WILDER MAKER THE STREETS LIKE BEDS STILL WARM WESTERN VINYL Brooklyn’s Gabriel Birnbaum seems to be all over the place these days, either as a music curator/PR man, solo artist, or as a member/principal songwriter of dark, jazzed-up folk [...]
MAURA WEAVER STRANGE DEVOTION FEEL IT RECORDS To devoted fans of pop punk, the name Maura Weaver might sound familiar as she was a member of such an outfit that went under the name of Mixtapes. Weaver decided to leave and pursue a solo career, [...]
TEKE::TEKE HAGATA DELUX KILL ROCK STARS Labeling Montreal’s Teke::Teke can be a tricky thing. With seven members, it is more a musical collective than a band. On the other, most critics label them as a psych rock band, but with so many [...]
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND AND LEON RUSSELL PRESENT: MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN REVISITED LIVE AT LOCKN’ FANTASY RECORDS Reviving an original live show that captivated audiences some 50 years or so ago is an extremely tricky [...]
WHITNEY K BUBBLE FIRE RECORDS Sometimes, when an artist has a great voice, it just might not matter what they sing about or what the songs are like. Well, there should at least be a song there. But if the lyrics do have some substance and the [...]
LÉNA BARTELS THE BRIGHTEST SILVER FISH GLAMOUR GOWNS Does being a solo artist these days mean that you have to stick to the quieter, gentler realms of music? Not if you are Portland transplanted to NYC artist Léna Bartels, as her second album [...]
CARSON McHONE PENTIMENTO MERGE RECORDS Some intriguing music brewing over in Ontario when it comes to the very broad category of singer-songwriters these days. Carson McHone’s latest album Pentimento is here to show us why. The reason is [...]
ALEXEI SHISHKIN GOOD TIMES RUE DEFENSE Artists dabbling with all the variants of lo-fi/bedroom pop and all closely connected musical forms, seem to be having a sort of a hard time these days for no apparent reason, as quite a few of them are [...]
GWENIFER RAYMOND LAST NIGHT I HEARD THE DOG STAR BARK WE ARE BUSY BODIES Making an instrumental album is a tough prospect to start with, when it is a solo instrument affair even harder, and you can triple that if that instrument is an acoustic [...]
WHITEHALL NATIONAL FINALS RODEO ENCI RECORDS Big record companies seem to be always giving up on something, and these days it might be that melodic, guitar-driven pop/rock. People over at ENCI Records don’t seem to think that is a good [...]
KATY PINKE & WILL GRAEFE PATTERNS GLAMOUR GOWNS So many artists, those who are well-known and those who are not so well-known, are taking stock and reviewing what they have done so far, as well as where their inspiration comes from, and they [...]
MARGO PRICE HARD HEADED WOMAN LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS Margo Price has always been an artist whose audience didn’t care much what genre her music fell into, and yes, it more often than not falls within that often too strictly defined one that [...]
SUNYEARS THE SONG FORLORN VILLA/YEP ROC Peter Morén of Peter, Bjorn and John has been a busy guy recently. After nine albums with the band, and during the pandemic, Morén decided to do some solo work, which brought along SunYears, his solo [...]
BILLIANNE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION INDEPENDENT It is a crowded house over in the singer-songwriter habitat. So many of them these days have to go on their own to present their music. And if you are just 22 years old and come from Milton, ON, [...]
GEORGIA HARMER EYE OF THE STORM ARTS & CRAFTS Georgia Harmer has one of those voices that simply wins you over, even if the song she sings doesn’t amount to much. Yet, when the songs she sings do amount to quite a bit, the effect is [...]
HILLARY REYNOLDS CHANGING SEASONS INDEPENDENT Quite a few singer-songwriters come up with their music and lyrics in the spur of the moment, as spontaneous as it can get. Others, like L.A.’s Hillary Reynolds here, take a more meticulous [...]
JAKE WINSTROM RAZZMATAZZ! INDEPENDENT Power pop was never as big with music critics as some other genres or sub-genres, maybe because of that pop element within the term. Very often they labeled it as something that hasn’t changed that [...]
IN THE PINES SUNBEAM DREAM INDEPENDENT Ok, so the name of your band associates with something sounding a bit Americana, you have a home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, and at the same time you run a synthesizer repair shop in Dayton Kentucky, so how [...]
JOSH HALPER SCHLEMIEL GLAMOUR GOWNS RECORDS Seasoned session men do not come often with their solo efforts and when they do, these efforts turn out to be rare occasions that often pass by the listeners who barely notice them. Now, guitarist Josh [...]
LOW WATER BRIDGE BAND HONKY TONK PROCESS INDEPENDENT Virginia sextet Low Water Bridge Band, already made an impression here at Spill Magazine with their 2023 album Back To The Valley. The band is now back with their latest offering, Honky Tonk [...]
FOLK BITCH TRIO NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME JAGJAGUWAR Some might raise their eyebrows to the name of this Australian trio, most others wouldn’t care less, but what nobody will question after listening to their debut album Now Would Be A Good [...]
FORTUNATO DURUTTI MARINETTI BITTER SWEET, SWEET BITTER QUINDI RECORDS Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, has been trekking between Turin, IT, and Toronto for a few years now, recording albums that fans of a wide range of artists, from Tindersticks to [...]
JULIAN CUBILLOS JULIAN CUBILLOS RUINATION RECORDS Who releases a debut album in the midst of a summer heat (at least that is the usual July weather in NYC) when most big, small or non-existent record labels have a pause in their release [...]
HEAVENLY OPERATION HEAVENLY SKEP WAX RECORDS When this, the fourth and final album by Heavenly was released back in 1996, it practically had no shelf-life of its own, as its release was overshadowed by the sudden death of drummer Mathew [...]
