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 Label Watch 2025
Welcome to the fourth annual Rosy Overdrive Label Watch! It’s time to check in on what a dozen (give or take) of Rosy Overdrive’s favorite modern labels have been up to for the past few months, and pull a couple of highlights from each one. For the second straight year, I’m doing this during (American)Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2025”
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: March 2025
The March 2025 playlist is here! It’s been a very good month for new music from my vantage point, and I’m excited to share a bunch of it with you below. I’d like to borrow a phrase from all the publicists who email me and call this playlist “my most personal one to date” (thatContinue reading “New Playlist: March 2025”
New Playlist: January 2025
Hey there! It’s time for the January 2025 Rosy Overdrive playlist and round-up. There was a lot of good music that came out last month, and this playlist corrals much of it in addition to some songs from albums from 2024 that I missed initially and a few selections from my journey into the yearContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2025”
Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2024
Today, we’re closing out Rosy Overdrive’s 2024 editorial lists with my favorite reissues and compilations from this year. As this list encompasses a fairly wide range of releases, it is unranked, unlike my Top Albums and Top EPs lists. This isn’t the end of all year-end lists on the site, however: the results of theContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2024”
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”
New Playlist: January 2024
Hello, and welcome to the first 2024-based edition of Rosy Overdrive’s monthly playlist and round-up! The December/January ones are always fun because they’re the most random of these: you’ve got stuff from January releases, singles from records coming out later in the year, a bunch of songs from 2023 that I found through other people’sContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2024”
Pressing Concerns: Fust, Arcwelder, Knowso, Still Ruins
We’ve got two different Pressing Concerns going up this holiday-shortened week, and the first one’s a heater, featuring new albums from Arcwelder and Knowso, a compilation of EPs from Fust, and a new EP from Still Ruins. In other news, you can now browse the website by record label, which is a neat new featureContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Fust, Arcwelder, Knowso, Still Ruins”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (50-26)
Hello! Welcome back (or just welcome) to Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023! 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 2023 (50-26)”
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