The Rhythm Bullies – Surfdom

The Rhythm Bullies – Surfdom – EP Review It’d just be downright strange to not hear at least a little twangin’ from the ol’ guitars if you’re gonna call your record Surfdom, right?  No worries on that – The Rhythm Bullies have got you covered right off the drop as their new EP begins with […]Read More

Captain Highside – Season By Season

Captain Highside – Season By Season – EP Review I really dig people like good ol’ Captain Highside right here.  Being rooted in the independent music-scene is such a wonderful thing y’all…truly…rather than simply run into established artists & bands all the time, in doing what we’ve been doing here for nearly a decade now, […]Read More

Radio Mafia – Don’t Think About It / “Preacher” /

Radio Mafia – Don’t Think About It – EP + Bonus Singles “Preacher” / “Pyre” Review Now…lemme check the rulebook here for a second…just how many personalities can one band have? Given the fact that I’ve got tunes from three separate years here, you’d figure the whole multiple-personalities of their music-thing would somehow correspond to […]Read More

Duhon – Sorry Summer

Duhon – Sorry Summer – EP Review This guy! I believe…if I’m not mistaken…I first crossed paths with Duhon’s music somewhere back in 2020.  Who knows what I was writing about or what was goin’ on at the time…all that stuff gets fuzzy over the years – but I never forget the music or the […]Read More

ATLS PLAZA N.D. – Manu

ATLS PLAZA N.D. – Manu – EP Review Towards the end of last year, we had the pleasure of checking out this curious musical oddity known as ATLS PLAZA N.D. in a review of the ME/NOT ME EP, and discovered a quick connection to the amount of authenticity & creativity taking place within the multi-dimensional […]Read More

Sid Hagan & Marvin Taylor – スワンプシング

Sid Hagan & Marvin Taylor – スワンプシング – Album Review I am…far too uneducated to have any clue as to how I would pronounce this title…but from what I can tell through the ol’ translator online, it means “Swamp Thing.”  As much as I’d love to say that helps just clear it all up, it […]Read More

Polyphonic Exophilia – Vol. 4

Polyphonic Exophilia – Vol. 4 – EP Review Chances are, by now, you know the name!  If you’ve been paying any attention at all to our pages here, and our most recent episodes of the SBS Podcast from the beginning of this year & all throughout the last, you know Polyphonic Exophilia has been featured […]Read More

Polyphonic Exophilia – Danger Feat. Lil Kyo XR

Polyphonic Exophilia – Danger Feat. Lil Kyo XR – EP Review Yes.  Polyphonic Exophilia are THAT band.  Not only do they make a whole lot of music to begin with, but they also expand their material in all kinds of directions as well – and just like they showed us with their previous release of […]Read More

ATLS PLAZA N.D. – ME / NOT ME

ATLS PLAZA N.D. – ME / NOT ME – EP Review If you tuned into the SBS Podcast earlier today, you’re already ahead of the game here and have heard some of my thoughts on the music of ATLS PLAZA N.D., based outta L.A., and you would have had a listen to half of the […]Read More

Electric85 – Ocean Session

Electric85 – Ocean Session – EP Review Back already!  You gotta love that.  Feels like it was just yesterday that I got switched onto the music of Electric85 based out of Seattle…yet it was back in late September this year that I got my first introduction to their music with a two-song sampling of their […]Read More