Here we are! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2025, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. By my count, I wrote about 343 albums on the blog this year (not counting a few posts that have yet to be published), so these are reallyContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (25-1)”
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New Playlist: November 2025
It’s time for the November 2025 playlist! A bunch of good songs from the past month and throughout this year features below. We’ll be wrapping up this year on the blog soon enough, but there’s still plenty of new stuff to take a look at yet. Buddie, The Melancholy Kings, and Mint Mile all haveContinue reading “New Playlist: November 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Sharp Pins, The Brokedowns, S.C.A.B., The King Canutes
It’s Thursday! The Pressing Concerns for today contains four albums that are out tomorrow (November 21st): new ones from Sharp Pins, The Brokedowns, S.C.A.B., and The King Canutes. Read on, and if you missed either of this week’s earlier blog posts (Monday’s featured Dogwood Gap, Via, Gazed and Bemused, and Blue Zero, and Tuesday’s featuredContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Sharp Pins, The Brokedowns, S.C.A.B., The King Canutes”
Pressing Concerns: Sharp Pins, Exploding Flowers, Motorbike, Ed Kuepper & Jim White
Third Pressing Concerns of the week! The “albums coming out tomorrow” edition! It’s the expanded vinyl release of the Sharp Pins album from last year, new LPs from Exploding Flowers and Motorbike, and a collaborative record from Ed Kuepper and Jim White. In addition, check out the Pressing Concerns from Monday (featuring Telethon, The Unfit,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Sharp Pins, Exploding Flowers, Motorbike, Ed Kuepper & Jim White”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2024 (75-51)
Welcome to part two (of four) of Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2024! 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. Friko – Where We’ve Been, Where We Go From Here Release date: FebruaryContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2024 (75-51)”
New Playlist: June 2024
Now we’re at the real halfway mark of the year (not just the mid-June “music blog mid-year list season” mark of the year), it’s time to wrap up all the good music I heard in June of this year. This month’s playlist has a bunch of stuff I’ve written about already in some form, asContinue reading “New Playlist: June 2024”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2024 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 2024 thus far, presented in alphabetical order. Thanks for reading! View part one of the list here. Here are links to stream a playlist of these selections via Spotify and Tidal (Bandcamp links are providedContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2024 So Far (Part 2 of 2)”
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)”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
Welcome to what is roughly the middle of the year, which means that it’s time for Rosy Overdrive to select forty records that we’ve loved above the rest in the first half of 2023. The last few months have been the busiest ever for the blog, which means that I’ve covered a lot of goodContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
New Playlist: April 2023
Well, well, well. If it isn’t the Rosy Overdrive April 2023 Playlist. And would you look at that, it features a ton of great songs from this year, a handful of tracks from 2022 that I am just now discovering, and a couple of songs from 1981 (more on what I’m doing back in 1981Continue reading “New Playlist: April 2023”
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