Tag: The Test Drive
The Test Drive: Norman Salant – Always All Around You
Norman Salant delivers a set of performances that are sure to bring about the return of the age of the modern troubadour with ten tracks reminiscent of good days gone by with that special...
The Test Drive: Pilotcan – Bats Fly Out From Under The Bridge
Pilotcan releases their first new material in fourteen years. Written almost entirely in Austin, Texas, it reflects the band's links to both the city and the people they know there. Recorded back in Scotland...
The Test Drive: Clark Twain – Life is Wonderful
Let me start off by simply saying that 'Life is Wonderful', the new album by Clark Twain, is deliciously diverse in every way shape and form. Almost to the point of pure genre hopping....
The Test Drive: BYSTS – Dreamland
With the release of their singles, 'Killer on the Road,' 'Taste', and 'Speed' in early Summer 2016, the dreamy Post-Punk duo from Salt Lake City, BYSTS, through being brash, explorative and genre-bending, are causing...
The Test Drive: Dar.Ra – Dirty Lil Secrets
Dar.Ra has been part of the music industry for some time, signed to EMI and various dance labels over the years as well as remixing Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Tears For Fears, Savage Garden...
The Test Drive: SPINNER – No.1
SPINNER (all caps) have just released their debut EP titled 'No. 1'. That deserves that announcement. Just listen to the previews, folks. This IS the new #indie. To be honest, the only negative thing...
The Test Drive: Spiritualized – Fucked Up Inside + Tour Dates
Reissues are often hard to come by. That is often because record labels find it hard to market and sometimes the band may become 'dated'. That is why 'Fucked Up Inside', the reissue from...
The Test Drive: Neville & Sugary Staple – Rude Rebels
'Rude Rebels', the new album by the family duo known as Neville & Sugary Staple, is quite literally a party in a box. Combining the 'Rude Boy' movement of old with new stylings of sheik...
The Test Drive: Jack Mac – Swagger Mac
Jack 'Mac' McDougal is a vibrant and energetic musician, bandleader, composer, and multi-instrumental music teacher. He regularly plays with Jazz ensembles and live bands of various music genres across the UK. As a professional...
The Test Drive: Microcosms – Fairytale
Microcosms make music to question your beliefs. The Chicago-based Alt-Rock trio began as the brain baby of Andrew Tschiltsch (guitar/vocals), who spent a few years recording solo demos and experimenting with his sound before...
The Test Drive: The Venus Flytrap – Icon
With a slick combination of electronica, goth, and pop sensibilities, The Venus Flytrap has emerged with a staggeringly solid musical piece in the form of 'Icon'. Each track takes its place of individuality and sonic...
The Test Drive: Xalpen – Wowk Otrr
Xalpen is a raw Black Metal manifestation which emerges with real conviction and complete devotion by channeling ritualistic vibrations within the black arts and the spiritual development. Guided by ancestral traditions of ancient occult...
The Test Drive: Deep Sea Peach Tree – Vaguely Navy
While attending high school in NYC, Denis and his friend Adam Wanetik formed the band Disco Cream, releasing their debut EP as a duo in the spring of 2016. It was not until all...
The Test Drive: Lost Chocolate Lab – Lost Landscapes
Droning soundscapes come to life with the upcoming release of 'Lost Landscapes', the new album from Seattle's Lost Chocolate Lab. The album is, to me, a fantastic form of ASMR for the industrial mindset,...
The Test Drive: Watch Rome Burn – Vox Heretic
Watch Rome Burn is a two-piece ( guitar and drums) Seattle area rock band, comprised of brothers Jestyn (drums) and Drew (guitar/vox) Cummings. With their distinctively raucous and powerful sound, and with no patience...
The Test Drive: Whiskey Moon Face – Panspermia
Welcome to the world of Whiskey Moon Face. It's a beautiful world of times gone by but with its feet firmly sat in the here and now.
Louisa and Ewan lived together with a group...
The Test Drive: Chris Baluyut – Leap Year
With a smooth bravado and a distinctive musical swagger, Chris Baluyut really impresses the aural senses with his debut album titled 'Leap Year'. For me, it's those subtle things he does on the guitar that...
The Test Drive: Georgia & The Vintage Youth – Remember Brick Lane
Featuring heavy hitters like Neville Staple and Jools Holland's R&B Orchestra's Dave Swift, Georgia Crandon and her band, a.k.a. Georgia & The Vintage Youth, create a soulful reminder of the power of #indie with their new...
The Test Drive: Room 1985 – The Bliss
Psychedelic progressive rockers The Room 1985 are back with their brand new album ‘The Bliss’, which is out now. Power trios are something you don't see a lot of in this day and age...
The Test Drive: Kenny Dubman – American Songbook
'American Songbook', the new album by Kenny Dubman, is just that. A true American songbook. In its truest sense of the term. Yet, unlike his last album, 'Reckless Abandon', Kenny takes the stripped-down route...
The Test Drive: K-Man & The 45’s – K-Man & The 45’s
The brilliant self-titled third studio album from Montreal's K-Man & The 45s comes with the very sad news that the drummer Brian Mac Smith has terminal pancreatic cancer. The band are friends of ours...
The Test Drive: The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show – Float Your Boat
This is the second EP this year from Dorset based Country/Punk 8 piece The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show and it's another absolute killer.
After the success of the worldwide attention of 'A Snake's A...
The Test Drive: Black Sedan – Adventure Lit Their Star
Black Sedan is a collective of musicians rallied round by the journalist/author/publisher Mark Hodkinson.
Mark began the project two years ago. He explains the name. "When I was growing up. there was a record shop...
The Test Drive: Reveries – Reveries
Filled with dreamy, gazey overtones and lush with aural atmosphere, the new self-titled release from Washington state's own Reveries is a creatively packed and diverse outing with a different shade of musical color for every palette....
The Test Drive: Canibales – ROCANROL
With more than 10 years in the underground scene of Mexico, Caníbales has distinguished itself by maintaining a raw and direct sound without departing from the Rock & Roll standards. His most recent plate...