Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2024 (50-26)

Hello! Welcome back (or just welcome) to Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2024! 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 2024 (50-26)”

Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2024

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”

Pressing Concerns: Dummy, Fig Dish, Dagwood, Prim

It’s been an entire week since we’ve had a Pressing Concerns, which is pretty rare these days thanks to a troubling devotion by the person running this blog. We did have the August 2024 playlist go up earlier this week, though, which hopefully kept you animals sated until today, where we look at three newContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Dummy, Fig Dish, Dagwood, Prim”

Pressing Concerns: Mo Troper, Lou Turner, Dummy, S. Raekwon

The first Pressing Concerns of the month looks at new albums from Mo Troper and Lou Turner, a new EP from S. Raekwon, and a compilation of two older EPs from Dummy. September 2nd appears to be a stacked release date–I’m not done with it yet, so look for a few records coming out thisContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mo Troper, Lou Turner, Dummy, S. Raekwon”

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”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (100-76)

I don’t want to do a big preamble to the year-end list this time around. It’s long enough as it is. This year, it is 100 albums, ranked. 51 through 100 go up today (Monday, December 6th), and 1 through 50 will be posted the day after (Tuesday, 12/7). Thanks for reading. …Okay, fine. RosyContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (100-76)”

Pressing Concerns: Dummy, The Stick Figures, ZOO, Cuffed Up

This week, a very special episode of Pressing Concerns discusses debut albums from Dummy and ZOO, an archival release from The Stick Figures, and the latest EP from Cuffed Up. If you’re looking for more new music, you can browse previous editions of Pressing Concerns or visit the site directory. Dummy – Mandatory Enjoyment ReleaseContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Dummy, The Stick Figures, ZOO, Cuffed Up”

New Playlist: August 2021

The August edition of the Rosy Overdrive playlist has landed, for all your reading and listening needs! You will find plenty of new music here, as well as a few discoveries from my 1996 deep dive, and a couple of miscellaneous tracks. The Cocker Spaniels, MJ Lenderman, and Wednesday all have two songs on theContinue reading “New Playlist: August 2021”