THE DARTS HALLOWEEN LOVE SONGS MEOW HISS MUSIC/ADRENALIN FIX MUSIC Although we are in the winter months, and spring is around the corner, The Darts have decided that this was a good time to release a Halloween themed album. Halloween Love Songs [...]
GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES AND THE CONQUERING SUN LIVE AT 6 O’CLOCK ARTS & CRAFTS Back in old 2014, we didn’t realize what we had before it was all unfairly taken from us all to soon. The solid 2014 album And the Conquering Sun and live [...]
PAT METHENEY SIDE-EYE III+ UNIQUITY MUSIC Since Pat Metheny burst onto the jazz scene in 1976 with his debut album, Bright Size Life, he has continued to dazzle, influence, and impress a great many people with his individual and unique style of [...]
THE MAD MILE LEGROOM INDEPENDENT There seems to be an interesting explosion of shoegaze and post-rock bands popping up lately, and The Mad Mile are no exception. There’s something exceedingly strange and dark about this whole album, yet it’s [...]
DONOVAN WOODS SQUANDER YOUR GIFTS INDEPENDENT Donovan Woods is one of those singer-songwriters who have a strong fan base, based much more on his excellent songwriting and subtle, hushed vocals rather than any hype or PR, as Woods is one of [...]
IRON & WINE HEN’S TEETH SUB POP There are few characteristics you can attribute to Iron & Wine, aka Sam Beam, through his artistic career for this quarter of a century or so that he has been on the music scene. First of all, he [...]
ELIZA NOXON GOOD MONSTERS WITH BAD HABITS INDEPENDENT Some artists turn up on the music scene as rough diamonds, so to say, with talent showing, but with some edges that need to be finely honed through time to make their music sound great and [...]
MICHAEL CORMIER-O’LEARY PROOF ENOUGH DEAR LIFE RECORDS Michael Cormier-O’Leary is no newcomer to Spill Magazine, and getting right down to it, there is a good reason he reappears here. Not only because he has a new 7-song EP, but [...]
GORILLAZ THE MOUNTAIN KONG The Mountain is the first Gorillaz album since 2023’s Cracker Island, and their ninth studio album overall. Gorillaz is really the brainchild of Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett and along with friends and like [...]
THE SHEEPDOGS KEEP OUT OF THE STORM RIGHT ON RECORDS Keep Out of The Storm marks the eighth full length record from The Sheepdogs, and their first since 2022’s Outta Sight. The album comes hot on the tails of an impressive 2025 that included the [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY MAN ON THE RUN – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK MPL/UNIVERSAL Paul McCartney likes to keep busy. In 2025, he toured North America, toured his photographic exhibition (Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of The [...]
TODD RUNDGREN SABAN THEATRE 2016 CLEOPATRA RECORDS Thanks to Cleopatra Records, it is a good time in history to be a Todd Rundgren fan. Cleopatra Records continue with their deep dive and re-release of live recordings by Rundgren from the 2000s. [...]
AVALON STONE MEANT TO BREAK KNOWN ACCOMPLICE Hailing from Kitchener, ON, Avalon Stone has delivered her debut studio EP, Meant To Break. While following the release of singles “Into The Rain” and “Mirage,” released since last November, Stone has [...]
KEN PARK KEN PARK TODO If you were lucky enough to catch Liam Creamer rocking the banjo and pedal steel on tour with Jake Minch’s band this fall, you might be surprised to hear the occasionally maximalist grunge sounds on his latest EP. [...]
REPEATED VIEWING BREAK THE FAITH LIBRARY OF THE OCCULT RECORDS Alan Sinclair has been making fascinating, 80s style music under the name Repeated Viewing since 2009. Break The Faith is his latest release and once again he has produced an [...]
SUZANNE JARVIE MOTHER’S DAY WOLFE ISLAND RECORDS Is Toronto currently becoming one of the hotbeds of emerging singer-songwriters? Quite possibly, as that artistic field seems to be repeating the growth it had in the early to mid-70s. [...]
HEMI HEMINGWAY WINGS OF DESIRE PNKSLM New Zealand artists often tend to make musical combinations that on paper might seem quite incongruous, but when you listen to them, sound like they always belong together. In this specific case, we are [...]
MIRAH DEDICATION DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY RECORDS Mirah, or more precisely, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, is no newcomer and it shows. Her latest album, simply titled Dedication, is her seventh release, and all the experience she has gathered so far as an [...]
MAX HOFFMAN LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT INDEPENDENT What can you expect from a singer-songwriter who wrote his first song at the age of six? Well, at least to show that there is talent there and the ability to craft songs that will pique interest [...]
MOBY FUTURE QUIET BMG Future Quiet stands out as the finest album of the year so far, despite it only being February. This release is a breathtaking, ethereal masterpiece that seamlessly blends symphonic elegance with the signature melancholy [...]
LUCID EXPRESS INSTANT COMFORT KANINE RECORDS Instant Comfort is the sophomore effort from Hong Kong-based shoegaze / dream-pop band Lucid Express. Their debut album was released back in 2021, so this album has been highly anticipated. Lucid [...]
DIRTY RICK DIRTY RICK INDEPENDENT Hamilton, ON’s very own Dirty Rick has returned with their debut, full-length, self-titled album. Following a pair of double singles, released over the last year, Dirty Rick marks the first collection of new [...]
BECK EVERYBODY’S GOTTA LEARN SOMETIME CAPITOL RECORDS Beck has made a career out of keeping a healthy distance from particular genres. Never quite alternative, flirting with country, hanging off the edges of mainstream, but wacky enough to not [...]
WRABEL UP ABOVE NETTWERK Being a long time on the music scene can often keep you in the shadows, or like in the case of Wrabel, it can gain you a serious following, as the singer songwriter so far has some 4 billion views on various streaming [...]
