VARIOUS ARTISTS PURPLE STORM: A TRIBUTE TO DEEP PURPLE CLEOPATRA RECORDS Purple Storm—A Tribute To Deep Purple is not the first tribute album to Deep Purple, but it is a very interesting one. Members of various bands have come together to pay [...]
JAH WOBBLE & THE INVADERS OF THE HEART THE USUAL SUSPECTS DIMPLE DISCS Dimple Discs is celebrating the reissue of The Usual Suspects, by Jah Wobble & the Invaders of the Heart. This is an expansive project driven by Wobble, the post-punk [...]
JOE GLASS SNAKEWARDS K RECORDS/PERENNIAL RECORDS Armed with just a Telecaster, Joe Glass is on a mission to keep rock ‘n’ roll alive, and he succeeds. Based in Chicago, Glass has been firmly established as a touring musician. With Snakewards, [...]
ZEBRA ZEBRA V FLATIRON RECORDINGS Like U2, Zebra has been a band, with the original members, for a very long time. Since 1975 to be exact. Unlike U2, it has been 23 years since Zebra released a studio album. Since 2003’s Zebra IV, the band has [...]
U2 CARNAVAL DE LUZ ISLAND RECORDS Carnaval De Luz (which translates from Spanish and Portuguese to “Carnival of Light” in English) is U2’s 16th studio album, and their first since 2023’s Songs Of Surrender. Earlier in 2026, U2 surprised [...]
APE HANGERS APE HANGERS II RUM BAR RECORDS Ape Hangers come bursting out of the gate with their explosive sophomore release, Ape Hangers II. Perhaps best know for their appeared on the soundtrack for 1995’s Empire Records with the track, “I [...]
MIDGE URE CHAPTERS: THE BEST OF CHRYSALIS RECORDS Earlier this year, Midge Ure released a fantastic new studio album, A Man Of Two Worlds. For Chapters: The Best Of, Ure looks back at his early solo days with Chrysalis records. Following the [...]
MENAHAN STREET BAND ILLUSIONS DIAMOND WEST RECORDS Nearly 20 years deep, the Menahan Street Band just keep getting better and better. While best known as the backing band behind recent soul legends like Charles Bradley, the extended Menahan [...]
TRACY BONHAM LIFT AMERICAN LAUNDROMAT RECORDS Tracy Bonham released her debut album, The Burdens of Being Uprigh,t 30 years ago. To celebrate this milestone, she has revisited the album, reimagined it, re-recorded the songs, rearranged the track [...]
WAYNE FALER FOREWARD CURATION RECORDS Wayne Faler was a member of the Dream Boys band (which kind of describes their dreamy pop music they made) and in 2022 he struck on his own. Foreword, his second album since 2022’s self-titled solo debut, [...]
THE HUMAN LEAGUE BEING BOILED CHERRY RED RECORDS “Being Boiled” by The Human League was originally released in 1978, with “Circus Of Death” on the flipside. This was the original lineup of The Human League. Phil Oakey (vocals), Martyn Ware [...]
CHARLIE HORN RHYTHMS UNEXPLAINED CHARLIE HORN RECORDS With band frontman or members going solo it is sometimes hard to distinguish the difference in music that comes up with their solo offerings. Sometimes, that difference simply is not there, [...]
CARMEN QUILL HARMLESS RUINATION RECORD CO. The questions whether boundaries between jazz and more pop/rock-oriented forms were broken, or whether they existed at all have been long answered, with resounding positive answers. The one question [...]
EVA X TURBOPINK DISTORTION PRODUCTIONS Eva X released her debut album in 2022 (I Dream of a Reality), which firmly established her in the world of electronica and EDM music. She is back with the wonderfully titled TURBOPINK, and while not an [...]
KISS ROCK AND ROLL OVER (50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP The latest from KISS in their never-ending run of re-issues is Rock and Roll Over (50th Anniversary Edition). This time around the technology (and perhaps with the help of [...]
SLACK TIMES CASTING MERITORIO RECORDS Back in the early 70s, all things connected with any form of pop in rock music was scorned by a slew of rock critics, usually labeled as ‘simplistic.’ Well, some 50 years or so on, that [...]
WILDER MAKER SMOKING THE BUNNY WESTERN VINYL When we reviewed Wilder Maker’s The Streets Like Beds Still Warm album back in 2025, we noted that the band’s frontman Gabriel Birnbaum is all over the place, operating as a music [...]
HAYDEN THE RECENT PAST HARDWOOD RECORDS Hayden Desser, simply known professionally as Hayden, the somewhat reclusive Toronto musician, has been releasing LPs for 30 years. His 10th studio LP, The Recent Past, takes listeners on a familiar, [...]
COMPUTERWIFE BORN FROM A WISH DANGER COLLECTIVE RECORDS If you’ve listened to music for as long as the Spill team has, chances are that you’ve come across at least one song or album that refuses to be understood or labeled. Known for a [...]
DEUX VISAGES CALL IT GOODBYE PURE NOISE RECORDS Coming-of-age stories are both nuanced and universal. We all have one. The perennial struggle for identity that has graced everything from classic literature to the silver screen. Growing up is a [...]
CHASTITY BELT ALL MY FRIENDS SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS Indie rock group Chastity Belt surprises us with an early holiday gift: All My Friends. Harmonizing together since 2010, this alternative quartet of besties builds a record inspired by their [...]
THE FUZZTONES JUST ONCE CLEOPATRA RECORDS The Fuzztones released their debut album, Lysergic Emanations in 1985, which means much of this live compilation, Just Once, was recorded prior to their first studio album. Although, listening to the [...]
CONDUIT OF HUMANITY THE ROOK RESCORD RECORDS Conduit Of Humanity is more of a collective than a band. Of course, they perform live and record, but their albums are more of a collaboration of a number of artists. This album, The Rook, for [...]
THE QUESTION MUCH! OGLIO RECORDS Between 1983 and 1985, The Question, a band from Los Angeles who developed a huge and devoted fan base in Southern California, released two singles, neither of which charted but they were well loved and are now [...]
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