Welcome to the last Pressing Concerns of November! This time, we look at new albums from Nightshift, Dot Dash, and Husbands, and a new EP from Evening Glass. This will be the last Pressing Concerns before Rosy Overdrive year-end season begins, but I plan to mix in a few of these in with the end-of-yearContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Nightshift, Dot Dash, Husbands, Evening Glass”
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Pressing Concerns: The John-Pauls, Staffers, Smirk, Elk City
Welcome to a special Monday Pressing Concerns! It appears that I haven’t bothered with an intro to these posts for a bit, so here’s some housekeeping: recent Rosy Overdrive highlights include Rosy Overdrive Label Watch, in which I choose favorite 2022 releases from a dozen of my favorite labels. Oh, and there is now aContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: The John-Pauls, Staffers, Smirk, Elk City”
Pressing Concerns: Joan Kelsey, Cheval de Frise, The Laughing Chimes, Convinced Friend
Joan Kelsey – Standing Out on the Grass Release date: November 11thRecord label: Dear LifeGenre: Indie folkFormats: CD, cassette, digitalPull track: Pachomius The latest release from the consistently solid Dear Life Records is a humble-sounding but strong entry to their discography. Standing Out on the Grass is Seattle singer-songwriter Joan Kelsey’s second release on theContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Joan Kelsey, Cheval de Frise, The Laughing Chimes, Convinced Friend”
Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2022
Rosy Overdrive has long been vocal about its love of small, independent record labels. They’ve consistently been a key way to find good, varied, new-to-me music, and they remain a valuable, people-based resource for music discovery in an age where the “industry” is openly trying to steer us away from such things. I’ve been thinkingContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2022”
Pressing Concerns: Delivery, The Sonora Pine, The Rutabega, Garb
Delivery – Forever Giving Handshakes Release date: November 11thRecord label: Feel It/Spoilsport/Anti FadeGenre: Garage rock, garage punkFormats: Vinyl, cassette, digitalPull track: Baader Meinhof The latest export from the fertile Australian garage punk scene, Melbourne’s Delivery are a five-piece group that, prior to Forever Giving Handshakes, only had a couple of singles to their name. DespiteContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Delivery, The Sonora Pine, The Rutabega, Garb”
Pressing Concerns: Heavenly, Gold Dust, Shaki Tavi, Thank You Lord for Satan
What’s this? It’s a Tuesday edition of Pressing Concerns! This one tackles an all-timer in Heavenly‘s recently reissued debut album, plus new albums from Gold Dust, Shaki Tavi, and Thank Your Lord for Satan. If you’re looking for more new music, you can browse previous editions of Pressing Concerns or visit the site directory. IfContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Heavenly, Gold Dust, Shaki Tavi, Thank You Lord for Satan”
Pressing Concerns: Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement, Kevin Dorff, Jobber, Nick Wheeldon’s Demon Hosts
It is time for the first Pressing Concerns of November! In this edition: new albums from Kevin Dorff and Nick Wheeldon’s Demon Hosts, the debut EP from Jobber, and a reissue of the discography of Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement. The October Rosy Overdrive playlist went up earlier this week, so check that out too if youContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement, Kevin Dorff, Jobber, Nick Wheeldon’s Demon Hosts”
New Playlist: October 2022
The October edition of the Rosy Overdrive playlist is here! For once, it’s actually being published in October, so, happy Halloween to you all. You’ll find a lot of great new music here, some already covered in Pressing Concerns, some not, as well as some archival selections (mainly from 1997). Idle Ray has three songsContinue reading “New Playlist: October 2022”
Pressing Concerns: Dazy, CLASS, Typical Girls, Fluung
It’s the Thursday edition of Pressing Concerns! Today we look at three albums coming out tomorrow (Dazy, CLASS, and Emotional Response’s latest Typical Girls compilation), plus the Fluung record from two weeks ago. If you missed Tuesday’s Pressing Concerns, featuring Dear Nora, Mt. Oriander, Puppy Angst, and Austin Leonard Jones, you can catch up here.Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Dazy, CLASS, Typical Girls, Fluung”
Pressing Concerns: Dear Nora, Mt. Oriander, Puppy Angst, Austin Leonard Jones
It’s a Tuesday, and we’ve got four new records to look at today, by Dear Nora, Mt. Oriander, Puppy Angst, and Austin Leonard Jones. We’ll have four more on Thursday. If you’re looking for more new music, you can browse previous editions of Pressing Concerns or visit the site directory. If you’d like to supportContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Dear Nora, Mt. Oriander, Puppy Angst, Austin Leonard Jones”
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