CHINA CRISIS w/ RATIONAL YOUTH & SLAVE TO THE SQUAREWAVE @ REVIVAL BAR, TORONTO JANUARY 25, 2020 Thanks to organizer Ed Sousa, there was an incredible triple bill that hit the stage tonight at The Revival Bar in Toronto. He has been putting [...]
Blue Öyster Cult Hard Rock Cleveland 2014 Frontiers Music Blue Oyster Cult, along with the fine folks at Frontiers Music are very seriously and methodically rereleasing the Blue Oyster Cult catalogue , along with some new material, such as this [...]
Blue Öyster Cult Cult Classic (Reissue) Frontiers Music This is the third rerelease of Cult Classic, the 12th studio album for Blue Öyster Cult, originally released in 1994. For this album, Blue Öyster Cult consisted of Eric Bloom (vocals, stun [...]
RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX A CONVERSATION WITH JEAN-MARC PISAPIA OF THE BOX The Box were unlike any other band in the 1980s. They simply refused to be pigeonholed. Although they were lumped into the ‘New Wave’ category, Jean-Marc Pisapia and company [...]
Beefheart Project Toronto I Heard These Tweety Things Independent This is a somewhat difficult album to review and assess as tribute albums are always tricky to examine. What is the purpose of the tribute, and how are the songs treated, [...]
Terry Draper Sunset On Mars Terrytunes Former Klaatu member, Terry Draper has been very busy of late. Following 2019’s In My Garden, Draper has delivered his best solo album of his career. Sunset On Mars is a stunning album, full of strong [...]
Andy MacKay & Phil Manzanera Roxymphony Expression Records In 2019, Andy MacKay composed and released an album, 3Psalms, and performed the stunning work live, with part of the show a MacKay and Phil Manzanera collaboration titled Roxymphony. [...]
MARTIN AND JO HOLDEN – ABBEY ROAD GRAFFITI BURNT ROAD PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY In this day and age, coming up with a new angle on The Beatles is extremely difficult. So much has been written and said about them, finding a [...]
WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL SOUNDTRACKS TO OUR LIVES A CONVERSATION WITH MIDGE URE What can one say or write about Midge Ure that has not been written before. The man is a legend. His solo career is impressive alone, but throw in his [...]
I CAN’T TELL IF THIS IS HELL OR IF I’M JUST BORED A CONVERSATION WITH NICK ANDERSON OF THE WRECKS The Wrecks are a Los Angeles-based indie rock band originally from Thousand Oaks, California, a sunny, comfortable area on the West [...]
WHAT YOU GET IS ROUGH AND READY A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS THOMSON OF FRIENDS AGAIN It seems as though Scotland has always been a hotbed for music and bands. By the 1980s, Scotland was known for bands as diverse as Altered Images, The Skids, [...]
HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING, HE KNOWS WHEN YOU ROCK! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2019 CHRISTMAS RELEASES Christmas music is very subjective as there is usually a great deal of emotion tied to the songs. I remember my [...]
Throbbing Gristle A Souvenir Of Camber Sands (Reissue) Mute In 2004, Throbbing Gristle reformed after calling it a day in 1981. The original lineup put aside their differences, and that year released a live album, A Souvenir Of Camber Sands is [...]
Throbbing Gristle Part Two: The Endless Not (Reissue) Mute In 2004, Throbbing Gristle reformed after calling it a day in 1981. The original lineup put aside their differences, and eventually in 2007 they recorded Part Two: The Endless Not which [...]
COLD WAR NIGHT LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH TRACY HOWE OF RATIONAL YOUTH Those of us of a certain age will remember scouring the record stores of Toronto in 1982, desperately looking for Rational Youth’s debut album, Cold War Night Life. In the [...]
Beatastic Diffraction Shore Dive Records Beatastic describes themselves as a “shoegaze/indie/grunge/electronica/post punk band.” Based out of Brighton, the band is really a solo project by Nicolas Pierre Wardell. Diffraction is a new release [...]
Friends Again Trapped And Unwrapped Cherry Red Records This re-release is ridiculously overdue. Friends Again released their one and only album in 1984, Trapped & Unwrapped: Collection. Since it was released on CD in 1989, it has all but [...]
Rational Youth (Deluxe Expanded Edition) Cold War Night Life Universal Music Cold War Night Life was originally released in 1982 and was the debut album for Montreal’s Rational Youth following the release of a couple of singles, both of which [...]
Throbbing Gristle TG Now (Reissue) Mute In 2004, Throbbing Gristle reformed after calling it a day in 1981. Their first order of business was to get together and record some music to see if this was still a viable band. The result was the EP TG [...]
Walter DeBarr We Fall, We Break Orphan Records Walter DeBarr has delivered his six-song, impressive debut EP after years of what one may call a colourful life. Prison, addiction, and hard living have all contributed to DeBarr’s music. Although [...]
EITHER YOU CARE OR YOU DON’T A CONVERSATION WITH MARY FAHL “Well, it’s a Christmas record,” laughs Mary Fahl. “It is not out of character – it sounds like if Mary Fahl made a Christmas record.” She is speaking on her new album, Winter Songs and [...]
The Beatles The Singles Collection Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music The Beatles and their record company Apple have done it again. Gathered together in one box are all of the 22 original British singles released by The Beatles, plus an [...]
Harry Nilsson Losst And Founnd Omnivore Records Harry Nilsson left this planet on January 14, 1994, at the age of 52. He had just finished recording an album that was not released at the time for many reasons. Into the vaults it went, where it [...]
Neuland Neuland Neuland Records Neuland is the self-titled debut album from this new group, featuring Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger, both previous members of the band Tangerine Dream. It is an instrumental, textured, and layered album. Not [...]
