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!
Absoloot – “Man On Fire” – Single Review This “Man On Fire.” Absoloot makes a return to our pages with a brand-new single loaded with hooks and the focused attention the craft of rhythm and poetry truly requires. It was earlier this year that we had a chance to get into this emcee’s headspace through […]Read More
Swami Lushbeard – Blood Is Sicker Than Water – EP Review Been treating myself over these past couple days…taking it easy on the regular schedule and diving deeper into some records that I know have popped up throughout the scene from bands I know to be reliably strong with brand-new tunes out there. Swami Lushbeard […]Read More
Aztec – Black Art And Star Charts – EP Review You’ve already heard my comments about looking forward to this EP from just about every corner we’ve been in on the internet from our SBS Podcast to our show SBS Live This Week…once word got out that Vancouver Island’s indie-band AZTEC was getting close to […]Read More
Ya Yah Townsend – “Sugar High” – Single Review I’d say it’s been a pretty good night…I’ve actually spent about 3-4 hours straight just listening to only two songs on repeat. One of them belonged to singer/solo-artist Ya Yah Townsend – the sweetened flow & groove of her brand-new single “Sugar High” gave me no […]Read More
Neonomora – “Be Still, My Soul” – Single Review In a word – WOW. Neonomora has exactly what it takes to become a true international superstar. After taking in the Indonesian-born solo-artist’s third single “Be Still, My Soul” from her upcoming record Waters, I can tell you personally it doesn’t take much more than this […]Read More
Smoking Martha – “Say You’re Mine” – Single Review About a year and a half back…if you look through the archives to around May of last year, you’ll find the review I wrote on Australia’s Smoking Martha…a band I was quick to double-down in support of. Justifiably quick mind you…I don’t just toss around my […]Read More
The Affectionates – What To Build, Who To Destroy – EP Review You know…I’m supposed to be writing up a press-release for a completely different artist right now. Here’s the challenge I put forth to YOU though…YOU go ahead and put on the first cut from The Affectionates What To Build, Who To Destroy EP […]Read More
Latent Anxiety – Salvation – Album Review From what I’ve read and researched, the mind behind the music of this solo-project known as Latent Anxiety all traces back to one man…Ilja Rosendahl out of Los Angeles…and he’s about to make a serious amount of noise for ya over the course of some pretty lean & […]Read More
Cranky George – “Misery Road” – Single Review As per my curiosity when checking out the music of Cranky George for the first time through their single “Nighttime” from their recent album Fat Lot Of Good – I mentioned wondering about what else they might have in store for us. And well…here we are now, […]Read More
Whiskey Sharts – #2 – EP Review I don’t think that there’s anyone out there that could accuse the members of the Whiskey Sharts of being the kind of people that don’t follow through on a good joke. It is impossible not to laugh, smile, guffaw, spit-take or smirk whilst listening to the highly-refined ideas […]Read More
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