The Test Drive: Malkasian – Malkasian
This album features 8 studio tracks and two live acoustic cuts. Recorded in a bedroom with two mics by Malkasian with help from Nick Gray, frontman of Florida alternative rock band Noiseheads. The album...
The Test Drive: Rum Thief – Reach For the Weatherman
Rum Thief is solo artist Jot Green with support from his band, based in Chorlton, Manchester. The project began when Green, after playing as a drummer in bands for over ten years, decided to...
The Test Drive: Strains – Redefine[d]
Strains are a brand new modern metal / hardcore act hailing from Opglabbeek, Belgium. Although the group consists of really young members (most of them born in 1993), they’ve already toured Europe multiple times...
The Test Drive: Lunar Twin – Champagne (Remixes)
Dream-wave band Lunar Twin presents their new EP on German boutique label Emerald & Doreen Recordings. This release features two tracks from their debut Lunar Twin EP - a new edit of their breathtaking...
The Test Drive: Various – REVOLUTION – The Shoegaze Revival
"Revolution - The Shoegaze Revival" is an epic, truly international 30-track compilation, involving underground artists from all over the world, who are virtually united under one revolutionary flag – that of a shoegaze revival....
The Test Drive: Los and the Deadlines – Perfect Holiday
"The seedy underbelly of any major city spawns some of the most depraved and morally reprehensible dregs of society who seek one another out to join in a range of dubious behaviours, making music...
The Test Drive: From Another Planet – An Ever Changing Perspective
From Another Planet is a progressive metal band based in central Ohio. Founded by Jesse Mitten (drums), Marcus White (bass) and Nick Davisson (guitar) in 2009, the trio already had a substantial amount of...
The Test Drive: Tony Volker – Break and Reshape
Tony Volker is a South London songwriter who makes artfully produced electro-folk, showcased perfectly by the tracks on his new EP 'Break & Reshape' released on 12" vinyl and as a digital download.
Volker’s mellifluous...
The Test Drive: Jerrico – Machine Made The Animal
Melbourne's Jericco are a new flagship for heavy rock in Australia - a bastion of hard work, of amazing live shows, of passionate songwriting and a genuine need to explore new sounds in rock...
The Test Drive: Infidel – Infidel
Imminence Records is pleased to announce that they have signed Detroit hardcore punk outfit Infidel. Vocalist and Navy veteran Andrew Thomas had this to say, “We are stoked to be signed by Imminence Records,...
The Test Drive: Old House Playground – The Great Escape EP
Old House Playground is a three piece contemporary blues/alt-rock band with roots in the songwriting culture of traditional Greek folk music.
In 2009, Tryfon Lazos (vocals, guitars) and Andreas Venetantes (drums, percussion) together with bass...
The Test Drive: Shooze – Classified
'Classified' is the new EP from Shooze, a three-piece ska-punk band from Redditch, West Midlands, UK. Members Jon Kings (lead vocals/guitar), Ryan Kings (vocals/bass), and Ricky-Lee Cooper (drums) describe their music a hybrid of...
The Test Drive: Calling Apollo – HUNTER | GATHERER
Calling Apollo are Christian Neale, Kevin Williams, Dan Hughes, Luke Walters and Daniel Rees. The Cardiff based five piece produce riffy/ambient/rock, channeling a broad range of influences from Deftones, The Cure, Funeral for a...
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...