MOMENTS OF NOSTALGIA A CONVERSATION WITH ALEXANDER JULIEN OF VISION ETERNEL Montreal-based Vision Eternel have been around since 2007, the brainchild of Alexander Julien. ‘I was not planning to start a new band or musical project. It was not a [...]
TRULY ORCHESTRATING HIS OWN LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH RICK SPRINGFIELD Richard Lewis Springthorpe was born in Sydney, Australia in 1949, but you might know him better as Rick Springfield. He has been playing music professionally since 1968, and [...]
DBA (Downes Braide Association) Halcyon Hymns Cherry Red Geoff Downes was one half of the original Buggles and a member of Yes, while Chris Braide is best known for his work with Lana Del Rey, Paloma Faith, Marc Almond, and Beyoncé to name a [...]
Alex Southey …And The Country Stirred Independent Alex Southey’s has released his latest album, ...And The Country Stirred. Southey wrote and arranged the entire album, and provides vocals, guitars, synthesizer, and other noises. Produced [...]
Little Steven And The Disciples Of Soul Macca To Mecca! Wicked Cool/Universal Music In 2017, Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul hit the road to promote its then new album, Soulfire. Highlights of that tour were released as a live album, [...]
Steve Wilson The Future Bites Arts & Crafts The Future Bites is the first album of new material by Steven Wilson since 2017’s To The Bone. That is not to say he hasn’t been busy. And now, as with everything Steven Wilson does, he does the [...]
TOMORROW COMES FROM TODAY A CONVERSATION WITH CHARLIE ANGUS OF GRIEVOUS ANGELS Cobalt, Ontario, part of the Temiskaming District region in Northern Ontario, was once considered a ghost town. Although it has a small population, Tesla is now [...]
Steve Hackett Under A Mediterranean Sky Inside Out Music Under A Mediterranean Sky is Steve Hackett’s first studio album since 2019’s At The Edge Of Light, and his first classic one since 2008’s Tribute. However, while it is classical, Under A [...]
Jim Ghedi In The Furrows Of Common Place Basin Rock Records Sheffield, UK’s Jim Ghedi returns with his third album, On In The Furrows Of Common Place. Here, he taps into celtic and folk music, with a small tinge of rock and blues. The album was [...]
Len Mizzoni Len Mizzoni Independent Len Mizzoni deserves a great deal of respect. The one-time member of Frozen Ghost has established a solo career in jazz-styled pop for himself over the past few years, a style in which it is not easy to [...]
Grievous Angels Summer Before The Storm Jimmy Boyle Records The Grievous Angels made their debut in 1986, and The Summer Before The Storm, their eighth album, is their strongest to date. The band has help here from special guest, Skydigger’s [...]
WE’LL GIVE HIM GOLD AND FRANKINCENSE. BUT WAIT…THERE’S MYRRH! (PART TWO) A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2020 CHRISTMAS RELEASES As The Beatles once sang, “Christmas time is here again/Ain’t been ‘round since you [...]
Shawn Benfield The Shorter It Gets, The Harder It Hits... Shotgunn Records There must be something in the drinking water in The Appalachians, as here we have yet another artist from that region making his debut with the EP The Shorter It [...]
George Thorogood And The Destroyers Live In Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert Craft Recordings George Thorogood has been making music since the early 1970s, with his roots firmly grounded in the Delta Blues. However, when he formed The Delaware [...]
Paul McCartney McCartney III MPL/Capitol Paul McCartney has always used music to get through difficult times. In 1970, when the Beatles split, he came out with the classic McCartney in 1980. As Wings were falling apart, McCartney gave us [...]
The Kinks Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One: 50th Anniversary Edition Box-Set BMG Originally released in the winter of 1970, Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround gave The Kinks their biggest hit single in five years, [...]
Splinter Never Went Back Gonzo Multimedia British duo Splinter’s first three albums were released on George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records label between 1974 and 1977. Although they were never able to match the success of their debut, they [...]
Mary Hopkin A Christmas Chorale Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin made a welcome and surprising return to the music world in 2020 with Another Road. Now, she is back with A Christmas Chorale. Here, Hopkin works with her two children, Morgan [...]
Edward McCormack Rest In Place Independent Rest In Place is McCormack’s follow-up to Astral/Aphotic, released in June 2020. With McCormack quantity does not affect quality, quite the reverse actually. He presents a collection of 15 moving [...]
DAVID BEDFORD – THE COUNTRY OF LIVERPOOL: NASHVILLE OF THE NORTH DAVID BEDFORD PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY In 1965, The Beatles recorded “Act Naturally”, with Ringo Starr on lead vocals, for the Help! album. The song was even [...]
JUST A MOMENT. I LIKE IT HERE. A CONVERSATION WITH TREVOR BELD JIMENEZ Trevor Beld Jimenez is not a familiar name…yet. However, he has just released his debut album, I Like It Here. Although I Like It Here is his debut as a solo artist, [...]
Terry Draper Lost Magentalane Music This seemed to come out of the blue, a second album from Terry Draper in 2020. Lost follows on the heels of Sunset On Mars, released by the former drummer and songwriter of Klaatu earlier in 2020. It seemed [...]
Brian Eno Film Music: 1976-2020 Universal Music This compilation has been long awaited by Eno fans. Film Music: 1976 – 2020 is a fairly comprehensive package of Brian Eno’s soundtrack work for the past four decades. For fans, such as I, [...]
Church Of Trees Progression Independent It is hard to believe that Church Of Trees is only four years old, given the quantity (and high quality) of music that has been produced under that banner. Church Of Trees is more of a project than a band. [...]
