DO IT FOR ENJOYMENT – DO IT AND SEE WHAT COMES OUT OF IT A CONVERSATION WITH GRAHAM PARKER “No snow in London,” reported Graham Parker. “We just got endless streams of storms. The last one came from a confluence of cold and warm air from [...]
DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF NEIL FINN A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR JEFF APTER Neil Finn was born in New Zealand and is the youngest of four siblings. When he turned 18, his older brother, Tim Finn, invited him to join his (Tim’s) [...]
ROB CLARKE BLUES BEATS AND BREL ALDORA BRITAIN RECORDS Rob Clarke has been releasing music for quite a while now, and his songs have served as soundtracks for television shows and movies. Stepping away from his band, The Wooltones, for this [...]
HOW FAR BACK IN TIME MUST WE GO A CONVERSATION WITH TERRY DRAPER (EX-KLAATU) “If I hadn’t discovered The Beatles and rock and roll, I would have been an archeologist. I still dream about being Howard Carter and opening Tut’s tomb, and the [...]
PETE HAM GWENT GARDENS BADFINGERLIBRARY.COM Pete Ham was one fourth of The Iveys, who released their only album on Apple Records in 1969. With a member change, they became Badfinger. While signed to Apple, Badfinger had their biggest hits, “Come [...]
GRAHAM PARKER & THE GOLDTOPS SUN VALLEY BIG STIR RECORDS Graham Parker and Goldtops released a brilliant album earlier in 2023, Last Chance To Learn To Twist, and it proved to be successful for them commercially and critically. They have now [...]
TERRY DRAPER IN THE BEGINNING TERRY TUNES RECORDS Last year Terry Draper released Bread and Cirkus, a more political album in which he commented on what he was observing. His latest release, In The Beginning, is an album of reflection and the [...]
GIVE IT TO ME STRAIGHT, SANTA! I CAN TAKE IT! SPILL MAGAZINE EXPOSES SOME OF THE BEST/WORST 2023 CHRISTMAS RELEASES (PART ONE) As The Beatles once sang, “Christmastime is here again, it ain’t been around since you know when.” That means a whole [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS THE FAITHFUL – A TRIBUTE TO MARIANNE FAITHFULL IN THE Q RECORDS Marianne Faithfull has always been a wonderful interpreter of songs. Since her debut in 1965, Faithfull has built an impressive catalogue. She has never been [...]
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT 50th ANNIVERSARY LIVE – FIRST NIGHT FRONTIERS MUSIC 50th Anniversary Live – First Night is the first of three albums that Blue Öyster Cult is releasing, that was recorded during their three 50th Anniversary shows at Sony [...]
MOTT THE HOOPLE ALL THE YOUNG DUDES (50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) MADFISH RECORDS When Mott The Hoople released their fifth studio album, All The Young Dudes, they had hoped for a hit, but they had no idea that the album would go on to be as [...]
ALMOST A SATIRE OF WHAT A ROCK STAR WAS A CONVERSATION WITH BOB WEGNER: MUSIC HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR OF MAX WEBSTER: HIGH CLASS Anyone who grew up in Southern Ontario in the mid to late 1970s will remember that it was a golden age of seeing bands [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS MOPING IN STYLE: A TRIBUTE TO ADAM GREEN CAPITANE RECORDS/ORG RECORDS Since the early 2000s, Adam Green has made a name for himself as a musician and artist. Whether as one half of Moldy Peaches or solo, he has developed a fan [...]
WE ARE A BAND IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD A CONVERSATION WITH ROGER EARL OF FOGHAT “You’re in Canada, right? Ontario? We’re related aren’t we,” laughed Roger Earl at the beginning of our Zoom chat to talk about the new Foghat album, Sonic Mojo. [...]
BLINKER THE STAR ANIMAL MATH INDEPENDENT Animal Math is Blinker The Star’s 12th studio album and their fifth since 2019! That is a lot of music over the past few years. It is a rather brilliant collection of all new originals by Jordon [...]
TIM FINN & PHIL MANZANERA FINN & MANZANERA BFD/THE ORCHARD Tim Finn and Phil Manzanera have known each other and worked together for a very long time. Manzanera produced the second Split Enz album, Second Thoughts in 1976, and in return [...]
OUT FROM UNDER THE LAMPSHADE A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES CLARK (THE JAMES CLARK INSTITUTE) James Clark is a very talented writer, musician, and singer. He is also an incredibly nice guy and a well-known Beatle fan. He even played The Cavern Club [...]
DOLLY PARTON ROCKSTAR BUTTERFLY RECORDS/DOLLY PARTON RECORDS When Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, she seemed somewhat surprised, however, she nor anyone should have been shocked with this honour. The only [...]
THIN LIZZY VAGABONDS OF THE WESTERN WORLD (50th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION) DECCA/UNIVERSAL Fans of Thin Lizzy should be very familiar with Vagabonds of The Western World. The third album from the Irish band, in many ways, caught [...]
BRYAN FERRY MAMOUNA (DELUXE REISSUE) BMG Bryan Ferry’s 1994 album Mamouna took him a very long time to finish, six years to be exact. It started life as Horoscope, but evolved into Mamouna over time. It was his ninth solo album and the first [...]
MADNESS THEATRE OF THE ABSURD PRESENTS C’EST LA VIE BMG It has been far too long since there has been a new studio album from Madness. Their last album, the wonderful Can’t Touch Us Now, was released over six years ago in 2016. That album [...]
THE KINKS THE JOURNEY – PART 2 BMG It has taken 60 years, but The Kinks seem to be getting the recognition they so rightfully deserve. Sure, they had hits in the 1960s and had a couple of popular songs in the 1980s, but in the past they [...]
KENNETH WOMACK – LIVING THE BEATLES LEGEND: THE UNTOLD STORY OF MAL EVANS DEY STREET BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Kenneth Womack is one of the world’s leading authorities on The Beatles. He has written several books (Long And Winding [...]
XTC THE BIG EXPRESS (THE SURROUND SOUND SERIES) PANEGYRIC By the time XTC recorded their seventh album, The Big Express in 1984, they had moved on from their post punk/new wave origins. While their early albums packed a punch and are full of [...]
