Philip Selway Strange Dance Bella Union Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has released his third solo album Strange Dance. Every track on the album is magnificent and gets better with every listen. Selway is working with many different sounds in [...]
The Slow Readers Club Knowledge Freedom Power Velveteen Records It is not very often that you come across an album that features great song after great song with no skips. The Slow Readers Club’s latest album, Knowledge Freedom Power, is the [...]
Nicholas Merz American Classic Independent If you haven’t encountered Seattle singer-songwriter Nicholas Merz before, either with his band Darto or solo, American Classic, the title of his third chapter of The Duvall Sound, as he calls it, [...]
Dawn Sev Tart Independent Dawn Sev’s debut EP, Tart, features four diverse songs that showcase her distinct talent and her love of various forms of music. In less than 15 minutes, Sev explores various forms of music and she does it [...]
Godsmack Lighting Up The Sky BMG As a 30-yr chapter of writing music is closing for the American rock band Godsmack, they release their 8th album, Lighting Up The Sky. The band’s vocalist Sully Erna announced last year that this would be their [...]
The Strokes The Singles – Volume 01 Sony Music Canada Several terms have been used to describe the sound of The Strokes, including ‘indie rock’, ‘garage rock revival’, and ‘post-punk revival’. Whichever term you choose, the inescapable [...]
John Foxx Avenham Metamatic John Foxx has always been a bit of a mystery. One is never sure what he will release next. Last year, he released The Marvelous Notebook, which is a reading of his 2020 novel. Prior to that, he recorded a pretty [...]
Asia Fantasia – Live In Tokyo 2007 BMG Fantasia – Live In Tokyo 2007 was originally released in 2007 and features the classic and original Asia line-up of John Wetton (bass/lead vocals), Geoff Downes (keyboards/vocals), Steve Howe [...]
The Alan Parsons Project The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Deluxe Edition) Cherry Red Records Alan Parsons continues to re-release the classic (and hugely successful) Alan Parsons Project albums. The Turn Of A Friendly Card was originally released in [...]
Gabrielle Shonk Across The Room Arts & Crafts Some record labels just have a great sense what fits into their artist roster and what level of music quality passes the muster. That’s a sure way to make as few misses as possible, if any. [...]
John Lee Hooker Burnin’ (60th Anniversary Reissue) Craft Recordings For all rock and other modern music fans it is good to know, if they don’t already, that 80% of the stuff they hear or listen to today is based on what this legend [...]
Steel Panther On The Prowl Steel Panther Inc. Few artists, if any, have paired audacious humor with the masterfully precise and technical musicianship of rock ‘n’ roll’s hair metal era of the ‘80s as Steel Panther has. Their sixth studio album, [...]
Death Valley Girls Islands In The Sky Suicide Squeeze Records As they continue to grow as a band, Death Valley Girls are back, with 11 mystical tracks on Islands In The Sky. The concept of this record and main themes are based on the experience [...]
Agony Street Italian Whisky FHEBRE Records/Silverton Agony Street was the Swedish duo which consisted of Gudmundur Bragason and the late Klas Qvist, who recorded under the name Citizen K. Sadly, Qvist passed away in 2021, but he left quite a [...]
Various Artists Bottle Music For Broken People Bottles To The Ground Bottles To The Ground, the latest imprint to emerge from Fat Mike (NOFX) and Fat Wreck Chords has launched their first release, Bottle Music For Broken People. The compilation [...]
Laure Briard Ne Pas Trop Rester Bleue Midnight Special Records Usually, when record labels sign a new artist, they come out with some serious hype, comparing the new artists to some big, or cult names to boot. So, when signing singer songwriter [...]
MF Tomlinson We Are Still Wild Horses PRAH Recordings Working within the psych rock and psych folk genres these days means that as an artist you actually have to digest as many other genres as possible you can and include them within either (or [...]
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 [...]
