HASTE THE DAY DISSENTER SOLID STATE RECORDS There are two different kinds of comeback albums. There are albums that return a band into the world, and there are albums where that return feels more internal than external. Coming into Haste the [...]
SEVENDUST ONE NAPALM RECORDS The music industry is, as many know, a hard one to gain notoriety in. While some bands can make it to insane amounts of fame, there are some bands that have fans in a ‘medium’ level. In the rock and metal genres in [...]
A BOOK FOR WANDERERS MOTION POTION INDEPENDENT Anthony Botting, the singer and guitarist from the St. Catharines-based independent punk outfit, The Cocktails, has released his debut solo record under the name A Book For Wanderers. Aside from a [...]
MODERN WOMAN JOHNNY’S DREAMWORLD ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS Johnny’s Dreamworld, the debut album from English alt-rock band Modern Woman, isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a screeching, squealing, whirling hurricane of sounds and emotions [...]
VALLEY BOY CHILDREN OF DIVORCE INDEPENDENT With a fresh moniker that is Valley Boy, and a debut album titled Children of Divorce, initially you just might think that you are encountering the music of this Valley Boy (real name James Alan Ghaleb [...]
KACEY MUSGRAVES MIDDLE OF NOWHERE INTERSCOPE/LOST HIGHWAY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA No, Kacey Musgraves is not your standard country musician anymore (if she ever was), no matter how quite a few listeners will think that her latest album Middle of [...]
ANDERVEL IRONCLAD & PALM TREES INDEPENDENT How does a prospect of a Mexican singer-songwriter sing in English and Icelandic (and only a single one in Spanish) sound? While the English in that equation might not sound so strange, well then [...]
TAJ MAHAL & THE PHANTOM BLUES BAND TIME THIRTY TIGERS What more can you say about an artist that has been on the scene for over six decades, has rarely recorded something that is a dud (everyone has got at least one of those), and has [...]
CHARMIAN DEVI DIAMOND HOUR INDEPENDENT Looking at a collaborators list for this album, the first thought that comes to mind is that there must be something interesting going on here. Otherwise, how do you get a list of collaborators for a debut [...]
MAYA HAWKE MAITREYA CORSO MOM + POP MUSIC Maitreya Corso is the latest release from Maya Hawke, daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. Best known for her acting work on “Stranger Things,” she’s also a singer-songwriter who made her musical [...]
VENOM INTO OBLIVION NOISE RECORDS Metal music is a subject that is passionate for many. With a longstanding history, this genre is more than just simply that. Metal is, for many, a lifestyle, a movement, and a way of being. Metalheads will often [...]
TORI AMOS IN TIMES OF DRAGONS FONTANA In Times of Dragons is Tori Amos’s 18th studio album and her first since 2021’s powerful Ocean to Ocean (although she did release the streaming only soundtrack for her children’s book in 2025, titled The [...]
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER I’M PEOPLE CHRYSALIS RECORDS I’m People is Hiss Golden Messenger’s 16th studio album, since their debut in 2008. M.C. Taylor (who really is Hiss Golden Messenger at this point) continues his slide into Americana music. In [...]
NIALL CONNOLLY THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO SEE C.U. RECORDS It has been three years since Niall Connolly’s last studio album (the brilliant Patience of Trees), and while three years is a bit of time, There’s So Much More to See has been [...]
THE RALLIES NO BETTER TIME INDEPENDENT With No Better Time, by The Rallies, it feels that summer has officially started. The Rallies are a four-piece band based in Seattle. No Better Time, their fourth album, is the perfect spring/summer album. [...]
NOAH KAHAN THE GREAT DIVIDE MERCURY RECORDS Noah Kahan’s newest release, The Great Divide, feels like a defining moment in his career. An album that not only builds on his signature introspection but elevates it to a new emotional peak. Simply [...]
BEATRIX WE SWALLOWED THE SKY NICE LIFE One thing you can almost instantly spot with singer songwriters is if they have classical music background. The key thing there is how they use that background in a pop/rock musical setting – are they able [...]
STEPHEN BECKER GRAVITY BLANKET ONE IS THREE RECORDS Avid readers of Spill magazine have probably noticed that NYC’s Stephen Becker is one of the frequent artists you can meet here. His brand of so-called bedroom pop has that quirkiness and [...]
CABARET VOLTAIRE BUT WHAT TIME IS IT REALLY? MEMETUNE Cabaret Voltaire, initially consisting of Richard Kirk, Chris Watson, and Stephen Mallinder, is an English techno music group that experienced a degree of success with their song “Sensoria” [...]
ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE ANGEL IN PLAINCLOTHES ASTHMATIC KITTY There are a number of singer songwriters out there that might not have the wide exposure they deserve but do have a staunch core of fans that keep them going for fame or bust, and in most [...]
CARLA DAL FORNO CONFESSION KALLISTA RECORDS Upon hearing a new album, one thing music fans usually try first is trying to define and categorise the music they are listening to – try and fit it into nice and clear category or categories. Maybe [...]
FOO FIGHTERS YOUR FAVORITE TOY RCA RECORDS Foo Fighters have returned with their 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy. The album is their first release since 2023’s But Here We Are and marks the debut of drummer Ilan Rubin. The record comes [...]
APAULL GUNFACTOR FURNACE ROOM RECORDS The Dutch-Canadian electronic music artist, DJ, and producer apaull has released his third studio album, Gunfactor. The album’s title loosely translates to “it factor” in Dutch, a term which takes on a [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS SOMETHING FOR THE LONGING – SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT POP 1985-1999 CHERRY RED RECORDS Famed author and film director Grant McPhee (All Invisible Things, Postcards From Scotland) has assembled a three-CD set handpicking some [...]
