PALLBEARER MIND BURNS ALIVE NUCLEAR BLAST Pallbearer has been a leading force in creating some of the most captivating progressive doom-metal experiences since 2010. With a slow-boiling, melancholic melodicism and doom-tinged guitar riffs, [...]
THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET LIVE IN MONTREAL MAY 1975 DOBRE RECORDS On May 3rd, 1975, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet gave perhaps one of their most lush and entertaining performances to date. Now, 49 years later, we have the privilege of [...]
SLASH ORGY OF THE DAMNED GIBSON RECORDS Slash has returned with, Orgy Of The Damned, his first solo album without Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators in nearly 14 years. Much like his 2010 self-titled release, his latest record sees a [...]
PIG RED ROOM METROPOLIS RECORDS Raymond Watts returns with his PIG moniker. This is another album full of strong opinions, lyrics, music and melodies. While the music certainly leans toward the heavy, angry, grinding electronic music. It is full [...]
DON McLEAN AMERICAN BOYS BMG/THE ORCHARD Imagine that you’re a veteran singer-songwriter in your late 70s. You have had a storied career, and you wrote one of the most iconic pop songs of the 20th century. What kind of recording do you make in [...]
SUCK BRICK KID THE END IS WHAT I WANT SMARTPUNK RECORDS For the past decade, Suck Brick Kid has been one of those bands that puts the loud and charismatic in punk rock. Since their 2015 EP, The Beast Goes On, Suck Brick Kid has shown an intense [...]
BLITZEN TRAPPER 100’S OF 1000’S, MILLIONS OF BILLIONS YEP ROC It has been a while since we had a chance to hear from Blitzen Trapper, four years approximately, and it is always welcome to hear back from them, no matter which [...]
ABBEY MASONBRINK RISING INDEPENDENT Basing your music mainly on your vocals and banjo, might not be so unusual if your songs fall solely in the folk or bluegrass genres, but Kansas singer songwriter Abbey Masonbrink doesn’t think that [...]
BETH GIBBONS LIVES OUTGROWN DOMINO RECORDS There is something ethereal to Beth Gibbons’ voice, the distinctively haunting quality that made the trip hop genre such a fitting home for it and had helped launch her band Portishead into global [...]
THE ANTI-QUEENS DISENCHANTED STOMP RECORDS In 2019, The Anti-Queens released their incredible debut full-length album, The Anti-Queens, which followed a pair of EP’s since 2012. The band, led by Emily Bones and Valerie Knox, has since become [...]
MARUCOPOROPORO CONCEIVE THE SEA FLAU Japanese artist marucoporoporo might currently be a relatively unknown act, after all, Conceive The Sea is her debut album, with a previous EP back in 2018. Yet, the quality of this, not so easy definable [...]
KNOCKED LOOSE YOU WON’T GO BEFORE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PURE NOISE RECORDS Knocked Loose is back with their third studio album, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. This marks their first album in nearly five years since their second [...]
THUNDERPUSSY WEST TRASH CASUAL Thunderpussy, one of the most electrifying bands to emerge from the last decade, have returned with their second full-length album, West, their first collection of new music since their 2019 EP, Milk It. The [...]
INCUBUS MORNING VIEW XXIII VIRGIN MUSIC Morning View remains a pivotal moment for not only Incubus, but for the alternative rock as the genre grew out of the ‘90s and into the early aughts. At a time where much of rock was trying to recapture [...]
HOW TO DRESS WELL I AM TOWARD YOU SARGENT HOUSE Six years after the release of his last album The Anteroom, Tom Krell, known by his stage name How To Dress Well, has released his sixth album I Am Toward You. This 11-track project features a [...]
KEANE HOPES AND FEARS (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) INTERSCOPE In the year 2004, picture yourself chilling in your favorite recliner, cracking open a cold brewski, and witnessing Michael Phelps snag his very first victory in Athens, Greece, setting [...]
BUILDINGS AND FOOD ECHO THE FIELD INDEPENDENT Strictly defining certain body of music and trying to fit it snugly within a certain genre, can be a tricky process, particularly with artists that don’t care much about where their music fits, [...]
ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNIVERSARY OUTSIDE MUSIC Spill readers are by now probably aware of Abigail Lapell and her recent series of atmospheric, slow-burning music that at no point stands still or tries to fit within any specific genre or subgenre. On [...]
KINGS OF LEON CAN WE PLEASE HAVE FUN CAPITOL RECORDS In 2008, with the release of their fourth album, Only by the Night, Caleb, Jared, Matthew, and Nathan Followill of Kings Of Leon emerged as one of the biggest rock bands in the world. “Sex On [...]
GROUPLOVE I WANT IT ALL RIGHT NOW (DELUXE EDITION) GLASSNOTE RECORDS The Deluxe edition of I Want It All Right Now offers an enriching extension to Grouplove’s meticulously crafted album. These bonus tracks seamlessly weave into the [...]
JACKIE WEST CLOSE TO THE MYSTERY RUINATION RECORD CO. Walking the trails that can fall under the category of ‘singer-songwriter music’ can be quite a tricky one, particularly if you concentrate too much on yourself and your [...]
ANGEL SCIENCE TERRANEAN ECHO LOCATIONS Angel Science, an Alberta underground producer of groovy tribal techno, has released the EP Terranean on the newish Calgary-based dub techno record label Echo Locations. The EP includes 3 original tracks: [...]
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS NELL’ ORA BLU RISE ABOVE RECORDS Uncle Acid returns with their most potent material since 2013’s release of Mind Control. Nell’ Ora Blu is the definition of a proper concept album, with a studio cast [...]
THE PLEASURE DOME LIMINAL SPACE HOUND GAWD! RECORDS The Pleasure Dome formed in 2019 in Bristol in the U.K. For a three-piece band, they certainly make a strong and loud noise. They have a distinct post-punk punk sound full of energy, grinding [...]
