FOR ONE NIGHT IN MILAN METAL HEALTH DROVE ‘EM MAD A CONVERSATION WITH QUIET RIOT DRUMMER FRANKIE BANALI Quiet Riot has been around for a lot longer than some might think. Forming in 1975 (featuring a young Randy Rhodes), they took their [...]
NICE TO MEET U A CONVERSATION WITH PI JA MA (PAULINE DE TARRAGON) For many, the chance to sing on a nationally televised talent competition would be a dream come true. Yet for Pauline De Tarragon, the experience almost turned her away from music [...]
WELCOMING AND WARM DIVERSIONS A CONVERSATION WITH DAN MANGAN Way back in the days of Myspace an emerging young musician named Dan Mangan commented on a song embedded on my profile as being one of the most beautiful things he’d ever heard. [...]
KICK ASS SASS A CONVERSATION WITH CANADIAN QUEEN OF ROCK & WINEMAKER SASS JORDAN Sass Jordan has been a rock star, actor, Canadian Idol judge, and a Juno and Billboard award winner… is there anything she can’t do? Now, she has added [...]
MARTIAN VS THYSELF A CONVERSATION WITH MR.A THE MARTIAN With progress in the digital world and technology, underground and indie-produced artists have perhaps never had a better chance at exposure. Platforms like SoundCloud have allowed for a [...]
HOLLYWOOD COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP: THE STORY OF JACKIE SHANE A CONVERSATION WITH GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE ROB BOWMAN The story of Jackie Shane is truly one for the ages. While her name may only ring a bell for record-collecting soul enthusiasts and [...]
GUNNING FOR HITS A CONVERSATION WITH PRODUCER & AUTHOR JEFF ROUGVIE Gunning for Hits is a new kind of reading experience: a comic book about rock ‘n’ roll with a somewhat flawed hero who, in some ways, resembles artists you may [...]
FOREVER THE INDIVIDUALIST A CONVERSATION WITH ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NOMINEE TODD RUNDGREN Todd Rundgren is really one of rock’s elites. He has transformed music through his writing, performing and production. He started in 1967 with the [...]
WHEN DRUMS CONDUCT A CONVERSATION WITH JACOB ARMEN On September 8th of last year, drummer extraordinaire Jacob Armen released his latest album, When Drums Conduct. The album is an ambitious undertaking which sees Armen collaborate with well over [...]
SPILL MAGAZINE’S BEST ALBUMS OF 2018 With a huge team of writers and an absolutely massive list of albums reviewed this year, it was no easy task to come up with something resembling agreement on what Spill Magazine identifies as the top [...]
SAYING YES TO LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN WARKENTINE What reality have we created, and how much power do we have in its destruction? Ellen Warkentine addresses these questions head on in her debut solo album, Nonsense Mouth released on Monte [...]
INTO THE VOID A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK BLÜMEL OF HOLYGRAM Holygram is a new band, based in Cologne, Germany. They formed in 2015, but have only recently released their debut album, Modern Cults. The band consists of Patrick Blümel (vocals), [...]
WE GOT GAS IN THE TANK TO GO ALL NIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH MAX KERMAN OF ARKELLS The relationship with one’s hometown is something special. Whether you love where you’re from, hate it, or simply feel a connection to it because it’s where you’re [...]
PURE SOUND DOESN’T FADE: URGE OVERKILL’S SATURATION AT 25 A CONVERSATION WITH URGE OVERKILL Eddie “King” Roeser and Nathan Kaatrud, aka Nash Kato, haven’t been proceeding at a regular pace, Roeser admits, but he’s not confessing a lack of [...]
I NEVER WISH TO WRITE THE PERFECT SONG A CONVERSATION WITH JON FRATELLI “You would be a fool to try and replicate someone else.” Jon Fratelli said calmly when I compared his song “In from the Cold” to Tom Waits. Fratelli’s upcoming release [...]
BEEF, METAL, AND TIME TRAVEL A CONVERSATION WITH MAC SABBATH MANAGER MIKE ODD I first heard of Mac Sabbath a couple of years ago when they went viral as they made headlines across some of the biggest media outlets. While some enjoyed it for the [...]
THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM 50th ANNIVERSARY A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR/SPEAKER PIERS HEMMINGSEN Beatlemania hit America on February 9, 1964. After their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, America and the world was never the same. But did you know [...]
ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE In 1967 Van Morrison had himself a top-ten single with “Brown-Eyed Girl”. Today the song is his most well-known and can be heard daily on any classic rock [...]
GROWING UP WITH TPC A CONVERSATION WITH GREG ALSOP FROM TOKYO POLICE CLUB It’s been a while since we have heard from Tokyo Police Club. From their first EP, A Lesson in Crime (2006), to the albums Champ (2010) and Forcefield (2014), it was [...]
JINGLE BELL! JINGLE BELL! JINGLE BELL ROCK! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2018 CHRISTMAS RELEASES Well, it is that time of year again. Trees are going up, stores are being decorated, streets are all lit up and the release new [...]
THE 14th ANNUAL ANDY KIM CHRISTMAS A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY KIM “I do all the phone calls. I don’t think anyone would volunteer. So I get panicky in October that no one is going to show, then by November, they are all in,” says a very relaxed [...]
DARK AND INTENSE ENERGY A CONVERSATION WITH RONAN HARRIS OF VNV NATION VNV Nation have been waving the flag and paving the path in the world of Industrial, Darkwave, and Electropop music for over 20 years, with their debut album Advance and [...]
Andy Mackay 3 Psalms Good Deeds Music It has been almost ten years since Andy Mackay has released a solo album (his last solo offering being London! New York! Paris! Rome! credited to Andy Mackay + The Metaphors was released in 2009). Now with [...]
3 PSALMS A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY MACKAY (ROXY MUSIC) Andy Mackay, one of the most important musicians in the world, has returned to his solo career after several years, and he has done so in a big way. Although he may be more famous for being a [...]
