CANCER BATS GIVE ME DIRT NEW DAMAGE RECORDS Riding high off the 20-year anniversary of their debut album, Birthing The Giant, which was celebrated with a triumphant cross-Canada tour, Cancer Bats have returned with Give Me Dirt, their first [...]
STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK WHERE’S ONE? BIG STIR RECORDS When Strawberry Alarm Clock formed in 1967, it was really the coming together of two bands (Thee Sixpence and Waterfyrd Traene), and when they released their debut single, “Incense and [...]
JOHN CARPENTER CATHEDRAL SACRED BONES RECORDS John Carpenter has long been known for turning nightmares into something tangible. For Carpenter’s new album, Cathedral, this is no different. In many ways, it grimly depicts a setting befitting of [...]
SPILL CONTEST WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEE CHIODOS IN TORONTO AT THE CONCERT HALL ON AUGUST 19! ENTER NOW + OFTEN! WINNERS WILL RECEIVE: 2 FREE TICKETS TO THE CHIODOS SHOW AT THE CONCERT HALL IN TORONTO! SPILL CONTEST: WIN A PAIR OF [...]
ARIANA FIG – “I HOPE YOU LOVE ME” INDEPENDENT Hamilton, ON-born singer-songwriter Ariana Fig shares “I Hope You Love Me,” a fast-moving, emotionally candid pop-folk single lifted from her upcoming debut album, So [...]
ARK IDENTITY DELIVERS A TENSE, SURREAL JOURNEY ON GENRE-DEFYING NEW SINGLE “SIGNALS” INDEPENDENT Toronto indie artist and producer ARK IDENTITY (Noah Mroueh) unveils “Signals,” a tense, surreal, and emotionally immersive [...]
SLEDDING – “MY GOLDEN TEMPO” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE Brooklyn rock newcomers Sledding have been making music together since their undergraduate days at Fordham University, where they were part of the school’s DIY [...]
GO PUBLIC – “DREAM OVER” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Atlanta, Georgia, is a beast of a town with deep traffic congestion, sprawling neighborhoods, tons of concrete radiating the southern heat and wet blanket of humidity [...]
M. WOODROE RELEASE BRAND NEW SINGLE “CARTE BLANCHE” VIA VENN RECORDS DEBUT EP THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 18 Brighton newcomers M. Woodroe share raucous new single “Carte Blanche”, out today (August 5th), [...]
CAT CLYDE ANNOUNCES CO-HEADLINE TOUR WITH DEAN JOHNSON IN WESTERN U.S. & CANADA ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM MUD BLOOD BONE OUT NOW VIA CONCORD RECORDS Métis Canadian alt-folk artist Cat Clyde and Seattle-based singer-songwriter Dean Johnson have [...]
BETTY MOON’S 2003 ALBUM DOLL MACHINE ARRIVES ON STREAMING PLATFORMS FOR THE FIRST TIME ORIGINALLY RELEASED THROUGH SEXTANT RECORDS/EMI, MOON’S THIRD ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND APPLE MUSIC VIA EVOLVER MUSIC Singer, songwriter and [...]
BARENAKED LADIES RELEASE ALL-NEW ACOUSTIC VERSION OF “CLEARLY LOST” RAISIN’ RECORDS MULTI-PLATINUM Rock band Barenaked Ladies distill decades of lived experience into their disarmingly catchy new song “Careful (For Dee).” An unguarded look [...]
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK AND RAINE MAIDA – I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A ROCK N ROLL LOVE STORY ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY I’m Going To Break Your Heart: A Rock N Roll Love Story is a fascinating and rather unique book. Chantal [...]
NEW RELEASE FROM ALABAMA SHAKES “GARDEN” FULL-LENGTH I MUST BE DREAMING SET TO ARRIVE AUGUST 28 VIA ISLAND RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA Four-time Grammy Award-winning Alabama Shakes are gearing up for the release of their highly [...]
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED (PiL) FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN 8 YEARS BEGINS SEPTEMBER 3 | ALIVE LIVE ALBUM OUT NOW PiL/A WAY WITH MEDIA John Lydon’s iconoclastic band, Public Image Ltd (PiL) begin their extensive North American tour on September 3rd. [...]
N0TRIXX’S “NARC (I’M SO HAPPY THAT YOU’RE DEAD)” NEW SINGLE + VIDEO OUT NOW | TOUR DATES TAKEN FROM THE DEBUT ALBUM A CATALOGUE OF MADNESS AND MELANCHOLIA Russian-born, Lancashire-based bedlamcore artist n0trixx has released [...]
NEW SINGLE BY UK INDUSTRIAL GLAM MAVERICK PIG “AN AMERICAN IDEAL OF BEAUTY” OUT NOW DIRT BOX EP OUT IN SEPTEMBER ON METROPOLIS RECORDS TO COINCIDE WITH NORTH AMERICAN TOUR UK industrial glam maverick Raymond Watts aka PIG has today [...]
T.R. BURGE TAKES FLIGHT WITH NEW BAND AND DEBUT SINGLE “EAGLE FLY” INDEPENDENT T.R. Burge & The Temple released “Eagle Fly” on June 25th, the debut single from the Manchester and Berlin-rooted band. It marks the first [...]
NOUVELLE VAGUE – “NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN” (FEAT. FLAVIA COELHO) PIAS RECORDINGS/KWAIDAN RECORDS “Never Let Me Down Again” is one of Depeche Mode’s great songs — a dark, hypnotic anthem built on a promise and a [...]
GIVE ME DIRT, GIVE ME SOMETHING REAL A CONVERSATION WITH CANCER BATS’ LIAM CORMIER Earlier this year, Canadian punk titans Cancer Bats celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Birthing The Giant. Not ones to rest on the achievements [...]
ONES: THE BEATLES #1 HITS @ PRINCESS OF WALES THEATRE, TORONTO AUGUST 1, 2026 ONES:The Beatles # 1 Hits is not a tribute show to The Beatles. There are not four musicians who try to look like The Beatles on stage. There is no one person playing [...]
CHARLIE EDWARD PUSHING MY LUCK ADA/WARNER MUSIC CANADA When not sharing the stage with Big Wreck, Joe Perry, Mötley Crüe, or Greta Van Fleet, Toronto’s Charlie Edward has spent much of the last year writing and recording the follow-up to his [...]
THE FAMILY DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR BIG BLACK COW RECORDS There are so many reasons a band would name itself The Family, with one key reason being that they actually are. In this case, Delusions of Grandeur is a debut by a family, or you could say [...]
LITVAR BEING HERE MOTHER WEST RECORDS Litvar’s frontman Rex Thurstan describes the band’s new offering, Being Here, as “a bare, stripped-back folk record.” Yet, that might be stretching it a bit. Of course, Thurstan might [...]
