TOWN BREWERY X THE DIRTY NIL RELEASE BEER COLLAB ANNOUNCE RELEASE BEER ON SEPT 24th WITH PORTION OF PROCEEDS SUPPORTING WATER SECURITY PROJECTS IN LOCAL INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES Town Brewery makes quality craft beer just east of Toronto and [...]
GORD DOWNIE ANNOUNCES NEW DOUBLE ALBUM AWAY IS MINE OUT OCTOBER 16 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS LISTEN TO “HOTEL WORTH” AND “USELESS NIGHTS” Away Is Mine is Gord Downie’s final solo recording. Steered to life by “my oldest Toronto friend,” guitarist [...]
HEALTHY JUNKIES – “SOMETHING IN THE WAY” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Healthy Junkies are everything that epitomizes the indie punk spirit – driven, authentic, and capable of causing a riot at any moment. As they [...]
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman² Universal Music Half a century after Cat Stevens released Tea for the Tillerman, we find Yusuf taking a retrospective look at his own breakthrough album. Fittingly enough, the concept for the album came [...]
Ian Wayne Risking Illness Whatever’s Clever Getting over sad times sometimes requires sad music. Still, for such music to work you need to not only feel it in yourself as an artist, but also to be able to transform it into music that [...]
Mines Falls Mines Falls Independent Saying that something sounds ‘cinematic’ can mean 1001 things to 1001 different people. Still, most would agree, that a rock sound that leads a line from the melodic side of Pink Floyd to Elbow and Radiohead [...]
HELL BOULEVARD – NOT SORRY A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE We do feature a good amount of European artists here at The Spill Magazine but, admittedly, we are rather low on artists coming to us by way of Switzerland. Today we make one move [...]
Tobin Sprout Empty Horses Fire Records Empty Horses, the seventh solo album from Tobin Sprout, takes a stylistic detour from what we are used to by someone regarded as a prince of fuzz-laden indie rock. With his latest record, we are treated to [...]
Ace Frehley Origins Vol. 2 eOne “We’ve got a little surprise for you tonight! We’re gonna turn the microphone over to Ace Frehley,” Paul Stanley famously declared on Kiss’ Shock Me (Live), released in 1977. Since then, Frehley has suffered [...]
Daniel Romano’s Outfit How Ill Thy World Is Ordered You’ve Changed Records There are few artists as prolific in this day and age as Daniel Romano, and his latest record doesn’t disappoint. Featuring The Outfit, How Ill Thy World Is [...]
NO CLICK TRACK, NO EDITS – 25 YEARS OF LIVE FAST, DIARRHEA A CONVERSATION WITH JOSH FREESE If you’ve listened to the radio even once in the last two decades, you’ve heard Josh Freese. As one of rock and pop’s most respected and go-to session [...]
PHONSECA – “I SEE STARS” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE The electronic solo project of Bristol-based artist Matthew O’Connor, Phonseca, continues with the videoclip of “I See Stars”, the most popular single [...]
A GENESIS IN MY BED A CONVERSATION WITH STEVE HACKETT From 1970 until 1977, Steve Hackett provided some of the most melodic and inventive guitar work in rock as a member of Genesis. You can hear his artistry on such classic albums as Foxtrot, [...]
BLESSON ROY – “UNDERTOW” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Think Like Spring, the upcoming debut album from life-long “music lover and music doer,” Terry Borden, the man behind Blesson Roy, was recorded during the [...]
KILLER WHALE – TASTES LIKE YESTERDAY A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE Killer Whale spent a decade in San Francisco before relocating back to frontman Thomas Johnson’s native Lousiana, settling in New Orleans in December 2019. Their [...]
ANTON BARBEAU – MANBIRD A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE If you’ve been around a while and your finger is constantly on the pulse of the music scene (in this case, the US, British and German music scenes), you may already know the [...]
THE PERSIAN LEAPS – SMILING LESSONS A SPILL EXCLUSIVE EP PREMIERE The time has finally come for the release of the latest sonic delight from indie rock power pop outfit The Persian Leaps – their new ‘Smiling Lessons’ EP. [...]
DEMONS OF RUBY MAE – “COME HOME” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE For most, 2020 will be a year filled with uncertainty, delay and setbacks. For Demons Of Ruby Mae, it will be a year marked by resilience and relentlessness. At [...]
THE DIRTY NIL’S NEW ALBUM FUCK ART OUT JANUARY 1 VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS DANCING 2 THRASH VIRTUAL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED The Dirty Nil, the Juno Award-winning modern day model for unabashed rock n roll, have announced their exciting (and [...]
RUE SNIDER – “DAVID BOWIE’S CLOTHES” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Spill is pleased to premiere “David Bowie’s Clothes,” the first single from Brooklyn, New York based Rue Snider’s upcoming [...]
Vision Eternel For Farewell Of Nostalgia Somewhere Cold Records For Farewell Of Nostalgia is the latest release by Montréal’s Vision Eternel. A concept EP about, as he says, the emotional ”devastation of falling in love too quickly” and the [...]
TERRY OHMS – “ARTIFICIAL WATERFALL” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE Way back in February, Terry Ohms released the brooding high energy rock LP Cold Cold Shoulder just about a year after 2019’s Terryfirmawas released. In [...]
The Death Wheelers Divine Filth RidingEasy Records If you’ve never heard of The Death Wheelers, they are a motley band of Canadian misfits who play a unique brand of doomy surf-rock. The band’s latest release, Divine Filth, is loaded with [...]
Marylin Manson We Are Chaos Loma Vista Recordings Coming off a pair of acclaimed records, Marilyn Manson is in the midst of a mid-career renascence as he returns with We Are Chaos. The album, written and produced by Shooter Jennings, sees Manson [...]