Our in-depth album-reviews reflect the sincere passion in the way we listen to the music of the independent-scene. Representing genres of all-kinds and offering honest insight into what we hear in effort to do our part to assist artists/bands in the evolution of their sound – we do our best to highlight the positives and offer objective constructive-criticism with added personality and quality you can truly see. Your music deserves it!
Good Luck Valiant – The Darkness – EP Review I remember when my old man went to an editor for the first time, ready to start his writing career. He walked in, he sat down, the dude said alright, gimme your pitch, to which my dad started out with, “you see, I’ve got this trilogy […]Read More
Belmez Faces – This Is The Dark Timeline – Album Review And here we are, just as we promised! If you tuned into the most recent episode of the SBS Podcast, you’re ahead of the pack – we played their song “Sinister Blood” on the show, and you’ve got yourself a good idea of what […]Read More
Pete Gustard – Battlefield Ballet – Album Review Well now! That’s definitely some of the best album artwork I’ve seen…ever? Amazing. Provocative. Enticing. An image like that is as artistic as it is insightful…but really, we should expect nothing less from Pete Gustard at this point in his career, you know what I mean? This […]Read More
Little Ghost – “Best And Brightest” – Single Review Not only is it amazing how much time can pass in between seeing someone up on our pages sometimes, but the synchronicity of when they tend to return can be equally fascinating. On a technical level, I suppose it’s fair to say that we haven’t had […]Read More
Celiane The Voice – “Inner Universe Reloaded” – Single Review “Many of you that know Celiane The Voice know that I stand for love and consciousness – that means love of self, and love of others…because when you love yourself, you can love others.” #truth #wisdom Those words came directly from the cyborg lips of […]Read More
Free Mace – “Shark Attack” – Single Review “Everywhere I go, and everywhere I see, there’s another shark attack.” #truth Interestingly enough, if you Google ‘shark attacks’ – you’ll find ‘shark attacks in Florida’ come up in the top ten results; but while you might assume these island vibes & Reggae sound of Jacksonville-based Free […]Read More
Jeff Lake & Cellophane Flowers – “Within You Without You” / “Tomorrow Never Knows” – Single Review Like just about every musically-inclined childhood on this planet of ours, I was raised with a ton of The Beatles flowing throughout the household. Being born in the 80s and growing up in the Grunge era of the […]Read More
Teddy Wender & Jazzmatik – “Summer Shirt” – Single Review You know…no matter how many songs I listen to, or however many reviews I seem to write, I still pride myself on the fact that I’m more than amazed, still to this day, by the things people will choose to write about. Outright fascinating really […]Read More
GioGag – U Never Know – Album Sampler/Singles Review If you’re joining us after having a listen to the latest episode of the SBS Podcast featuring GioGag’s music on it, fantastic! If you haven’t had a chance to check it out just yet, no worries – it lives on the internet – you can check […]Read More
Datastar – Singles Review I mean…y’ain’t gonna find me complaining about any of this, that’s for sure. Datastar is like my spirit animal in digital form. I’ve got a whole selection of cuts from what appears to trace back to the roots of this project’s beginnings…which I believe trace back roughly to around 2018 if […]Read More
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