a bit and put it on the blog, with a mention that I was planning onContinue reading “My 1981 Listening Log (Part 1)”
Pressing Concerns: Heavenly, Pigeon Pit, Daisies, The Ashenden Papers
Welcome to Pressing Concerns! Today’s issue touches on two vinyl reissues from Heavenly and Pigeon Pit and two new albums from Daisies and The Ashenden Papers. Every record here is either from an Olympia, Washington band or has some kind of connection to Olympia, so that’s kind of neat! If you’re looking for more newContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Heavenly, Pigeon Pit, Daisies, The Ashenden Papers”
Pressing Concerns: Rob I. Miller, Downhaul, Dogwood Tales, Autoescuela
Welcome to Thursday’s Pressing Concerns. Today, we have new albums from Rob I. Miller and Autoescuela, a new EP from Downhaul, and a pair of new EPs from Dogwood Tales. If you missed Monday’s post (featuring Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Gueersh, BIKE, and Alien Eyelid), I suggest checking that out too. If you’re looking for more newContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Rob I. Miller, Downhaul, Dogwood Tales, Autoescuela”
Pressing Concerns: Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Gueersh, BIKE, Alien Eyelid
It’s a Monday, and we’ve got four more great new albums to talk about on Pressing Concerns. Today deals with new records from Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Gueersh, BIKE, and Alien Eyelid. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like toContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Gueersh, BIKE, Alien Eyelid”
Pressing Concerns: Poppy Patica, Greg Mendez, Soft Walls, Bluest
If you like good music, tomorrow is pretty big Friday. Today we’re looking at four records that come out tomorrow: albums from Poppy Patica, Greg Mendez, Soft Walls, and Bluest. Also out tomorrow is the Lynx reissue (with a newly-recorded bonus EP), which I wrote about along with Mister Data, Unlettered, and The National HonorContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Poppy Patica, Greg Mendez, Soft Walls, Bluest”
New Playlist: April 2023
Well, well, well. If it isn’t the Rosy Overdrive April 2023 Playlist. And would you look at that, it features a ton of great songs from this year, a handful of tracks from 2022 that I am just now discovering, and a couple of songs from 1981 (more on what I’m doing back in 1981Continue reading “New Playlist: April 2023”
Pressing Concerns: Lynx, Mister Data, Unlettered, The National Honor Society
It’s the first Pressing Concerns of May! Today, we’re looking at new albums from Mister Data and The National Honor Society, an upcoming reissue from Lynx, and a new EP from Unlettered. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’dContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Lynx, Mister Data, Unlettered, The National Honor Society”
Pressing Concerns: Negative Glow, Morwan, John Andrews & the Yawns, Miscomings
We’ve almost made it to the end of the week, and what a week it was! Today, Rosy Overdrive is looking at new records from Negative Glow, Morwan, John Andrews & the Yawns, and Miscomings. Yesterday, I wrote about Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends, the new record from Washer that’s out tomorrow, and on Monday IContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Negative Glow, Morwan, John Andrews & the Yawns, Miscomings”
Pressing Concerns: Washer, ‘Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends’
Release date: April 28thRecord label: Exploding in SoundGenre: Garage rock, post-punk, punkFormats: Vinyl, digitalPull Track: King Insignificant I’ve never talked about Washer on Rosy Overdrive before, but then, the Brooklyn/Philadelphia-based duo of Kieran McShane and Mike Quigley had been pretty quiet for the duration of this blog’s existence up until quite recently. A few yearsContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Washer, ‘Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends’”
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