Welcome to the third annual Rosy Overdrive Label Watch! In what I guess is a yearly tradition now, I check in on what a dozen (give or take) of my favorite modern labels have been up to the past few months, and pull a couple of highlights from each one. Rosy Overdrive is fully inContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2024”
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New Playlist: September 2024
Alright, it’s a little later than normal, but the Rosy Overdrive September 2024 playlist is here! You’re going to find a ton of great new music on it, trust me–some of it from bands I’ve written about on the blog before, some from new faces, but all quality. That’s the Rosy Overdrive guarantee! Best Bets,Continue reading “New Playlist: September 2024”
Pressing Concerns: Bad Moves, ‘Wearing Out the Refrain’
Release date: September 13thRecord label: Don GiovanniGenre: Power pop, pop punkFormats: Vinyl, CD, digital Washington D.C. power quartet Bad Moves made one memorable first impression back in 2018 with Tell No One, which still stands as one of the best punk rock debut LPs in recent memory a half-dozen years later. Their sophomore album, Untenable,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Bad Moves, ‘Wearing Out the Refrain’”
New Playlist: June 2024
Now we’re at the real halfway mark of the year (not just the mid-June “music blog mid-year list season” mark of the year), it’s time to wrap up all the good music I heard in June of this year. This month’s playlist has a bunch of stuff I’ve written about already in some form, asContinue reading “New Playlist: June 2024”
New Playlist: December 2023
Welcome to 2024! We’re kicking off the new year with the December 2023 playlist, one last good, long, hard look at everything the previous year had to offer in terms of music. There’s some stuff from December and November of last year in here, some music from earlier in 2023 that I came to later,Continue reading “New Playlist: December 2023”
The Playlist Archives: November 2018 (Part 2 of 2)
See Part 1 of this post for more context. You can follow the whole playlist on Spotify here. Bandcamp embeds are included in the list when available. “China Beach”, Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers This is pretty far away from the other LJG song on this playlist. Musically it’s on the harder-edge sideContinue reading “The Playlist Archives: November 2018 (Part 2 of 2)”
The Playlist Archives: November 2018 (Part 1 of 2)
One of the reasons I initially decided to put medium-effort into making this blog—other than gentle suggestions by acquaintances that this would be more productive than just talking their ears off whenever I had something to say—was to go through, share, and review all these old playlists I’ve been making the past half-decade. These playlistsContinue reading “The Playlist Archives: November 2018 (Part 1 of 2)”
My 100 Favorite Albums from 2020 (Part 1 of 4)
Congrats on randomly stumbling onto this list. All of these albums are worth a listen, but I’ve done you the courtesy of giving you a CliffsNotes version of all of them if you wanna be choosey. I will also note that I got a little better at doing this as I made it further along,Continue reading “My 100 Favorite Albums from 2020 (Part 1 of 4)”
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