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”

Pressing Concerns: Neighboring Sounds, Dot Dash, Flat Mary Road, Colt Wave

I’m hoping all U.S.-based Rosy Overdrive readers had a nice holiday weekend. Since I’m guessing a lot of you missed the second post from last week (it went up the day before Thanksgiving and featured The Veldt, Feeling Figures, The Ground Is Lava, and The Anderson Tapes), I’ll go ahead and re-share it before weContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Neighboring Sounds, Dot Dash, Flat Mary Road, Colt Wave”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2022 (100-76)

We’re finally here! Welcome to the third annual (and second annual ranked version of) Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of the Year. Today, albums 51 through 100 are being posted, and tomorrow (Tuesday, December 6th), the top 50 will be revealed. 2021 was a successful debut year for Rosy Overdrive, and this year was evenContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2022 (100-76)”

New Playlist: November 2022

Welcome to the November edition of Pressing Concerns! This is the last post on Rosy Overdrive before year-end list time begins–yes, you’ll see some of the bands here again soon. Also present here are a few more selections from my 1997 deep dive, which should continue into next month as well. Kevin Dorff is theContinue reading “New Playlist: November 2022”

Pressing Concerns: Nightshift, Dot Dash, Husbands, Evening Glass

Welcome to the last Pressing Concerns of November! This time, we look at new albums from Nightshift, Dot Dash, and Husbands, and a new EP from Evening Glass. This will be the last Pressing Concerns before Rosy Overdrive year-end season begins, but I plan to mix in a few of these in with the end-of-yearContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Nightshift, Dot Dash, Husbands, Evening Glass”