Kai Rutherford – Running Out Of Time

Kai Rutherford – Running Out Of Time – Album Review …the journey continues… The second of two albums he released in 2016, Kai Rutherford lived-out the adage of ‘it takes a lifetime to write your first album and you get two weeks to write your second’ with his follow-up set of tunes on Running Out […]Read More

Kai Rutherford – Outsider

Kai Rutherford – Outsider – Album Review Over the course of the next couple reviews, we’re going to get right into the music of Kai Rutherford both past & present through two albums he’s only just released this year that have taken nearly two entire decades to finally get their due.  In this review here, […]Read More

Jacob Didas – Lucid

Jacob Didas – Lucid – Mixtape Review If you checked out the last episode of the SBS Podcast, you’ve already had a chance to check out some of the music from Jacob Didas…and no doubt, since then, anxiously awaiting some more!  We played a cut called “Deluded” from his Lucid album to warm you up […]Read More

Jacob Levy & Meir Shitrit – When Kids Feel The

Jacob Levy & Meir Shitrit – When Kids Feel The Music – Album Review Every so often as a music-reviewer I end up listening to something well-outside of my own personal taste and preference and into an entirely unique experience I might not have otherwise found myself in – and no matter what the result, […]Read More

The Gangsta Rabbi – The King Of Jewish Punk #30

The Gangsta Rabbi – The King Of Jewish Punk #30 & #68 – Album Review The Gangsta Rabbi is all the proof you need that some people truly want to be heard.  How each person chooses to go about that pursuit as a musician is of course an individual thing…there are many approaches…and if you […]Read More

Eon MC Etc. & Adduci – Fighting Demons

Eon MC Etc. & Adduci – Fighting Demons – Album Review First time I had actually heard this new record presented by United Statements…I listened from the Soundcloud page.  Why is that important, you ask?  Well…sometimes pushing play there can give you mixed results in terms of how a record might flow – and in […]Read More

Latent Anxiety – Salvation

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

Charming Timur – Call It A Classic

Charming Timur – Call It A Classic – Album Review This fucking guy…Santeri Lohi has got to be one of the absolute kings of sarcasm and subtle, wry humor.  I’ve got the added benefit of having interviewed him in both written and audio conversations and also had the privilege of hearing the evolution in his […]Read More

Black Astronaut – Life On Mars

Black Astronaut – Life On Mars – Album Review All kinds of imagination, ideas and talent combine to form the collaborative efforts of Black Astronaut & their music.  Led by lead songwriter Charles Luck, the number of players, singers, rappers and musicians involved quickly multiplies from there…all united by the shared purpose found in creating […]Read More

Da Challenger – Verbal Canvas Vol. 2

Da Challenger – Verbal Canvas Vol. 2 – Album Review Da sequel! Well…here within the pages of sleepingbagstudios, you’ll see it’s much more than that – we’ve been following and listening to the phat tracks of Da Challenger for some time now and have checked out pretty much everything we can since he dropped Verbal […]Read More