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”

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: Pere Ubu, ‘Nuke the Whales 2006-2014’

Release date: April 1stRecord label: FireGenre: Post-punk, art punk, experimental rockFormats: Vinyl, digital Nuke the Whales 2006-2014 is the fifth in Fire Recordings’ series of box sets compiling the vital work of Cleveland’s Pere Ubu, an anthology that has provided hours of proof that the band has a lot more to offer than a handfulContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Pere Ubu, ‘Nuke the Whales 2006-2014’”

Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2021

To wrap up 2021, Rosy Overdrive is looking back at some of its favorite reissues, compilations, and archival releases of the year. I’ve chosen sixteen to highlight here (as well as a few honorable mentions at the end); a few entries cover several albums’ worth of music. Because of the wide variety among these selections,Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2021”

My 100 Favorite Albums from 2020 (Part 3 of 4)

Link to Part 1 Here Link to Part 2 Here And we barrel forward. Exciting, right? Brian Mietz – Panzarotti Release date: March 2nd Record label: Self-released Genre: Pop rock, power pop Pull track: Hollyweed Synopsis: I don’t really know much about Brian Mietz, except for the fact that he’s a poster artist and he’sContinue reading “My 100 Favorite Albums from 2020 (Part 3 of 4)”