DROWNING IN THE CULTURE A CONVERSATION WITH AVIV There is a lot happening for AVIV these days. The 16-year-old artist has not only just released her debut album, Drowning In The Culture, but she has been chosen to open for Imagine Dragons on the [...]
SILVERSTEIN RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “DIE ALONE” FEATURING ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID NEW ALBUM MISERY MADE ME OUT ON MAY 6 VIA UNFD/NSEW RECORDINGS Post-hardcore trailblazers Silverstein release their heaviest song ever today [...]
AJA A TRACK-BY-TRACK COMPARISON BETWEEN STEELY DAN’S ORIGINAL AND THE DARCYS 2012 REMAKE It is a bold statement to attempt to remake decade defining albums. While they are generally no match for their predecessor, artists like Camper Van [...]
MY HEART IS AN ICE CREAM CONE A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOZZIO OF MISSING PERSONS “I can recite the whole book verbatim. It can really drive you crazy, but that is the kind of mind I have. Everything is saved and filed in my head and I go to them [...]
HEAVY STEPS ON HOLLOW GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID: PART TWO From start to finish, Heavy Steps is a high-octane, aggressive, and technically successful percussive record. Tracks like “Crossed” and [...]
HEADBANGERS FOR S.T.M.V. A CONVERSATION WITH SAVE TORONTO MUSIC VENUES & HEADBANGERS HAIR SALON As the pandemic continues to drag on into 2022, artistic communities and independent businesses globally have struggled to keep their heads above [...]
D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings Troika Inside Out Music D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings is a new band featuring some very seasoned musicians. Neal Morse brought the band together, which includes fellow Spock’s Beard and Big Big [...]
HEAVY STEPS ON HOLLOW GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID: PART ONE Comeback Kid have been innovating the hardcore genre for the past 20 years. Never being a band to stay tied to the same old tricks within the music [...]
EVERYTHING I AM, EVERY MOMENT NEW A CONVERSATION WITH NEAL MORSE (D’VIRGILIO, MORSE & JENNINGS) “I don’t think I’m that busy”, Neal Morse laughed when I caught up with him recently to talk about a new project of his, the album Troika [...]
DANCE TO THE PERFECT MESS A CONVERSATION WITH CARL MARSH OF SHRIEKBACK Shriekback’s music has always been difficult to pigeonhole. Part of the post-punk, new wave scene, their music contained elements of funk, rock and sometimes ambient music. [...]
AND WE PRAY FOR THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD A CONVERSATION WITH KEYBOARDIST KEVIN YOUNG OF MOIST It may be surprising that a pillar of Canadian rock, Moist, has only just released their fifth album. On Oct. 1, 2021, Moist’s End of the Ocean dropped, [...]
PREDICTION VISION, FUTURE ROCK, AND UNCHARTED TERRAIN A CONVERSATION WITH DUNCAN COUTTS OF OUR LADY PEACE Twenty years, and many accurate AI predictions later, Our Lady Peace members deemed it time to revisit the concept of their fourth album, [...]
CUE THE CURTAIN CALL, ROLL THE CREDITS, IT’S OVER A CONVERSATION WITH PAUL KOEHLER OF SILVERSTEIN When it comes to bands like Silverstein, they seem to have been through it all. From Discovering The Waterfront to A Beautiful Place To [...]
NOT A BIBLICAL ALBUM, BUT A CONCEPT ALBUM WITH THE BIBLE AS ITS SOURCE A CONVERSATION WITH IAN ANDERSON OF JETHRO TULL It has been 19 years since there has been a new Jethro Tull album, their last being The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. There [...]
SHIPS IN THE NIGHT CAN TAKE YOU TO DREAMS OR TO NIGHTMARES A CONVERSATION WITH ALETHEA LEVENTHAL OF SHIPS IN THE NIGHT Playing with your dreams and nightmares, transforming them into music can be a tricky game. On one hand you can come up with [...]
LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROLL! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2021 CHRISTMAS RELEASES – THE SINGLES + EPS Arkells “The Last Christmas (We Ever Spend Apart)” Universal Music Canada November 4, 2021 Big [...]
LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROCK! LET IT ROLL! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2021 CHRISTMAS RELEASES – THE ALBUMS Paul Kelly Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train Cooking Vinyl November 19, 2021 I am a long-time fan of Paul Kelly. He is a [...]
THIRTY YEARS OF GOING PLACES WITH TAVERNS AND PALACES AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH RON HAWKINS OF LOWEST OF THE LOW: PART TWO The Lowest Of The Low, consisting of Ron Hawkins, David Alexander, Lawrence Nichols, Michael McKenzie and Greg Smith, [...]
1st BASE RUNNER JUST MIGHT COME UP WITH A HOME RUN A CONVERSATION WITH TIM HUSMANN When we mention the term singer-songwriter, the first thing that comes to mind is a single person crouched over their acoustic guitar, say somebody like Joni [...]
THIRTY YEARS OF GOING PLACES WITH TAVERNS AND PALACES AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH RON HAWKINS OF LOWEST OF THE LOW: PART ONE It’s been 30 years since the release of the epic 17-song masterpiece Shakespeare My Butt…, the debut album from [...]
SPILL + UNZIPPED CONTEST WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THEMUSEUM’S ROLLING STONES UNZIPPED EXHIBITION! CONTEST ENDED THE ROLLING STONES UNZIPPED GIVEAWAY – ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE EXHIBITION *CONTEST CLOSES: JANUARY 14, 2022 [...]
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN A CONVERSATION WITH IVAN DOROSCHUK OF MEN WITHOUT HATS It has been almost a decade since the last Men Without Hats album Love In The Age Of War. And then in 2021 Men Without Hats released a brilliant CD EP, Again (Part [...]
MOUNT RIFFMORE A CONVERSATION WITH ZAKK WYLDE OF BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Currently on tour ahead of the release of his 10th studio record with Black Label Society, Zakk Wylde is synonymous with hard rock and the electric guitar. The Viking among [...]
MAKE YOUR OWN NEWS A CONVERSATION WITH BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE DRUMMER JASON BOWLD While the world has constantly been brought to its knees in the past two years, bands have given fans some of the most powerful music of all time. British heavy [...]
