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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Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2025 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
Hello there, and welcome to the midway mark of 2025, I suppose (basically, I noticed other websites putting up their mid-year favorites and thought “well, guess I better start getting mine together now!”). Below, you’ll find forty records that RO loved more than anything else so far this year. Of course, there’s a bunch ofContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2025 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
New Playlist: March 2025
The March 2025 playlist is here! It’s been a very good month for new music from my vantage point, and I’m excited to share a bunch of it with you below. I’d like to borrow a phrase from all the publicists who email me and call this playlist “my most personal one to date” (thatContinue reading “New Playlist: March 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Telethon, The Unfit, Quinine, LP Gavin
First Pressing Concerns of the week! New albums from Telethon and LP Gavin, a compilation album of singles and EPs from The Unfit, and a new EP from Quinine. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to supportContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Telethon, The Unfit, Quinine, LP Gavin”
New Playlist: April 2022
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the Rosy Overdrive playlist, which presents to you more than two hours’ worth of good, mostly new (but with some exceptions) music. Glad you could make it! Joyride!, Golden Boots, MJ Lenderman, and Sadurn get multiple songs on the playlist this time around (Oceanator and Allison Crutchfield alsoContinue reading “New Playlist: April 2022”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (25-1)
Hello, readers! This is it–the final twenty-five records in Rosy Overdrive’s 100 favorites of the year. More context can be found in the first post if needed, but let me just say: these albums are all phenomenal. I loved more records this year than any other in a long time, and these 25 I lovedContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (25-1)”
New Playlist: September 2021
The Rosy Overdrive monthly playlist is back! It’s the September edition this time! This one is very good, in my opinion! You will find plenty of new music here, as well as a few discoveries from my 1996 deep dive, and a couple of miscellaneous tracks. Artists with multiple tracks this time around: Telethon (4),Continue reading “New Playlist: September 2021”
Pressing Concerns: Telethon, Smoke Bellow, Cashmere Washington, Buffalo Daughter
The second September edition of Pressing Concerns takes on new albums from Telethon, Smoke Bellow, and Buffalo Daughter, as well as the debut EP from Cashmere Washington. If you need more new music, you can browse previous editions of Pressing Concerns. Rosy Overdrive has also recently added a site directory, which will hopefully make navigatingContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Telethon, Smoke Bellow, Cashmere Washington, Buffalo Daughter”
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