(Note: an edited and shortened version of this blog post was used as the press bio for this album. To mark the release of Roughrider, I’m presenting its original, long-winded form below.) Release date: February 23rdRecord label: Comedy Minus OneGenre: Alt-country, 90s indie rock, folk rock, Crazy Horse stuffFormats: Vinyl, digital It’s hard to believeContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mint Mile, ‘Roughrider’”
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New Playlist: January 2022
Rosy Overdrive’s January overview is going up a week into February, but that’s pretty par for the course, and one can’t rush perfection. Or playlists. There are fewer songs on this one, mostly because two of them push ten minutes, and the December/January playlists are always a little weird, but there’s no dip in qualityContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2022”
All Out of Malice: Every Silkworm and Silkworm-Related Record, Ranked
If you chose to read this, you probably know who Silkworm were, but I’ll try to briefly go over it for anyone who doesn’t. Silkworm formed in the late 1980s in Missoula, featuring singer/guitarists Andrew Cohen and Joel Phelps and singer/bassist Tim Midyett, and then moved to Seattle and added Michael Dahlquist, the greatest drummerContinue reading “All Out of Malice: Every Silkworm and Silkworm-Related Record, Ranked”
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