The Test Drive: Maze – Chaos Interrupted
Maze has today released their new album titled 'Chaos Interrupted'. This is an album that, to me, is the perfect example of what a true album should be. A set of songs that flow into each other in such a way as to create a flow, much like a good book.
The Test Drive: Pershagen – Hilma
Pershagen has today released their new album titled 'Hilma'. Recorded and mastered in its own world, 'Hilma' showcases this Swedish band's virtuosic highlights while also giving us a glimpse into their musical minds and...
The Test Drive: Tone Ranger – Desert Rose
Tone Ranger is set to release his new album titled 'Desert Rose' on May 6th. A continuance of the evolution brought by 'Follow The Sun', his previous EP, 'Desert Rose' sees a bit...
The Test Drive: Linnea’s Garden – Fashion Show + Exclusive Interview
There's some music that makes you feel a part of something. That invites you in, either to a personal memory or a cultural phenomenon. Boston trip Linnea's Garden manages to welcome us into both, walking the tightrope between personal and public as if it were a wide trail. Their newest record, Fashion Show, offers homages to post-punk and insightful lyrics on the relationship of personhood and performance.
The Test Drive: Joey Harkum – Salt and Tar + Tour Dates
Joey Harkum has today released his new album titled 'Salt and Tar'. Homegrown Americana and easy going travel-rock, Joey Harkum paints an endearing portrait of life, love, loss, and longing with a set of songs individually wrapped in honesty and presented with pride and affection.
The Test Drive: Plain Mister Smith – I’m Just Plain Mister Smith
Plain Mister Smith has today released his new full-length LP titled 'I'm Just Plain Mister Smith'. A wide and varied rock/pop project a long time in the making, this next evolution in this artist's revolution sees a deepening of the earlier EP and adds more dimensions with a welcoming and unique blend of sounds that create a beautiful experience with day-making hooks and vivid sonic pastels.
The Test Drive: Udoka Malachi – Palace Lumumba
Udoka Malachi has released his new album titled 'Palace Lumumba'. Recorded after a hiatus and with a fresh outlook on life, love, and genre hopping influences, Udoka takes said influences and makes a hip "pop' soul opus with RnB, jazz, and bits of rock underlying the lyrics of someone whose lived those lyrics and not merely mirrored life and took what they thought would be cool.
The Test Drive: Sugar For The Pill – Wanderlust
Sugar For the Pill has released their new album titled 'Wanderlust'. Considering this is their first full length album, there is a lot here content-wise yet their is also a goo amount of experience considering the band's age.
The Test Drive: Maddox Jones – Believe It
Maddox Jones has today released his new album titled 'Believe It' on Radikal Records. That mixture of electro-pop and original songwriting act like little rushes of blood to the head with hooks woven into hooks and a tight sound that is as creative as it is signature.
The Test Drive: Lee Michael Stevens – Part-Time Rock ‘N’ Roll Star + Tour...
Lee Michael Stevens has today released his new album titled 'Part-Time Rock 'N' Roll Star', featuring Dale Davis (Amy Winehouse's bassist) on track 3 'Alone'.
The Test Drive: Isle 7 – Old Council
Isle 7 has released their new album titled 'Old Council'. Some bands were destined to be together. Isle 7 is a prefect example of this. Having disbanded and reunited, sometimes that break is needed in order to produce the best music you can. And 'Old Council' is ten accounts to that testimony.
The Test Drive: Damokles – Nights Come Alive
Norway's Damokles has today released their new album title 'Nights Come Alive' via Vinter Records. Harsh like a habit and sonically larger than life, Damokle makes the album like a live show with the angst and anger reflecting the mood of today.
The Test Drive: Sukhmani – Here
Sukhmani has today released her new EP titled 'Here'. If, what you heard before, was the introduction, then 'Here' is the announcement. Sukhmani is here. Songs built from life experiences and music built from passion and soul, 'Here' delves into the mind of Sukhmani via the heart she wears on her sleeve.
The Test Drive: Racyne Parker & the Low Coals – Feel It Now
Racyne Parker & the Low Coals have today released their new EP titled 'Feel It Now'. Living up to the title, Racyne Parker & the Low Coals give a live jam band first impression...
The Test Drive: Anya Anastasia – Dissenter
Anya Anastasia has officially premiered her new album titled 'Dissenter', dropping April 1st. Beginning with the subtle and tribal percussion that is 'Losing Wild', the album builds to a marvelous soundscape that, to me, was totally outside of the box in regards to originality. That is when I knew I was in for a musical ride.
The Test Drive: Jack Van Cleaf – Fruit from the Trees
Jack Van Cleaf has today released his new album titled 'Fruit from the Trees'. Stories disguised as music create a wonderful shelf of memories bookended by the originality of the author. There is enough...
The Test Drive: The Golden Glows – On Moonlight And Rain
The Golden Glows are set to release their new album titled 'On Moonlight and Rain' tomorrow (April 1st). Constructed as a concept and achieved through pure imagination, The Golden Glows deliver an album of abstract construct that surrounds you with audio imagination and shows that the music is brighter outside of the box.
The Test Drive: Jules Maxwell – Cycles
Jules Maxwell has released his new album titled 'Cycles'. The album shows the dark and atmospheric combination of composer and songwriter infused within Jules as this album is all about the mood set within the music.
The Test Drive: Stacey Cohen – Wild Service
Stacey Cohen has released her new album titled 'Wild Service'. To say this album is original is an understatement.
The Test Drive: Keith Richards – Winos Live In London ‘92
Legendary recording artist and The Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards, today announced the debut digital and immersive audio release of his live album Winos Live in London ‘92.
The Test Drive: Yony – More Truth in Fiction
Yony has today released their new album titled 'More Truth in Fiction'. The lines between fake and familiarity take a musical twist with inspiration drawn from the last couple of years.
The Test Drive: The Smokes – G.O.V.T. Graffiti
The Smokes have today released their new album titled 'G.O.V.T. Graffiti''. At that first listen the guitars grab you by the b*lls and simply twist you into submission.
The Test Drive: Antwon – Blasian
Rapper Antwon has a new LP called Blasian. In it, he raps, both in and out of verse about the dichotomy of being black and Asian. He gets in touch with his Filipino heritage...
The Test Drive: Random Dudes – Pizza ’79
Random Dudes has released their new album titled 'Pizza '79'. Coming off as pure and decadent slacker rock, there is a lot more going on with that quirky personality and way about the album that lends itself to that curious and endearing quality about it that says this is cool.
The Test Drive: Earthset – Bound
Earthset have today released their new album titled 'Bound' via Dischi Bervisti/Costello’s.. While we've been teasing this for a while now, today is the day. Earthset is a band that deserves an announcement like that. They are one of the few that truly have, not only an original sound, but an original plan about how to present their music and further their careers.