Hello! Welcome back (or just welcome) to Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025! Today reveals the top 50 albums on the list. Yesterday unveiled numbers 100 through 51, so be sure to check those out as well if you haven’t yet. See also:Part One (100-76)Part Two (75-51)Part Four (25-1)Playlist with all albums (Spotify link)Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (50-26)”
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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: October 2025
This is the Rosy Overdrive October 2025 playlist. Most of you know the drill already, but if you’re new here, here’s the deal: there’s a lot of good music below. Joel Cusumano, Alex Orange Drink, and Guitar have two songs on this playlist. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streamingContinue reading “New Playlist: October 2025”
Pressing Concerns: The Telephone Numbers, Guitar, Giant Day, Massage
It’s time for Pressing Concerns of the week number three! We’ve got brand-new albums from The Telephone Numbers, Guitar, Giant Day, and Massage for you to peruse below. Mark my words, this one’s going down as a classic. Also, if you missed either of this week’s earlier blog posts (on Monday, we looked at newContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: The Telephone Numbers, Guitar, Giant Day, Massage”
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”
New Playlist: February 2023
Welcome, all, to the February 2023 edition of the Rosy Overdrive monthly playlist. While last month’s playlist didn’t yet feature all that much music from the new year, this month I dove into 2023’s new offerings with a vengeance. This is a great one in terms of brand-new songs, truly. I had to cut aContinue reading “New Playlist: February 2023”
Pressing Concerns: Ivy, Prefect Records, Nicholas Merz, Lemon Pitch
Welcome to a Monday Pressing Concerns! For the last edition in February, we’re looking at a reissue from Ivy, a compilation from Prefect Records, and two brand-new records from Nicholas Merz and Lemon Pitch. Something for everyone here! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what elseContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Ivy, Prefect Records, Nicholas Merz, Lemon Pitch”
New Playlist: January 2023
Welcome to the Rosy Overdrive January 2023 playlist! This one features less “new” music than these typically do–there is some here, to be sure, but the bulk of my January listening was taken up by two “projects”. One was that I read the entirety of Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 MysteryContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2023”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (75-51)
Part two of the Rosy Overdrive year-end list! All the pertinent info (not that there is much, I mean, it’s a year-end list from a music blog) is in part one. See also:Part One (100-76)Part Three (50-26)Part Four (25-1)Spotify playlist of all the selections available on streaming 75. Mope City – Within the Walls ReleaseContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2021 (75-51)”
New Playlist: November 2021
The music world is winding things down for year-end list season (Rosy Overdrive will join them soon enough), but we are not done with November just yet. The latest edition of the Rosy Overdrive Monthly Playlist is the most “let’s cram a bunch of new music together while it’s all still fresh” edition thus far,Continue reading “New Playlist: November 2021”
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