Clyde Robinson – “R.I.P Clyde” – Single/Video Release There’s never any telling how far an imaginative project/video can take an artist in today’s world; having a defined style, image or point of view could blast you from living an everyday life into the spotlight overnight with the right viral approach or idea. No matter which […]Read More
Sometimes you stumble across an artist and in their music you can hear the sound of true authenticity…you know, those real songwriter-types out there that have been the poets of generations of history…’the real deal,’ as they say… One such artist in my humble opinion, is without a doubt, Joseph Tonelli, whose album Dust And […]Read More
Caramel Snow – “Sweet And Cynical”/”A Cold Dark Autumn” – Singles Review I’m not naïve! It’s impossible to have a look at the cover of a record and not get a first impression of what the music on it might be like…and I swear if you’ve written as many of these reviews as I have, […]Read More
If you were one of the fine people that checked into last night’s episode of the SBS Podcast – today’s nomination is no surprise to you! Within an entire list of bands/artists that made the year extraordinarily tough to select a final top-10…I decided to also sneak in today’s nomination into the lineup. Alright alright…wasn’t […]Read More
On today’s show we honor those that came just shy of making our official top-ten for this year’s SBS reader-voted quest for Best New Sound 2016…all bands/artists in this episode made even making a list at all an impossible task due to the incredible year it’s been for independent music. So let’s celebrate that and […]Read More
Some of the year’s most powerful, socially-aware and boldly-expressive tunes came directly from A Truth Called Nothing. We got the opportunity to review this band a couple times throughout 2016, at first for their incredible album Sluggerhand and then for their EP – the politically well-timed set of songs on The Orange Orangutan’s Revenge. A […]Read More
The Gangsta Rabbi – The King Of Jewish Punk #30 & #68 – Album Review The Gangsta Rabbi is all the proof you need that some people truly want to be heard. How each person chooses to go about that pursuit as a musician is of course an individual thing…there are many approaches…and if you […]Read More
Personally if I was to hand out the trophy for sincerity in music this year, I’d have a real hard time not handing it straight over to this crew from northern Ireland. I honestly don’t even know if THEY get just how good, how special or how rare the sound of their music is…I don’t […]Read More
Way back in 2014 when SBS was still on the west-coast of Canada – we had about ten artists/bands stop by for an event we held in collaboration with EverydayMusicTV where each of them had an opportunity to play a song or two in a try-out of sorts to get into EDMTV’s 1000-day lineup of […]Read More
With her stunning Enemy Of The People EP absolutely hitting the mark for uniqueness, beautiful textures and bold atmospheres in the music…combining them with the extraordinary, soaring vocals you’ll find in this project made this record we heard back in September pretty much guaranteed to find itself in the top-10 list this year – and […]Read More