LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions Sony Music In 2017, LCD Soundsystem released its brilliant American Dream, and not only was it the band’s first album to chart in the top ten, it actually debuted at number one and won a Grammy for Best [...]
Standalone Standalone Negative Gain Records Standalone is Steven Siebold (Hate Dept, Pigface), and the name is pretty self-explanatory. This is a solo project in every sense of the word, as Siebold is the only one on the album. Standalone is an [...]
FOR ONE NIGHT IN MILAN METAL HEALTH DROVE ‘EM MAD A CONVERSATION WITH QUIET RIOT DRUMMER FRANKIE BANALI Quiet Riot has been around for a lot longer than some might think. Forming in 1975 (featuring a young Randy Rhodes), they took their [...]
Beirut Gallipoli 4AD Basically Beirut is Zach Condon, who keeps himself busy between albums with numerous EPs and side projects (Realpeople, 1971, and Soft Landing). Featured on this album, alongside Condon (who provides the vocals and plays [...]
Len Mizzoni Better Days Independent Better Days is Len Mizzoni’s second full-length solo album. The first thing that strikes the listener is the confidence he exudes both in the songwriting and the performance. On Better Days, he adds more [...]
Quiet Riot One Night In Milan Frontiers Music It may be hard to believe, but One Night in Milan, recorded in 2018, captures Quiet Riot at the first concert they have ever played in Italy. Even more astonishingly for a band that has been around [...]
Tony Malone Flowers For Armageddon Independent Tony Malone was part of the original Queen Street punk scene in the late 1970s. At that time he was a member of The Dishes, after which he formed Drastic Measures. Malone wrote some of the finest [...]
GUNNING FOR HITS A CONVERSATION WITH PRODUCER & AUTHOR JEFF ROUGVIE Gunning for Hits is a new kind of reading experience: a comic book about rock ‘n’ roll with a somewhat flawed hero who, in some ways, resembles artists you may [...]
FOREVER THE INDIVIDUALIST A CONVERSATION WITH ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NOMINEE TODD RUNDGREN Todd Rundgren is really one of rock’s elites. He has transformed music through his writing, performing and production. He started in 1967 with the [...]
The Bad Dreamers Songs About People Including Myself FiXT Neon David Schuler (producer of P!nk, John Legend and The Backstreet Boys, to name just three) is The Bad Dreamers, that is to say, this is his project. He wrote, mixed and produced the [...]
SINE INSOMNIÆ Independent SINE is a band, founded by drummer and vocalist Rona Rougeheart. In the press release for the debut album, INSOMNIÆ, she is quoted as saying she “wanted our debut album to be dark, sexy & stylish, with [...]
INTO THE VOID A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK BLÜMEL OF HOLYGRAM Holygram is a new band, based in Cologne, Germany. They formed in 2015, but have only recently released their debut album, Modern Cults. The band consists of Patrick Blümel (vocals), [...]
David McFarlane Fieldwork Independent David McFarlane is an artist based in Toronto. Fieldwork is his second album and since his debut, The Wreck That You Are (2010), he has learned a great deal about himself and music. And it is all reflected [...]
IKA JOHANNESSON & JON JEFFERSON KLINGBERG – BLOOD FIRE DEATH: THE SWEDISH METAL STORY FERAL HOUSE PUBLISHERS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Originally written in Swedish in 2011, this update and translated version is one hell of a book [...]
Hocico Shalom From Hell Aviv – Blasphemies In The Holy Land Part 2 Out Of Line Music In 2005, Hocico released a live album, Blasphemies In The Holy Land (Live in Israel), 13 years later they have released the sequel, and it is just as [...]
Analytica High Bias Independent Toronto-based Analytica is two keyboard wizards, Gabe Knox and David Lush. These guys have studied, digested, and know 1980s synthpop and that knowledge is reflected in this, their debut EP. Although High Bias is [...]
Paul McCartney Wings 1971-1973 MPL/Universal Music Paul McCartney never did or does the expected. He often follows his muse which may or may not garner sales and/or good reviews. The Fireman project, The Country Hams, working with Michael [...]
THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM 50th ANNIVERSARY A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR/SPEAKER PIERS HEMMINGSEN Beatlemania hit America on February 9, 1964. After their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, America and the world was never the same. But did you know [...]
JINGLE BELL! JINGLE BELL! JINGLE BELL ROCK! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2018 CHRISTMAS RELEASES Well, it is that time of year again. Trees are going up, stores are being decorated, streets are all lit up and the release new [...]
Bryan Ferry and His Orchestra Bitter-Sweet BMG Bryan Ferry has been down this road before, and it is always welcomed. Ferry is joined by his Orchestra for Bitter-Sweet, a very original and creative reinterpretation of classic Bryan Ferry and [...]
Badfinger Badfinger (Expanded Edition) Real Gone Music Badfinger signed to The Beatles’ Apple label in 1968, when they were known as The Iveys. After their first album, they changed their name, Joey Molland joined the band (replacing the [...]
Badfinger Wish You Were Here (Expanded Edition) Real Gone Music Wish You Were Here was Badfinger’s second and last album for Warner Brothers, and as with their album, Badfinger, was originally released in 1974. This was to have been their [...]
Daniel Romano Finally Free You’ve Changed Records/New West Records Finally Free is Daniel Romano’s ninth solo album since his solo debut in 2010 (Workin’ For The Music Man). The one consistency over the years with the Welland, Ontario [...]
THE 14th ANNUAL ANDY KIM CHRISTMAS A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY KIM “I do all the phone calls. I don’t think anyone would volunteer. So I get panicky in October that no one is going to show, then by November, they are all in,” says a very relaxed [...]
