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)”
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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”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2022 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
It is mid-June, which means it is now time for Rosy Overdrive to choose forty records that have stood out in the first six (or so) months of 2022. As per usual, there were more than forty good records to come out this year, many of which I’ve written about elsewhere on the site, soContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2022 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
New Playlist: April 2022
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the Rosy Overdrive playlist, which presents to you more than two hours’ worth of good, mostly new (but with some exceptions) music. Glad you could make it! Joyride!, Golden Boots, MJ Lenderman, and Sadurn get multiple songs on the playlist this time around (Oceanator and Allison Crutchfield alsoContinue reading “New Playlist: April 2022”
Pressing Concerns: MJ Lenderman, Golden Boots, La Bonte, Ali Murray
This week on Pressing Concerns, we’ll look at new albums from MJ Lenderman, Golden Boots, and Ali Murray, and a new EP from La Bonte. If you like alt-country and/or slowcore, then this is the week for you. I also wrote about Bunny, the latest record from Mister Goblin, earlier this week. If you’re lookingContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: MJ Lenderman, Golden Boots, La Bonte, Ali Murray”
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”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2021
2021 was a great EP year, by my estimation. Maybe it’s because the pandemic made EPs more practical vis-à-vis full-lengths to release than normal, maybe because I’m more in touch with smaller (and thus more likely to release EPs) bands than normal this year, but I liked a lot of EPs this year. I choseContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2021”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (50-26)
Hello! Welcome, and thank you either once again or for the first time for reading. Today (Tuesday, December 7th), Rosy Overdrive’s Top 50 albums of 2021 are finally revealed. There’s a longer year-end preamble from one of yesterday’s posts (which highlighted albums 51 through 100), but do you really need it to understand what’s goingContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (50-26)”
New Playlist: August 2021
The August edition of the Rosy Overdrive playlist has landed, for all your reading and listening needs! You will find plenty of new music here, as well as a few discoveries from my 1996 deep dive, and a couple of miscellaneous tracks. The Cocker Spaniels, MJ Lenderman, and Wednesday all have two songs on theContinue reading “New Playlist: August 2021”
Pressing Concerns: Under the First Floor, MJ Lenderman, Carmen Q. Rothwell, Grace Vonderkuhn
This edition of pressing concerns covers new albums and EPs from MJ Lenderman, Carmen Q. Rothwell, and Grace Vonderkuhn, as well as the latest edition of the Under the First Floor podcast mixtape. You can browse previous editions of Pressing Concerns for plenty of new music, and the end-of-August playlist will hopefully go up laterContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Under the First Floor, MJ Lenderman, Carmen Q. Rothwell, Grace Vonderkuhn”
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