Deborah Fialkiewicz Daughters Of The Industrialists Independent Deborah Fialkiewicz describes herself as a “Transgender experimental electronic musician”. However, labels only tell part of her story. She has carved out a remarkable career and [...]
The Rolling Stones GRRR Live! Mercury Studios Few artists, if any, have celebrated a 50-yr anniversary while remaining almost active for the entire period. 2012 and 2013 saw The Rolling Stones do exactly this, with the launch of Grrr!, a [...]
The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Future Is Your Past A Recordings When you are releasing your 20th album, you are practically becoming an institution. Maybe Anton Newcombe, The Brian Jonestown Massacre main man is not exactly somebody who likes [...]
Andy Bell Strange Loops & Outer Psych Sonic Cathedral Ride guitarist and vocalist Andy Bell has released his latest solo album, Strange Loops & Outer Psych. It consists of covers, remixes, and acoustic renditions of songs from his [...]
Pierce The Veil The Jaws Of Life Fearless Records San Diego, CA’s Pierce The Veil has released a new album, The Jaws Of Life, on frontman Victor Fuentes’ birthday. It’s been seven years since Misunderstandings, and their fans couldn’t be happier [...]
Pearla Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming Spacebomb Records If Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming, as an album title sounds like a far-fetched psychedelic dream, then you probably aren’t much far off. That is exactly [...]
Ships In The Night Asleep In Midwinter Independent Ships In The Night, aka Alethea Leventhal is no stranger to Spill Magazine, but there are some compelling musical reasons for that. One more reason for her latest, albeit brief EP Asleep in [...]
7Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together (Deluxe Reissue) Trust Records Punk rock, at its early stage, had two extremes: f.s.u. and straight edge, and they were not necessarily mutually exclusive. 7Seconds is one example of a band whose positive [...]
Young Fathers Heavy Heavy Ninja Tune On their recent release Heavy Heavy, we see Young Fathers at their ‘happiest’. Happiness is nuanced here, in the typical experimental fashion that echoes their previous projects. The vocals used on [...]
Mmeadows Light Moves Around You Independent On paper, the combination of Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green, aka Mmeadows, can sound like a strange combination. After all, Slipp is a member of avant-garde pop band Dirty Projectors, and Green has [...]
Will Epstein Wendy Fat Possum Records A casual listen to Wendy, the new album by Woodstock, NY’s Will Epstein, might make one fall into the trap of labeling this album and Epstein with the standard tag of singer songwriter. Yet, as the album [...]
Colony House The Cannonballers Roon Records Colony House, the multi-talented alt-rockers from Franklin, Tennessee, have released a new album The Cannonballers, a follow up to their last studio album Leave What’s Lost Behind (2020). The result is [...]
Robert Forster The Candle And The Flame Tapete Records The Go-Betweens, in both the band’s incarnations, were probably one of the best rock bands ever. That greatness was based on the songwriting and friendship dynamic between Robert [...]
FANTASTIC NEGRITO GRANDFATHER COURAGE STOREFRONT RECORDS Fantastic Negrito made waves with his creative odyssey of a 2022 album, White Jesus Black Problems, an album which tackled the story of his mixed ancestry in the era of American slavery, [...]
H.C. McEntire Every Acre Merge Records Durham, North Carolina might not exactly be a renowned music center, but that there is quite a good chance that singer-songwriter H.C. McEntire and her latest release, Every Acre, might give that city a [...]
Jerry Leger Live From Paradise Latent Recordings Toronto singer-songwriter Jerry Leger is one of those artists who does not sit still for too long. With his solid motivation and work ethic, it’s little wonder that he is releasing some choice [...]
Bob Dylan Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 Legacy/Colombia/Sony Bob Dylan continues his bootleg series with number 17. For this box set, Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996 – [...]
Marianne Faithfull Kissin’ Time (Reissue) BMG By 2002 Marianne Faithful was eager to return to a more contemporary sound following albums in which she focused on Kurt Weill. These include Weill recording and performing his opera The Seven [...]
Kevin Morby Music From Montana Story Dead Oceans If there’s an artist who can come up with a soundtrack for a neo-Western film today, Kevin Morby might not be the usual choice, but just might be a great one. Scott McGehee and David Siegel [...]
Benji Tranter Songs To Make You Happy Pear O’Legs Records Currently, it seems that bedroom pop as a specific genre started to include so many things, with one constant – excellent melody lines. If you accept such a definition, then [...]
Mac DeMarco Five Easy Hot Dogs Mac’s Record Label After having cancelled his tour indefinitely back in May from last year, Mac DeMarco suddenly returns with Five Easy Hot Dogs. This new instrumental album was the result of the musician’s [...]
Ladytron Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl Time’s Arrow is the seventh album release from the UK electronic pop band, Ladytron. Formed in Liverpool in 1999, the band has regularly released new music since their inception. The album leads off [...]
Siv Jakobsen Gardening The Nordic Mellow Norwegian singer songwriter Siv Jakobsen seems to love touring, as she spent most of her career so far on the road. Having that in mind, one would think that she shies away from the studio, or that is the [...]
July Talk Remember Never Before Six Shooter Records The polarity between lead vocalists Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis remains the core of July Talk’s appeal. Even with an expanded lineup, this remains true on their fourth album, [...]
