Pressing Concerns: Karl Frog, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, Williamson Brothers, Perfect 100

Hello, readers! This Monday brings us a very full Pressing Concerns, one featuring new albums from Karl Frog, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, and Williamson Brothers, and the debut EP from Perfect 100. Another great one! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately.Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Karl Frog, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, Williamson Brothers, Perfect 100”

New Playlist: May 2025

Hey folks! Below we have the May 2025 playlist here for you, featuring a bunch of great new music that’s either recently been featured on the blog or is appearing on the website for the first time. No matter what, everything here is quality and has that “Rosy Overdrive seal of approval”. Labrador, Pacing, Friendship,Continue reading “New Playlist: May 2025”

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)”

Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2022

Rosy Overdrive has long been vocal about its love of small, independent record labels. They’ve consistently been a key way to find good, varied, new-to-me music, and they remain a valuable, people-based resource for music discovery in an age where the “industry” is openly trying to steer us away from such things. I’ve been thinkingContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2022”

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: The Cocker Spaniels, Williamson Brothers, Supreme Joy, Parting

It’s been awhile since Rosy Overdrive just had a good old-fashioned album roundup post. In the time between that last one and now, RO premiered a new single from Jack Habegger’s Celebrity Telethon, went long on the newest St. Lenox album, and gathered up the forty best albums to come out in 2021 thus far.Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Cocker Spaniels, Williamson Brothers, Supreme Joy, Parting”

Nine EPs I enjoyed from 2020

If nine EPs isn’t enough 2020 music for you, I encourage you to check out my four-part best albums of 2020 overview. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – 2-4-6-8 Motorway Release date: October 30thRecord label: Don Giovanni RecordsGenre: Southern rock, punk rockPull track: The Company Man (Acoustic)Synopsis: No new original songs here, unfortunately,Continue reading “Nine EPs I enjoyed from 2020”