Year: <span>2023</span>

Etcher – Rhythm To The Spin

Etcher – Rhythm To The Spin – Album Review Interesting.  According to the notes I’ve got here, with the exception of the last song on this record, the rest of this lineup was “created and recorded outdoors underneath a 3 sided metal carport on the side of a mountain top glade in the Missouri Ozarks […]Read More

Lenny Williams – “Baby I’m Sorry”

Lenny Williams – “Baby I’m Sorry” – Single Review “I know you’re thinking, is it love or lust?” Well that’s good Lenny…at least we’re on the same page. I’ll tell ya this much for certain, when “Baby I’m Sorry” began and the music came flowin’ outta studio speakers so smoothly, I was pretty convinced right […]Read More

Thy Veils – “Upstream”

Thy Veils – “Upstream” – Single Review Hopefully…with the degree of my ranting and raving about Thy Veils last year while reviewing singles like “Influx” and “Lina Luna,” there are at least a few more of ya out there familiar with the name of this stunningly innovative Electro art-music project.  In the event that the […]Read More

Very Nearly Hardly Never Maybe

Official Press Release Very Nearly Hardly Never Maybe Does Everything Differently With Intent, Purpose, And Real Passion. From the heart of Chicago, Very Nearly Hardly Never Maybe creates intellectually exciting material built on extraordinary songwriting truly unlike anything found within the music-scene on Earth.  Embracing an otherworldly dimension of artistic depth than this planet is […]Read More

Garage T. Rashington III – Inauthentic Slop

Garage T. Rashington III – Inauthentic Slop – Album Review Gather around the fire kiddies…lemme tell ya a story about a man that never was… It was way past late on a windy night in Oregon and the bar had just belched the finality of its contents onto the street, sending its blur of passionate […]Read More

The Real J Israel – Glass Half Full

The Real J Israel – Glass Half Full – EP Review What I can’t tell you about, is how things were working out when The Real J Israel was rocking within a more traditional type of Gospel music…all I can really vouch for is the path I hear he’s on now.  If I had to […]Read More

SBS Live This Week 169

Check out the latest set of live tunes released from our mighty vault of musical archives here at sleepingbagstudios & have a listen to Kerry Jayne from her set at the Rainbow Bistro in Ottawa from back in 2019 – and stick around for a flash-forward into the future with a bonus live cut from […]Read More

Simon Safhalter – One Level Deeper Than The Rest

Simon Safhalter – One Level Deeper Than The Rest – Album Review A musical shape-shifter, he most certainly is. By Simon’s own admission on his social media pages, he’s basically creating all kinds of tunes that range from “pop, rap, punk, rock, j-rock, electronic, anime, video game and film music.”  Did he leave anything out?  […]Read More

Pakco F. “B75571 (Wave Runner)”

Pakco F. “B75571 (Wave Runner)” – Single Review Ahhhh music-scene, I tell ya…every time I think I’ve seen or heard it all, you prove that I haven’t. We rappin’ bout shoes here Pakco F.?  Is that what we’re doin’ here? I get more curious than most people in my field do.  When I don’t know […]Read More

Simple Stone – Through This Dark

Simple Stone – Through This Dark – Album Review Coming out of the gate swinging harder than hard, Australia’s own Simple Stone gets the energy racing at a fever pitch from the very first moments you’ll hear on Through This Dark with their opening track “Secrets.”  Somewhere in the realm of Alt-Rock-meets-Hard-Rock with a touch […]Read More