The Residuals – Born Blind – Album Review With grinding guitars and a lo-fi sound that meets somewhere in the middle of whatever-era of Henry Rollins music you want to select and the grindcore-metal genre, one-man machine Joshua Lykkeberg gives you zero-time to catch your breath after pushing play and starting-up “Waiting For A Cure” […]Read More
One of the most sincere & fun crews to work with, we’ve known the Swami Lushbeard crew for nearly four full years now. We reviewed their A Burning Desire EP and bonded quickly to the music & the people in the band, going on to do one of our most successful & REAL video-interviews that […]Read More
Durells World – Call Me Later, Way Too Busy – Pre-release EP Review *BEEP* – just an announcement before we get right into it here today…this is pre-release y’all…the Call Me Later, Way Too Busy EP from Durells World can still most certainly change anything from the songs to the album art to the writing […]Read More
Magazine Gap – “Ran For Cover” – Single Review When we first reviewed Magazine Gap and their Calling Card EP at the end of last year, we heard things we liked…and we heard the promise of something even more. In early January of this year, the London-based Pop/Soul trio returned to our pages with a […]Read More
SK – “Bang It Out” Feat. Exid – Single Review Correspondence comes in all forms behind the scenes at sleepingbagstudios. Whether it’s by text message or carrier pigeon, we get messages & promo write-ups all the time regardless of if we ask for them or not. Sometimes, they’ll even answer a long-burning question that you […]Read More
The explosion of noise-rock band Closer raining down monstrously epic jams from the stage began with three guitarists (Ryan, Trev, Jake) and one of the most beastly drummers (Tyler) to ever sit on the throne. Born out of a combination of local rock bands The Pit (Trev/Tyler) and Doc Holiday (Ryan/Jake) – nobody even knew […]Read More
Some of the raddest times I had the privilege of experiencing in the independent music-scene of Vancouver was putting together ‘panel’ style episodes where we’d pull in local heroes of certain genres to bullshit about the music that made them who they are today and what defines the style. That being said – they are, […]Read More
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Sam And The Black Seas – Silver – Album Review On April 21st last year in 2016, we received a link to a modest handful of songs via Soundcloud link to first discover the music of Sam And The Black Seas. As it turned out, those songs happened to be amazing…and my enthusiasm for this […]Read More
Mainstream Monday! Posting on the regular…or at least hopefully one day! I’ll be giving you 37 reasons to check out amazing songs, artists & bands I’ve found along the way – check out the first official playlist of Episode 001 below – all female-driven songs & projects out there from the mainstream-side of life. And […]Read More
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