We’re back! The latest edition of the Rosy Overdrive monthly playlist covers the songs I enjoyed listening to in July. Plenty of new music here, but also a higher proportion of “archival” selections than the last couple of months—I’ve finished my 1991 deep dive and I’ve moved onto 1996, so there are several selections fromContinue reading “New Playlist: July 2021”
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Pressing Concerns: Upper Wilds, Psychic Flowers, Hello Whirled, Nat Baldwin
The latest edition of Pressing Concerns highlights new albums from Upper Wilds, Psychic Flowers, Hello Whirled, and Nat Baldwin. Plenty of familiar faces this time around! The next post on Rosy Overdrive should be the end-of-July wrap-up playlist, so look for that either next week or the week after, depending on time. Meanwhile, you canContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Upper Wilds, Psychic Flowers, Hello Whirled, Nat Baldwin”
Pressing Concerns: Matthew Milia, Gnawing, John Murry, o’summer vacation
Welcome back to the first Pressing Concerns in a while! Today we’re covering new albums from Matthew Milia, Gnawing, John Murry, and o’summer vacation. Be sure to check out previous editions of Pressing Concerns for more recent albums and EPs that are worth your time. Matthew Milia – Keego Harbor Release date: July 16thRecord label:Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Matthew Milia, Gnawing, John Murry, o’summer vacation”
New Playlist: June 2021
The Rosy Overdrive Monthly Revue is back, with a (somewhat belated) rundown of songs old and (mostly) new that I thoroughly enjoyed in June! Even by the standards of these typically-unwieldy monthly playlist posts, this one feels extra long-winded to me. I took a week off to enjoy life and whatnot, and I had allContinue reading “New Playlist: June 2021”
Pressing Concerns: Spud Cannon, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Meat Wave, Olivia Kaplan
Pressing Concerns is back, today looking at new records from Spud Cannon and Olivia Kaplan, the new Meat Wave EP, and the newly-issued-on-vinyl album from The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, which originally came out late last year. I should be on vacation by the time this goes live—I’m not planning on doing anyContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Spud Cannon, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Meat Wave, Olivia Kaplan”
Pressing Concerns: The Cocker Spaniels, Williamson Brothers, Supreme Joy, Parting
It’s been awhile since Rosy Overdrive just had a good old-fashioned album roundup post. In the time between that last one and now, RO premiered a new single from Jack Habegger’s Celebrity Telethon, went long on the newest St. Lenox album, and gathered up the forty best albums to come out in 2021 thus far.Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Cocker Spaniels, Williamson Brothers, Supreme Joy, Parting”
Premiere: Jack Habegger’s Celebrity Telethon, “Gretchen Took a Ride”
Jack Habegger has played in the Olympia, Washington bands Pigtails and Foreign Powers, but 2021 has seen the rise of his new “quasi-solo” project, Jack Habegger’s Celebrity Telethon. The Telethon’s first release, January’s Oy Vey! EP, came out on limited cassette and vinyl from Portland’s Bud Tapes (Helens, Balloon Club, Wyatt Smith). Just a fewContinue reading “Premiere: Jack Habegger’s Celebrity Telethon, “Gretchen Took a Ride””
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 2 of 2)
If you’re only just now joining us: this is part two of my list of my favorite forty albums of 2021 thus far, presented in reverse alphabetical order. Thanks for reading! View part one of the list here. Listen to/follow a playlist of these albums here. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns Release date: January 22nd RecordContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 2 of 2)”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
Well: the year is nearly halfway over, so I shall now commemorate it by sharing my forty favorite records from it thus far with you, the Rosy Overdrive reader. I could have done more than forty albums. I have heard significantly more than forty good albums so far this year, many of which you canContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
Pressing Concerns: St. Lenox, ‘Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times’
Release date: June 11thRecord label: Don Giovanni/AnywayGenre: Indie popFormats: Vinyl, digitalPull track: Kroger Twilight Despite catering to a portion of American culture that is more prone than others to vent about “political correctness” and “cancel culture”, the contemporary Christian music industry certainly has very strict rules about what can be marketed as “Christian music” andContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: St. Lenox, ‘Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times’”
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