Elizabeth Shepherd Signal Indepenent/Linus Entertainment With The Signal, pianist and singer/songwriter Elizabeth Shepherd creates contemporary jazz that is high on both rhythmic sensibilities and lyrical content. She has a knack of making [...]
July Talk For Your Bloodshot Eyes Sleepless Records July Talk’s 2013 self-titled debut album crackles with energy and seethes with sexuality, largely fuelled by the tension between band leaders Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay. Since then, in [...]
Lenny Breau LA Bootleg 1984 Guitar Archives/Linus Entertainment Thirty years ago, in August of 1984, jazz guitar legend Lenny Breau was found dead – apparently murdered. The mystery remains unsolved. Two months earlier, executive producer [...]
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS – WHAT’S BEHINDTHE POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE GRAND JURY Each year, the Polaris Music Prize is awarded to the artist whose album has been chosen as the best album of the year, based on artistic merit and creativity. The [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto September 28th, 2014 Uncle Acid’s debut Toronto appearance was a highly anticipated show for the stoner metal purists, this up and coming psych-metal mega force has toured Europe [...]
Emilia E Current Records Ever since Emilia came out last year with “Closer All The Time” from her impressive 4-track EP Flying Colors, I have been anticipating her new music and now the wait is over. Simply titled E, this exciting new 10-song [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: JULY TALK July Talk is a Canadian blues/alternative rock band formed in 2012 in Toronto. The band consists of singers Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay, guitarist Ian Docherty, bassist Josh Warburton and drummer [...]
RIOT FEST 2014 Downsview Park, Toronto September 6-7th, 2014 After a long night of thunderstorms and torrential downpour across the GTA, thousands of eager fans shuffled into Downsview Park for this summer’s last big festival. Celebrating their [...]
Jennifer Castle Pink City Idée Fixe Queen of her Castle! This Canadian folk singer-songwriter based in Toronto returns with her second full-length studio release, Pink City. This 10-track gentle beauty represents a pomp of folk that Castle [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: YUKON BLONDE Yukon Blonde is a Canadian indie rock band originally from Kelowna, British Columbia. Formed in 2005 as a quintet called Alphababy, the band members changed the name in late 2008 at the suggestion [...]
Deborah Ledon Diving For Pearls Independent In her debut record, Vancouver native Deborah Ledon brings a very smooth, laid back and sensual take on adult contemporary Latin Jazz that is infused with creative arrangements, clear vocals, and [...]
