We all experience times throughout our creativity and personal lives where we feel like we didn’t quite hit the mark. Sometimes, in the process and pursuit of the art we love we can let people down, even let ourselves down at times. But we bounce back, if only to a more realistic vision of ourselves and our […]Read More
Various Artists – Take Me Home And Love Me – Compilation Review Nothing makes me crack a smile like random creativity. This multi-artist disc, Take Me Home And Love Me, is all over the musical map and full of ideas you could sit on your couch for years and still never dream up. And I appreciate that! So […]Read More
Qon J. Jamal – One Man Show – Album Review There are two things I can really dig in rap verse spit WELL; commitment and style above all. Qon J. Jamal has just recently dropped this album One Man Show – a complete rap set that leaves no room for doubt about just how much hard […]Read More
The Thiefs – It’s Not You, It’s Us – EP Review Now here’s something interesting! Through our show SBS Live This Week and here on the page at sleepingbagstudios.ca we’ve talked plenty about that quest for timelessness in songwriting; specifically pondering on how to go about achieving songs or albums that stand the test of […]Read More
Young Coconut – I Got A Vibe – Album Review I’m not exactly sure why I assumed this was going to be an emcee ripping rhymes into the mic…I couldn’t have been farther off! Well…for the most part at least. Young Coconut is much more pop/rock/experimental… This album is a musical project a long time in the […]Read More
Karina Vismara – Two Winters – EP Review Karina is coming to our page all the way from Argentina! I racked my brain to think of any other act, artist or band that I know of that might come from that area and I can honestly say that this is the first time I think I’ve […]Read More
Ian Marquis – Faces From The Static – Album Review I don’t think I’ve ever wanted some structure to come into the music as badly as I did during the opening moments of Faces From The Static – yes it’s super-early in the morning but c’mon – that was all kinds of confusing! Those prayers are […]Read More