Weekly Drive-By

We went into this with the goal of recording our year-end top ten albums, but if you've ever listened to the show, you know how it goes...we ended up recording for about 4 hours. So instead of hitting you with the whole thing at once, we decided to break it up into two parts. First, one of us has a "Top 5 Albums I Didn't Listen to This Year," then we talk about a few EPs, and then we get to the fi...

Note: going forward, we're going to be moving to Sunday uploads. This one was supposed to come out yesterday but I was dead. Albums reviewed this week: Snooper - Super Snõõper [7/14/23], The Shits - You're a Mess [4/14/23], Illegal Crowns - Unclosing [6/2/23], Yoyo - A Beacon School [10/13/23], Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano, & Bill Orcutt - The Flower School [7/21/23], Candelabro - Ahora o Nunca [11...

Albums reviewed this week: Memorrhage - Memorrhage [6/16/23], Civic - Taken by Force [2/10/23], Candelabro - Ahora o Nunca [11/11/23], and Panopticon - The Rime of Memory [11/29/23].One of these is one of our favorite albums of the year, and another one is one of our least favorites. Second to last show of the year next week, so we're a little light on our feet here, but hit some of the classic bi...

Albums reviewed this week: Danny Brown - Quaranta [11/17/23], Gezebelle Gaburgably - Gaburger [7/4/23]*, death's dynamic shroud - Midnight Tangerine [11/10/23], Kostnatění - Úpal [5/26/23]*, Yellow Swans - Left Behind [11/17/23], Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arcadia [10/6/23], and Sneaky Jesus - For Chaching Taphed [10/5/23]*.Things start off with some anti-shoutouts, one of which is about a fa...

Albums reviewed this week: Hotline TNT - Cartwheel [11/3/23], ALEPH - Sepulchre [7/21/23], Marina Herlop - Nekkuju [10/7/23], Trhä - Av◊ëlajnt◊ë£ hinnem nihre [11/1/23], Ned Rothenburg - Crossings Four [10/23/23], Sneaky Jesus - For Chaching Taphed [10/5/23].This episode was recorded last week, but I knew we weren't gonna record over Thanksgiving week so I saved it. Yeah, that's what happened. We...

Albums reviewed this week: Joey Valence & Brae - Punk Tactics [9/8/23], Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis [6/2/23], Afterbirth - In but Not Of [10/20/23], Telos - Delude [3/18/23], Jute Gyte - Unus mundus patet [9/5/23], Earth - Earth 2.23: Special Lower Frequency Mix [11/3/23], Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar [10/27/23].There's also some light talk around the UK's recent ban on recreational n...

Albums reviewed this week: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! [10/20/23], Wayfarer - American Gothic [10/27/23], Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask [10/6/23], Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals [10/13/23], Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle [9/29/23]*, and Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness [10/27/23].A lot of shoutouts to start the show, then we get into Sundance...

Albums reviewed this episode: Lamp - 一夜のペーソス (Dusk to Dawn) [10/10/23], BrokenTeeth - 추락은 천천히 (How to Sink Slowly) [2/23/23], MIKE - Burning Desire [10/13/23], betcover!! - 馬 (Uma) [10/17/23], Sufjan Stevens - Javelin [10/6/23], Ὁπλίτης [Hoplites] - 'Aντιτιμωρουμένη [10/1/23], Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle [9/29/23], and Avenade - Our Raging God Unknown to Us...

This week's albums: Oneohtrix Point Never - Again [9/29/23], Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE [8/31/23]*, Sufjan Stevens - Javelin [10/6/23], Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden... [9/29/23].A day late again but I was lazy yesterday. We're talking about some of the existential questions we all face today - "pizza, or burrito?", "dove, or pigeon?" - reviewing some more energy drinks (f...

This week's albums: Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips [9/29/23], Neupink - This Town Is Death [1/13/23], The Turin Horse - Unsavory Impurities [3/24/23], Slauson Malone 1 - EXCELSIOR [10/6/23], and BrokenTeeth - 추락은 천천히 (How to Sink Slowly) [2/23/23].We start off the show making everyone mad, then jump years late into the chicken sandwich debate. Then after some more sip reviews (f...

This week's albums: Stegosauro - Stegosauro [3/31/23], Pejzaż - List I [9/28/23], Approaching Mountains - Ley [8/4/23].One of us was celebrating a career move a bit too much so this week's show is choppy at points, but we still find time to talk about the embarrassment of being Kevin McCarthy, give some volleyball updates, and review a G-Fuel energy drink, HBO's new documentary The Ringleader, and...

This week's albums: Zach Bryan - Boys of Faith [9/22/23], The Lousy - Another Lousy Tape [4/20/23], amaii - In the Eleventh Hour [6/22/23], what is your name? - My Name Is... [9/13/23], Smiling Broadly - Smiling Broadly [8/31/23], THE HAMPURILAI SYÖN TEKIJÄT - THE HAMPURILAI SYÖN TEKIJÄT [7/16/23], yeule - Softscars [9/22/23], and Asia Menor - Enola Gay* [8/25/23].So that's a lot, but we actually...

This week's albums: Jean Dawson as "Phoenix" - "XCAPE", PT. 1 [5/11/23], Jamie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) [8/25/23], and Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy [9/1/23].The first section is pretty much a whole show in itself this week. Over the course of about an hour and forty minutes we cover a lot of ground, but the main topics are why Alabama's in the news again, more energy...

This week's albums: Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire [8/25/23], Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE [8/31/23].One of the hosts had a pretty long Saturday, and the other one got into some volleyball. We're also putting in another entry in the dollar store sip reviews series (feat. Rip It and Bang), talking about the different ways that McDonald's is leading the charge in making you pay more f...

This week's album: Slowdive - Everything Is Alive [9/1/23].For the second time in the show's history, our friend Sam guest hosts with us to review the new Slowdive album. After that, we all give our rankings of Slowdive's LPs and drop some opinions on Slowdive drummer Simon Scott's list of 10 shoegaze albums everyone should own. Did I mention Slowdive?

This week, we're taking you back to a time before the gunshots. Originally recorded on 11/28/21 and distributed only to a select network, this episode, the first official episode of The Weekly Drive-By, and a number of others were victims of an ill-fated hard drive and presumed lost for good. Only recently were these files recovered, thanks to a source who would prefer not to be named, through...

This week's albums: bdrrm - I Don't Know [6/30/23], Backwoodz Studioz - High Bias [4/7/23], The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons [8/11/23], and Hail the Sun - Divine Inner Tension [8/11/23].After last week's near three hour show, we're pulling it back to the two hour mark this week and giving some first impressions of Argentinian contender Javier Milei, getting paranoid about kidney stones,...

This week's albums: Nicholas Britell - L to the OG (feat. Kendall Roy) [5/20/20], billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps [5/5/23]*, Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! [4/28/23], The Defiants - Drive [6/9/23], Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire fortellinger [6/2/23], and Gezebelle Gaburgably - Gaburger [7/4/23]. An asterisk means this is our second review. But really, this is the TV episode. We give some fina...

This week's albums: Junior Brother - Junior Brother's Favourite [4/11/23], Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time [7/28/23], venturing - Arizona [5/15/23], billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps [5/5/23], JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes [3/24/23], and Witch Lungs - There's Nothing Out There, What're You Worried About? [6/2/23]A day late on the upload, but hey, sometimes greatness takes...

This week's albums: Witch - Zango [6/2/23], Truculent - A Worker's Guide to Transfiguration [6/6/23], and George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya [7/28/23].We also review Christopher Nolan's new film Oppenheimer (but one of us refuses to watch it), and Ari Aster's old film Hereditary. And outside of that, we're talking about a recent cross-state bootlegging run, how life changes when you break your phone, a...

This week's albums: Gabe Lee - Drink the River [7/14/23] and leroy - Grave Robbing [7/20/23].We're feeling old this week, but also realizing kids are actually terrible with computers. Piracy might be coming back thanks to streamers ripping their own popular content out of the ether (R.I.P. Westworld). And, uh, you ever have that coworker?

A little bit of a delay on this one but hey, life happens. No new albums to review this week, but we're halfway+ through the year, so we're digging into the playlist we've been working on this year. Which songs have grown on us? Which have soured? Which ones do we like that we hadn't heard yet? What are our least favorites, and what are our favorites? But earlier on, with one us living in Birmingh...

This week's albums: Mentalt Syk - The Death of Cupid [1/1/23], Bloody Butterflies - Mutations and Transformations [7/1/23], Tainy - DATA [6/29/23], and Swans - The Beggar [6/23/23].We're back after a quick break for the 4th with a lot to talk about. There's home server updates, some mixology, a little Christology, strategies on how to defend yourself from a moose attack, and how Zuck and Musk are...

This week's albums: elliebell - Epiphanies Tore Through [4/14/23], Giobia - Acid Disorder [4/28/23], Nenagenix - Lo más cercano a caer [5/26/23], Parasite Jazz - Parasite Jazz [4/14/23], Dozer - Drifting in the Endless Void [4/21/23], Ella Zirina - Intertwined [3/10/23], Bongzilla - Dab City [6/2/23], Sarmat - Determined to Strike [6/16/23], and Sarmat - Dubious Disk [4/19/23].Lava sauce is back a...

This week's albums: Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert [6/2/23], Amaarae - Fountain Baby [6/9/23], Pest Control - Don't Test the Pest [2/10/23], Squid - O Monolith [6/9/23], and Mammal Hands - Gift from the Trees [3/31/23].We're talking about the submarine that everyone's talking about, Radical Red, the return of an enemy, moles, different styles of pizza, and a little Congress.