THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: GARY NUMAN About 2017’s Savage (Songs From A Broken World) Coming almost four years after his album Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) earned the best reviews of his career and his highest chart-placing [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem debuted with “Losing My Edge,” a single that became one of the most talked-about indie releases of 2002. A self-effacing spoof of the outrageous pissing contests [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: CALVIN HARRIS Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), known professionally as Calvin Harris, is a Scottish record producer, DJ, singer, and songwriter. His debut studio album I Created Disco was released in [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ALICE COOPER Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE DEARS The Dears, a loose collective of Montreal-area musicians formed in 1995, are led by the charismatic Murray Lightburn. Citing Serge Gainsbourg as a major influence, the Dears combine cabaret-style [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LANA DEL REY Lana Del Rey envisioned a Southern Californian dream world constructed out of sad girls and bad boys, manufactured melancholy and genuine glamour, and then she came to embody this fantasy. At [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: RANDY NEWMAN An anomaly among early-’70s singer/songwriters, Randy Newman may have been slightly influenced by Bob Dylan, but his music owed more to New Orleans R&B and traditional pop than [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LORDE Emerging as a fully formed enigma from her native New Zealand, Lorde tapped into an untouched well of alienation, becoming the poster child for a generation who found refuge from the eternal excess of [...]
