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!
Active I – Earth Is Dead, But We’re Alive – Album Review Definitely something I can instantly sink my teeth right into from the very opening moments. I honestly don’t even know what Active I has used to start off the opening track “Common Man,” but the haunting tones of the beginning of Earth Is […]Read More
Modest Mouse – Strangers To Ourselves – Album Review I’ll admit – I got on the Modest Mouse bandwagon fairly late…just at the crest of the release of Good News For People Who Love Bad News; and then ravenously devoured their entire back catalogue. Forever astounded by just how real their music can be; it’s […]Read More
The Atif – Michael Jackson – Rock Tributes I’ve had some pretty profound impacts upon my life that I suppose I’ve attempted my best to see what life would be like to actually be heroes of mine like Michael Stipe, Henry Rollins or Dave Grohl…or at least somewhat of a combination, so I humbly say […]Read More
Lee Williams – “The Pit And The Pendulum” – Single Review This is an extremely tough one, coming to me on a day of sheer outstanding excellence so far…I can’t tell you just how much I WANT to support all the great talent I can hear in this new single from Lee Williams…because I truly […]Read More
Lovesucker – Lovesucker – EP Review It’s been an excellent day in the studio here. Started it off interviewing the fantastically-talented Kristia Di Gregorio and now here I get to continue on this wicked start with even more great music coming through my speakers courtesy of Lovesucker. This new self-titled EP has a high-level of […]Read More
Delilah – Sings Sarah + 1 – EP Review The ‘Sarah’ in the title refers to famous jazz singer Sarah Vaughan from the 1940’s-ish era, and also points to solo-artist Delilah’s pure love for her music & sound. With this EP, Delilah Sings Sarah + 1 cover of another renowned artist, Nat King Cole, in […]Read More
HidNTrackz – The Misconceptions Of Me – EP Review Exceptional! HidNTrackz has shown up for the recording, yessir! From what I can hear on The Misconceptions Of Me EP, and what I’ve learned from a few back & forth messages…well…seems like a pretty good guy looking to bring a little honesty to his own music […]Read More
Lauren Kaur Dhamu – Only Human – EP Review Let me tell ya all about what I wasn’t expecting to hear when I pushed play on Lauren Kaur Dhamu’s latest EP, it was the male-vocal sample that starts out the beginning of the title-track “Only Human.” At the time of, all I had to go […]Read More
Dead Wood – “The Queen And The Peasant,” “Saint,” “Send Me A Sign” – Singles Reviewed Brilliant day here at the studio to have the music up loud listening to all kinds of unique sounds making up the fantastic year for independent music that 2015 has really become already. As I jump into the latest […]Read More
Adam Ray – The Clown Parade – Album Review Now here’s a brave soldier. I’m not just talking about braving the pages of the internet here at sleepingbagstudios by handing us a country-album to pick apart…that pales in comparison to the struggles and obstacles I’m sure that Adam Ray has overcome in order to get […]Read More
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