HARLEY OLIVIA | KREESHA TURNER | DROP DEAD POPPIES | MOA | J3M | PLUS! | LINX | JACKIE ART | DRUNK CAT ARTIST NAME: HARLEY OLIVIA 1. What’s your favourite thing about a festival like NXNE? NXNE is amazing because it is an opportunity to [...]
ANI AFTER DEATH – “VR THEME” THE BROKEN RECORDS “VR Theme” is the fifth single from trip-hop/alternative artist Ani After Death. VR Theme” is built on cinematic trip-hop textures, deep bass lines, hypnotic [...]
ESSEX – “EIGHTIES” CLEOPATRA RECORDS Essex is back! The singularly-named singer who made his debut earlier this year alongside Runaways legend Cherie Currie on the viral hit “When You’re Young,” returns with his first ever solo [...]
ANN WILSON – IN MY VOICE (FILM SCREENING AND Q&A WITH ANN WILSON AND DIRECTOR BARBARA HALL) INDEPENDENT MAY 11, 2026 (MAY 30, 2026 TORONTO SCREENING) You might expect a documentary about Heart frontwoman Ann Wilson to be about what it [...]
SPILL CONTEST WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE ADVANCE SCREENING OF THE NOFX DOCUMENTARY 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ UP JUNE 4 AT THE ROYAL THEATRE IN TORONTO! CONTEST CLOSED WINNERS WILL RECEIVE: 2 PASSES TO THE SCREENING OF 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ [...]
ALT-J’S JOE NEWMAN, AKA JJEROME87, RELEASES NEW TRACK “MR ALLIGATOR” | DEBUT ALBUM THE CANYON OUT JUNE 26 VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP Offering a final preview of his solo debut album The Canyon, JJerome87 (alt-J frontman Joe Newman) [...]
STARCLEANER REUNION RELEASE NEW SINGLE “WEATHER INSTRUMENT” AHEAD OF DATES w/ TAGABOW, JAMC & MORE TAKE CARE RECORDS On Thursday, May 28, New York City’s favorite retro-futurist pop act Starcleaner Reunion is sharing [...]
PETER MURPHY – “SWOON (MAGIC WANDS REMIX)” | REMIX OF SONG FROM 2025 ALBUM BY ICONIC POST-PUNK SINGER METROPOLIS RECORDS Original post-punk icon Peter Murphy issued “Swoon” in February 2025 as the first single from [...]
SUGAR MINOTT – “I’M STILL HERE” B/W “I’M STILL HERE (VERSION)” DAPTONE RECORDS The dream team of Sugar Minott and Victor Axelrod returns with a deep rub-a-dub reggae take on The Notation’s lowrider [...]
BOARDS OF CANADA INFERNO WARP Boards of Canada have never come up short when it comes to tape-warped, ominous music, and 2026’s latest release, Inferno, may be their heaviest collection of tracks to date. This long-awaited fifth studio LP [...]
KING LUDD RETURNS WITH FRENETICALLY CHARGED SINGLE “TIRED” VIA ZBTFD RECORDS FEATURING MEMBERS OF DEAD TIRED, THE TREWS, MONSTER TRUCK AND MORE Hamilton’s King Ludd returns with the release of new frenetically charged single, [...]
BETS – “I’LL MAKE YOU MINE” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Alt-pop-star, BETS (the pseudonym of artist Betsy Hershey) returns with new single, “I’ll Make You Mine” due May 29, 2026. Releasing music for [...]
GRETA VAN FLEET MAKE TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO WORLD STAGE WITH NEW SINGLE AND MUSIC VIDEO REPUBLIC RECORDS Following their electrifying and intimate underplay performance at New York City’s legendary Bowery Ballroom earlier this week, GRAMMY® [...]
SHINEDOWN EI8HT ATLANTIC RECORDS Hard-hitting Florida rockers Shinedown have released their eighth studio album appropriately titled Ei8ht, and it packs just as much of a punch as over the past two decades with the band has. “Safe and Sound,” [...]
VIOLET GROHL BE SWEET TO ME AURORA RECORDS/REPUBLIC RECORDS Having sung backup vocals for Foo Fighters for nearly a decade, even making appearances on 2021’s Medicine at Midnight and 2023’s But Here We Are, Violet Grohl has emerged with her own [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY THE BOYS OF DUNGEON LANE MPL/UNIVERSAL It has been over five years since Paul McCartney’s last studio album, McCartney III, and McCartney has noted that during those years, he took his time with what became The Boys of Dungeon [...]
WIDEMOUTH NO GASOLINE URBAN SCANDAL RECORDS Chicago quartet Widemouth probably had other ideas (or maybe not?) when they named their debut album No Gasoline, but they somehow foresaw what is currently going on with it. At the same time, the [...]
PRIMULA NOTHING NEW FLAK RECORDS When somebody mentions that a certain indie band is including jazz elements within its music, the usual first impression is that of a few classic jazz elements brought into the usual pop or rock setting. Yet, the [...]
LEEROY STAGGER PILGRIMAGE CORDOVA BAY RECORDS So, is there a difference between Americana and Canadiana? Sure, musically, the two are like twins, but even with twins, there are visible (or in this case, audible) differences, and no matter how [...]
MAD IRIS MAD IRIS BA DA BING RECORDS Since 2024, Toronto’s Mad Iris has been releasing singles that play with a post-grunge meets shoegaze vibe. In the last year, the band has released three singles – “Daisy, Don’t Take My Baby,” “Poor [...]
THE ALARM TRANSFORMATION TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RECORDINGS This is a rather difficult review, not because there is any question about the quality of the music in the package, but because this is Mike Peters’ farewell. I bought The Alarm’s [...]
DOUBLESPEAK DOUBLESPEAK LONDON RECORDS Doublespeak is a supergroup of three influential and much-loved electrobeat artists from the past 40 years. Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Fader), Vince Clarke (Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Erasure), and Benge [...]
CARINA – “HIDE IT” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Toronto’s Pink Pop Girl is back with another release and we cannot hide our excitement. “Hide It” is a moody, emotionally charged pop track that blends [...]
ORQUESTA AKOKÁN RELEASE “N ME VOY” AHEAD OF FULL-LENGTH ALBUM AMÉRICA! PENROSE RECORDS/DAPTONE RECORDS Recorded live to tape at Penrose Recorders by Gabriel Roth, AMÉRICA! expands on the classic Mambo sounds that the band has become [...]
