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!
Matt Byron – “Fight Song” – Single Review Full disclosure…if you were to look at my personal Facebook wall full of friends, you’d find Matt Byron on it. I’ve been a fan of his music since reviewing it for the first time way-back-when…but beyond that, he’s proven to be an ally in so much more […]Read More
Brannon – The Road Less Traveled – Album Review When you look at Brannon’s social media and find Daughtry, Bruce Springsteen, Def Leppard & Bon Jovi in the ‘artists we also like’ section, that’ll tell you something instantly. Or it should anyhow…it definitely tells me something. You can infer big, bold, imagery-laden & powerful songwriting […]Read More
Goldfish – “Elementary Boy” – Single Review If absolutely nothing else…at the VERY least…this is what you can most certainly call authentic. Reading about the story of Montreal-based band Goldfish was insanely cool. I put on their brand-new video/single “Elementary Boy” and was immediately zapped back in time to all the powerful & empowering riot […]Read More
Zane – “I Feel Love” – Single Review Alrighty then! No issues here with Zane’s latest single/cover version of Donna Summer’s infamous hit “I Feel Love” – this is an approved track for your summer. It’s actually pretty faithful to the original as far as the structure & melody are concerned. Retaining the essence of […]Read More
Jaewar – True! Raw Honey – Album Preview Consider me interested. I was checking out new cuts from Jaewar from a private list of tracks that are potentially making up the core of his upcoming record True! Raw Honey and finding it pretty damn easy to jump into these rap rhythms…I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily […]Read More
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
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
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
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