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 [...]
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 [...]
