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)”
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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)”
Pressing Concerns: Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, States of Nature, The Special Pillow, Shadow Show
It’s the start of the new week, and the first Pressing Concerns of it is taking a look at four records that came out over the last couple days: new albums from Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, States of Nature, and Shadow Show, and a new EP from The Special Pillow. If you’re lookingContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, States of Nature, The Special Pillow, Shadow Show”
New Playlist: January 2024
Hello, and welcome to the first 2024-based edition of Rosy Overdrive’s monthly playlist and round-up! The December/January ones are always fun because they’re the most random of these: you’ve got stuff from January releases, singles from records coming out later in the year, a bunch of songs from 2023 that I found through other people’sContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2024”
Premiere: Tucker Riggleman & the Cheap Dates, “Queen of Diamonds”
One of the first records I wrote about on this blog was Alive and Dying Fast, the debut full-length album from West Virginia’s Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, which ended up being one of my favorite albums of 2021. Riggleman has been playing in bands around Appalachia for over a decade now–he led theContinue reading “Premiere: Tucker Riggleman & the Cheap Dates, “Queen of Diamonds””
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”
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)”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
Well: the year is nearly halfway over, so I shall now commemorate it by sharing my forty favorite records from it thus far with you, the Rosy Overdrive reader. I could have done more than forty albums. I have heard significantly more than forty good albums so far this year, many of which you canContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2021 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
New Playlist: January 2021
Good morning/afternoon, readers. I am back with again with my monthly exorcism of all the music I absorbed over the past 31 days. January was very much a month of transition—with regards to what music I was listening to, I mean. In terms of new releases, you’ll find some 2020 stragglers as well as brandContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2021”
Pressing Concerns: Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, Subsonic Eye, Palberta, Dave Scanlon, Cub Scout Bowling Pins, Kiwi Jr.
The first month of 2021 is about to be wrapped up, and I’m back to tell you about the albums I enjoyed the most over the past few weeks. In this installment of Pressing Concerns, I review the debut LP of Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, Kiwi Jr.‘s avoidance of the sophomore slump, left-turnContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, Subsonic Eye, Palberta, Dave Scanlon, Cub Scout Bowling Pins, Kiwi Jr.”
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