of Montreal Aureate Gloom Polyvinyl Records Another year, another of Montreal release. Another smattering of discord psychedelic-funk-glam-breakbeat tracks that fascinate and confound in equal measure, with catchy melodies, sing-along hooks and [...]
Hundred Waters @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto February 27th, 2015 While the freezing winter winds chilled everyone to the bone, Hundred Waters heated things up with their haunting, vibrant, and melodic performance at Lee’s Palace. The setlist [...]
Three years after the acclaimed ‘Hurtsville’ and a move from the inner city of Sydney, Australia to the Blue Mountains, Jack Ladder returns with his new album ‘Playmates’. The album is produced by Kim Moyes of The [...]
Cannibal Corpse / Behemoth / Aeon @ The Phoenix, Toronto February 24th, 2015 Sweaty bodies and by a barrage of death metal ripping through the venue’s PA system greeted fans upon setting foot into the jam-packed Phoenix Concert Theatre on [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Reverb-drenched and bittersweet, Alvvays members Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan were childhood friends, who began playing music with Alec O’Hanley while in high school. Lead vocalist [...]
‘Joel Plaskett & The Park Avenue Sobriety’ Test Out March 17 Via Pheromone Recordings Joel Plaskett returns with one of the most diverse albums of his career. Proving that he can be all things to everybody, the rock veteran [...]
Embracing One’s Second Sight: An Interview With Tim Baker Of Hey Rosetta! Bless the broken bowl Make it whole; make it better than it was before Make it better than it was before! – Hey Rosetta!, “Kintsukuroi,” from the album Second [...]
In conjunction with Vancouver’s Playground and thirty five members of the public, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith have created a live video for Club Meds album track “Pretty Good Joke”. Playground’s mandate is simple. They take a band, an audience, and [...]
A FLASH OF LIGHTNING: AN INTERVIEW WITH ADAM PAQUETTE & CHRIS HUOT OF THE GLORIOUS SONS On a cold Wednesday evening in late January, I had the opportunity on behalf of Spill Magazine, to observe the filming of The Glorious Sons’ newest [...]
How In 40 Minutes, Joshua Radin Just Ruined Every Man in The World’s Valentine’s Day Plans: An Interview With Joshua Radin Whoever said “romance is dead” has obviously never experienced Joshua Radin. Radin’s latest album Onward and Sideways, [...]
Enter To Exit: An Interview With Daniel Tortoledo Of The Highway Some would say that the psychedelic rock sound is dead, but Daniel Tortoledo, singer and bassist of The Highway, says his band is bringing it back. The Highway, a Brooklyn based [...]
Following the recent release of Big Music Universal Music Enterprises will release a four-disc digital box set of Simple Minds’ SPARKLE IN THE RAIN on March 31st. It will be the first time the entire back catalog of this era has been collected [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ALVVAYS Reverb-drenched and bittersweet, Alvvays members Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan were childhood friends, who began playing music with Alec O’Hanley while in high school. Lead vocalist Molly Rankin is [...]
Sonny & The Sunsets Talent Night At The Ashram Polyvinyl Records If you didn’t know it, you would never guess San Francisco native Sonny Smith is nearing his mid-40s. Imaginative, quirky, and possessing the ability to spin stories akin to a [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: PHANTOGRAM Phantogram is the duo comprised of Sarah D. Barthel and Joshua M. Carter of Saratoga Springs, NY. Their music is a mix of organic and electronic sounds, with swirling guitar, spaced-out synths, and [...]
Drake If you’re reading this it’s too late Cash Money Records If there’s an Aziz Ansari equivalent in the rap genre, it might be Drake. But comedian Ansari’s swag lust and posturing comes off as personable and self-aware. Drake, [...]
Danko Jones Fire Music New Damage Records The return of Danko Jones comes with great timing, challenging a music scene that is overrun by shoeless, whistling and clapping hipster bands. Their new release Fire Music cuts through the crap and [...]
Alex Conde Descarga For Monk Zoho Music Reinventing the classics: In Descarga for Monk, pianist Alex Conde and his band interpret nine of Legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk’s compositions through the lense of Conde’s Spanish [...]
Father John Misty I Love You Honeybear Sub Pop Records I Love You Honeybear is a well thought out album. The slow romantic music, accompanied by realistic lyrics of relationships and the American education system, makes for an interesting album. [...]
Prima Donna Nine Lives And Forty-Fives Alive Naturalsound Records Los Angeles foursome Prima Donna is back with an impressive 11-song studio album. Nine Lives and Forty-Fives features eight original songs, and three covers: “I’m On Fire” (Dwight [...]
The New Pornographers & Operators @ Hamilton Place, Hamilton February 8th, 2015 Despite freezing rain and horrible driving conditions, a handful of people had found their way to Hamilton Place, and were standing around waiting in eager [...]
The Gothsicles Squid Icarus Negative Gain Records The Gothsicles’ fourth album Squid Icarus, released in December of last year by Negative Gain Productions, lives up to the standards of humor and cleverness we’ve come to expect from the ‘sicles. [...]
The Pop Group Citizen Zombie Freaks R Us Records Punk was declared dead not long after it exploded in popularity in the U.K. and the U.S. It was dismissed as a fad and no longer taken seriously as a revolutionary force. By the late ‘70s Punk [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: Sam Roberts Band Sam Roberts (born October 2, 1974) is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2001 debut release, I, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and [...]
