Motörhead Iron Fist (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) BMG Iron Fist, the last studio album featuring what is considered the classic Motörhead incarnation with Ian Kilmister (Lemmy), Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor and “Fast” Eddie Clarke gets a [...]
A PERFECT DISH TO SERVE A CONVERSATION WITH PETER HOOK Spill Magazine had a recent opportunity to speak with Peter Hook of Joy Division and New order fame prior to Peter Hook & The Light embarking on their tour of North America. Hook is one [...]
Bastille Give Me The Future Republic Records/ Universal Music Formed in 2010, British quartet Bastille presents their fourth studio album entitled Give Me The Future. The underlying theme with this work according to frontman Dan Smith is [...]
JOHN MELLENCAMP STRICTLY A ONE-EYED JACK REPUBLIC RECORDS With his 25th album, Mellencamp portrays himself as a wisened, reflective musician. The days of “suckin’ on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez”, are far behind him and he no longer [...]
Def Leppard Volume 3 (Box Set) UMG/Mercury Records If your band has been around for 40 plus years and produced monster hits such as “Animal” and “Photograph” back in your heyday, I guess you are entitled to put together a monster box set. Volume [...]
HIS STORY RIGHT NOW A CONVERSATION WITH cEvin Key Kevin Crompton, or cEvin Key as he is known as in the music industry, released his latest solo work entitled Xwayxway (anglicized as whoi whoi) in February of 2021. Once the drummer of [...]
Motörhead Ace Of Spades (40th Anniversary Box Set) BMG 1980. Year of the Rubik’s Cube. CNN launches this year and we can now leave reminders on Post-It Notes. Light pop acts such as Captain and Tennille, Olivia Newton-John and Blondie dominate [...]
Erasure World Be Gone Mute Records Longevity is rare and fleeting in the music industry. Certainly musicians’ work can be appreciated much later in time and long-standing collaborations amongst artists is rare. Erasure, the British duo of Andy [...]
Young Mammals Jaguar Odd Hours Records Jaguar is the sixth release from Young Mammals, which was forged from a middle school friendship between Cley Miller and brothers Jose and Carlos Sanchez. Drummer Justin Terrell group is the additional [...]
Tuns Tuns Royal Mountain Records Formed in 2015, Tuns is comprised of Mike O’Neill of The Inbreds, Chris Murphy of Sloan and Matt Murphy of The Super Friendz. The idea of a supergroup, where successful artists in their own right [...]
GIVING HER LOVE AN INTERVIEW WITH PEACHES Peaches, aka Merrill Beth Nisker, is about to embark on her 2016 tour promoting her latest record, Rub, which recently has been given another musical treatment entitled Rub Remixed. Despite her sexually [...]
The Veldt The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation Leonard Skully Records Besides producing wonderful college basketball, Raleigh, North Carolina has given us Daniel and Danny Chavis, otherwise known as The Veldt, a name taken [...]
Young Empires w/ Banners @ The Mod Club Theatre, Toronto February 27th, 2016 “Lots of sexy people here!” proclaimed Matthew Vlahovich, lead singer of Young Empires during the group’s set at the intimate Mod Club on Toronto, Ontario. There were [...]
Wiwek The Free And Rebellious OWSLA It’s pretty rare for someone to create and establish a unique brand of music and Dutch DJ Wiwek is trying to do just that. His self-declared “Jungle Terror” approach to house music is suitably described by [...]
The Cult Hidden City Dine Alone Records As the final piece of a trilogy of work beginning with Born Into This in 2007, and reuniting with producer Bob Rock at the helm, The Cult’s Hidden City doesn’t greatly depart from their AC/DC sound that [...]
Blackdog Ballroom This Is Blackdog Ballroom Independent Some albums don’t translate well into live performance with its complex layered production effects. This isn’t what Richmond Hill quartet Michael Stanfield, Mat Powers, Rob DeSimone and [...]
Various Artists OWSLA Worldwide Broadcast Atlantic Records Sonny John Moore (perhaps better known as song writer, producer and DJ Skrillex) has helped release a compilation album of feverish dance tracks featuring artists such as DJ Snake and [...]
Coldplay A Head Full Of Dreams Parlophone/Atlantic Records Whereas Coldplay’s sixth album Ghost Stories dealt with themes of regret, wondering what might have been and promising unconditional love to those that have come and slipped away, this [...]
Paying Attention To The Details: An Interview With Jacob Palahnuk Of Young Empires The road to building a kingdom can be a long and patient road. While speaking with Jacob Palahnuk currently on the road in Montreal, the bassist of this Canadian [...]
Ty Dolla $ign Free TC Atlantic Records (sung to “Saved” with apologies to Ty Dolla $ign) L.A. artist Ty Griffin Hip hop and rap his callin’ After years of working with others he’s got his own thing Chorus Debut album From Ty Dolla Collaborates [...]
Sun Club The Dongo Durango ATO Records The Sun Club describe themselves as a group of buddies from Baltimore, Maryland playing happy music. On their Facebook page they recently posted that the group was mentioned in Rolling Stone under Missy [...]
Peaches Rub I U She Music Are there no nice Canadian Jewish girls out there? Merrill Beth Nisker a.k.a. Peaches does her best to explode this stereotype with her sexually-charged themes and lyrics. And what the hell is Feist of “1234” fame [...]
The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 AD Kompakt The British ambient synth duo of Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann describe their latest release as based on the idea that mankind discovers its roots, as interpreted through musical harmonies, on the ancient [...]
Fatboy Slim The Fatboy Slim Collection Sony Music Canada Norman Cook, ex-bassist from the Housemartins has come a long way since adopting the Fatboy Slim moniker in 1996. His early hits, “The Rockerfeller Skank” and “Praise You” are not included [...]
