THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: MÖTLEY CRÜE Mötley Crüe is The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Vince Neil (vocals), Mick Mars (guitar), Nikki Sixx (bass) and Tommy Lee (drums) laid the foundation for their inimitable career in the [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: GROUNDERS Grounders’ home base is an overflowing garage in Toronto’s West End, but the roots of their new album Coffee & Jam stretch much farther west. Since releasing their debut self-titled LP in 2015, [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: FEVER RAY The solo project of the Knife’s Karin Dreijer, Fever Rayshares some of that group’s icy electronic atmospheres, but takes a slightly more organic-sounding approach. Fever Ray began [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BJÖRK A visionary artist who effortlessly blends avant-garde and pop elements, Björk soon eclipsed the popularity of her former group the Sugarcubes when she launched her solo career after the group’s [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: VAN MORRISON Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music’s true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: STEVE EARLE If you ever had any doubt about where Steve Earle’s musical roots are planted, his new collection, So You Wannabe an Outlaw, makes it perfectly plain. “There’s nothing ‘retro’ about this record,” [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: SHERYL CROW Sheryl Crow’s fresh, updated spin on classic roots rock made her one of the most popular mainstream rockers of the ’90s. Her albums were loose and eclectic on the surface, yet were [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LIVING COLOUR Living Colour reformed on December 21, 2000, at CBGB as a gig billed “Head>>Fake w/ special guests”. Head>>Fake was the current drum and bass project headed by Calhoun and [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: GARY NUMAN About 2017’s Savage (Songs From A Broken World) Coming almost four years after his album Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) earned the best reviews of his career and his highest chart-placing [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem debuted with “Losing My Edge,” a single that became one of the most talked-about indie releases of 2002. A self-effacing spoof of the outrageous pissing contests [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: CALVIN HARRIS Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), known professionally as Calvin Harris, is a Scottish record producer, DJ, singer, and songwriter. His debut studio album I Created Disco was released in [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: ALICE COOPER Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE DEARS The Dears, a loose collective of Montreal-area musicians formed in 1995, are led by the charismatic Murray Lightburn. Citing Serge Gainsbourg as a major influence, the Dears combine cabaret-style [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LANA DEL REY Lana Del Rey envisioned a Southern Californian dream world constructed out of sad girls and bad boys, manufactured melancholy and genuine glamour, and then she came to embody this fantasy. At [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: RANDY NEWMAN An anomaly among early-’70s singer/songwriters, Randy Newman may have been slightly influenced by Bob Dylan, but his music owed more to New Orleans R&B and traditional pop than [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LORDE Emerging as a fully formed enigma from her native New Zealand, Lorde tapped into an untouched well of alienation, becoming the poster child for a generation who found refuge from the eternal excess of [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE MAGNETIC FIELDS The Magnetic Fields may be a bona fide band, but in most essential respects they are the project of studio wunderkind Stephin Merritt, who writes, produces, and (generally) sings all of the [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: RAY DAVIES Lead singer for The Kinks, Ray Davies is known for his decades-long career in rock, hits like ‘Lola,’and ongoing feuds with brother and bandmate Dave Davies. Synopsis Ray Davies was born [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: CHILLY GONZALES & JARVIS COCKER Room29 – Jarvis Cocker & Chily Gonzales What if a hotel room could “sing” of the life stories and events it had witnessed? Intrigued by that question, Canadian pianist [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BODY COUNT Maybe no one saw the humor, or maybe they were distracted by the barely competent heavy metal of the album, but rapper Ice-T’s heavy metal group launched a hurricane of publicity with their [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: DEPECHE MODE Originally a product of Britain’s new romantic movement, Depeche Mode went on to become the quintessential electro pop band of the 1980s. One of the first acts to establish a musical [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: THE FLAMING LIPS The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: SLEIGH BELLS Sleigh Bells is an American noise pop musical duo based in Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2008. The duo consists of vocalist Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Edward Miller. After signing to [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: DROPKICK MURPHYS The Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996 The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records, releasing five [...]
