WE DON’T NEED THIS FASCIST GROOVE THANG A CONVERSATION WITH GLENN GREGORY OF HEAVEN 17 “I am good thank you,” Glenn Gregory states clearly. “And looking forward to coming over. It’s the Danforth Music Hall, isn’t it? I hear it’s a good [...]
I’M IN LOVE WITH BAD THINGS A CONVERSATION WITH I PREVAIL VOCALIST ERIC VANLERBERGHE Not only has I Prevail just released a new record, True Power, but the band is also about to embark on a new tour, the True Power tour which kicks off on [...]
THE HEART IS STRANGE A CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDIA BRÜCKEN & SUSANNE FREYTAG OF XPROPAGANDA “Susanne may be 10 minutes,” reports Claudia Brücken. “Berlin Underground, you know. And we are only human,” she laughs. She has just incorporated the [...]
A PERFECT DISH TO SERVE A CONVERSATION WITH PETER HOOK Spill Magazine had a recent opportunity to speak with Peter Hook of Joy Division and New order fame prior to Peter Hook & The Light embarking on their tour of North America. Hook is one [...]
LIVE FOR YESTERDAY A CONVERSATION WITH CONOR RILEY OF BIRTH One has to be thankful that young bands, such as Birth, are carrying the prog rock flag. Birth has just released their debut album, and it is prog at its finest. The band has managed to [...]
I LIKE THE IDEA OF BEING INCLUDED IN A PART OF SOMETHING, MORE THAN MAKING MYSELF THE FOCAL POINT A CONVERSATION WITH JUSTIN WARFIELD OF SHE WANTS REVENGE Complementing his widely successful and genre-defying musical career, Justin Warfield’s [...]
WE WOULDN’T BE INTERESTED IN MAKING ANOTHER CRISIS A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE PETTIT OF ALEXISONFIRE Growing up in Ontario in the 2000s, you couldn’t help but get swept up in the excitement that surrounded Alexisonfire. Even if you weren’t [...]
BYE BYE, MISS AMERICAN PIE A CONVERSATION WITH DON McLEAN While there are countless classic albums from the ‘70s, few songs can stand as truly timeless. These are songs that connect with the mainstream conciseness and find a way to remain [...]
THE SUN WILL SHINE ON THROUGH A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF BURROWS OF THE TEA PARTY Hailing from Windsor, The Tea Party have been a pillar in the Canadian rock music scene since the ‘90s. Despite disbanding in 2005, the trio have since reformed and [...]
FORMED BY THE STARS A CONVERSATION WITH HOWARD JONES In 1983 a new electronica single was released called “New Song”, and it could possibly be one of the most positive records released that decade up to that point. Howard Jones burst on to the [...]
GALLACTIC WARRIORS ASSAULT ROCK A CONVERSATION WITH GWAR Peddling their 15th album, The New Dark Ages, GWAR’s current massacre circuiting the U.S. and Europe is The Black Death Rager Tour, a reference to both the Black Plague that decimated a [...]
THE STORY OF AMERICA A CONVERSATION WITH FANTASTIC NEGRITO With the upcoming release of his fourth album and first short film approaching, Fantastic Negrito (Xavier Dphrepaulezz) remains an artist in the truest sense. Dropping on June 3, White [...]
AN IDEA OF WHAT COLOUR SOUNDS LIKE A CONVERSATION WITH FADER Fader made their debut in 2017 with the brilliant album, First Light. The band was and is a duo consisting of Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Near Future) and Ben Edwards, known as Benge [...]
SONGS FROM PEOPLE ARE ALSO SONGS ABOUT PEOPLE A CONVERSATION WITH DARI MAKSYMOVA OF 6TH CROWD Near the end of Ukrainian electronic producer 6TH CROWD’s “Sokolonko,” Dari Maksymova’s vocal multiplies into a chorus entreating in Ukrainian, “Hey, [...]
DON’T YOU FEEL CLOSER? A CONVERSATION WITH CY CURNIN OF THE FIXX In 1979, Cy Curnin and Adam Woods (drums) formed a band together, named Portraits. By 1982, the band added some key members, changed their name to The Fixx and had released [...]
WHEN LOVE IS ON YOUR SIDE, IT’S A BEAUTIFUL LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH DOROTHY Few up and coming rock ‘n’ roll artists are as revered and respected as Dorothy. Having made waves with her explosive debut album, 2016’s ROCKISDEAD, and her 2018 [...]
I’M ON MY WAY TO A PERFECT DAY A CONVERSATION WITH DREW ARNOTT & ROB BAILEY OF STRANGE ADVANCE: PART TWO Now that Strange Advance’s return has come to fruition, over thirty years later, with 4, and the band’s first live shows in over [...]
WAKING UP INTO THE NEW HORIZON A CONVERSATION WITH ALICE COHEN Alice Cohen has been performing since she was 14 when she was performing in coffee houses in Philadelphia, where she was born. By the late 1970s she was developing her songwriting [...]
SILVERSTEIN RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “LIVE LIKE THIS” FEATURING nothing,nowhere. NEW ALBUM MISERY MADE ME OUT ON MAY 6 VIA UNFD/NSEW RECORDINGS Silverstein has collaborated with emo/hip-hop shaker nothing,nowhere. for a gripping new [...]
I’M ON MY WAY TO A PERFECT DAY A CONVERSATION WITH DREW ARNOTT & ROB BAILEY OF STRANGE ADVANCE: PART ONE After a lengthy, decades long hiatus, Strange Advance, the Canadian Juno-nominated, gold-selling band is back from their ‘80s [...]
CRUISE TO THE EDGE 2022 THIS YEAR’S PROG CRUISE MAKES A LOT OF NOISE. A WHOLE LOT OF NOISE. In the lobby of Homewood Suites Hotel in Port Canaveral, a life-size model of an astronaut greets us, but it’s not the Space Center that has lured Dorie [...]
THE BEST PARTIES YOU GO TO ARE THE ONES YOU DON’T HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS FOR A CONVERSATION WITH BILL LEEB OF DELERIUM Delerium started out as a side project for Bill Leeb, of Front Line Assembly fame, and Michael Balch, also from Front Line [...]
ROUGH TRADE IS WORK A CONVERSATION WITH ROUGH TRADE’S CAROLE POPE WITH BERNARD FRAZER (CHURCH OF TREES) In 1976, the first ‘direct to disc’ album was released by a relatively unknown Toronto band named Rough Trade. The album Rough Trade [...]
THE THERAPY OF CO-WRITING A CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY LAESSIG OF LUCIUS When Lucius was ready to write its sophomore album, Good Grief, the band had come off of a bout of non-stop touring. “I think we were home two weeks out of the whole year,” [...]
