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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New Playlist: November 2025
It’s time for the November 2025 playlist! A bunch of good songs from the past month and throughout this year features below. We’ll be wrapping up this year on the blog soon enough, but there’s still plenty of new stuff to take a look at yet. Buddie, The Melancholy Kings, and Mint Mile all haveContinue reading “New Playlist: November 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Mint Mile, Tulpa, The Melancholy Kings, Split Apex
Happy Thanksgiving! We have a Thursday Pressing Concerns today, featuring new albums from Mint Mile, Tulpa, The Melancholy Kings, and Split Apex. If you missed either of this week’s earlier blog posts (Monday was a Pressing Concerns featuring Bliss?, Ali Murray, Rose of the World, and Second Story Man), and Tuesday was the 2025 RosyContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mint Mile, Tulpa, The Melancholy Kings, Split Apex”
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”
Whenever You Might Think It’s Over: Silkworm in Chicago 9/23/25 to 9/25/25
I saw the band Silkworm live in Chicago, Illinois. Three times, in fact. The first three shows of the group’s mini-tour from The Windy City to Tolono, Illinois (that’s Champaign-Urbana, effectively), and then Gonerfest in Memphis. Originally, they’d only announced one Chicago show, and my plan had been to hit Sleeping Village and then driveContinue reading “Whenever You Might Think It’s Over: Silkworm in Chicago 9/23/25 to 9/25/25”
Lay It Down in Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and Their Music (plus some words on Bottomless Pit)
Hello there, readers! Some of you may already know this, but yesterday, a book was announced called Lay It Down in Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and Their Music. It was edited by Paul Duffus and features a bunch of very good writers attempting to interpret, in some way or another, the work ofContinue reading “Lay It Down in Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and Their Music (plus some words on Bottomless Pit)”
New Playlist: July 2025
The July 2025 playlist is here, and it’s a great one! It’s full of hit singles, both from albums I’ve written about recently and some from albums I’m looking forwarding to hearing later this year. Julian Cubillos, Gosh Diggity, Beauty, Mal Blum, and Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra have two songs on this playlist.Continue reading “New Playlist: July 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Silkworm, ‘Developer’ (Reissue)
Release date: February 21stRecord label: Comedy Minus OneGenre: 90s indie rock, SilkwormFormats: Vinyl, CD (included with LP) I’ve written about Silkworm more than I’ve written about any other band, but it’s not every day that Developer gets reissued, so here we go again. I have, in fact, written at least a paragraph about every Silkworm-relatedContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Silkworm, ‘Developer’ (Reissue)”
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”
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