Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2023

Today, we’re closing out Rosy Overdrive’s 2023 editorial lists 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. This isn’t the end of all year-end lists on the site, however: the results of theContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2023”

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: Seablite, Means and Ways, Sandy Pylos, No Drama

Welcome to the working week (I’ve probably used that one before, but I’ve done so many of these at this point, I think I’m allowed to)! Anyway, this is a good and varied edition of Pressing Concerns, featuring new albums from Means and Ways and Sandy Pylos, a new EP from No Drama, and aContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Seablite, Means and Ways, Sandy Pylos, No Drama”

New Playlist: September 2023

Hello! It sure is October now, which means we’re wrapping up September with a good, old-fashioned round-up post. You’ll notice a fair selection of songs from 1993 in this one; if that particular section of this post intrigues you, stay tuned in the upcoming weeks for more on music from that era. Otherwise, the stuffContinue reading “New Playlist: September 2023”

Pressing Concerns: Thanks for Coming, Modern Nature, Grass Jaw, Seablite

Thursday? Indeed. After an eventful week on Rosy Overdrive, the third and final Pressing Concerns of the week has arrived, offering up some thoughts on new albums from Modern Nature, Grass Jaw, and Seablite, and a new EP from Thanks for Coming. All of these records are out tomorrow, except for the Grass Jaw record,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Thanks for Coming, Modern Nature, Grass Jaw, Seablite”