ONEIDA EXPENSIVE AIR JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS Oneida formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1997 and released their debut album, A Place Called El Shaddai’s that year. Since then, they have gone on to release 16 albums and several EPs/singles. [...]
AUSTIN JOHN SURVIVE EACH OTHER INDEPENDENT Austin John is based in Toronto and is really the brainchild of Todd Elsliger. Survive Each Other is the band’s fourth album and their first since 2020’s The Better Way back When. Austin John produces a [...]
COLOR GREEN FOOL’S PARADE NEW WEST RECORDS Modern psych rock is tagged as such because it often includes a number of other musical elements that the initial psych rock from its late 60s heyday possibly didn’t have. Think of all such [...]
HANNAH MOHAN TIME IS A WALNUT EGGHUNT RECORDS Formally, Time Is A Walnut is Hannah Mohan’s solo debut, but Mohan has already created quite a buzz while she was fronting And The Kids for some ten years or so. That buzz was based both on [...]
DONOVAN WOODS THINGS WERE NEVER GOOD IF THEY’RE NOT GOOD NOW END TIMES MUSIC Some would say that singer songwriters are ‘dime-a-dozen’ these days, but there are quite a number of such artists that simply stand out, depending [...]
JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES – THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION (SUPER DELUXE BOX SET) UNIVERSAL MUSIC John Lennon’s Mind Games came at a rather turbulent time in his life. It had been three years since The Beatles had split and the spectre of the band [...]
CRAZY TOWN THE GIFT OF GAME (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) REAL GONE MUSIC Hold onto your socks, folks, because we’re about to dive headfirst into the mind-blowing masterpiece that is Crazy Town’s The Gift of Game. Now, some might say [...]
WINDWAKER HYPERVIOLENCE FEARLESS RECORDS Sometimes, escaping all the limitations preventing you from creating something new is the only way to innovate. Windwaker’s commitment to distinctive refinement without sacrificing individuality has [...]
IN HEARTS WAKE INCARNATION UNFD When one looks at the definition of incarnation, it is the embodiment of a spirit in the flesh, the awakening of something fresh and enticing. This idea has never held greater significance for the Australian band [...]
FRED ABONG BLINDNESS MOOCHIN’ ABOUT RECORDS To those who follow Spill Magazine more closely, the name of Fred Abong might be familiar, and even more so, if they are fans of Throwing Muses and Belly, as Abong played bass for both bands back [...]
GHOST FAN CLUB GHOST FAN CLUB KNIFEPUNCH RECORDS Tyler Costolo has been making music since 2017, and it all ranged anywhere between the softer side of slowcore and bedroom pop to something heavier and more experimental. Ghost Fan Club seems to [...]
NIGHT IN ATHENS WASTED REFLEKTIONS WAVE RECORDS Music is often the strongest identifier we have to document the passing of time and is the closest thing we currently have as humans to a time machine. Some songs can bring us back decades, [...]
SCENE QUEEN HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA HOPELESS RECORDS American singer and TikTok star, Scene Queen, released her debut full-length album Hot Singles In Your Area on June 28th. The term ‘Scene Queen’ comes from the scene subculture, it [...]
LAME DRIVERS BECOME AN ISLAND JIGSAW RECORDS/BLEEDING GOLD The famed NYC slacker-core indie-rock group Lame Drivers has just released a new 13-track album, Become an Island, a rock-centred body of work with a similar musical tone. Beginning with [...]
GUIDED BY VOICES STRUT OF KINGS ROCKATHON RECORDS Sometimes a band finds a sound that just works, a sound that acts almost as a fingerprint. Guided by Voices is a band that has solidified their trademark sound for the better part of 40 years, [...]
LUCY MacNEIL ANGELS WHISPER LUCY MacNEIL MUSIC Lucy MacNeil is one of the founding members of the band The Barra MacNeils, who are a Canadian institution. The family has been making music since they were children in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. [...]
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS SOUTH OF HERE STAX RECORDS When Nathaniel Rateliff cropped up on the scene some four years and three albums ago, the brilliance and assuredness were evident from the get-go. It was Rateliff’s [...]
JOHNNY CASH SONGWRITER MERCURY NASHVILLE/UNIVERSAL MUSIC Johnny Cash passed away in 2003, and he has been missed. Any news of new music is always very exciting and very welcome. Since his passing there have been a few albums of previously [...]
MT. JOY LIVE AT THE SALT SHED DUALTONE A collection of Mt. Joy’s most prized pieces from throughout their career, Live At The Salt Shed takes one on a journey not too different from that of a road trip. Imagine a winding drive through the [...]
DOUBLE WISH UNIVERSE SOMETIMES HIT THE NORTH RECORDS According to Double Wish, the Orange County duo of Adam Sabolick and Philippe Andre, create music that falls under the category of ‘dark sunshine pop’. Ok, so it is a nice ide to [...]
WILCO HOT SUN COOL SHROUD DBPM RECORDS Less than a year after Wilco’s most recent release, Cousin, we can say “welcome back Wilco”, with the upcoming release of their EP, Hot Sun Cool Shroud. This EP has been described by Wilco frontman, Jeff [...]
DANIEL NUNNELEE JUNE, BABY INDEPENDENT It just might be the case that Daniel Nunnelee, as a true Southerner (born in Memphis, and now located in Nashville), has decided to call his debut album June, Baby after the cover of a Merle Haggard/Willie [...]
ALEXISONFIRE [LIVE] BORN & RAISED 2022, ST CATHERINES ON DINE ALONE RECORDS Since reforming nearly a decade ago, the last few years have made for an impressive second act from Canadian legends, Alexisonfire. Having released a string of [...]
KITTIE FIRE SUMERIAN RECORDS After a 13-year hiatus, the Queens of heavy metal, Kittie, have released their long awaited seventh album, Fire. The opening track, “Fire”, starts with a whisper and goes right into vocalist Morgan Lander’s powerful [...]
