REMINISCING A CONVERSATION WITH GLENN SHORROCK (FORMERLY OF LITTLE RIVER BAND) Glenn Shorrock has been making music for a long time. He started his professional life with classic band The Twilights, a band now considered to be one of the most [...]
THE ZOMBIES…ON THE BLUE! A CONVERSATION WITH 2019 ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ROD ARGENT AND COLIN BLUNSTONE Fifty was a magical number aboard this year’s On the Blue Cruise hosted by the Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward. Setting sale on [...]
A MAN IN FULL A CONVERSATION WITH LES NUBY OF HOLIDAY GUNFIRE Les Nuby of Birmingham, Alabama-based Holiday Gunfire has been around the block a few times. He has played alongside Dave Grohl at CBGB’s, opened for R.E.M. at Hyde Park to a crowd [...]
TIME-TRAVELING THROUGH SONGS A CONVERSATION WITH PAUL WEBB OF RUSTIN MAN Rustin Man, aka Paul Webb, has released his sophomore album Drift Code on Domino Records. A follow up to the dense and enigmatic Out Of Seasons, Rustin Man continues a [...]
DESTITUENT A CONVERSATION WITH SOLE Today, Sole—rapper, anarchist, activist, and radical podcaster—released his latest album, Destituent, which he produced himself. Explaining the title, which was derived from a power theory term coined by the [...]
THE PAIN YOU DON’T SEE COMING A CONVERSATION WITH BILLY BRETT OF BUCK GOOTER + A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE There are a lot of great stories about how bands got their names. “The Beatles” was a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets [...]
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IS ANYTHING BUT A SITUATION NORMAL, MOST LIKELY, IT IS ALL FUCKED UP A CONVERSATION WITH POTTY MOUTH After going through many “Situation Normal All Fucked Up” moments, Potty Mouth has pushed through to create its newest album, [...]
GETTING IT ALL OUT A CONVERSATION WITH FRANK BELLO AND DAVID ELLEFSON While the name “Altitudes & Attitude” may not yet ring a bell, it certainly should after the band’s recent full-length debut, Get It Out. Comprised of two of metal’s most [...]
ON THE BLUE CRUISE 2019 SHIPPING OUT WITH ROCK ROYALTY I never realized I liked Todd Rundgren until he rocked the pool stage aboard the On the Blue Cruise with “I Saw the Light,” a totally unexpected version of the Classic IV’s “Stormy” and a [...]
WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? – AN XTC DISCOVERY BOOK A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR MARK FISHER XTC started in 1972, released their debut album in 1978, and is perhaps the most famous band out of Swindon. A new book is about to be released, [...]
VUJADAY MUSIC FESTIVAL @ BARBADOS A CONVERSATION WITH FESTIVAL ORGANIZER RYAN KRUGER Canadians have a reputation for throwing some of the world’s premiere electronic music festivals in exotic locations. Vujaday is no exception. On April 3-7, it [...]
GET BACK THE BEATLES ROOFTOP CONCERT – 50 YEARS LATER With extreme pressure from both the press and the public, the Beatles decided to stop touring after its August 1966 show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. “There was no enjoyment in it”, [...]
FOR ONE NIGHT IN MILAN METAL HEALTH DROVE ‘EM MAD A CONVERSATION WITH QUIET RIOT DRUMMER FRANKIE BANALI Quiet Riot has been around for a lot longer than some might think. Forming in 1975 (featuring a young Randy Rhodes), they took their [...]
NICE TO MEET U A CONVERSATION WITH PI JA MA (PAULINE DE TARRAGON) For many, the chance to sing on a nationally televised talent competition would be a dream come true. Yet for Pauline De Tarragon, the experience almost turned her away from music [...]
WELCOMING AND WARM DIVERSIONS A CONVERSATION WITH DAN MANGAN Way back in the days of Myspace an emerging young musician named Dan Mangan commented on a song embedded on my profile as being one of the most beautiful things he’d ever heard. [...]
KICK ASS SASS A CONVERSATION WITH CANADIAN QUEEN OF ROCK & WINEMAKER SASS JORDAN Sass Jordan has been a rock star, actor, Canadian Idol judge, and a Juno and Billboard award winner… is there anything she can’t do? Now, she has added [...]
MARTIAN VS THYSELF A CONVERSATION WITH MR.A THE MARTIAN With progress in the digital world and technology, underground and indie-produced artists have perhaps never had a better chance at exposure. Platforms like SoundCloud have allowed for a [...]
HOLLYWOOD COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP: THE STORY OF JACKIE SHANE A CONVERSATION WITH GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE ROB BOWMAN The story of Jackie Shane is truly one for the ages. While her name may only ring a bell for record-collecting soul enthusiasts and [...]
GUNNING FOR HITS A CONVERSATION WITH PRODUCER & AUTHOR JEFF ROUGVIE Gunning for Hits is a new kind of reading experience: a comic book about rock ‘n’ roll with a somewhat flawed hero who, in some ways, resembles artists you may [...]
FOREVER THE INDIVIDUALIST A CONVERSATION WITH ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NOMINEE TODD RUNDGREN Todd Rundgren is really one of rock’s elites. He has transformed music through his writing, performing and production. He started in 1967 with the [...]
WHEN DRUMS CONDUCT A CONVERSATION WITH JACOB ARMEN On September 8th of last year, drummer extraordinaire Jacob Armen released his latest album, When Drums Conduct. The album is an ambitious undertaking which sees Armen collaborate with well over [...]
SPILL MAGAZINE’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2018 With a huge team of writers and an absolutely massive list of albums reviewed this year, it was no easy task to come up with something resembling agreement on what Spill Magazine identifies as the top [...]
SAYING YES TO LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN WARKENTINE What reality have we created, and how much power do we have in its destruction? Ellen Warkentine addresses these questions head on in her debut solo album, Nonsense Mouth released on Monte [...]
INTO THE VOID A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK BLÜMEL OF HOLYGRAM Holygram is a new band, based in Cologne, Germany. They formed in 2015, but have only recently released their debut album, Modern Cults. The band consists of Patrick Blümel (vocals), [...]
