Jack Johnson All The Light Above It Too Universal Music After releasing his number one 2013 album, From Here To Now To You and the subsequent tour which led into the following year, things have been relatively quiet from Jack Johnson. 2013 was [...]
Alter Bridge Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities Napalm Records Following the release of their critically acclaimed 2016 release, The Last Hero, Alter Bridge have returned with Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities. The band, consisting of lead vocalist, [...]
Ace Frehley Anomaly eOne Music Back in 2009, Ace Frehley released Anomaly. Not only was the record very well received among critics, but it was Frehley’s first solo record since his 1989 release, Trouble Walkin’, making the album that much more [...]
Gregg Allman Southern Blood Rounder On May 27th, 2017, the world was shocked to hear of the sudden passing of music legend, Gregg Allman. Allman, who had quite an extensive and incredibly innovative career as a founding member of The Allman [...]
I Mother Earth @ CNE Bandshell, Toronto August 25, 2017 After reuniting last year with their original lead vocalist, Edwin, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of their landmark album Scenery And Fish, I Mother Earth have been on a roll. [...]
YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY: APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION AT 30 The 1980’s were an interesting period for music. While classic rock began to turn towards the wailing frequencies of hair metal and glam rock in the late 70’s, ushering in an era [...]
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs Burger Records/Dine Alone Records Toronto’s very own Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, now signed to Burger Records/Dine Alone Records have released their sophomore self-titled [...]
Cage The Elephant Unpeeled RCA Records Ever since making their 2008 debut with their self-titled record, Cage The Elephant have shown no signs of slowing down as each step forward has only taken them into bigger directions. While Cage The [...]
Soul Asylum W/ Cracker @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto July 18, 2017 The last time that Soul Asylum came to Toronto, I was in diapers. I was one month and a day shy of being one years old. October 23rd, 1995, Soul Asylum played the Palais [...]
Metallica w/ Avenged Sevenfold & Volbeat @ The Rogers Centre, Toronto July 16, 2017 This weekend, Metallica, along with show openers Avenged Sevenfold and Volbeat, brought their WorldWired Tour to Toronto’s Roger Centre, their first show in [...]
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers w/ Peter Wolf @ Air Canada Centre, Toronto July 15, 2017 Despite being happily married and about 20 years younger than him, ever since I was a child, I’ve heard how my mum, when she was a teenager, thought [...]
Last Bullet 80-69-64 Independent Toronto’s premier rock & roll outfit Last Bullet has released their third EP, 80-69-64, their follow up to 2012’s Love. Lust. Illusion. While the album is officially released today on July 14th, fans who [...]
Bob Dylan And His Band @ The Tribute Communities Centre, Oshawa July 4, 2017 While on an extensive tour across North America, the iconic Bob Dylan has decided to include a short tour of Ontario with six shows across the province. Catching him [...]
Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? Warner Music Modern rock innovators, Royal Blood have returned with their sophomore full length album, How Did We Get So Dark?. The record follows the band’s massively successful self-titled album from 2014. [...]
Gary Clark Jr. w/ Black Pistol Fire @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto June 13, 2017 The blues are a funny thing. Despite being around for over a century and playing an essential role in the evolution of Western popular music, the blues are [...]
Headstones Little Army Cadence Music Since reforming in 2011, Kingston ’90s hard rock outfit Headstones have released one full length studio album, Love + Fury, as well as One In The Chamber Music, an acoustic album, along with a pair of [...]
Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Sony Music Roger Waters, one of the most consistently strong songwriters to emerge from the booming 1960s British invasion rock scene, has returned with Is This The Life We Really Want?, his first [...]
Various Artists Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded & Remastered Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition) Sony Music Talk about a throwback Thursday! The soundtrack for Singles, the 1992 Cameron Crowe film which sought to look [...]
REMEMBERING CHRIS CORNELL – A SPILL MAGAZINE MEMORIAL (July 20, 1964~May 17, 2017) Chris Cornell, the lead singer best known for his work fronting grunge pioneers Soundgarden and super groups, the likes of Audioslave and Temple Of The Dog, [...]
The Junction City Nights Culvert Music City Nights, the most recent release from Toronto based indie rockers The Junction, is a record which takes all the tropes and expectations of the genre and flips them upside down, in what can best be [...]
Warrant Louder Harder Faster Frontiers Music SRL 1980s glam rockers Warrant are back with Louder Harder Faster following a tumultuous run through the 2000’s. Over the course of the previous decade, the band behind the quintessential 1980’s hit [...]
Dreamcar Dreamcar Columbia Records No Doubt was one of the biggest ska bands to emerge in the 1990s. While the quality of the work is certainly debatable, no other ska cum punk rock band of the decade was able to reach such staggering heights in [...]
Black Lips Satan’s Graffiti Or God’s Art? Vice Records Atlanta based punk outfit, the Black Lips, have released their first album since 2014’s Underneath The Rainbow. Recorded throughout 2016 at a studio in upstate New York, Satan’s Graffiti Or [...]
