Prefab Sprout I Trawl The Megahertz Sony Music Though it originally appeared as a solo album in 2003 for leader and writer of ‘80s UK hit band Prefab Sprout Paddy McAloon, he decided to remaster the album, and rerelease I Trawl The Megahertz in [...]
NICE TO MEET U A CONVERSATION WITH PI JA MA (PAULINE DE TARRAGON) For many, the chance to sing on a nationally televised talent competition would be a dream come true. Yet for Pauline De Tarragon, the experience almost turned her away from music [...]
WARISH – WARISH A Spill Exclusive Canadian Album Premiere Imagine if Incesticide era Nirvana were crossed with Static Age era Misfits. You’d have sinister low budget horror rock with a visceral, twisted weirdness and bludgeoning riffs. [...]
WELCOMING AND WARM DIVERSIONS A CONVERSATION WITH DAN MANGAN Way back in the days of Myspace an emerging young musician named Dan Mangan commented on a song embedded on my profile as being one of the most beautiful things he’d ever heard. [...]
SECRET TREEHOUSE – “FEAR OF FROGS” A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere Secret Treehouse releases their first single “Fear of Frogs” from their upcoming debut album, The Big Rewind! “Fear of Frogs” is about the fear of [...]
THE LONELY HEARTS – THE BEATLES “ROOFTOP CONCERT” 50th ANNIVERSARY A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere The final public performance of The Beatles was on January 30th, 1969 when they surprised the central London office and fashion [...]
JV’S BOOGALOO SQUAD NEW SINGLE “SQUADZILLA” OUT NOW (FLATCAR RECORDS/FONTANA NORTH) PRE-ORDER UPCOMING DEBUT ALBUM GOING TO MARKET ON JANUARY 25 Soulful, jazz/funk Hammond B3 organ trio JV’S BOOGALOO SQUAD has a debut single [...]
JON BRYANT ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM CULT CLASSIC RELEASING MAY 17 VIA NETTWERK “DID WHAT I DID” VIDEO OUT NOW In 2015, Jon Bryant joined a cult. His short-lived time in this cult would inspire the concept of his forthcoming Nettwerk debut album Cult [...]
DAN MANGAN SHARES COVER OF R.E.M.’s “LOSING MY RELIGION” ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM MORE OR LESS OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS Dan Mangan is sharing his cover of R.E.M.’s classic “Losing My Religion” which appears in the trailer for [...]
STARS AT NIGHT – “TOXIC” A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere “This video was a labor of love! We constructed the sets in our rehearsal studio while eating vegan pizza until 6:30 in the morning. We wanted to make something [...]
KICK ASS SASS A CONVERSATION WITH CANADIAN QUEEN OF ROCK & WINEMAKER SASS JORDAN Sass Jordan has been a rock star, actor, Canadian Idol judge, and a Juno and Billboard award winner… is there anything she can’t do? Now, she has added [...]
Xavier Wulf @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto January 26, 2019 This was Xavier Wulf’s first Toronto concert in over three years. You could tell by the size of the audience and the level of energy that he needs to come a little more often. Wulf had [...]
MARTIAN VS THYSELF A CONVERSATION WITH MR.A THE MARTIAN With progress in the digital world and technology, underground and indie-produced artists have perhaps never had a better chance at exposure. Platforms like SoundCloud have allowed for a [...]
Abby Zotz w/ Shout Sister Choir @ Beach United Church, Toronto January 26, 2019 Despite the sub-zero temperatures outside, there was plenty of warmth in the room for this double bill in east Toronto. The Concert of Hope benefit featured sets [...]
THE MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH WHOM? GRACIE MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIONS JANUARY 26, 2019 “As artificial intelligence continues to impact our human lives, many questions still remain… How will artificial intelligence impact one of the most human things [...]
Quiet Riot One Night In Milan Frontiers Music It may be hard to believe, but One Night in Milan, recorded in 2018, captures Quiet Riot at the first concert they have ever played in Italy. Even more astonishingly for a band that has been around [...]
Jailbirds The Black River Independent I need very little reminder of the vibrance of Toronto’s independent music scene. The amount of talent that has emerged in the last few years is nothing short of astounding. That being said, every now and [...]
Subjective (Goldie & James Davidson) Act One: Music For Inanimate Objects Sony Music Few names carry more weight in EDM circles than English musician and DJ Goldie, aka Clifford Joseph Price. Banging out drum-and-bass hits since the 1980s, [...]
Eerie Wanda Pet Town Joyful Noise Eerie Wanda, the moniker of Marina Tadic, offers personal compositions with her second LP, Pet Town. The songwriter, along with additional bandmates Jasper Verhulst and Jeroen de Heuvel, got creative for the [...]
Buzzcocks Another Music In A Different Kitchen (2018 Remastered Version) Domino Records As the 21st century decidedly moves on from its adolescence, the bands that once defined teenage rebellion and angst today serve fond memories, [...]
The Dandy Warhols Why You So Crazy Dine Alone Records Celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, The Dandy Warhols release their tenth studio album Why You So Crazy, that illustrates perfectly why the band remains an enigma after all these [...]
Royal Canoe Waver Paper Bag Records Hailing from Winnipeg and Steinbach, Ontario, Royal Canoe is an indie pop band that’s been gracing the stage since 2010. Band members Matt Peters, Bucky Driedger, Matt Schellenberg, Brendan Berg, Derek Allard [...]
Watermelon Slim Church Of The Blues NorthernBlues Music Church Of Blues is the new album by Bill Homans, also known in the blues community as Watermelon Slim. The album, which is out today, features seven of Watermelon Slim’s original songs as [...]
Jaye P. Morgan Jaye P. Morgan (Reissue) WeWantSounds In what should have been a landmark moment for soul and disco music, Jaye P. Morgan released her self-titled album, Jaye P. Morgan, in 1976. Rather than being a watershed moment for both her [...]
