JACKSON BROWNE AND LESLIE MENDELSON – “HUMAN TOUCH” INSIDE RECORDINGS “A Human Touch,” written by Steve McEwan, Jackson Browne and Leslie Mendelson for the new Paul Haggis documentary 5B. Performed by Jackson Browne [...]
CHURCH OF TREES @ THE PAINTED LADY, TORONTO JULY 30, 2019 It is a hot, muggy night in Toronto, again. But inside the Painted Lady, it is a different kind of heat: the outside conditions are no match for those inside the venue, where Church Of [...]
JOHN MAYER @ SCOTIABANK ARENA, TORONTO JULY 30, 2019 Scotiabank Arena was filled with the sounds of epic guitar solos and passionate singalongs as John Mayer kicked off the first of two nearly sold-out shows in Toronto. The evening was split [...]
FIRST ROUND OF PERFORMERS ANNOUNCED FOR 2019 POLARIS GALA The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC Music, has announced the first round of performers at the 2019 Polaris Gala. Taking place September 16 at The Carlu in Toronto, the following [...]
K.FLAY REVEALS OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE “SISTER’ LATEST ALBUM SOLUTIONS OUT NOW VIA NIGHT STREET/INTERSCOPE Following the release of her third full-length album Solutions, which dropped earlier this month on Night Street/Interscope [...]
FAT WRECK CHORDS ANNOUNCE LAGWAGON’S NEW ALBUM RAILER DUE OUT OCTOBER 4 It was on “Falling Apart,” off Lagwagon’s 2005 full-length Blaze, that frontman Joey Cape first committed the word ‘railer’ to tape, but [...]
SASS JORDAN REISSUES 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF RATS IN NEW ORANGE COLOURED 180-GRAM VINYL RELEASE JUNO Award winner Sass Jordan is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her third album, Rats, this year. The monumental record is one of the [...]
SUM 41 ANNOUNCES U.S. FALL HEADLINE TOUR WITH SUPPORT FROM THE AMITY AFFLICTION AND THE PLOT IN YOU NEW ALBUM ORDER IN DECLINE AVAILABLE TO STREAM AND PURCHASE NOW VIA HOPELESS RECORDS Fresh off a non-stop touring cycle throughout the US, Canada [...]
BEN FOLDS – A DREAM ABOUT LIGHTNING BUGS: A LIFE OF MUSIC AND CHEAP LESSONS BALLANTINE BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY BRYAN WILLISTON Many music fans love to dig deep into the work of their favourite artists. “What does that lyric mean?”“What [...]
ABBY ZOTZ – “SEE YOUR FACE” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE Abby Zotz’s award-winning debut solo release Local Honey is a satisfying union of wistful pop blended beautifully with folk, blues and gospel, all filtered [...]
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS @ REBEL, TORONTO JULY 29, 2019 It’s not every day that a legendary guitar hero rolls into town on tour with a hot band, and when the word was out that Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the [...]
ROBBIE ROBERTSON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM SINEMATIC INSPIRED BY DECADES OF FILM SCORING AND A FASCINATION WITH HUMAN NATURE’S DARKER CORRIDORS LEGENDARY SONGWRITER/MUSICIAN JOINED BY VAN MORRISON, GLEN HANSARD, CITIZEN COPE, J.S. ONDARA, HOWIE [...]
HARVEST MOON BENEFIT CONCERT FEATURING NEIL YOUNG, NORAH JONES & FATHER JOHN MISTY ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER 14 SINGLE DAY GATHERING TO BENEFIT THE PAINTED TURTLE AND THE BRIDGE SCHOOL Harvest Moon, a daytime benefit concert, is set to take [...]
KEMPTVILLE LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL @ KEMPTVILLE COLLEGE, KEMPTVILLE JULY 18-21, 2019 Putting on a music festival in a small town in Ontario is quite the challenge. To do so as gracefully as Kemptville Live Music Festival has is also quite the feat. [...]
MSTRKRFT REVEAL SINGLE “BUFFALO FAT” FOR NEWLY FORMED LABEL ORO RECORDS Canadian electronic music producers MSTRKRFT (Jesse F. Keeler and Al-P) returned this week with a new single “Buffalo Fat.” The hard-driving techno instrumental [...]
Spoon Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon Matador Records Indie rock veterans Spoon have released their greatest hits album, Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon. First formed in 1993 with nine albums under their belt, this will be [...]
Of Monsters And Men Fever Dream Universal Music The Icelandic juggernaut Of Monsters and Men return with their third studio album Fever Dream. While the album continues with the anthematic power pop elements that shot them to fame in 2011, it is [...]
Alex Haas & Bill Laswell Smoke + Glass Sonicontinuum Bill Laswell is a well-established name in the music world as the producer/bassist has worked with almost everybody in any music genre you can imagine. On the other hand, Alex Haas, a [...]
Soundgarden Live From The Artists Den Universal Music You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who didn’t agree that seeing their favourite band live, at one of their definite peaks, had stirred up feelings of sheer exhilaration, wonder, and [...]
Ummagma Compass Leonard Skully Records Compass is the perfect title for Ummagma’s new album, with visions of a caravan travelling the world – or even other worlds – gathering and trading. This is the sound of a band that has been travelling the [...]
Bus Stop Poets Leave It To The Kids Independent Combining Americana with the unabashed pop sounds of Fleetwod Mac actually sounds like a great combination. Anybody afraid of Fleetwood Mac? Or Americana for that matter? Based on Bust Stop Poets’ [...]
FERGUS HAMBLETON – “SUMMERTIME FUN” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE The timely advance single from Juno Award-winner Fergus Hambleton’s forthcoming new album Neighbourhoods (Current Records), set for release in October, [...]
PUP @ RBC ECHO BEACH, TORONTO JULY 21, 2019 After playing two sold out shows at the Danforth Music Hall only a month ago, PUP returned to Toronto for another stop on their Morbid Stuff Tour-Pocalypse tour. This time around the punks took the [...]
Mike McGear McGear (Remastered & Expanded Boxset Edition) Esoteric/Cherry Red Mike McGear’s real name is Peter Michael McCartney, but goes by Mike McCartney. He is the younger brother of Paul McCartney. But he has had his own fame and [...]
