CRUISE TO THE EDGE 2022 THIS YEAR’S PROG CRUISE MAKES A LOT OF NOISE. A WHOLE LOT OF NOISE. In the lobby of Homewood Suites Hotel in Port Canaveral, a life-size model of an astronaut greets us, but it’s not the Space Center that has lured Dorie [...]
THE BEST PARTIES YOU GO TO ARE THE ONES YOU DON’T HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS FOR A CONVERSATION WITH BILL LEEB OF DELERIUM Delerium started out as a side project for Bill Leeb, of Front Line Assembly fame, and Michael Balch, also from Front Line [...]
ROUGH TRADE IS WORK A CONVERSATION WITH ROUGH TRADE’S CAROLE POPE WITH BERNARD FRAZER (CHURCH OF TREES) In 1976, the first ‘direct to disc’ album was released by a relatively unknown Toronto band named Rough Trade. The album Rough Trade [...]
THE THERAPY OF CO-WRITING A CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY LAESSIG OF LUCIUS When Lucius was ready to write its sophomore album, Good Grief, the band had come off of a bout of non-stop touring. “I think we were home two weeks out of the whole year,” [...]
DROWNING IN THE CULTURE A CONVERSATION WITH AVIV There is a lot happening for AVIV these days. The 16-year-old artist has not only just released her debut album, Drowning In The Culture, but she has been chosen to open for Imagine Dragons on the [...]
AJA A TRACK-BY-TRACK COMPARISON BETWEEN STEELY DAN’S ORIGINAL AND THE DARCYS 2012 REMAKE It is a bold statement to attempt to remake decade defining albums. While they are generally no match for their predecessor, artists like Camper Van [...]
MY HEART IS AN ICE CREAM CONE A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOZZIO OF MISSING PERSONS “I can recite the whole book verbatim. It can really drive you crazy, but that is the kind of mind I have. Everything is saved and filed in my head and I go to them [...]
HEAVY STEPS ON HOLLOW GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID: PART TWO From start to finish, Heavy Steps is a high-octane, aggressive, and technically successful percussive record. Tracks like “Crossed” and [...]
HEADBANGERS FOR S.T.M.V. A CONVERSATION WITH SAVE TORONTO MUSIC VENUES & HEADBANGERS HAIR SALON As the pandemic continues to drag on into 2022, artistic communities and independent businesses globally have struggled to keep their heads above [...]
HEAVY STEPS ON HOLLOW GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID: PART ONE Comeback Kid have been innovating the hardcore genre for the past 20 years. Never being a band to stay tied to the same old tricks within the music [...]
EVERYTHING I AM, EVERY MOMENT NEW A CONVERSATION WITH NEAL MORSE (D’VIRGILIO, MORSE & JENNINGS) “I don’t think I’m that busy”, Neal Morse laughed when I caught up with him recently to talk about a new project of his, the album Troika [...]
DANCE TO THE PERFECT MESS A CONVERSATION WITH CARL MARSH OF SHRIEKBACK Shriekback’s music has always been difficult to pigeonhole. Part of the post-punk, new wave scene, their music contained elements of funk, rock and sometimes ambient music. [...]
AND WE PRAY FOR THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD A CONVERSATION WITH KEYBOARDIST KEVIN YOUNG OF MOIST It may be surprising that a pillar of Canadian rock, Moist, has only just released their fifth album. On Oct. 1, 2021, Moist’s End of the Ocean dropped, [...]
PREDICTION VISION, FUTURE ROCK, AND UNCHARTED TERRAIN A CONVERSATION WITH DUNCAN COUTTS OF OUR LADY PEACE Twenty years, and many accurate AI predictions later, Our Lady Peace members deemed it time to revisit the concept of their fourth album, [...]
CUE THE CURTAIN CALL, ROLL THE CREDITS, IT’S OVER A CONVERSATION WITH PAUL KOEHLER OF SILVERSTEIN When it comes to bands like Silverstein, they seem to have been through it all. From Discovering The Waterfront to A Beautiful Place To [...]
NOT A BIBLICAL ALBUM, BUT A CONCEPT ALBUM WITH THE BIBLE AS ITS SOURCE A CONVERSATION WITH IAN ANDERSON OF JETHRO TULL It has been 19 years since there has been a new Jethro Tull album, their last being The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. There [...]
SHIPS IN THE NIGHT CAN TAKE YOU TO DREAMS OR TO NIGHTMARES A CONVERSATION WITH ALETHEA LEVENTHAL OF SHIPS IN THE NIGHT Playing with your dreams and nightmares, transforming them into music can be a tricky game. On one hand you can come up with [...]
LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROLL! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2021 CHRISTMAS RELEASES – THE SINGLES + EPS Arkells “The Last Christmas (We Ever Spend Apart)” Universal Music Canada November 4, 2021 Big [...]
LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROLL! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2021 CHRISTMAS RELEASES – THE ALBUMS Paul Kelly Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train Cooking Vinyl November 19, 2021 I am a long-time fan of Paul Kelly. He is a [...]
THIRTY YEARS OF GOING PLACES WITH TAVERNS AND PALACES AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH RON HAWKINS OF LOWEST OF THE LOW: PART TWO The Lowest Of The Low, consisting of Ron Hawkins, David Alexander, Lawrence Nichols, Michael McKenzie and Greg Smith, [...]
1st BASE RUNNER JUST MIGHT COME UP WITH A HOME RUN A CONVERSATION WITH TIM HUSMANN When we mention the term singer-songwriter, the first thing that comes to mind is a single person crouched over their acoustic guitar, say somebody like Joni [...]
THIRTY YEARS OF GOING PLACES WITH TAVERNS AND PALACES AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH RON HAWKINS OF LOWEST OF THE LOW: PART ONE It’s been 30 years since the release of the epic 17-song masterpiece Shakespeare My Butt…, the debut album from [...]
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN A CONVERSATION WITH IVAN DOROSCHUK OF MEN WITHOUT HATS It has been almost a decade since the last Men Without Hats album Love In The Age Of War. And then in 2021 Men Without Hats released a brilliant CD EP, Again (Part [...]
MOUNT RIFFMORE A CONVERSATION WITH ZAKK WYLDE OF BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Currently on tour ahead of the release of his 10th studio record with Black Label Society, Zakk Wylde is synonymous with hard rock and the electric guitar. The Viking among [...]
