Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (50-26)

Hello! Welcome back (or just welcome) to Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025! Today reveals the top 50 albums on the list. Yesterday unveiled numbers 100 through 51, so be sure to check those out as well if you haven’t yet. See also:Part One (100-76)Part Two (75-51)Part Four (25-1)Playlist with all albums (Spotify link)Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (50-26)”

New Playlist: November 2025

It’s time for the November 2025 playlist! A bunch of good songs from the past month and throughout this year features below. We’ll be wrapping up this year on the blog soon enough, but there’s still plenty of new stuff to take a look at yet. Buddie, The Melancholy Kings, and Mint Mile all haveContinue reading “New Playlist: November 2025”

Pressing Concerns: Hüsker Dü, Buddie, Strange Passage, Sweet Nobody

The Thursday Pressing Concerns, as per usual, features four records coming out tomorrow (that’s November 7th): we have new albums from Buddie and Sweet Nobody, an album that I think is an EP from Strange Passage, and an archival live collection from Hüsker Dü (yes, that Hüsker Dü). If you Missed Monday’s Pressing Concerns (featuringContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Hüsker Dü, Buddie, Strange Passage, Sweet Nobody”

New Playlist: October 2025

This is the Rosy Overdrive October 2025 playlist. Most of you know the drill already, but if you’re new here, here’s the deal: there’s a lot of good music below. Joel Cusumano, Alex Orange Drink, and Guitar have two songs on this playlist. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streamingContinue reading “New Playlist: October 2025”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)

Here it is! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2023, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. This was the hardest year yet in terms of the top; specifically, the top twelve albums on the list I kept rearranging up until press time. I’m moreContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 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 2023 thus far, presented in reverse alphabetical order. Thanks for reading! View part one of the list here. Here are links to stream a playlist of these selections via Spotify and Tidal (Bandcamp links areContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 2 of 2)”

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: Buddie, Brian Mietz, The Collect Pond, System Exclusive

Once again it is Thursday, and it’s time to talk about new music. Today’s post looks at four great records coming out tomorrow: albums from Buddie, Brian Mietz, and The Collect Pond, and an EP from System Exclusive. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what elseContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Buddie, Brian Mietz, The Collect Pond, System Exclusive”

New Playlist: December 2022

It’s the new year, yes, but that doesn’t mean that all the music from 2022 has expired like–I dunno, some kind of food that expires. Anyway, I spent December catching up on a bunch of records from last year that I missed the first time around, listening to some December releases, and exploring some olderContinue reading “New Playlist: December 2022”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2022

You’re probably still making your way through Rosy Overdrive’s to Top 100 Albums of 2022, I know–but there were plenty of good EPs to come out this year, as well! Just like last year, I’ve put together a shorter but still substantial list of my twenty-five favorites for you all to check out. The EPContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2022”