DRIVING MRS. SATAN LATE EVER AFTER LIBURIA RECORDS If you think that covering the songs of others is easy by just picking up your instruments and microphones, than you are quite mistaken. Sure you can do that, but then you are just a cover [...]
SPENCER HOFFMAN CHERRY PICKER ANXIETY BLANKET RECORDS Being a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles will always draw comparisons with the early to mid-70s, when the so-called golden age of California Sound ruled, well, the airwaves then. In the [...]
CAT CLYDEÂ MUD BLOOD BONE CONCORD RECORDS Really good singer-songwriters these days take much harder routes to creating music of substance. Of course it is the much harder road than just strumming your guitar, tinkling your piano and singing [...]
WHERE’S BETH ACHE IS A CRICKET IN THE NIGHT INDEPENDENT Good to great singer-songwriters seem to be creeping up on us daily (again!)—artists obviously seem to have a greater need to try and express their personal sensibilities and whatnot [...]
JENN GRANT QUEEN OF THE STRAIT INDEPENDENT With three Juno nominations, millions of streams, and critic accolades all over, Jenn Grant is becoming yet another Canadian music giant. And Grant has not reached that status by sticking to some strict [...]
DONOVAN WOODS SQUANDER YOUR GIFTS INDEPENDENT Donovan Woods is one of those singer-songwriters who have a strong fan base, based much more on his excellent songwriting and subtle, hushed vocals rather than any hype or PR, as Woods is one of [...]
IRON & WINE HEN’S TEETH SUB POP There are few characteristics you can attribute to Iron & Wine, aka Sam Beam, through his artistic career for this quarter of a century or so that he has been on the music scene. First of all, he [...]
ELIZA NOXON GOOD MONSTERS WITH BAD HABITS INDEPENDENT Some artists turn up on the music scene as rough diamonds, so to say, with talent showing, but with some edges that need to be finely honed through time to make their music sound great and [...]
MICHAEL CORMIER-O’LEARY PROOF ENOUGHÂ DEAR LIFE RECORDS Michael Cormier-O’Leary is no newcomer to Spill Magazine, and getting right down to it, there is a good reason he reappears here. Not only because he has a new 7-song EP, but [...]
SUZANNE JARVIE MOTHER’S DAY WOLFE ISLAND RECORDS Is Toronto currently becoming one of the hotbeds of emerging singer-songwriters? Quite possibly, as that artistic field seems to be repeating the growth it had in the early to mid-70s. [...]
HEMI HEMINGWAY WINGS OF DESIRE PNKSLM New Zealand artists often tend to make musical combinations that on paper might seem quite incongruous, but when you listen to them, sound like they always belong together. In this specific case, we are [...]
MIRAH DEDICATION DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY RECORDS Mirah, or more precisely, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, is no newcomer and it shows. Her latest album, simply titled Dedication, is her seventh release, and all the experience she has gathered so far as an [...]
MAX HOFFMAN LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT INDEPENDENT What can you expect from a singer-songwriter who wrote his first song at the age of six? Well, at least to show that there is talent there and the ability to craft songs that will pique interest [...]
WRABEL UP ABOVE NETTWERK Being a long time on the music scene can often keep you in the shadows, or like in the case of Wrabel, it can gain you a serious following, as the singer songwriter so far has some 4 billion views on various streaming [...]
BOY GOLDEN BEST OF OUR POSSIBLE LIVES SIX SHOOTER RECORDS Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in [...]
ALICE COSTELLOE MOVE ON WITH THE YEAR MOSHI MOSHI RECORDS As is the case sometimes with solo debut albums, the key just might lie with that solo tag. It is usually a case of an artist that has already been in a band or has worked undercover, so [...]
MARTA DEL GRANDI DREAM LIFE FIRE RECORDS Some singer-songwriters stick to all the defined lines, if you could call them that of this broadly-defined genre (and they are quite good at it), while there are not so many of them that try to bring in [...]
KIM MOBERG ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS INDEPENDENT You don’t essentially need to be an innovator that breaks boundaries to come up with good music that could reach quite a number of listeners. As a solo artist, you do need a hefty dose of [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS CBGB – A NEW YORK CITY SOUNDTRACK 1975-1986 CHERRY RED RECORDS This is a music collector’s perfect combination—an extensive compilation (box set, effectively) on one of the best labels around that can handle such a [...]
T. GOLD LIFE IS A WONDER AND IT’S CRUEL SLEEPY CAT RECORDS No, this is not a somewhat melancholic, soul-inflected singer songwriter behind a name or a moniker of T. Gold, but a core duo of Saman Khoujinian and Gabe Anderson, supported by a [...]
DELANEY BAILEY CONCAVE AWAL These days the term singer songwriter has grown in its scope from just a solo artist with an acoustic instrument and introspective lyrics to a solo artist that basically has a mind of their own and goes anywhere where [...]
JULIANNA BARWICK & MARY LATTIMORE TRAGIC MAGIC INFINÉ RECORDS It seems to be the time for the successful combination of modern classical and other modern (or not so modern) musical forms, and Tragic Magic, a debut joint album by [...]
ALEV LENZ 4 IN A CYCLE OF THIRDS INDEPENDENT If you think it is a straightforward process to combine a song form with classical music compositional structure, you could be way off, with so many such experiments, remaining just that – [...]
MICHAEL PAUL BINZ LET ME BE BINZ RECORDS LLC Very often, the independent road in music has many more thorns than roses. You can come up with music that deserves to be heard, but reaching a wider audience needs time, patience and strong will. And [...]
