It’s the second week of January, and it’s time for the second Pressing Concerns of the new year! The first edition that entirely features music from 2024, today we’ve got new albums from Tristan Dolce, Lily Seabird, and Marking & Plating, plus an EP from Les Ailes, to look at. Monday’s blog post was theContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Tristan Dolce, Lily Seabird, Marking & Plating, Les Ailes”
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Pressing Concerns: Pile, Fire Man, Kingbird, Yungatita
Welcome to the first Pressing Concerns of 2024! This is not the first blog post of the new year (the December 2023 playlist/round-up went up on Tuesday), but it’s the first one to (primarily) focus on music from the new year. In previous years, I’ve waited a couple weeks to re-start this column, but thereContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Pile, Fire Man, Kingbird, Yungatita”
Pressing Concerns: Mystery Danse, Gumfairy, Witching Waves, Postal Blue
Well, here we are. The final Pressing Concerns of 2023. We’re nearing the end of what’s been a banner week for the blog (featuring Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2023 on Tuesday, and a Pressing Concerns featuring Axis: Sova, Sugardeer, Cast of Thousands, and a Guided by Voices cover compilation on Wednesday), asContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mystery Danse, Gumfairy, Witching Waves, Postal Blue”
Pressing Concerns: An Academy of Lies, Axis: Sova, Sugardeer, Cast of Thousands
Even though it’s the final week of 2023, we’ve got a surprisingly full schedule on the blog this week. Yesterday, we unveiled Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2023, and today we get another Pressing Concerns, featuring a new album from Axis: Sova, new EPs from Sugardeer and Cast of Thousands, and a GuidedContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: An Academy of Lies, Axis: Sova, Sugardeer, Cast of Thousands”
Pressing Concerns: Friends of Cesar Romero, Lee Baggett, Haint, Lose a Leg
In what I believe will be the penultimate Pressing Concerns of 2023, we look at two albums that are out this week from Lee Baggett and Haint, as well as two recent LPs from Friends of Cesar Romero and Lose a Leg. We’ll be back with the results of the reader’s poll, Favorite Reissues ofContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Friends of Cesar Romero, Lee Baggett, Haint, Lose a Leg”
Pressing Concerns: phoneswithBen, Charlène Darling, Ambulanz, Labasheeda
Rosy Overdrive isn’t done yet! We’re kicking off the second half of December with a brand-new Pressing Concerns featuring new albums from phoneswithchords and Ben Sooy, Charlène Darling, Ambulanz, and Labasheeda. We’ve still got the reissue/compilation list, the results of the Reader’s Poll (still open until Christmas), and at least one more Pressing Concerns toContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: phoneswithBen, Charlène Darling, Ambulanz, Labasheeda”
Pressing Concerns: Graham Hunt, Wishy, Aunt Katrina, Phantom Signals
It’s time to wrap up yet another busy week in December. This edition of Pressing Concerns features two records that come out tomorrow (a new album from Graham Hunt and a new EP from Wishy), and two EPs from the past couple of weeks in Aunt Katrina and Phantom Signals. Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPsContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Graham Hunt, Wishy, Aunt Katrina, Phantom Signals”
Pressing Concerns: The Human Hearts, Dan Darrah & The Rain, The Age of Colored Lizards, Bounaly
We’re in the middle of year-end season on Rosy Overdrive: our 100 favorite albums of 2023 went up last week, and a smaller but still gobsmacking list of EPs will be going up later this week. Pressing Concerns presses on nonetheless, and today’s entry is anything but a postscript: this is a classic one, absolutelyContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Human Hearts, Dan Darrah & The Rain, The Age of Colored Lizards, Bounaly”
Pressing Concerns: Bory, Common Thread, STOP MVP, Music for Cooking
Yesterday and the day before, Rosy Overdrive published its Top 100 Albums of 2023. There’s a good chance you’ve read it; it’s a great list, so be sure to catch up on what you missed (unless you’ve already heard all 100 albums on there, in which case, reach out for a Rosy Overdrive commemorative plaque).Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Bory, Common Thread, STOP MVP, Music for Cooking”
Pressing Concerns: Pespi, Cime, Joe Ziffer, Otis Shanty
It’s a Monday in December, and we’re kicking the week off with a good, old-fashioned classic edition of Pressing Concerns. New albums from Pespi and Joe Ziffer, a live album from Cime, and an EP from Otis Shanty are featured in this edition. This is the last Pressing Concerns before Rosy Overdrive’s Year-End List seasonContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Pespi, Cime, Joe Ziffer, Otis Shanty”
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