Oh, man, it’s December! November’s over! I need to wrap this year up! But first, I have to wrap November up. So, here’s the Rosy Overdrive November 2024 playlist, featuring a bunch of brand new and exciting music, some of which has appeared in Pressing Concerns and some of which hasn’t. It’s another great one,Continue reading “New Playlist: November 2024”
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Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Frog Poems’
Release date: April 26thRecord label: SpartanGenre: Singer-songwriter, alt-rock, folk rock, post-punkFormats: Vinyl, digital Adhering to the rule of threes, Sam Goblin says “fuck” three times on the latest Mister Goblin album, Frog Poems. Although all these f-bombs are dropped in decidedly different ways, I do see a connecting thread between them and taking them asContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Frog Poems’”
Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2023
Today, we’re closing out Rosy Overdrive’s 2023 editorial lists with my favorite reissues and compilations from this year. As this list encompasses a fairly wide range of releases, it is unranked, unlike my Top Albums and Top EPs lists. This isn’t the end of all year-end lists on the site, however: the results of theContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Favorite Reissues and Compilations of 2023”
Premiere: Deady, “Uneeda”
Regular readers of Rosy Overdrive know of the blog’s appreciation of Mister Goblin, whose 2022 album Bunny was my favorite album of last year. In addition to his work with Mister Goblin, however, bandleader Sam Goblin has joined a new band, with the Bloomington, Indiana-based musician swinging down to Louisville to play guitar in theContinue reading “Premiere: Deady, “Uneeda””
Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Bunny’
Release date: April 22ndRecord label: Exploding in SoundGenre: Post-hardcore, alt-rock, indie folkFormats: Vinyl, digital This was supposed to be alt-country week on Pressing Concerns (and we’ll still get to it), but I cannot ignore Bunny any longer. The third Mister Goblin full-length record comes a little more than a year after 2021’s Four People inContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Bunny’”
Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, Nightshift, Kittyhawk, The Hold Steady, Styrofoam Winos, Bailter Space
In the fifth installment of Pressing Concerns, I highlight new albums by Mister Goblin, Nightshift, The Hold Steady, and Styrofoam Winos, and also discuss a compilation cassette of Kittyhawk’s non-LP material and the 25th anniversary reissue and remaster of Bailter Space’s Wammo. Be sure to check out previous editions of Pressing Concerns for more goodContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, Nightshift, Kittyhawk, The Hold Steady, Styrofoam Winos, Bailter Space”
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