SO – Echo Park – EP Review Artistically-twisted Hip-Hop? Did I just create a new genre category? If I did just now, I don’t really deserve the credit…SO does for putting that conclusion into my brain after taking in the Echo Park EP – a record so full of unexpected ideas, performances and music that […]Read More
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The Valium – “In My Life” – Single Review In our modern-day search to go ‘viral’ as human-beings…one of the emerging official methods is to appeal to a celebrity direct…you can find a recent example from the Rockin’ 1000 and their plea to Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters to come play a live show […]Read More
Mario Petrix – “Electro World” – Single Review Well I’ve really kind of covered the map as far as singles have been concerned tonight! Ranging from acoustic-music, to rap…and now here to a bold-electro rhythm & groove all the way from Italy with Mario Petrix’s new single from the very beginning of 2016, “Electro World.” […]Read More
Hz – “Bad Guy” Feat. BrooklynxHippie – Single Review Certainly. I can get behind this. The idea of encouraging someone starting out as young as Hz in the rap-game is definitely something that I can support; that being said the skills, ability and talent need to at least show themselves in order to be able […]Read More
Silent Stranger – “Something About A Dream (Acoustic)” – Single Review Whoa! I’m gonna start this review by at the very least assuming that the 53,211 fans supporting the music of Silent Stranger couldn’t all be wrong and can’t all be related. I know I’ve earned your respect through our honest reviews here at sleepingbagstudios…but […]Read More
Colorworks – Joyla Red – EP Review Is it just me or is our homepage looking more colorful than normal? Not only is it full of US-spellings…but Color(insert here) seems to be a thing right now…no one told me in advance this was a thing…but it definitely seems like it’s a thing, doesn’t it? I […]Read More
The Naddiks – “Heart Of Fire”/”Stop.Listen&Love” – Singles Reviewed While there would be no denying that there are some rough-edges surrounding the music of The Naddiks…I’d also be willing to argue against anyone telling me there’s not something special happening in the music of this band. With two-songs written powerfully using gigantic dynamics to bring […]Read More
Colorstarr – Sleepless – EP Review There is some extremely exciting music to talk about today at the ol’ homepage I tellz ya – turn up the volume and be ready for some wicked stuff! Gonna start up the energy with a band that I am absolutely loving right now called Colorstarr – they’re just […]Read More
Tossing Pennies – “Mainline Hero” – Single Review Based on everything that we researched, discovered & talked about with Eric of Tossing Pennies in our latest interview here on the pages at sleepingbagstudios…to say that I was looking forward to hearing the music would be a massive understatement! The Tossing Pennies project…although in the process […]Read More
Oddfellows – NoVo – Album Review There was a small part of me that was trying to whisper how late it’s growing here in BC…and that I should start thinking of packing it up for the night. Something about the first song on the new NoVo album by Oddfellows kept me wanting to stay awake…the […]Read More