Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty The entrancing sound of Sufjan Stevens’ unmistakable music is beautiful. The unpredictable yet cohesive sonic journey through his new album Carrie & Lowell will undoubtedly hold your [...]
Ron Sexsmith Carousel One Warner Music Canada/Compass Records Ron Sexsmith is a great songwriter and his newest album Carousel One is full of lyrical highlights. The album, which was produced by Jim Scott (Wilco, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo [...]
Death Cab For Cutie Kintsugi Atlantic Music Kintsugi, the latest work from American group Death Cab For Cutie, is titled after a Japanese form of art involving fixing broken pottery where breakage and repair is not hidden but is acknowledged and [...]
Limblifter @ This Ain’t Hollywood, Hamilton March 26th, 2015 If you were to judge the level or “size” of a performance based on the size of the outside of the venue, you would be sadly misguided. It would be a huge underestimation, as it [...]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 Mom + Pop Music “C’mon fellows, we’ve got pay respect!” Jon Spencer howls on “Funeral,” kicking off the Blues Explosion’s second post-hiatus LP. After 2007, the Jon Spencer [...]
Killawatt émigré Osiris Matthew Watt, widely known as Killawatt, shows the progression into a more mature artist with his debut album émigré. He is no longer simply putting out dubstep, but venturing into the realms of electronica, bass, and [...]
Gray Matter CD Release Party @ The Rex Hotel, Toronto March 20th, 2015 On what would be the last legs of a 10-day tour, a modern jazz quintet “Gray Matter” made a two-day stop in Toronto to perform their genre-bending, forward-thinking jazz for [...]
AWOLNATION Run Red Bull Record Run is an ambitious and impressive project. AWOLNATION’s sophomore album was written, performed, and produced entirely by lead singer Aaron Bruno. The album features 14 new songs that go in many different [...]
Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon Arts & Crafts Records Goon, the debut album of Vancouver-based songster Tobias Jesso Jr., sounds like it came straight from the 1970s. Part early solo-McCartney, part Billy Joel, and part Randy Newman, the songs on Goon [...]
Twin Shadow Eclipse Warner Bros “That moment when something pure and constant is broken, where you’re filled with vulnerability, that moment is what I live for in art,” says George Lewis, Jr., aka Twin Shadow. “I’ve [...]
Joel Plaskett The Park Avenue Sobriety Test Pheromone Recordings Without being too hyperbolic, Joel Plaskett’s latest album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test is perhaps his best yet. The album is a tribute to the artist’s own life. The acronym The [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: Dave Brockie Of GWAR (RIP) Oderus Urungus was the fictitious stage persona of Canadian-American musician David Murray “Dave” Brockie (August 30, 1963 – March 23, 2014), lead vocalist of the metal [...]
Dope Stars Inc. TeraPunk Independent Dope Stars Inc. is an alternative and industrial rock band from Rome that was founded in 2002. The band has released four albums and three EPs, along with their upcoming TeraPunk. Described as having a [...]
The Lookouts Spy Rock Road (And Other Stories) Don Giovanni Records Thirty years before anyone would ever even conceive of Green Day, three guys got together and The Lookouts were born. The California punk band released a remastered album March [...]
Simple Minds Sparkle In The Rain: Super Deluxe Reissue Universal Music “Don’t You Forget About Me”….wasn’t that the song from the John Hughes movie? Yeah it was and it’s still probably the most well known song associated with the Scottish [...]
Purity Ring Another Eternity 4AD Another Eternity showcases some experimentation with space-like beats and synth patterns, with Purity Ring’s distinguishable sound infused within. The Canadian synthpop duo finally released their second [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BECK Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970[4]), known by the stage name Beck, is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s with [...]
