Fox Medicine Greetings From Mars Independent Oregon-based duo Fox Medicine follows up on their debut EP Based on Need with Greetings from Mars, a satisfying, sludge-induced haze of glittery fuzz rock and noise. The duo consisting of vocalist and [...]
The Cavemen The Cavemen Dirty Water Records Since their formation in 2013, The New Zealand punk outfit The Cavemen has released a string of singles, as well their debut self-titled record in 2015. Now, after relocating to London and signing with [...]
TANTRiX – “WE BECOME ONE” A Spill Exclusive Music Premiere TANTRiX is a dynamic and talented pop duo with drummer/singer Matt Mio and guitarist/singer Eddie Silver solidifying their band name from the metaphysical concept of [...]
Santana @ House Of Blues, Las Vegas January 27, 2018 Carlos Santana is an artist who needs little, if any, introduction. From his entrance on stage at Woodstock in 1969, his near fifty-year career has been nothing short of illustrious. Even now, [...]
The Prefab Messiahs Psychsploitation . . . Today! Lolipop Records/Burger Records It was once said that Electric Light Orchestra picked up where The Beatles stopped at “Strawberry Fields Forever.” If that is true, then The Prefab Messiahs pick [...]
LAST BULLET – “GIMME TIME” 80-69-64 (2017) Independent Toronto January 27, 2018 Last Bullet. This is it. After almost nine years together, one of Toronto’s hottest rock bands is calling it quits, much to the shock and [...]
We Are Temporary Embers Trisol Music Group Brooklyn-based producer Mark Roberts returns with a record that captures a wide spectrum of human emotions under the veil of tightly-constructed electronic synth pop that refuses to stay in one place. [...]
Beechwood Songs From The Land Of Nod Alive Records With the nostalgic sting of 90’s glam punk and a hint of new age alt rock, Beechwood’s latest album Songs from the Land of Nod packs a great punch with its 10-track release. The trio of [...]
Long Neck Will This Do? Tiny Engines Long Neck, a project led by Lily Mastrodimos, returns with their sophomore effort Will This Do?, and have garnered a good amount of hype prior to this release. This album not only lives up to the hype but [...]
The Spook School Could It Be Different? Slumberland Records With Could It Be Different? The Spook School brings their theatrical brand of indie pop full circle. Following the release of 2015’s Try To Be Hopeful, the group finds themselves as [...]
Ampline Passion Relapse SofaBurn Records Pure energy from the first second to the last, Passion Relapse begins with the short-but-powerful “Shrunken Heads” and does not let up to the last few seconds of the last track, “Stab.” This is energetic [...]
Project Pitchfork Akkretion Trisol Music Group Project Pitchfork is an electronic band based out of Hamburg, Germany. Akkretion is their 17th studio album, and their first since 2016’s Look Up, I’m Down There. This is yet another album delving [...]
Jim Cuddy Constellation Warner Music Quiet and unassuming, Jim Cuddy’s fourth studio album released on January 26 is a poetic and easy listen that once again proves how Jim has entangled himself in the fabric of the Canadian sound. Combining [...]
NDIDI O – “HANDS HIGH” A Spill Exclusive Music Premiere ‘Hands High’ is the first single from Ndidi’s new album These Days out on March 16th. These Days finds Ndidi returning to her early blues/soul roots, and is a testament to [...]
Nils Frahm All Melody Erased Tapes Nils Frahm fans have been waiting two years for their favourite pianist-composer to retrofit Saal 3, Funkhaus, in Berlin with a new studio. Here Frahm recorded All Melody, his 8th album set to be released on [...]
Omhouse Eye To Eye Independent Omhouse’s Eye to Eye has been a long time in the making, and the wait was well worth it. Omhouse is a Toronto-based band and until recently was one person, Steven Foster. For Eye to Eye, Omhouse’s debut album, he [...]
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue Housecore Records Philip H. Anselmo is not one to sit still for very long. While most known for his vocal work with Pantera, the metal legend keeps himself very busy with a [...]
MARK E SMITH OF THE FALL PASSES AT AGE 60 Lead singer of The Fall, Mark E Smith has passed away at the age of 60. The band had cancelled their 2017 US tour when Smith was hospitalized for a rare medical condition to his heart and respiratory [...]
ICONIC CANADIAN REGGAE ARTIST SNOW CELEBRATES THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 90s NO. 1 HIT “INFORMER” NEW VERSION OF TRACK TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 26th Darrin Kenneth O’Brien, the Canadian reggae artist known as SNOW, is celebrating the 25th [...]
LED ZEPPELIN REISSUE HOW THE WEST WAS WON AHEAD OF 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS ALBUM TO BE REISSUED WITH NEW REMASTERING SUPERVISED BY JIMMY PAGE On September 7, 1968, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant first took the [...]
SHAKEY GRAVES ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM CAN’T WAKE UP VIA DUALTONE RECORDS Shakey Graves, who in December 2017 teased the oncoming of new music via Twitter, has officially announced the new studio album Can’t Wake Up, is due out May [...]
WARMING – “WHITE LIES” WARMING (June, 2018) Independent Winnipeg January 24, 2018 “White Lies is sort of a caricature of all the friends and relatives I have who suffer from addiction. From the compulsive liar friend, who [...]
THE DAMNED PREMIERE FIRST SINGLE “STANDING ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW” FROM 2018 ALBUM EVIL SPIRITS UK TOUR BEINGS JANUARY 26th Formed in 1976 at the forefront of the fledgling London punk scene, The Damned kick-started the birth of [...]
Typhoon @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto January 23, 2018 For a band that wrote such a dark and moody album as 2018’s Offerings, Typhoon is a band that sure knows how to put a smile on a crowd’s face. Despite some minor technical issues to start [...]
