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!
Return For Refund – Return For Refund – EP Review Big rock sounds echoing out of Toronto, Canada, coming from the amplifiers of Return For Refund – a three-piece rock’n’roll crew built on frantically-intense, straight-to-your-face music. Incorporating skilled musicianship, complex timing signatures and blazing-hot performances, Return For Refund is making sure you get every pennies-worth […]Read More
TK – “I Don’t Know” – Single Review For realz…how REAL is this? A solid time-out from TK on this brand-new single “I Don’t Know” – I busted out into an instant grin from ear-to-ear the moment that he started up his hustle & flow because I could hear hooks coming at me from every […]Read More
Solomon Vaughn – Vaughn Solo 1st Edition – Album Review If this guy is gonna keep putting music out, Ima keep findin’ ways to get my hands on it and try to get my head around everything Solomon Vaughn is rapping about – just sayin! We’ve just come out of reviewing one of his latest […]Read More
Empire Of Gold – Raw – EP Review It’s been a strange morning here at sleepingbagstudios… I could have sworn things were going to be record setting type-awesome today as I awoke to the sunshine streaming through the windows. Shortly after, I’m back here to my online world and in massive discussions with managers and […]Read More
Christone – “It’s Up To You” – Single Release Interesting tune from Christone…I don’t know that I’ve ever heard quite such a mix of eighties anthem-rock ideals meeting modern-day Mraz/Mayer sounds combined like this before. On my first pass through listening to the single, I almost couldn’t quite get my head around the entire enormity […]Read More
Pinto And The Bean – Transit-Eons – EP Review I woke up in the afternoon for once in my life…probably the first documented case of that written here on our pages in nearly three full years. For some reason getting up later in a day really triggers a strong need to get things moving quickly…and […]Read More
Chaz Hearne – The Legend Of Core Dynamo – Album Review I’m kinda rooting for Chaz Hearne. This solo artist has enlisted some fantastic talent to assist him in bringing the songs from his debut album to life. Bouncing between playful sounds and heartfelt emotions, this acoustically-driven album hits the sweet spot like the ice-cream […]Read More
METZ – II – Album Review This fills every hole whether you want it to or not. Be READY – this second album from Sub-Pop Records grunge/rock/psychedelic noise-band METZ will make you shit your shorts, just in time for summer! Sometimes I think the last thing the world sees from its perspective on us Canadians […]Read More
Best Coast – California Nights – Album Review Best Coast are back with a brand-new album just in time for summer and no doubt the people out there have been waiting to put this into their headphones since 2013’s Fade Away. A lot has happened for this band since busting out hard into the scene […]Read More
CeeGramz – Transexual Tender – EP Review Rap can be such an incredible genre of music. I’d never be the guy to say it’s all I listen to every day, but it’s certainly been a part of my life since about the age of seven years old. Combine an intense early love of hip-hop with […]Read More
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