The Test Drive (Early Album Previews)

    Landon Elliott

    The Test Drive: Landon Elliott – Live At Joe’s Pub + Q&A

    Landon Elliott has released his new live EP titled 'Live At Joe's Pub'. Live music still has an undeniable power. It brings people together like no other artistic medium. From coffee shops to stadiums,...
    Andy Taylor – Man’s A Wolf To Man

    The Test Drive: Andy Taylor – Man’s A Wolf To Man

    Andy Taylor has today released his new album, and first solo release in 30 years, titled 'Man’s A Wolf To Man’, via BMG. While I can hear bits of Duran Duran, The Power Station' and...
    St Lucifer

    The Test Drive: St Lucifer – Disgraceland

    St Lucifer are set to release their new album titled 'Disgraceland' on September 29th. Filthy electro-lucre as a lifestyle is a hard road to travel, but that road now has a soundtrack with 'Disgraceland'. Cheeky...
    Holler

    The Test Drive: Holler – Ever Since I Met You

    Holler has today released their new EP titled 'Ever Since I Met You'. I love it when an album or EP starts out epic. That's exactly what I get here. 'Talk to You' begins...
    Dewar

    The Test Drive: Dewar – Rudiment

    Dewar has today released her new album titled 'Rudiment'. This album is one of those time stamps on an artist's career that captures that moment when you see them go from honing their sound...
    Chris Bullinger

    The Test Drive: Chris Bullinger – How To Bleed

    Chris Bullinger has today released his new album titled 'How To Bleed'. Avant rock with a signature sound, Chris takes his music and wraps his original voice around each track and divides his music...
    Ashton Nyte

    The Test Drive: Ashton Nyte – Autumn’s Children + New Video & Book

    Ashton Nyte has released his new album titled 'Autumn's Children', along with his new video for 'The Garden', and his second book of poetry. I'll start this with a confession. I wish I had the...
    Winachi

    The Test Drive: Winachi – Sympathy For The Future

    Winachi has today released their debut album titled 'Sympathy For The Future', recorded & produced in Los Angeles @ Earthstar Creation Center (Venice Beach) with producer John X (David Bowie, Rolling Stones). The album...
    Bedolina

    The Test Drive: Bedolina – Bedolina

    Bedolina has today released their new eponymous album. Delightfully dystopian in parts with revelational hooks and feelings of clarity in audio form, Bedolina feels mor like a concept than and album. A bookended story...
    Summer Thieves

    The Test Drive: Summer Thieves – Cigarettes In Space

    Summer Thieves has released their new album titled 'Cigarettes In Space'. A definitive eclectic blend of jam band, rock, groove, grunge, and grime, and anything else I can catch on a first, second, and...
    Tamar Berk

    The Test Drive: Tamar Berk – Tiny Injuries + New Video

    Tamar Berk has today released her new album titled 'Tiny Injuries'. While we here at Jammerzine have long been friends and fans of Tamar's for a while now, I was still pleasantly surprised by...
    Kytes

    The Test Drive: Kytes – To Feel Something At All + Tour Dates

    Kytes has released their new album titled 'To Feel Something At All'. Full and immersive sounding from the first track to the last, Kytes have created a lucid world of sound and significance that...
    Lital Hagayan

    The Test Drive: Lital Hagayan – Singularity

    Lital Hagayan has today released her new album titled 'Singularity'. There are some records that feel like an ocean. You put on headphones and you feel like a small drop of water in a...
    Me Nd Adam

    The Test Drive: Me Nd Adam – American Drip Part II

    Me Nd Adam have released their new album titled 'American Drip Part II', a sequel to, you guessed it, 'American Drip Part I'. I will start this off by saying that, if you judge this...
    Cat Janice

    The Test Drive: Cat Janice – Modern Medicine

    Cat Janice has released her new debut album titled 'Modern Medicine'. Pop summertime goodness wrapped in an electronic candy shell is what you may hear on the surface, but scrape that thin surface away...
    Jukebox Monkey

    The Test Drive: Jukebox Monkey – Smiles Becoming Teeth

    Jukebox Monkey has today released their new album titled 'Smiles Becoming Teeth'. Besides having one of those mega suave band names, I can't help but crack a snarky musician's smile at the album collectively....
    Nite Bjuti

    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...
    Jay Van Raalte

    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...
    My Name Is Ian

    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...
    Albert Kass

    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...
    Anyone's Ghost

    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....
    Wall Side

    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...
    Superdestroyer

    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...
    Grant The Sun

    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...
    Pesky Kid

    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...