SBS Live This Week 112

Stoked to unleash this beast out of the vault for the First Five Years series on SBS Live This Week – we’ve got Vaultry crushin’ it live from the stage at the Biltmore Cabaret in 2017 from the beginning of their cross-country tour.  PLUS – we’ve got a rock-solid new single from LA-based band 222 […]Read More

0205 – Vaultry (Live @ The Biltmore 2017)

All good things, ladies and gentlemen, come to an end…as is the case for Victoria-based band Vaultry unfortunately.  They had an amazing run…they had a history unlike many bands out there starting out…and all things said & done, they went on to put out two extremely killer records with the Coven EP and their album […]Read More

0204 – The Pit (Live @ Lana Lou’s 2017)

As most of you already know, we’d already moved sleepingbagstudios across Canada in early 2016 – but there’s very little that can keep us away from The Pit if we can help it!  So in 2017, on a trip back home, the boys (Tyler Hutton – drums/Trevor Hutton – guitar) booked a last minute show […]Read More

SBS Live This Week 091

Check out a live set from Coastline Pilot at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver from last year & stick around for a bonus video for a brand-new single from Jay Peacock in the spotlight! sleepRead More

SBS Best New Sound 2017 Nominations – Yellow Paper Planes

SBS Best New Sound Nominations Day Ten:  Yellow Paper Planes If you’ve been following along with our pages, reviews, podcasts etc., then you already know we’ve been ranting & raving about the new record Building A Building by Yellow Paper Planes as loud as possible all year long – so I had to do my […]Read More

SBS Best New Sound 2017 Nominations – Sienná

SBS Best New Sound Nominations Day Nine: Sienná One of the most stunning overall experiences came out of left-field this year through an artist we checked out in April of 2017 by the name of Sienná.  Her album Q.o.S was full of east-meets-west ideas when it came to the style & sound of the music, […]Read More

SBS Best New Sound 2017 Nominations – Victory Fires

SBS Best New Sound Nominations Day Eight: Victory Fires Of all the internet music gin-joints in all the world, they had to walk into mine.  Victory Fires is the kind of project with such potential, that even discovering them so late in the year, I knew immediately the moment I started listening that I was […]Read More

SBS Best New Sound 2017 Nominations – Dazor

SBS Best New Sound Nominations Day Seven:  Dazor Location, location, location – isn’t that what they always say?  In 2017, Dazor proved it doesn’t matter where you live – if you turn the volume up loud enough, the music is bound to get out there to all the right places.  This Canadian crew from Halifax […]Read More

SBS Best New Sound 2017 Nominations – J Speed

SBS Best New Sound Nominations Day Six: J Speed This year when it came to putting the rhythm & style into the rhymes in Hip-Hop, rapper J Speed helped raise the standards significantly by putting art back into the rap-game.  With his signature sound, unique tone in his voice and ambitious approach, he put out […]Read More

SBS Best New Sound 2017 Nominations – Vaultry

SBS Best New Sound Nominations Day Five: Vaultry The circumstances revolving around Vaultry as a band, losing founding member Chasen Fraser to cancer, led to one of the most unique moments in time I swear we’ll ever witness with the album Eulogy.  Co-written with Fraser before he passed, right up to and including a song […]Read More