The Test Drive: Nite Bjuti – Nite Bjuti
Nite Bjuti has today released their new eponymous album via Whirlwind Recordings.
While remaining a true concept album from start to finish, what I hear is the culmination of three brilliant musical minds melding...
The Test Drive: Jay Van Raalte – Something More and Kind Of Less +...
What would you get if you blended the economy of The Edge with the blowtorch blues of Jack White, added to the direct, narrative songwriting of Tom Petty, and the dramatic flair of The...
The Test Drive: My Name Is Ian – Go Bananas Go Bananas Go Bananas...
My Name Is Ian has today released their new album titled 'Go Bananas Go Bananas Go Bananas Go Bananas Go' via Bubblewrap Collective.
The album as a whole, besides forcing me to incorporate the copy/paste...
The Test Drive: Albert Kass – Young Old Man
Albert Kass has today released his new album titled 'Young Old Man'. While aspiring to by indie and folk is evident throughout 'Young Old Man', the real quality of the album comes from the...
The Test Drive: Anyone’s Ghost – Necromancer
Anyone's Ghost is set to drop their new album titled 'Necromancer' tomorrow (July 20th). Darkly cinematic with a feeling of dark solemness throughout, Anyone's Ghost is clearly a set of artists defining a concept....
The Test Drive: Wall Side – Nothing I Deserve
Wall Side has released the new album titled 'Nothing I Deserve'. When reading the backstory of Liliya, the curator of Wall Side, you feel a sense of respect in regards to the recording and...
The Test Drive: Superdestroyer – SoakedInSynth.Zip
Superdestroyer (he/him) is an anonymous Columbus, OH DIY Journeyman and co-founder of Lonely Ghost Records. He creates experimental punk-adjacent music that pushes the boundaries of the various genres from which he borrows, and his...
The Test Drive: Grant The Sun – Voyage
Grant The Sun has released their new album titled 'Voyage' via Mas-Kina Records. Prog rock with a conscious and metal with feeling, you can't help but feel immersed into a harsh soundscape filled with...
The Test Drive: Pesky Kid – Benny
You cross my mind from time to time when I’m not stuck in the muck and the slime.
Pop music has an inherent ability to teach us something about ourselves. It is the music of...
The Test Drive: Only Okay – Me
Only Okay, a.k.a. Griffin Shiminski, has released his new EP titled 'Me', as part of his 'release an EP a month' regimen. To say that's easy would be a bold faced lie. To say...
The Test Drive: Bluedaze – Flesh
Bluedaze has today released their new EP titled 'Flesh'. From that first note of the titled track I new I was in for a raucous ride. A solid mix of alt-rock and vintage post...
The Test Drive: Bijou Noir – Wild Wonders
Bijou Noir (a.k.a. Augustus Watkins) has today released his new album titled 'Wild Wonders', via Give/Take. Right from the start, after those first bars of 'That's No Life', my first thought was 'I get...
The Test Drive: Kat Hamilton – I Wish This Was A Love Story
Kat Hamilton has today released her new EP titled 'I Wish This Was A love Story'. Classic style songwriting with unique creative twists and originality pouring out if every note, Kat says hello...
The Test Drive: 9million – Gush + Tour Dates
9million has dropped their new EP titled 'Gush' via Strange View Records with the physical copies released via Matthew’s Homie Shit Magazine.
A future classic of an alternative to the alternative with gritty post modern...
The Test Drive: Pollyanna Blue – Trials and Tribulations
Pollyanna Blue have today released their new EP titled 'Trials and Tribulations'. Rebellion and rock collide with spectacular infusion from a pair of musicians that infuse influence with sheer creativity and originality.
My only complaint is...
The Test Drive: Alex Exists – Everybody’s Famous
Alex Exists has released his new album titled 'Everybody's Famous'. The title being a clear nod to that timeless cover from a certain fab four, Alex delivers an album that sounds nothing like but...
The Test Drive: No Tagbacks – Good Old Days + Q&A
No Tagbacks are a two-piece pop-punk band from Chicago, Illinois consisting of Evan Douglas Peters (Vocals/Guitar) and Christian George (Bass/Backing Vocals) After four single releases (and much anticipation) their debut EP Good Old Days...
The Test Drive: Man On Man – Provincetown
Man On Man return with their new album titled 'Provincetown' via Polyvinyl Records. Featuring Faith No More's Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman, Man On Man is a brilliant collaboration of a true dynamic duo...
The Test Drive: Malachy Tuohy – I Cross This Universe
Malachy Tuohy has today released his first solo album titled 'I Cross This Universe'. Songs from the inner self of an artist on his way up, not only musically, but spiritually. That is what...
The Test Drive: decker. – Ouroboros
decker. has released his new album titled 'Ouroboros'. You can get that 'concept' feeling before realizing it is a concept album, which I fear is a dying art thankfully resurrected by decker..
decker., however, gives...
The Test Drive: American Trappist – Poison Reverse
American Trappist has released their new album titled 'Poison Reverse'. Filled with quiet lament and subtle grief in spots, at times a confessional, at times a beautiful chaos, what 'Poison Reverse' is consistently is...
The Test Drive: Mayflower Madame – Prepared for a Nightmare (Deluxe Version)
Mayflower Madame has today released their deluxe edition of the album titled ‘Prepared for a Nightmare’. As much a continuation of the aural art that was both the original and the deluxe...
The Test Drive: TEKE::TEKE – Hagata + Tour Dates
TEKE::TEKE has released their new album titled 'Hagata' via Kill Rock Stars. Feeling like a sudden rush of blood to the head after blunt force of psychedelic trauma, 'Hagata' is more of a statement...
The Test Drive: Kid Be Kid – Truly A Life Goal But No Ice...
Kid Be Kid has released her new album titled 'Truly A Life Goal But No Ice Cream' via Fun In The Church. Filled with electro-personality and just plain fun to listen altitude with attitude, this...
The Test Drive: JeGong – The Complex Inbetween
JeGong has today released their new album titled 'The Complex Inbetween' via Pelagic Records. Artists like these always enthrall me. The get me with that first note because I never know where it's going....