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”
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New Playlist: October 2025
This is the Rosy Overdrive October 2025 playlist. Most of you know the drill already, but if you’re new here, here’s the deal: there’s a lot of good music below. Joel Cusumano, Alex Orange Drink, and Guitar have two songs on this playlist. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streamingContinue reading “New Playlist: October 2025”
Pressing Concerns: The Telephone Numbers, Guitar, Giant Day, Massage
It’s time for Pressing Concerns of the week number three! We’ve got brand-new albums from The Telephone Numbers, Guitar, Giant Day, and Massage for you to peruse below. Mark my words, this one’s going down as a classic. Also, if you missed either of this week’s earlier blog posts (on Monday, we looked at newContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Telephone Numbers, Guitar, Giant Day, Massage”
Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2022
Today, we’re closing out both Rosy Overdrive’s Year-End List season and 2022 as a whole 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. Here are links to stream this list on various services:Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2022”
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”
Pressing Concerns: Feeble Little Horse, Star Party, Massage, Premium Rat
The second Rosy Overdrive post of the week, following Monday’s February overview/playlist, looks at two reissues out this Friday: Feeble Little Horse’s Modern Tourism (on cassette, with bonus tracks) and Massage’s Oh Boy (on vinyl), as well as new records from Star Party and Premium Rat. If you’re looking for more new music, you canContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Feeble Little Horse, Star Party, Massage, Premium Rat”
New Playlist: February 2022
Rosy Overdrive’s February 2022 review/overview/miscellaneous listening report is here! There is a lot of great music from this year out already, and my selections reflect this. In terms of older music, I’m well into a 1992 deep dive, so you’ll see a few songs from that year mixed in as well. Big Thief has twoContinue reading “New Playlist: February 2022”
Pressing Concerns: Massage, Uncle Bengine and the Restraining Orders, Piel, Joe Peppercorn
Rosy Overdrive’s last Pressing Concerns of 2021 looks at the new EP from Massage, as well as December full-length releases from Uncle Bengine & The Restraining Orders, Piel, and Joe Peppercorn. If you’re looking for more new music, you can browse previous editions of Pressing Concerns or visit the site directory. Rosy Overdrive is inContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Massage, Uncle Bengine and the Restraining Orders, Piel, Joe Peppercorn”
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