Happy Thanksgiving! We have a Thursday Pressing Concerns today, featuring new albums from Mint Mile, Tulpa, The Melancholy Kings, and Split Apex. If you missed either of this week’s earlier blog posts (Monday was a Pressing Concerns featuring Bliss?, Ali Murray, Rose of the World, and Second Story Man), and Tuesday was the 2025 RosyContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mint Mile, Tulpa, The Melancholy Kings, Split Apex”
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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: September 2025
Happy Tuesday! Time for the September 2025 Playlist. It’s yet another edition featuring two hours of mostly-new, all-great music. Of course. Lawn, Miss Bones, and Golden Apples have two songs on this playlist. Silkworm and Liquid Mike have three. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streaming services: Spotify, Tidal. BeContinue reading “New Playlist: September 2025”
Whenever You Might Think It’s Over: Silkworm in Chicago 9/23/25 to 9/25/25
I saw the band Silkworm live in Chicago, Illinois. Three times, in fact. The first three shows of the group’s mini-tour from The Windy City to Tolono, Illinois (that’s Champaign-Urbana, effectively), and then Gonerfest in Memphis. Originally, they’d only announced one Chicago show, and my plan had been to hit Sleeping Village and then driveContinue reading “Whenever You Might Think It’s Over: Silkworm in Chicago 9/23/25 to 9/25/25”
New Playlist: August 2025
The August 2025 Playlist is here, featuring a bunch of great new music! Check it out below, of course. There won’t be a Tuesday blog post this week, so see you again on Thursday and enjoy this in the meantime! Retirement Party, Pile, and Tullycraft have two songs on this playlist. Here is where youContinue reading “New Playlist: August 2025”
Lay It Down in Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and Their Music (plus some words on Bottomless Pit)
Hello there, readers! Some of you may already know this, but yesterday, a book was announced called Lay It Down in Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and Their Music. It was edited by Paul Duffus and features a bunch of very good writers attempting to interpret, in some way or another, the work ofContinue reading “Lay It Down in Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and Their Music (plus some words on Bottomless Pit)”
Pressing Concerns: Silkworm, ‘Developer’ (Reissue)
Release date: February 21stRecord label: Comedy Minus OneGenre: 90s indie rock, SilkwormFormats: Vinyl, CD (included with LP) I’ve written about Silkworm more than I’ve written about any other band, but it’s not every day that Developer gets reissued, so here we go again. I have, in fact, written at least a paragraph about every Silkworm-relatedContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Silkworm, ‘Developer’ (Reissue)”
Pressing Concerns: Deep Tunnel Project, ‘Deep Tunnel Project’
Release date: April 5thRecord label: Comedy Minus OneGenre: 90s indie rock, punk, garage rock, noise rockFormats: Vinyl, CD, digital I’ve been aware of Chicago indie rock supergroup Deep Tunnel Project since they quietly released their first two singles in 2022 due to the involvement of Tim Midyett (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, Mint Mile), one of myContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Deep Tunnel Project, ‘Deep Tunnel Project’”
Pressing Concerns: Mint Mile, ‘Roughrider’
(Note: an edited and shortened version of this blog post was used as the press bio for this album. To mark the release of Roughrider, I’m presenting its original, long-winded form below.) Release date: February 23rdRecord label: Comedy Minus OneGenre: Alt-country, 90s indie rock, folk rock, Crazy Horse stuffFormats: Vinyl, digital It’s hard to believeContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mint Mile, ‘Roughrider’”
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”
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