Here we are! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2025, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. By my count, I wrote about 343 albums on the blog this year (not counting a few posts that have yet to be published), so these are reallyContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (25-1)”
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Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2025 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 2025 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 2025 So Far (Part 2 of 2)”
New Playlist: February 2025
It’s the February 2025 playlist! The year is in full swing, and this playlist reflects it, as it’s almost entirely culled from the new year. You’ll recognize a lot of these songs from Pressing Concerns, but there’s plenty of material that’d be new to even the most regular readers as well. Jordan Krimston and CheekfaceContinue reading “New Playlist: February 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Cheekface, The Men, Andy Bell, Kristin Daelyn
What a great Pressing Concerns we’ve got below! It’s got the brand-new Cheekface album that came out earlier this week in it, as well as new albums from The Men, Andy Bell, and Kristin Daelyn that come out tomorrow, February 28th. Check it out, and be sure to dial up the blog posts from MondayContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Cheekface, The Men, Andy Bell, Kristin Daelyn”
New Playlist: February 2024
It is time to wrap up February, and the shortest month of the year ended up more than delivering the goods (read: good music) this time around. Plenty of brand new music from 2024 graces the two-hour playlist below, some from bands I’ve covered previously, some not, and we’ve also still got a few 2023Continue reading “New Playlist: February 2024”
Pressing Concerns: Heavenly, Cheekface, Girls Know, Fantastic Purple Spots
Welcome to the last Pressing Concerns of January, and the first of the week! We’ve got a big couple of days ahead of us, starting off with today’s post, which looks at the new Cheekface album, new EPs from Girls Know and Fantastic Purple Spots, and a reissue of Heavenly‘s third album (which also includesContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Heavenly, Cheekface, Girls Know, Fantastic Purple Spots”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2022 (25-1)
Here it is! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2022, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. Needless to say, these are all great records. You simply can’t go wrong with any of them. It was a three-record race for number one; I’m satisfied withContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2022 (25-1)”
New Playlist: July 2022
The Rosy Overdrive July 2022 playlist is here! A host of new music (but previously-touched on and thus far untouched on the blog), some selections from my 1980 exploration, and a couple random tunes, as always. Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires, Friendship, New You, Fox Japan, Gordon M. Phillips, and Perennial all haveContinue reading “New Playlist: July 2022”
Pressing Concerns: Cheekface, Kal Marks, Hellrazor, Tomato Flower
It’s the first Pressing Concerns of August, and it is a big one! Here, we look at new albums from Cheekface, Kal Marks, and Hellrazor, and a new EP from Tomato Flower. For the first time in what feels like forever, all four selections came out/will come out this very week (and there are aContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Cheekface, Kal Marks, Hellrazor, Tomato Flower”
New Playlist: June 2022
Welcome to the June 2022 Rosy Overdrive playlist! There are many good songs from the past month on here, as well as some songs not from 2022 that are still good and worth your time. You’ll see! ME REX, Motherhood, and Wire get two songs on this playlist. Guided by Voices get three (I’m backContinue reading “New Playlist: June 2022”
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