MOGWAI & IGGY POP – “UNDERGROUND” NEW SONG FROM FORTHCOMING CAREER-SPANNING MOGWAI COLLECTION HAPPY TEARS OUT JANUARY 8 ON ROCK ACTION RECORDS Mogwai today announce a new 30-year, career-spanning compilation Happy Tears, [...]
BELLA DEER – “BLACK DOTS” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Geelong-based singer and songwriter Bella Deer is releasing her new single “Black Dots” this week, and we are premiering the track here on Spill Mag ahead [...]
RACHAEL SAGE & THE SEQUINS – “COLORIZED WORLD (ACOUSTIC)” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Acclaimed alt-folk-Americana singer-songwriter Rachael Sage & The Sequins have just released “Colorized World [...]
JON SPENCER ANNOUNCES NEW SHOWS FOR 2027 BRAND NEW ALBUM SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST AVAILABLE NOW VIA SHOVE RECORDS Jon Spencer can’t take any more on his latest long-player, SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST. Backed once again by [...]
HAG – “SO TIRED” INDEPENDENT Kingston’s HAG is quickly building a serious fan base. Blending rituals, spells and witchcraft into their songs and sold out live shows, Kingston’s supergroup of Ange Stever, Megan [...]
FONTAINES D.C. RELEASE NEW SINGLE “TONGUE” | TOUR DATES XL RECORDINGS Fontaines D.C. (Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll) today release new single “Tongue” – the second song from the band’s forthcoming [...]
SLEEP NATION – “MANEATER” INDEPENDENT Though they keep the icons of decades past steady in the rearview, Sleep Nation has their eyes locked firmly on the future of rock ‘n’ roll. Unapologetic, high-octane, and constantly [...]
A SHORELINE DREAM – “20” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE There is something fitting about a song called “20” arriving at the point when a band has spent two decades trying to make sense of its own sound and the pursuit [...]
A PERFECT CIRCLE RELEASE NEW SINGLE “TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN” | EXTENSIVE 2027 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ANNOUNCED INCLUDING CANADIAN DATES IN VANCOUVER, CALGARY, EDMONTON, WINNIPEG & NIAGARA FALLS BMG A Perfect Circle have released “To Whom [...]
RIGHT ON! RECORDS ANNOUNCES BROS 10th ANNIVERSARY REISSUE + SHEEPDOGS DELUXE FT. TWO NEW TRACKS RIGHT ON! RECORDS Right On Records, the label launched by multi-platinum, four-time JUNO Award winners The Sheepdogs, announces two special releases [...]
THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE RISES IN TORONTO’S WEST END After more than three decades as one of Toronto’s best-known live music venues, The Phoenix Concert Theatre is planning its next chapter in the city’s west end. In [...]
DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM PRIVATE LIVES WITH TITLE TRACK VIDEO LAST GANG RECORDS Born from the womb of Y2K techno paranoia, Death From Above 1979 have been a cathartic through-line since 2001. Touted by Stereogum as “one of [...]
MR M & THE ALLNIGHTERS – “JOHNNY DRAMA” INDEPENDENT For anyone who has ever chased a dream in the entertainment industry, there is a familiar mix of excitement, frustration, rejection and unexpected triumph that comes with [...]
CARRIE MATISSE – “HIGH TREES” INDEPENDENT Carrie Matisse is the fictional heroine at the heart of a concept narrative created by singer-songwriter and poet Caroline Colantonio. Inspired by the literature she loves and the bold, [...]
MIKE DALEY – YORKVILLE: HOW A 1960s COFFEEHOUSE SCENE REWROTE POPULAR MUSIC SUTHERLAND HOUSE BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY I was eager to read this book, as this is an era and place that has not had deep dives written about it. From 1954 [...]
RICHARD BOWES – GARY NUMAN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY SPENWOOD BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tubeway Army, featuring Gary Numan, released their self-titled debut album in 1978. By 1979, Numan began dominating the charts in the U.K. both with [...]
A REBIRTH THROUGH VINYL A CONVERSATION WITH YOUNG MEDICINE There is a particular electricity around Young Medicine right now, an energy that feels like a band that’s finally found its footing. With the release of the Cold Blooded vinyl and [...]
MASTODON w/ DEAFHEAVEN & ALCEST @ REBEL, TORONTO SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 The 2026 album Marrow Deep is Mastodon’s first album without guitarist and founding member Brent Hinds, and although his absence is felt, the record still steps it up a [...]
STREAM THE UNEARTHED ALBUM FROM THE CATBURGERS | RECORDED 40 YEARS AGO BUT RELEASED TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME SLUMBERLAND RECORDS The Catburgers formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in late 1985, inspired by a chance encounter seeing The Television [...]
ERASURE (VINCE CLARKE & ANDY BELL) ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM | SHARE FIRST SONG | LIVE SHOWS CONFIRMED FOR 2027 MUTE Erasure, Andy Bell & Vince Clarke, launch their 20th album release, Radio!! Radio!! today with a new track, “Wings Of [...]
A CROWN MADE OF TEETH, NOT GOLD A CONVERSATION WITH JACK UNDERKOFLER OF DEAD POET SOCIETY There is this eerie feeling when listening to Dead Poet Society’s Monarch that feels like the floor is caving in beneath you, not because the soundscapes [...]
OLD SCARS, NEW STORIES A CONVERSATION WITH MATT GOOD OF FROM FIRST TO LAST There is a unique sort of ache that only comes from a journey that requires you to return to another version of yourself you thought or swore you would never have to go [...]
SECOND SUMMER FESTIVAL – DAY 3 @ VARIOUS TORONTO VENUES (THE MOD CLUB, LEE’S PALACE) SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 The city was going hard for the final day of Second Summer Festival and Multi-faceted Winnipeg musician JayWood had the Mod Club [...]
CANADIAN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME 2026 INDUCTION CEREMONY @ MASSEY HALL, TORONTO SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame has been celebrating excellence in songwriting since 2003. For the 23rd year in a row, Canadian songwriting [...]
