THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ERIC CLAPTON By the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world’s major rock stars due to his group [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan’s influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: SHONEN KNIFE During the early-’90s alternative wave, veteran Japanese indie rock trio Shonen Knife made major fans out of alt-rock’s elite (Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross, among others) and [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: CHARLES BRADLEY Soul and R&B singer Charles Bradley definitely didn’t arrive as a recording artist by taking the easy route. Born in Gainesville, Florida in 1948, but raised in Brooklyn, New York, [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: M83 In 2003, Frenchmen Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau enjoyed international acclaim for the album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, a luscious blend of shoegaze aesthetics, ambient pop, and [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: PET SHOP BOYS Post-modern ironists cloaked behind a veil of buoyantly melodic and lushly romantic synth pop confections, Pet Shop Boys established themselves among the most commercially and critically [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ANDREW BIRD Chicago singer/songwriter/violinist Andrew Bird updates the traditions of small-group swing, German lieder, and New Orleans jazz, mixing Gypsy, folk, and rock elements into his distinctive style. [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: M WARD Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter M. Ward (born Matthew Stephen Ward) grew up listening to gospel and country, two genres that figure prominently in his breezy, West Coast take on Americana. [...]
