Pressing Concerns: Earwig, Sting Pain Index, Dietz, Addicus

December or not, there’s still plenty of new music to cover in Pressing Concerns. Today, we’ve got new albums from Dietz and Addicus, as well as new EPs from Earwig and Sting Pain Index. Check them out below! We did have a Pressing Concerns go up on Thanksgiving (featuring Mint Mile, Tulpa, The Melancholy Kings,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Earwig, Sting Pain Index, Dietz, Addicus”

Pressing Concerns: The Triceratops, wilder Thing, EEP, Tess Parks

It’s November already, which is hard to believe. In fact, three of the albums in this Monday Pressing Concerns came out last Friday, the 1st of the month: new LPs from The Triceratops, wilder Thing, and EEP (plus an album from Tess Parks from late October). This is a nice and weird one! If you’reContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Triceratops, wilder Thing, EEP, Tess Parks”

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)”

Pressing Concerns: Chime School, EEP, Gold Dust, Galactic Static

The November era of Pressing Concerns has begun! Today we’re looking at two records that come out this Friday—the debut from San Francisco’s Chime School, and the sophomore album from El Paso’s EEP—as well as two October highlights from Gold Dust and Galactic Static. If you’re looking for more new music, you can browse previousContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Chime School, EEP, Gold Dust, Galactic Static”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 2 of 2)

If you’re only just now joining us: this is part two of my list of my favorite forty albums of 2021 thus far, presented in reverse alphabetical order. Thanks for reading! View part one of the list here. Listen to/follow a playlist of these albums here. Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns Release date: January 22nd RecordContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 2 of 2)”

New Playlist: April 2021

At long last, the Rosy Overdrive “songs I enjoyed listening to in April 2021, not necessarily released in April 2021 but obviously there’s a lot of overlap” overview has gone live. Featuring: plenty of songs from albums/EPs that I’ve already written about on this blog, new music from upcoming releases I hope to cover furtherContinue reading “New Playlist: April 2021”

Pressing Concerns: Ross Ingram, Jacober, Oblivion Orchestra, Birthday Ass

Welcome to a special early-in-the-week edition of Pressing Concerns! Since we last spoke, a piece that I contributed to went up on the great Osmosis Tones blog. Zach Zollo (Mr. Tones himself) and I discuss a few bands we both think deserve more attention—in this issue, we discussed The Cleaners from Venus, Pere Ubu, Brainiac,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Ross Ingram, Jacober, Oblivion Orchestra, Birthday Ass”