THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: JUSTICE Justice, a Parisian dance production duo comprising Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, generated an international buzz with “D.A.N.C.E.,” a catchy single whose video and MP3 spread like [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE ROLLING STONES “After more than a decade without releasing a studio album, The Rolling Stones have made an interesting move. Blue & Lonesome is a full-length cover album and not including their [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: CHILDISH GAMBINO When he’s not busy writing for television, performing with his sketch group Derrick Comedy, or acting on the NBC comedy Community, Donald Glover somehow finds the time to make beats and [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: WILCO Debuting as a rough-and-tumble alt-country act and evolving into a mature and eclectic indie rock ensemble, Wilco rose from the ashes of the seminal roots rock band Uncle Tupelo, which disbanded in 1994. [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Bruce Springsteen is an arena rock star and a well-regarded singer-songwriter. His best known songs chronicle Springsteen’s working-class roots in New Jersey. Synopsis Born on September [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE MONKEES “Hey hey, we are the Monkees/You know we love to please/A manufactured image/With no philosophies.” In 1968, the Monkees addressed their own reputation in the song “Ditty Diego [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: PAUL SIMON During his distinguished career Paul Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards including 12 Grammy Awards, three of which (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: RICHARD ASHCROFT As the frontman for the epic British drone-pop band the Verve, Richard Ashcroft proved himself the spiritual descendant of rock & roll icons like Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison — [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ERIC CLAPTON By the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world’s major rock stars due to his group [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan’s influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: SHONEN KNIFE During the early-’90s alternative wave, veteran Japanese indie rock trio Shonen Knife made major fans out of alt-rock’s elite (Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross, among others) and [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: CHARLES BRADLEY Soul and R&B singer Charles Bradley definitely didn’t arrive as a recording artist by taking the easy route. Born in Gainesville, Florida in 1948, but raised in Brooklyn, New York, [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: M83 In 2003, Frenchmen Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau enjoyed international acclaim for the album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, a luscious blend of shoegaze aesthetics, ambient pop, and [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: PET SHOP BOYS Post-modern ironists cloaked behind a veil of buoyantly melodic and lushly romantic synth pop confections, Pet Shop Boys established themselves among the most commercially and critically [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ANDREW BIRD Chicago singer/songwriter/violinist Andrew Bird updates the traditions of small-group swing, German lieder, and New Orleans jazz, mixing Gypsy, folk, and rock elements into his distinctive style. [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: M WARD Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter M. Ward (born Matthew Stephen Ward) grew up listening to gospel and country, two genres that figure prominently in his breezy, West Coast take on Americana. [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: The 1975 The 1975 is an English, Manchester-based alternative rock/indie rock band from Wilmslow in Cheshire. The group consists of Matthew Healy (vocals, guitar), Adam Hann (guitar), George Daniel (drums), [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: MEGADETH After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though Megadeth followed the basic blueprint of Metallica’s relentless attack, [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: RA RA RIOT Combining indie rock with chamber pop flourishes (courtesy of a small string section), Ra Ra Riot formed while the band’s six members were attending college in Syracuse, New York. Milo Bonacci [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: YOKO ONO Yoko Ono was raised in Tokyo in a wealthy Japanese banking family. She was an excellent student (in 1952 she became the first woman admitted to study philosophy at Japan’s Gakushuin University) [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: RADIATION CITY Radiation City is an American indie rock band that began in Portland, Oregon, in 2010. The band consists of Cameron Spies (guitar, vocals), Elisabeth Ellison (vocals, keyboards), Randy Bemrose [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: JOANNA NEWSOM Although Joanna Newsom’s Appalachian-meets-avant-garde take on folk music is her most celebrated work, her range is even more inclusive than her solo career suggests: the classically [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LUCINDA WILLIAMS Lucinda Williams is one of America’s most critically acclaimed songwriters and recording artists, as well as the daughter of poet Miller Williams. She has won three Grammy Awards and is [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: DAVID BOWIE Spill Magazine would like to offer our sincerest condolences to Mr. David Bowie’s family and followers at this time. We had expected to publish Daniel Adams’ portrait of this monumental [...]
