Test Festival
December 8, 2018
Upcoming Streams
Upcoming Streams
Monday Oct 16 2:00 PM PDT -
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Test Festival
Saturday Dec 8 5:30 PM PST -
PressureDrop.tv will be live streaming the Test Stage every day of Test2018 December 8-11 from Nowhere!
Recent Streams
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Øya Festival
PressureDrop.tv will be live streaming the Sirkus Stage every day of Øya 2018 August 8-11 from Oslo, Norway!
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Burger Boogaloo 2018 live
See The Damned, Mudhoney, Giuda, and more, live from Oakland CA June 30 & July 1!
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Maniac
Post-Sleaze Jazz Gelato Core? Not sure about the jazz part, the rest seems DEAD on. Don’t mind us if we dahnce on the corpse of Joe Spinell while we listen.
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Bush Tetras
Digging out from the 70s New York post punk scene, The Bush Tetras return after almost 10 years with new music and the same ripping, distorted slide bombs. Here’s a wall of noise you will want to see built!
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The Go! Team
The Go! Team: the coolest electronic funk go-go marching band you never had at your high school.
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Courtney Marie Andrews
Courtney Marie Andrews at Brooklyn Vegan's Lost Weekend 2, live streaming from SXSW 2018
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A Place to Bury Strangers
A Place to Bury Strangers at Brooklyn Vegan's Lost Weekend 2, live streaming from SXSW 2018
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Aiming for Enrike
Aiming for Enrike at Brooklyn Vegan's Lost Weekend 2, live streaming from SXSW 2018
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The Wedding Present
The Wedding Present at Brooklyn Vegan's Lost Weekend 2, live streaming from SXSW 2018
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Dick Stusso
This Oaktown midnight cowboy has a groove so deep and troubled, you can almost hear late at night his horn blowing down the I-40 E.
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Weaves
Is it pop-py? And what’s wrong with that? These are the questions that keep us up at night. Weaves is coming at you Toronto-style, Missing Persons-style, and maybe even Santigold-style, which is all thumbs up.
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Prettiest Eyes
Mexican/Puerto Rican synth punk delivered garage-style with a dash of psychedelic thumping and space echo attitude. We are looking forward to a heaping dish of space lasagna with Prettiest Eyes.
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Numb.er
Just need someone to darken your doorstep once in awhile? Jeff Fribourg, Laena Geronimo, Nick Ventura, Cameron Allen, and Kaz Mirblouk will make you feel numb.er.
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Cindy Wilson
After 40 years of "Rock Lobster" your side hustle is inventive, dreamy electronic pop, and we couldn’t be happier.
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Odonis Odonis
Do you like it when your ears ring? Do you miss Front Line Assembly? Do you suffer from PTSD even though you have never been in combat? Do you hate daylight? Then Canada has a remedy for you: Odonis Odonis.
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Chasms
Shoegaze + industrial? Oh yeah, we're there. When your meds run out, the tunnel seems to squeeze shut, and you hear that voice - it just might be Chasms.
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Wax Idols
Don’t nod off on your nightdrive, or Wax Idols might come rumbling and groaning into your headlights.
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The Fadeaways
Drain the swamp? More like jump in and splash around – with the gooey licks and primordial garage ooze of The Fadeaways.
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Mellvins
Kumi, Ayaneee & Amiko are going to stomp box, carpet scream, and fuzz bomb you into oblivion, steal your boyfriend, and make you cry. Hey ho let’s go!
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Madeline Kenney
Baker, choreographer, neurobiologist, punk: Madeline Kenney reads like a musical superhero out of a John le Carré zine. We look forward to this set.
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Tashaki Miyaki
Listen to music that is like the quiet heartbeat of a culture - you may not always be aware of it, but once you are it’s hard to ignore.
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Real Numbers
Know about the Golden Record? Well when they shoot the Indie Record into space, we’re voting for Real Numbers as Earth music’s slice-o’-life crowning achievement.
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French Vanilla
Then: The Slits, The Raincoats, Romeo Void, Essential Logic. Now: grrrls & saxophones are back, screeching their way to post punk feminist glory.
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Taiwan Housing Project
Delinquent anarchist outlaw deviant writhing punk art noise pop, or thereabouts.
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She-Devils
Caught between surf, pop, tiki, Yé-yé, and straight up funhouse, the She-Devils take you somewhere you have never been.
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Car Crash
If they’re calling it Car Crash, then their sound is everything leading up to it. Fast, loose, and out of control.
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Vaguess
Fear not, there are modern problems galore to discuss with Vaguess. Retro catchy riffs and deep human disappointment, a perfect scuzzy soundtrack for the Trump era.
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SadGirl
Wasn’t it Nietzsche who said, “Staring into your tall glass of psych is nothing but a big gulp of surf rock foam”? It’s a crazy garage scene, dude.
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Merchandise
This band: equal parts punk misanthropy, maudlin balladeering, fine art, low humor, classical study, psychedelic spacecasing, mad science, and pop genius.
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POW!
When your incept date draws near, your R5-D4 is on the fritz, and you just wanna buzz, head down to Flynn’s because the rebellion will be dancing to this.
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The Paranoyds
Take me back, way back to that place where girl-fronted camped-up gothic psych melts into post garage fuzz. Wait, maybe that’s really the future . . . ?
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Second Still
Forget the Levolor blinds, just hit that window with a can of black paint. With a touch of Siouxsie and some slithering bass lines, we’re going full dark with this one.
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Downtown Boys
If the struggle continues, let it sound like Downtown Boys. Fusing their urgent multilingual demands with sax-charged punk drive, they make a hot-blooded point from the bottom up.
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Violent Change
Somewhere in the haze between Guided By Voices and Big Star, there is lo-fi pop to be found in the loner voice of Violent Change.
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Ian Sweet
Are they called Sweet because they sound nice or intimate, emotional, sensitive? And if so, what about the Ian part?! Join us in the mystery . . .
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Soar
The first band to form from an internet dating site? Possibly. Jangly guitars and mopey thoughts perfect for summer coming on? For sure.
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Leer
Prog punks with a metal spirit (and vocal), check out the guitar acrobatics and wicked drumming. This will be some aggro fun!
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Chai
Brain twisting experimental pop from Japanese band Chai, channeling somewhere between Talking Heads and DEVO. Live at Amoeba Music, SF.
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Dude York
Embrace the heavy riffing and the Yin Yang of Dude York’s vocal personalities, and you’ll fly right through the fire ring of your nervous new era with a big pop anthem in your heart.
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Jay Som
One day the White Rabbit was in his bedroom blissing out to Pixies, Yo La Tengo, and a little Carly Rae Jepsen. When he looked up he saw Jay Som in the looking glass, nodding and smiling.
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The Regrettes
Keeping the punkabilly New Wop craze going is LA phenom The Regrettes, with pint-sized Lydia Night belting what a lot of us would call the plain Truth.
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Priests
Melancholic punk to guide us across the river, blind-folded and stepping on poison lily pads. Sometimes it feels that way.
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Savoy Motel
Get ready, Savoy Motel rock their Funk Box right out front. But don’t worry, this ride across the time trails has plenty of glammed up riffing and a touch of the South too.
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Terry Malts
Toss some Buzzcocks, fizzy new wave pop, and a dash of heartache and you have a mean Terry Malts cocktail. Shaken not stirred.
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Shannon Lay
Guitarist Shannon Lay of Feels shows chameleon-like songwriting skill on her solo work with this deeply haunting transmission from your trembling subconscious.
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Sad13
In charge, affirmative, vulnerable, loopy indiepop with a laserbeam of wit. We’d all benefit from joining the Sad13 squad.
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Mall Walk
Wow, guess what? It’s hooky - and good - straight ahead but interesting, morose without being tiresome, and not unlike a real mall walk, rather fun in a sick way.
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Purling Hiss
It’s big, it’s loud, it’s fuzzy, it makes you feel like you’re watching a herd of buffalo run at you through gauze sunglasses while you try to get up from your lawn chair. Just don’t drop your doob.
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Gang of Four
None other than Gang of Four folks, the band who invented post punk. The seminal Leeds 4-piece, with their mix of beats and working class skreeds, still matter.
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THE LET'S GO's
What if all your favorite things about Joan Jett, Led Zeppelin, and The Ramones stepped off a plane from Tokyo and played you 8 songs while you ate your lunch? Welcome to your Wednesday.
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Feels
If Cubism was a musical style, then would Feels be Picasso? Cutting up psych, garage, punk - and yes even some pop, Feels layers sounds into sonic masterpieces.
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The Gooch Palms
What if your vegemite sandwich was spiked with poppy punk spread and laced with Heaven 17-style vocals?! Yeah, that sounds yummy mate. This duo is going to teach us to cook.
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Japanese Breakfast
If The Sundays’ dreamy pop was filtered through the bubble machine in Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory, it would taste like Japanese Breakfast.
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L. A. Witch
It's late, you're driving your convertible down a lost highway, and you push the pedal to the floor while you turn up the volume. It’s that sound, that perfect lonely guitar rock from a three piece.
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Globelamp
In your psych dream fantasy where Cat Power fuses with Galaxie 500, somewhere near there lies Globelamp.
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Andrew Keoghan
Andrew Keoghan's debut album fuses carefully arranged folk, pop and electronic, with songs sometimes delicate and sparse, other times layered and orchestral.
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Death Valley Girls
If Aleister Crowley and Rob Zombie made a road movie, Death Valley Girls have already composed the soundtrack.
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Half Waif
Oh, those little voices in your head - the electronic symphonic meanderings of those catchy choruses wandering your musical mind. Or are you just reading Half Waif’s mind?
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Tacocat
Sugar plum feminist fairies create 3D power pop candy canes for your mind mouth. Huh? Just watch.
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Wimps
Homer: "Boy! Who's your favorite band?"Bart: "Wimps?"Homer: "Why?"Bart: "Cuz they're just a bunch of miserable punks who love hotdogs!"
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Summer Cannibals
Remember when power punk from a trio was cool? Like buzzy power pop, but with a snotty attitude? If you’re longing for that 90s vibe, then Summer Cannibals are ready to eat your ears alive!
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Mrs. Magician
Who put their punk power pop peanut butter in my chocolate downer? This band is definitely crying-on-the-inside in the best possible way.
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The She's
High school friends + dreamy harmonies + catchy riffs = California girls. Who knew Brian Wilson was really a feminist!
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Speedy Ortiz
What is “snack rock” you ask? Well to us, it’s slathering a big helping of Bettie Serveert-style vocals in between some slices of extra meaty jangle rock riffs, then spreading a layer of hooky harmonies in between a dutch crunch roll. Now that is a snack we can rock.
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V.E.X.
Ventriloquest Ectoplasmold Xanaxax, aka V.E.X., is Roxy Monoxide and Lulu Gamma Ray. If you already feel like you’re walking into the Mos Eisley Cantina, this industrial noise cabaret is only going to get better.
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Negative Scanner
If you’re wishing for a fierce female singer - say like Siouxsie Sioux - fronting a dark, raw, post punk band, then Chicago's Negative Scanner is your wish come true.
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Colleen Green
If a couch surfing stoner skate punk crashed into Liz Phair, it might cause the explosion that is Colleen Green.
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Kamasi Washington in conversation
Watch Kamasi Washington discuss the next wave in the evolution of jazz and soul music with David Katznelson, as part of Noise Pop Festival 2016. See it on our news page, HERE.
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Expert Alterations
In need of something angular on your radar? You’ll be geometrically satisfied by this Baltimore band. With a vintage jangle pop sound, these boys are like an indie dream inspired by the other side of the pond. So sit back and tune in the love ballads.
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Arctic Flowers
If post punk and new wave are passé, then Arctic Flowers are re-imagining an alternative musical landscape where genres are meaningless.
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Signor Benedick the Moor
A Death Bomb Arc Records artist, Signor Benedick the Moor self describes himself as an experimental prog rapper from The True Neutral Crew. We’re talking Krautrap.
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Six Organs of Admittance
If you hear voices in your head that sound like Jim O’Rourke and Sonic Youth mixed over haunting acoustic guitar melodies, then we have a diagnosis of Six Organs of Admittance!
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bAd bAd
Get yer little umbrellas ready, this is Tropicalia with punk attitudes and surrealist souls.
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Cory Hanson of Wand
Wand is a buzzing psych rock supernova. So what of the lead singer Cory Hanson? We're about to find out! Rare solo acoustic set coming at ya.
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Girlpool
Armed with only layered harmonies, guitar and bass, these two girls create complex yet honest, stripped down folk – with pure punk attitude.
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Mudhoney
Mudhoney’s 1988 single, “Touch Me I’m Sick” was a game changer. It ushered in the alternative music era as well as putting both Seattle and Subpop Records on the map. 27 years later, find out why Mudhoney still matter.
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Cuntz
Swamp Punk from the Land Down Under. They will not smile when they give you a vegemite sandwich.
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Niteppl
Are Niteppl men or machines? Are they dance or electropop? Are they the ghosts in our machines or the water on Mars? Maybe all of the above, watch and find out.
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Mac McCaughan
You know Mac from Superchunk, Portastatic, and as co-founder of Merge Records. But did you know he made a modernized new wave solo record, and is playing all of the above in this rare solo acoustic set live from Aquarius Records?!
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The Vibrators
These guys were O.G. before anyone knew what that meant. English Punk lifers whose music mixes attitude with a melody and a riff. It still works 35 years on.
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Male Gaze
Everything you love about British post punk, except Male Gaze has forgone the black lipstick and teased hair for these psych noir cuts.
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Swiftumz
Take some jangly guitar pop, mix with Julian Cope, a side of Dinosaur Jr. and some Cream. It’s not a cocktail recipe, it’s Swiftumz!
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Native Eloquence
To be or not to be, experimental pop tinged with Red House painters, Miles Davis, and ambient sounds. That is the question.
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Yumi Zouma
Perfect Electro-Pop Forever. That’s all you need to know about New Zealander's Yumi Zouma.
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Paisano
Mix all styles of psych rock together in a blender and you get a tropical Paisano cocktail - shaken, not stirred.
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Sam Prekop
Modular Synth Master from The Sea and Cake creates swirling melodies just like the corner of your mind.
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Shovels
Australian psych-post-punk fury of clanging guitars, pummeling drums and thick, sinewy basslines combine for a primal, minimalistic outpouring of swaggering rawk.
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Nots
There's a tornado coming- hellscape guitars, bashing drums furious choruses, synth and guitar stabs. This isn't just weird punk meets dark wave, these are Nots.
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Andrew St. James
19 year old Andrew St. James is a poet, singer-songwriter and the next musician to join the Bay Area’s illustrious beat poet hall of fame.
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Thick Red Wine
What spirit perfectly pairs with anti-folk-punk-indie-rock noises you ask? Thick Red Wine.
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Tony Molina
As part of this year’s Northside Festival, Tony Molina will be playing songs from Dinosaur Jr.’s album, "You’re Living All Over Me" live from Rough Trade Records in Brooklyn.
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Blood Sister
Blood Sister rocked so hard they zapped the internet into oblivion on this rainy day in San Francisco!
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Rich Girls
These Girls nearly blew the walls off the KUSFCR studios and coined a new term in the process, "Claustrophobic Rock!"
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Sylvie Simmons
Sylvie performs her heartbreakingly gorgeous ukelele slow jams mixed with a dash of Leonard Cohen from the infamous Secret Alley.
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Kosha Dillz
English, Hebrew and Spanish bars and hooks flow out of the heart, mind and mouth of Rami Matan Even-Esh on a regular basis. Meet Kosha Dillz!
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Happy Fangs
A War-painted, wiry, power rock trio who combine Bikini Kill with ACDC. What's not to love!
