Here it is, friends: Rosy Overdrive’s March 2024 playlist/round-up. This one’s pretty much entirely new music, as I’ve been fully submerged in what 2024 has to offer in the past month. It’s also a little later than normal as I was on vacation the last week of March, but this is still just about theContinue reading “New Playlist: March 2024”
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The Rosy Overdrive 2023 Reader’s Poll: Results
Rosy Overdrive has already chosen its favorite albums, EPs, and compilations/reissues of 2023, but we’re closing out our year-end list season by handing it over to you, the readers. We asked you about your favorite albums, songs, EP, and label of the year, and you certainly answered–we received 61 different ballots from November 27th toContinue reading “The Rosy Overdrive 2023 Reader’s Poll: Results”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)
Here it is! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2023, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. This was the hardest year yet in terms of the top; specifically, the top twelve albums on the list I kept rearranging up until press time. I’m moreContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2023 (25-1)”
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”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
Welcome to what is roughly the middle of the year, which means that it’s time for Rosy Overdrive to select forty records that we’ve loved above the rest in the first half of 2023. The last few months have been the busiest ever for the blog, which means that I’ve covered a lot of goodContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
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”
Pressing Concerns: Washer, ‘Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends’
Release date: April 28thRecord label: Exploding in SoundGenre: Garage rock, post-punk, punkFormats: Vinyl, digitalPull Track: King Insignificant I’ve never talked about Washer on Rosy Overdrive before, but then, the Brooklyn/Philadelphia-based duo of Kieran McShane and Mike Quigley had been pretty quiet for the duration of this blog’s existence up until quite recently. A few yearsContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Washer, ‘Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends’”
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