MOTHLIGHT A BAND SHARES THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE MUSIC BUSINESS, CHANGES & HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM I’m in a band. It’s called Mothlight and for the better part of the last year we’ve spent our time and money writing & recording a new EP. It is finally in post production and we’re getting [...]
Mojave Nomads – “Creature Double Feature” A Spill Exclusive Canadian Video Premiere As the “Black Sheep” of the Utah Music Scene, Mojave Nomads are shaking things up in the region predominantly dominated by pop music culture. The band made their live debut on Halloween 2014, and [...]
Lastoneout – This Was Never My Story, It’s Yours A Spill Exclusive Album Premiere Post-harcore quartet, Lastoneout, from Plymouth UK, are streaming their brand new mini-album, This Was Never My Story, It’s Yours in full now. The fantastic new 7-track record, which draws influence from Funeral For [...]
Chris de Burgh A Better World Justin Time Records Chris de Burgh’s 22nd studio album, A Better World, arrived in stores on October 28th, and it ventures into familiar territory for de Burgh, that includes diverse styles, tempos, and instrumentation. A Better World seems to feed mostly off his 1986 mega-hit [...]
The Seams Meet The Seams Hand Drawn Dracula The Seams are a fairly new Canadian band formed by members of Toronto indie bands WISH, Fake Palms, Elsa, and U.S. Girls. Together they create simple tunes influenced by rock and pop from the 60s straight through to the 90s. Formed to experiment with straightforward and [...]
Alejandro Escovedo Burn Something Beautiful Fantasy Records Where do you see yourself at age 65? Early morning breakfast at Burger King, rummaging through the morning paper while the waitress waddles over with your Early Bird Breakfast Special? Well if you are Alejandro Escovedo, hopefully you are still writing [...]
The Olympians The Olympians Daptone Records Over the past 15 years, Daptone Records have cemented their position as a leader in funk, soul, and R&B by rostering acts like Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Charles Bradley. Daptone releases are well known for their classic soul sound and the incredible [...]
RESCUING CHICKENS AN INTERVIEW WITH JORDAN BAGNALL OF MY BODY A youthful female voice spills through my phone. It belongs to Jordan Bagnall, the twenty-something lyricist, singer and producer of electronic, synth-pop duo, My Body. She formed the electronic project in 2012 with her now husband, Darren [...]
Casper Skulls Lips & Skull Buzz Records Although trends in popular music would suggest guitar Rock has been through a bit of a latent period in the past few years, labels like Toronto’s Buzz Records have been quietly building all-star teams of fun, weird Rock bands. With bands like Dilly Dally, Greys, Weaves, [...]
Lou Barlow Apocalypse Fetish Joyful Noise Recordings A year after the release of Brace the Wave, a record exploring the complexity and heartbreak of his divorce, Lou Barlow returns with a collection of songs that try, with some success, to blow on the embers of his residual hang-ups and contemplate social climate. [...]
D E C O R U M – “Near Gone” A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere The video for “Near Gone” is our best attempt at making a homemade green screen and then superimposing ourselves over a dilapidated church. It was filmed in our closet of a practice space which measures 9ft by 9ft. [...]
Titan – “HE1L.A.” (Ft. Siobhan Fahey) A Spill Exclusive Music Premiere DAMA, the new album from TITAN, is the latest in a long list of projects keeping the Mexican electronic rockers busy. Joining keyboardist Emilio Acevedo, guitarist Julian Lede, and bassist/drummer Jay de la Cueva on DAMA — [...]
Soft Lions XOXO Velvet Blue Records Following up on last year’s debut EP, Spellbreaker, the San Diego trio Soft Lions, led by Megan Liscomb, turn out six new tracks that deal with the usual pitfalls of youth, like objectification, breaking up, depression and falling in love. Previously described as post [...]
Sam Roberts Band TerraForm Secret Brain/Universal Music Canada Enter….the TerraForm!!! It’s incredible to imagine that the Juno Award-winning Sam Roberts Band has been around since 2001 as it continues to churn out Indie / Alt rock from Montreal, Canada. This is its sixth full album ( third album under the [...]
Slothrust Everyone Else Danger Bird Records Everyone Else marks the latest release by LA/Brooklyn-based Slothrust. It is truly an awe-inspiring masterpiece that pulls the listener in within moments. Though the central album theme is the human experience, its distinguishing feature is the way singer Leah Wellbaum [...]
Madness Can’t Touch Us Now Universal Music Fresh from the British Ska band Madness, which is known for its 1982 hit “Our House,” comes its latest album Can’t Touch Us Now, which was released on October 28. The whopping 16-track album is full of the quirky Ska sounds and lighthearted lyrics that made Madness [...]
Lowlands Erie Independent Lowlands have unearthed their third full-length studio album, Erie, the predecessor of Huron. This time, recorded on the newly founded, Chelsea Records. It has been a long anticipated wait – four years to be precise. However, it was well worth the wait. The latest album continues on the [...]
Nina Diaz The Beat Is Dead Cosmica Artists The fierce and electrifying Nina Diaz is perhaps best known as the frontwoman of indie rock band Girl in A Coma. After almost a decade of touring, she recently took an extended break to develop a solo career. This puts her in a unique position: getting […]
Royal Canoe @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto October 27, 2016 Last week’s Royal Canoe show at Lee’s Palace was an exceptionally challenging performance for the group to pull off. Just earlier in the week, the band experienced a substantial mid-tour tragedy as their trailer, containing all the band’s instruments and [...]
THE LATE GREAT – “EASY” EASY (2016) Independent October 27, 2016 The Late Great is an indie pop band with a dark side. The band’s songwriter Sarah Lane blends sadness with sarcasm, and hides tales of woe behind layers of fuzzy guitar melodies. The album was produced by John Morgan Askew, [...]
Roy Orbison The Ultimate Collection Sony Music Roy Orbison is easily one of the 20th century’s most storied musicians, with a stellar career that was tragically cut short by a fatal heart attack in 1988. Now, coming up on 30 years since his passing at age 52, his son Alex has assembled the first [...]
SEABOUND ANNOUNCES 14LP VINYL BOXSET “Everything” is the definitive collection of Seabound’s work to date. The deluxe box set contains every Seabound track ever released (including rare demo material) spread across fourteen 180g heavyweight vinyl LPs and collected as lossless digital wav files on [...]
Jackie Highway – “Here I Am” A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere Jackie Highway is a multi-styled project created by Angie Shyr, born with a violin in one hand, a piano in the other and wondering what else she could get her hands on. Brought up by two itinerant biochemists who enjoyed crisscrossing [...]
Diamond Mind @ The Burdock, Toronto October 26, 2016 Diamond Mind (Liam Trimble, Matthew Cardinal, Aidan Lucas-Buckland) brought their musical bag of tricks to a cozy Burdock on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. The rich array of musical styles by this critically acclaimed Edmonton trio cannot be summed up easily. [...]
