The Test Drive: Shark Tape – Marathon
"So you say this is your final chance" ...the opening line of Shark Tape's 'Marathon' speaks of the desperation of a band ready to take off.
Shark Tape, a three piece rock band from Philadelphia...
The Test Drive: Follow the Lion – The Candy and Gravity Motel
Follow the Lion are a Leeds based alternative rock band who formed in 2013, quickly gaining a strong following thanks to their energetic and infectious live sets. The band have played a range of...
The Test Drive: À L’aube Fluorescente – Taking My Youth
À L’Aube Fluorescente are an alternative rock band based in Abruzzi,Italy and born at the beginning of 2012. Their first EP, called “Soar”, was recorded at Acme Recording Studios in May 2013, under the...
The Test Drive: Static Fiction – All In…
They say "you only live once" and four boys from Huntington Beach California took those words to heart. Static Fiction formed in late 2011 with the intention to record the best pop punk album...
The Test Drive: Transience – Temple
Australia has it's own flavor when it comes to it's progressive rock/metal sound. There is a brand new wave of this unique brand of progressive music and firmly among those innovators in Australia is...
The Test Drive: Radiodrone – The Truth Syndicate Diaries
Hailing from Orange Country California created in the 1st quarter of 2014, RadioDrone is part schizoid Five Finger Death Punch on the heavy edge, part Foo Fighters rock with the commercial aspects and part...
The Test Drive: The Fleas – Telling Tales
The Fleas, Reading’s exuberant indie-roots quintet, are to release their anticipated new EP, ‘Telling Tales’, on all digital platforms on Monday 27 April. The band, who have appeared on the airwaves with increasing regularity...
The Test Drive: Soft Picasso – What’s To Become Of Us
Existing somewhere between dream and memory, Soft Picasso's quirky world is borne out of lo-fi honesty.
Recorded in a bedroom in Liverpool, the duo's stripped back approach uses simple guitar, bass, keyboard and drum machine...
The Test Drive: The Cathode Ray – Infinite Variety
Edinburgh alternative outfit The Cathode Ray release their highly anticipated second album ‘Infinite Variety’ on April 20th 2015 through Stereogram Recordings.
Sonically, ‘Infinite Variety’ is an experimental affair - acoustic in places; more electronic in...
The Test Drive: The Slow Readers Club – Cavalcade
The Slow Readers Club release their highly anticipated second album 'Cavalcade' on Monday April 14th.
The band's previous four singles have enjoyed extensive airplay on BBC 6 Music and 'Don't Mind' was selected for a...
The Test Drive: Honah Lee – 33 On 45
Hailing from Trenton, NJ, Honah Lee was formed in 2008 by a group of hardworking and harder-partying musicians native to the area. The four boys of Honah Lee – singer/guitarist Tim, bassist Jim, lead...
The Test Drive: Chanel Samson – The Beginning
Chanel Samson is a Californian girl attracting a very large following across the north west of England as she brings some of her West Coast sparkle to Liverpool's vibrant music scene. In the past...
The Test Drive: The Valkarys – (Just Like) Flying With God
Formed in 2006, The Valkarys are an Edinburgh based psychedelic/garage band. Songwriter Scott Dunlop on lead vocals and guitar is joined by Craig Birrell on lead guitar, Colin Brennan on bass and Wayne Hoy...
The Test Drive: DISSIDO – Thisorientamento
Hi, our names are Michelangelo, Valentino and Francesco. But that's not the point either. We really like what we do: music and theatre. Yup, we really like accompanying our live musicals with theatrical performances...
The Test Drive: Hannah In The Wars – Hannah In The Wars
Songwriter Hannah Curwood originates from the stark, remote region of Central Otago in New Zealand. Now based in London, Hannah in the Wars is a new project, the result of working alongside Roger O'Donnell...
The Test Drive: WARPED – Intorno A Me
WARPED is not a common band. They mix in a new way metal with rap and hardcore influences, and create an involving blend that suffocate with love-hate-tragedy sounds. Members have grown up with a...
The Test Drive: Red Shelter – Nothing More…Nothing Less
The band is Red Shelter, founded in 2010; the initial dream is common to almost all bands ... to make music together, for the passion and the fun, realised by covering the bands and...
The Test Drive: F@B – Talmbout’Dat
F@B is a band from Ukraine. Original line up was formed at the beginning of 2012. The band came up with the name “f@b”, which stands for “Fragment Antigen Binding”.
They perform crossover of rapcore,...
The Test Drive: Loose Fruit Museum – In The Room
Through the magnesium glare of the London night come LFM, AKA Loose Fruit Museum, a London-based five-piece whose red-blooded rock is born of myriad guitar-wielding influences from both sides of the pond. Blending the...
The Test Drive: Quiet Quiet Band – Low Noon
What can be said about Quiet Quiet Band that can accurately describe their music to someone not familiar with them? This album, "Low Noon", is an infectious mix of Downtempo, Folk, catchy melodies, punk and...
The Test Drive: Like A Paperplane – Unfolding Light
Like a Paperplane is an instrumental ambient post-rock band, formed in Italy in 2011.From the very beginning the band dedicates to compose their own songs and in 2012 publishes their first EP “Light”, produced...
The Test Drive: Cartesian Jetstream – Ancestors
Explaining how the band got together, Simon says "I was one of the two people who interviewed Ben for a job, exciting office IT stuff! The fact that he mentioned he played the drums...
The Test Drive: Sinners Moon – Atlantis
Sinners Moon was founded by guitarist & composer LukeN in 2010, who started it as an independent project along with his former band. Afterwards he decided to concentrate only on Sinners Moon, so he...
The Test Drive: Under Paris – Transitions
Metalcore outfit Under Paris was formed in September of 2012 before wasting no time and releasing their first single, entitled "If the Drugs Don't Work, Can You Drive Me Home?,” that featured Rene Lopez...
The Test Drive: Juniors – Barcelona
JUNIORS are an Indie Pop quartet formed in Leicester. Technically adept, they're capable of producing both furiously urgent and hypnotically dreamy Indie Rock featuring distorted guitars, complex melodies, uplifting vocals and pounding drums.
Following the...