Stove ‘s Favorite Friend Exploding In Sound Combining pop melodies with a wall of guitar noise is a trick as old as indie rock itself. It’s a style that Steve Hartlett has been working in for years now, first with Ovlov and now in Stove. Their [...]
Mitch Tones Band Mitch Tones Band EP Independent The new Mitch Tones Band EP is a solid effort that is best suited with an aged bourbon and a cigarette after the album is finished. This self-titled EP has a strong swagger and its heaviness at [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip RidingEasy Records This album is a recompilation of tracks from the ‘60s and ‘70s that were never able to make it into the mainstream radio of those days. Daniel Hall and Lance Barresi once again [...]
Death Valley Girls w/ Gymshorts @ Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia October 30, 2018 Twas the night before Halloween and all through the house, people came dressed in costumes to see Gymshorts and Death Valley Girls play at the Kung Fu Necktie. I [...]
Thom Yorke Suspiria XL Recordings When Dario Argento’s supernatural horror film Suspiria was released in 1977, the world’s artistic landscape stood in stark contrast to the one we find today just over 30 years later. Modern cinema was defined [...]
MICHAEL DIAMOND AND ADAM HOROVITZ – BEASTIE BOYS BOOK SPIEGEL & GRAU BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Now here’s a little story that has got to be told – actually, it’s a story over thirty years in the making and it’s not so little; it results [...]
THE KIDS IN THE HALL: ONE DUMB GUY & TWO KIDS IN THE HALL (PAUL MYERS BOOK LAUNCH) @ THE TORONTO SKETCH COMEDY FESTIVAL/CROW’S THEATRE, TORONTO OCTOBER 29, 2018 On a brisk October night in Toronto, the Toronto Sketch Comedy [...]
Allie X Super Sunset Allie X Canada Allie X (Alexandra Ashley Hughes) is a singer/songwriter from the Toronto area who grew up with an interest in classical piano, opera and mujsical theatre, and later went on to release a number of independent [...]
Anchorsong Cohesion Tru Thoughts Recordings Operating in the role of a producer, Anchorsong builds tracks as a DJ would live. He starts with a rhythm track, augments it with percussive elements, and introduces melodic counterparts, layer by [...]
The Struts Young & Dangerous Interscope Records English-Canadian rock outfit, The Struts, have had an amazing year. While busy with their own headlining tour across North America and Europe to promote the release of their single, “Body [...]
Goran Bregović: Three Letters From Sarajevo @ The Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto October 26, 2018 Famous composer Goran Bregović, one of the most beloved ex-Yugoslavian Composers of the modern era and his Wedding and Funeral [...]
Roger Waters The Soldier’s Tale Sony In 1917, while the First World War continued, Igor Stravinsky composed the music for L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) with the text being written by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. It was [...]
Laura Gibson Goners Barsuk Records Goners, the sixth studio album by Laura Gibson, is unlike anything she’s ever released before. Gibson explains that her newest record is, “about grief, but more specifically, it’s about the ways we [...]
The Callas With Lee Ranaldo Trouble And Desire Inner Ear/Dirty Water Records Lee Ranaldo could not have found a better outfit to collaborate with than The Callas. I’m not sure about other releases they may have, but on Trouble and Desire they [...]
Blondie Heart Of Glass EP Numero Group/Universal Music 2019 promises to be a big year for Blondie fans. According to the band, Blondie are set to re-release their catalogue with many never before heard songs and versions of their hits. To whet [...]
STEREO in SOLO Somewhere Out There – The Xtended Versions EP M&S/Believe Earlier this year, the brilliant Thierry Noritop returned with his new project STEREO in SOLO and the album Somewhere Out There. Now he continues with new music [...]
PAPER CAMERAS – “JUST A MACHINE” A Spill Exclusive Music Premiere The Painted Light LP from Paper Cameras has been a long time coming and well worth the wait. The lo-fi polyphonic soundscape is full of ethereal harmonies [...]
Shad A Short Story About A War Secret City Records With the sporadic ramblings from pop stars and other notable lunatics controlling the climate of political reliability and social information, A Short Story About A War delivers the raw reality [...]
The Kinks The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society – 50th Anniversary Edition Sanctuary Records In November, 1968 The Kinks released The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, an album that is now considered a [...]
Jesse Matas – “Walking Human” A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere While drafting his debut solo album, Tamarock, Jesse Matas spent more time in a canoe than in a studio. He spent more time in silence in the bush. Then, over a week [...]
REUBEN AND THE DARK BRING ‘ARMS OF A DREAM’ TO TORONTO ON NOVEMBER 14 NEW ALBUM, ARMS OF A DREAM, OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS On the heels of a successful stint of U.S. tour dates and summer festival stops at Field Trip, [...]
COLDPLAY TO RELEASE LIVE ALBUM & CONCERT FILM TO ACCOMPANY NEW DOCUMENTARY DVD ON DECEMBER 7 On December 7, Coldplay will celebrate their record-breaking A Head Full Of Dreams Tour with the release of Live In Buenos Aires / Live In São Paulo [...]
Stew Hot Independent Hailing from Sweden, Stew very well may be among some of the most interesting rock revivalists around as they take classic rock from the late 1960s to mid ‘70s and blend it with a rich sense of the blues and early soul. The [...]
Passenger @ Théâtre Corona, Montréal October 21, 2018 Ken Yates comes across as a stunning encapsulation of what it would be like if Oscar Isaac’s titular character from Inside Llewyn Davis existed in a Canadian context, a more upbeat and [...]
