ALLYSHA JOY THE MAKING OF SILK FIRST WORD RECORDS An instantly recognizable voice is something that can make or break an artist’s work. If it works, it gives the music that specific touch that the listeners could attach to, even if the [...]
ROBYN HITCHCOCK 1967: VACATIONS IN THE PAST TINY GHOST RECORDS When you have been hailed as one of the key players in the neo-psychedelia for such a long time, at some point you have to go back and look at where, when, how, and surely why, you [...]
WAYNE GRAHAM BASTION WATERLOO RECORDS No, Wayne Graham is not a singer-songwriter, nor is he a single person (in this case at least)—Wayne Graham is a band from Kentucky, and Bastion is their ninth and latest album. The quartet picked the band [...]
BOB SUMNER SOME PLACE TO REST EASY NORTH COUNTRY COLLECTIVE/FLUFF & GRAVY As an artist, there are two ways to go about tackling Americana music- you can play it straight, picking up the traditional elements (country, folk, other roots forms) [...]
MO KENNEY FROM NOWHERE INDEPENDENT Mo Kenney (they/them) is up to their fifth album titled From Nowhere. Yet, from wherever that is, Juno-nominated songwriter’s music here is coming from somewhere good. Presenting all the usual as well as [...]
DAVID LUNING LESSONS INDEPENDENT Yet another Americana artist? Well, yes and no really, as Americana as a genre has long been an expanding musical category that includes so many disparate musical elements that often don’t have much in [...]
THE NEW STUDENTS LITTLE BLUE DOT INDEPENDENT Can modern be old? Sure, if you ask Long Island collective The New Students, who seem bound to try and reverse the process that is ongoing in Americana music. Instead of taking old songs and music in [...]
SIMA CUNNINGHAM HIGH ROLLER RUINATION RECORD CO. High Roller might officially be Sima Cunningham’s debut solo album, but the Chicago artist has already been making a name with that city’s duo Finom, as well as one more prominent [...]
SHADY COVE PART II INDEPENDENT Working within the sub-genre that is defined as dream-pop might sound a simple task to some listeners, but bringing in something else there, that touches upon other musical streams like bedroom or jangle pop, or [...]
AVI C. ENGEL STRANGLING VINE INDEPENDENT With some 20 years on the music scene, Toronto’s Avi C. Engel (they/them) is no newcomer. During that period, they have accumulated quite a serious catalogue, which their Bandcamp page will amply show [...]
EDDY LEE RYDER SWEET DELUSIONS INDEPENDENT When the title track of Eddy Lee Ryder’s debut album Sweet Delusions, opens the album you are hit with that Deja vu sensation that is both familiar, but at the same time fresh and new sensation. [...]
ENERGY SLIME PLANET PERFECT WE ARE TIME Coming up with picture perfect (or video/streaming perfect) pop these days is much harder to achieve as copycats (including AI) are hovering all around with something that sounds like chewing on an empty [...]
QUIVERS OYSTER CUTS MERGE As is the case with any other band, Melbourne, Australia’s Quivers and their latest album Oyster Cuts can be described in a few simple words, but as is the case with some other Australian greats like Go-Betweens [...]
MILO BINDER THE UNSPEAKABLE MILO BINDER REAL GONE MUSIC It takes some artists three days to come up with new stuff, but it takes others quite a bit longer. In the case of Vancouver/LA artist Milo Binder, it was ‘only’ 33 years [...]
JULIA-SOPHIE FORGIVE TOO SLOW BA DA BING! RECORDS With any form of electro music, pop, or ambient (take your pick) the key question these days is “what is that new element an artist can bring to the genre?” It can be big, it can be small, just [...]
LITTLE MYSTERY LITTLE MYSTERY RUINATION RECORD CO New York’s Ivy Meissner is one Little Mystery, and her self-titled debut album amply shows that she has chosen quite a fitting moniker to present her music. With quite an intriguing voice [...]
LYS MORKE KNIFE THERAPY ARTOFFACT RECORDS Taking a route less traveled for any artist/musician is always filled with dangers and pitfalls, and to overcome these, you have to have a clear vision, determination and knowledge to truly overcome [...]
COLOR GREEN FOOL’S PARADE NEW WEST RECORDS Modern psych rock is tagged as such because it often includes a number of other musical elements that the initial psych rock from its late 60s heyday possibly didn’t have. Think of all such [...]
HANNAH MOHAN TIME IS A WALNUT EGGHUNT RECORDS Formally, Time Is A Walnut is Hannah Mohan’s solo debut, but Mohan has already created quite a buzz while she was fronting And The Kids for some ten years or so. That buzz was based both on [...]
DONOVAN WOODS THINGS WERE NEVER GOOD IF THEY’RE NOT GOOD NOW END TIMES MUSIC Some would say that singer songwriters are ‘dime-a-dozen’ these days, but there are quite a number of such artists that simply stand out, depending [...]
FRED ABONG BLINDNESS MOOCHIN’ ABOUT RECORDS To those who follow Spill Magazine more closely, the name of Fred Abong might be familiar, and even more so, if they are fans of Throwing Muses and Belly, as Abong played bass for both bands back [...]
GHOST FAN CLUB GHOST FAN CLUB KNIFEPUNCH RECORDS Tyler Costolo has been making music since 2017, and it all ranged anywhere between the softer side of slowcore and bedroom pop to something heavier and more experimental. Ghost Fan Club seems to [...]
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS SOUTH OF HERE STAX RECORDS When Nathaniel Rateliff cropped up on the scene some four years and three albums ago, the brilliance and assuredness were evident from the get-go. It was Rateliff’s [...]
DOUBLE WISH UNIVERSE SOMETIMES HIT THE NORTH RECORDS According to Double Wish, the Orange County duo of Adam Sabolick and Philippe Andre, create music that falls under the category of ‘dark sunshine pop’. Ok, so it is a nice ide to [...]
