BLUTENGEL – “WIR SIND DAS LICHT” OUT OF LINE MUSIC The indescribably multifaceted Blutengel present themselves on their upcoming, new album with a wide range of emotions. The new album follows the cover album Fountain of [...]
BUILDING A COMMUNITY A CONVERSATION WITH SAVE TORONTO MUSIC VENUES The concert industry has come to a complete and sudden stop since the beginning of the global pandemic. International tours and local concerts have been canceled and artists have [...]
Dynowaves Big Sun Tarantula Tapes Reminiscent of a simpler time – and a warmer coast – Dynowaves released their debut studio EP, Big Sun, in 2020. They have now partnered with Tarantula Tapes for a limited run of cassette. Hailing from the [...]
Whispering Sons Several Others PIAS It was only three years ago, in this very publication, that Belgium’s Whispering Sons were heralded as being the future of post-punk. This summer’s release of Several Others, their first full-length album [...]
Frank Zappa Zappa ‘88: The Last U.S. Show UMe/Zappa Records What can you say about Zappa that hasn’t been said before. He was a genius, an innovator, one of the best guitarists ever to grace the planet, funny, and passionate about what he was [...]
Ink Bomb/No Breakfast Goodbye Split Dental Records/Concrete Head Entertainment/Horn & Hoof Records Keeping with the punk tradition of splitting a release between two artists, Nijmegen, NL bands Ink Bomb and No Breakfast Goodbye have united [...]
Phantom Atlantic Your View Of A Former Me Indpendent Having made their debut in 2018 with a pair of singles, Toronto’s Phantom Atlantic have released their debut studio EP. Your View Of A Former Me follows the release of three singles since [...]
Tom Morello & The Bloody Beetroots The Catastrophists EP Independent Following the release of his 2020 solo EP, Comandante, Tom Morello has reunited with electronic outfit, The Bloody Beetroots for a collaborative release, The Catastrophists [...]
Mike Gale Twin Spirit Baboo Records Who can you call the UK version of a combination of Robert Pollard and R. Stevie Moore? Could be a hard choice to make, but here’s one proposal — Southampton’s Mike Gale. Not only is Gale as [...]
THE BLACK HALOS – “UNCOMMONWEALTH” CURSED BLESSINGS RECORDS Although there have been a plethora of punk revivalists over the years, Vancouver’s the Black Haloslook to a slightly different golden age than that of the Clash [...]
UNION OF KNIVES RETURN WITH SINISTER AND BLISTERING NEW SINGLE “THERE’S A RIVER” THREE HANDS RECORDS Following on from the enormous praise behind their recent singles Like Butterflies and A Tall Tale, which saw them collaborate [...]
SAID THE WHALE – “SHOW ME EVERYTHING” EVERYTHING FOREVER Said The Whale have had an excellent start to 2021. Since beginning to unveil their latest material, the result of sessions with producer Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat), the [...]
LUCY DREAMS – “DREAMLAND” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE “Then, on a starry night during lockdown, I was alone in my apartment and had a colourful drink. I went for a walk and looked at the sky more than where I was [...]
THE ITALIAN STALLION A CONVERSATION WITH GUITARIST & INVENTOR DEL CASHER If you’ve ever turned on a radio in your lifetime, you’ve likely heard the music of Del Casher without ever knowing it. As a member of what is perhaps the greasy [...]
PACER – THE TERROR OF OTHER PEOPLE A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE Pacer – Eric Poretsky and Jakob Shaw’s Los Angeles based indie rock project – has been taking their time. Growing up on opposite coasts, the duo found each other in [...]
STRANGELY ENOUGH – STORIES YOU TELL YOURSELF A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE Australian-based electro-indie-rock act, Strangely Enough, are releasing their long-awaited debut EP Stories You Tell Yourself – an infectious and [...]
KEELEY – BRAVE WARRIOR A SPILL EXCLUSIVE EP PREMIERE Ireland certainly is a hot ticket as of late musically, innit? Straight from Dublin’s Darklands Audio, where Fontaines D.C. recorded their first album, comes the introduction to indie [...]
BILBOSA – AYLA (FEAT. LORI SKY) A SPILL EXCLUSIVE EP PREMIERE More and more in the age of Covid, musical collaborations have been taking place across vast distances, bringing artists together creatively despite geographic challenges. Take [...]
Def Leppard Volume 3 (Box Set) UMG/Mercury Records If your band has been around for 40 plus years and produced monster hits such as “Animal” and “Photograph” back in your heyday, I guess you are entitled to put together a monster box set. Volume [...]
Six Organs Of Admittance The Veiled Sea Three Lobed Recordings Ben Chasny, or Six Organs of Admittance is one of those artists to whom you can attach only one label — expect the unexpected. Throughout his quite illustrious career [...]
Dennis DeYoung 26 East, Volume 2 Frontiers Music Last year Dennis DeYoung released the album 26 East: Vol. 1 which was originally to be his farewell to the music world. He recorded so much music that he was encouraged to split the project into [...]
Islands Islomania Royal Mountain Records The definition of Islomania is to have an enthusiastic obsession with islands, where the mere thought of being on a little world surrounded by water has one quivering with excitement. It’s an odd [...]
CASUAL VICE – “PERSONALITY” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Charles Bukowski once wrote, “Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness.” In the case of Casual [...]
NICOLE McKINNEY – THE PROCESS INDEPENDENT Australian-based indie-folk/rock songstress Nicole McKinney has released her stunning debut EP The Process. This empowering EP has McKinney transforming emotional wounds into touching stories of [...]
