Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (75-51)

Welcome to part two (of four) of Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025! This post covers albums 75 through 51. For any and all background info, see part one. See also:Part One (100-76)Part Three (50-26)Part Four (25-1)Playlist links (Spotify) (Tidal) 75. The Bats – Corner Coming Up Release date: October 17thRecord label: Flying NunGenre:Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (75-51)”

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”

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”

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)

Here it is! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2023, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. This was the hardest year yet in terms of the top; specifically, the top twelve albums on the list I kept rearranging up until press time. I’m moreContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)”

New Playlist: November 2023

Rosy Overdrive is rolling full steam ahead into December, but first, a look back at a bunch of songs I’ve enjoyed over this past month. Plenty of miscellaneous 2023 releases in here as I put together the blog’s various year-end lists and give everything I’ve meant to give a listen a little bit of attentionContinue reading “New Playlist: November 2023”

Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2023

About a year ago, I made a blog post called “Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2022“, in which I checked in on what a dozen of my favorite still-active labels had been up to during that year. I really enjoyed doing it (last year I wrote that “[small, independent record labels have] consistently been a keyContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive Label Watch 2023”

Pressing Concerns: Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Maria Elena Silva, Rory Strong, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti

What a turnaround! Just yesterday, you were reading the Monday edition of Pressing Concerns and enjoying new music from Seablite, Means and Ways, Sandy Pylos, and No Drama. You only had to wait one more day for the next edition, and it’s another all-timer, featuring new albums from Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, MariaContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Maria Elena Silva, Rory Strong, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti”