I’M ALONE, NO YOU’RE NOT AN INTERVIEW WITH NATALIE CLOSNER OF JOSEPH Joseph is the #SpotifySpotlightArtist and sister trio from Portland, Oregon. If you haven’t heard its hit anthem, “White Flag,” do yourself a favour and download [...]
ANOTHER SMILING PHASE AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS A tribute to Canada’s most influential songwriters, arranged and performed by one of the greats himself. This is what David Clayton-Thomas, of Blood, Sweat & Tears fame, has [...]
HEADED EAST AN INTERVIEW WITH JUSTIN RUTLEDGE It was an increased sense of disillusionment that plucked Alt-Country singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge from his Toronto residence to the eastern shores of Lake Ontario. Though the Juno Award winner [...]
LONDON TOWN AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR DERRICK BORTE On The Clash as an influence: “within the first few minutes I just had a realization that was the music that I was supposed to listen to” Artists include The Clash, The Stranglers, [...]
A SPILL VIDEO FEATURE – SUCCESSPOOL AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CHRISFORT Hi. My name is Chris and I like guitar and I like comics and I like skateboards. I’m in a band called Treefort- We are part of Trondo’s open-mic scene, and I’d like [...]
HARD-CORE: LIFE OF MY OWN AN INTERVIEW WITH HARLEY FLANAGAN Hardcore Punk and Metal crossover artist and controversial NYC mainstay Harley Flanagan (founder of one of the most influential, cult-followed bands in hard music — Cro Mags) has [...]
POLITICALLY RE-CHARGED AN INTERVIEW WITH JOEY “SHITHEAD” KEITHLEY OF D.O.A. SPILL MAGAZINE: You’ve been friends with Dayglo since 1979 and from what I can see, this is the first tour you’ve done together. JOEY KEITHLEY: Yeah, we [...]
NIGHT CLUB STREAM ‘REQUIEM FOR ROMANCE’ Following quickly on the heels of their official soundtrack release to Comedy Central’s Moonbeam City (Milan Records), Night Club returns with their debut full length LP Requiem for [...]
BACK TO MOMO A Q&A INTERVIEW WITH TONY WEST OF BLACKLIST UNION Spill Magazine: What initially inspired you to write songs? (childhood trauma, happiness, money?) Tony West: Life and feeling compelled to express myself. Spill Magazine: Can you [...]
MUSIC MURAL TO TOWER OVER YONGE STREET September 28, 2016 @ Granby Parkette, Toronto Artist Adrian Hayles is bringing the musical vibrancy of the ’50’s and ’60’s Toronto back to Yonge Street with his ambitious 22-storey fresco. A crowd gathered [...]
2016 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 21 @ TORONTO CITY HALL, MEMBER LOUNGE The nominees for this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) were announced at Toronto City Hall during the second annual National Strum event. Members [...]
15 YEARS LATER AND STILL EATING AN INTERVIEW WITH ZACH LIND AND RICK BURCH OF JIMMY EAT WORLD 23 years and 8 albums later Jimmy Eat World haven’t slowed down a bit. Gearing up for the release of their ninth album Integrity Blues the alt rockers [...]
WILLFULLY NOISY AND LOUD AN INTERVIEW WITH FRESH SNOW KEYBOARDIST & PRODUCER TIM CONDON I caught up with Tim Condon, guitarist, keyboardist and producer for Fresh Snow, to discuss the band’s second album, ONE, which was released to critical [...]
A QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS NEVER SOUNDED SO DREAMY AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA JACKLIN Julia Jacklin has garnered a lot of attention these days, and for good reason. The Australian singer-songwriter has charmed listeners with her Americana-infused Indie [...]
INSIDE RYAN MacDONALD’S HONEST HEART AN INTERVIEW WITH RYAN MacDONALD OF THE HONEST HEART COLLECTIVE For a few years now, Thunder Bay-based independent group The Honest Heart Collective has been on an almost-constant trek along every stop [...]
25 YEARS OF TINY LITTLE GOALS AN INTERVIEW WITH DONITA SPARKS OF L7 L7 was a successful band in the Grunge-dominated musical climate of the late ’80s.After the band’s dissolution in 2001, its members mainly took a back seat from the music [...]
A SPILL VIDEO FEATURE – THE MARROWS AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS FORT Hi. My name is Chris and I like guitar and I like comics and I like skateboards. I’m in a band called Treefort. We are part of Trondo’s open-mic scene, and I’d like [...]
NEVERMIND TURNS 25 As the 1980s came to an end, popular music hadn’t changed all that much. In the first few years of the ’90s, Synthpop, New Jack Swing and Hair Metal still dominated the airwaves and MTV. However, in the fall 1991 a trio from [...]
REDEFINED METAL AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHAN BRIGGS OF SONIC SYNDICATE Sonic Syndicate has created a hard, harsh mix of sonic brutality over the course of 14 years.After touring with many Metalcore and Death Metal bands it appeared to have found a [...]
LED ZEPPELIN – DAY BY DAY AN INTERVIEW WITH MARC ROBERTY – AUTHOR OF LED ZEPPELIN “DAY BY DAY” Led Zeppelin – who hasn’t heard of them, one of the legendary giants of the Hard Rock genre? Many stories, myths and legends [...]
PERSEVERANCE AN INTERVIEW WITH DAN MANGAN Q: How did your influences change from your past album to the newest one, Unmake? A: Influence is an interesting saying; when you’re young or a teenager, you get nailed with a million things that [...]
BOILER ROOM SETS AND VIDEO GAMES AN INTERVIEW WITH HARRISON Toronto DJ and producer Harrison dropped out of university after a three-month stint to pursue a career in music; a career that was put in motion when, in the 7th grade, he pulled down [...]
RETURN TO GAINSBOURG MICK HARVEY DISCUSSES DELIRIUM TREMENS Songwriter. Lyricist. Arranger. Cultural provocateur. Serge Gainsbourg fulfilled all of these roles in his lifetime and did so brilliantly. Following in the lineage, if not the actual [...]
NOT BLOOD PAINT – BELIEVING IS BELIEVING A TRACK-BY-TRACK GUIDE Not Blood Paint is a theatrically vivid—and sonically intense—four-piece from Bushwick, formed in 2008 by guitarists George Frye and Joe Stratton, bassist Mark Jaynes and [...]
