The Test Drive: Pure Phase Ensemble 4 feat. Mark Gardener – Live at SpaceFest!
A lot has happened since the Shoegaze heyday in the 1990s, but more and more, this year is proving to be one of the Shoegaze revival, with bands like Ride, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Medicine reforming...
The Test Drive: Trip Wire – Get In And Get Out
For fans of those indie bands of yesteryear like The Replacements, R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü (like me) then Trip Wire is most definitely for you! From the opening of "Fall Through" to the ending of...
First Listen: Autopsy Boys – Song For Debbera
Huge fans of eighties B-movie horrors, the kind that are so bad they’re good, Autopsy Boys formed after seeing Troma Movies' ‘Surf Nazi’s Must Die’. Researching the equipment used on the original sound track,...
Daily Dose: Jacob Keplinger – Learn To Love
With the release of his full length album Why Am I Keeping This To Myself?, songwriter Jacob Keplinger brings an alternative and electronic edge to indie rock. Lush with electro synths, layered guitar hooks,...
Jammerzine Exclusive: Meet Neil C. Young
I have a new guitar hero and his name is Neil C. Young. His playing is the perfect mix of composition, finesse, and originality. I starting playing guitar when I was ten years old...
Daily Dose: Hope Spin – Because You’re Lyin’
Hailing from and born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Hope; a singer, rapper and dancer was born on the 14th of November. She has been honored with various awards of recognition from within the independent music industry over...
The Test Drive: The Bros. Landreth – Let It Lie
"Let It Lie" is the new album from Canadian alt-rockers The Bros. Landreth. The band itself is a tight outfit poised to take the country scene by storm but just underneath that lies the...
Daily Dose: Jared Lutes – I Am Overcome
A 15-year veteran of both stage and studio, I am Moncton, NB singer-songwriter Jared Lutes. I have enjoyed consistent airplay and interviews on CBC Radio, earned live performances on local TV, appeared at many...
Daily Dose: Middle Africa – Vicious
Middle Africa brings forth a punishing brand of Urban Rock. Rock, rock and more rock...even speed metal too.
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First Listen: Aleks Grey – Unstoppable
With an incessant groove straight out of a Grammy nomination, Aleks Grey kicks off his new single "Unstoppable" with the hook and said groove that lives up every bit to the tracks title. Indie...
First Listen: The Winachi Tribe – Plant The Seed
The Winachi Tribe have lifted a second single from their 'Time for Love' EP. 'Plant the Seed' will be released on September 25th on A1M records. The track sees the band collaborating with Julie...
Daily Dose: The Hawthorne Effect – Devil Don’t Care
The Hawthorne Effect is the phenomenon by which knowing one is being observed affects one’s behavior. Every day we are watched by eyes in the sky, by computers and cell phones, by others around...
The Test Drive: Hot Glew – May I Come In?
Hot Glew is the brainchild of Nashville native Brett Keller. Nashville has long been the music Mecca east of the Mississippi and this is yet more proof of this. What we have here is...
Daily Dose: Soul Chatter – Spare Change
Roots rock, indie, folk-influenced, white soul, retro; ultimately the listener will decide what label(s) apply. We take the lyrics pretty damned seriously (at least the lyricist does), and we work to create soul stirring...
Jammerzine Exclusive: All Ups For Downers
Last week we did a Test Drive feature on Downers' new EP "Noose". You can see by that article that Downers are clearly a force to be reckoned with. This is a band with...
First Listen: Tony Steele and The Massacre – Starting From Scratch
Tony Steele is an epitome of a troubadour with the rock sensibility to not only write a catchy hook but to give it a meaning and a purpose. "Starting From Scratch" is proof positive that...
Daily Dose: Crimson Crux – Scarred
Formed in the Winter of 2011, Crimson Crux is a Christian/Folk/Rock group from the High Desert of Southern CA, consisting of husband/wife duo Nathan Petty (founder/songwriter/acoustic guitars) & Tanya Petty (vocals) accompanied by Paul...
The Test Drive: My Cruel Goro – My Cruel Goro
Likely not many have pondered on what the result would be musically if you were to add one dash of Italy and one dash of Icelend, for instance. Sounds more like the recipe for...
Daily Dose: Deborah Crooks – Room 223
Bay Area songwriter Deborah Crooks has released three CD's of critically noted original music drawing on folk, rock, Americana and the Blues. Her diverse, ever-evolving artistic career has included studying writing and poetics at...
Daily Dose: Mitchell Thomas – Gonna Happen Again
Mitchell Thomas is a guitarist, composer, producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist who writes and performs a blend of rock, jazz, world music and hip-hop. Born in Petaluma, California, Mitch was born into a musical family,...
The Test Drive: Rock Back For Nepal Volume 3
A couple weeks ago I reviewed the Rock Back for Nepal Volume 2 and, after hearing Volume 3, now think Volume 3 is the strongest of the three. But not by much as all...
Daily Dose: Dead Bouquet – Haven’t You Said It
Dead Bouquet is a rock trio that expresses mystical and nocturne atmospheres through moors of eclectic psychedelia, sealed by distortions from a twelve string acoustic guitar and characterized by folk, Celtic and boundary sonorities,...
The Test Drive: Painted Fish – Painted Fish
With a distinct swagger all their own combined with the attitude of The B-52s, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, and Alannah Myles, Florida based band Painted Fish have painted themselves as the feel good pop-rock...
Daily Dose: Mikey Jahbree Wooley – Wild Flower
Mikey Jahbree Wooley is a 20 year old folk and alternative singer/songwriter from Bridgewater, NJ. Mikey's music is rooted in Folk but also infuses elements of funk, soul, jazz and reggae. Mikey's new full...
Daily Dose: Blue and Broke – Halfway
Blue and Broke has been silent for over 10 years after a period of lot of gigs and songwriting. Now they're back to conquer not the world but your heart, knowing they're just halfway...