SEX, DRUMS, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! THE HARDEST HITTING MAN IN SHOW BUSINESS AN INTERVIEW WITH DRUMMER KENNY ARONOFF “I’ll never be as great as I want to be, but I’m willing to spend the rest of my life trying to be as great as I can [...]
STRIPPED AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER MURPHY Scarfing down his breakfast, Peter Murphy is settling in for a string of interviews. The 59-year-old singer has just arrived in San Francisco ahead of his show at The Chapel, having just kicked off the [...]
BRETT HELLINGS TALKS ABOUT THE SOUL SHAKERS FORMATION, BRINGING GOOD ‘OL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BACK, AND MORE AN INTERVIEW WITH BRETT HELLINGS OF THE SOUL SHAKERS Rock ‘n’ Roll is a very diverse term in today’s society. There hasn’t [...]
LET’S BE READY AN INTERVIEW WITH GAVIN GARDINER OF THE WOODEN SKY When Gavin Gardiner and his bandmates in The Wooden Sky gathered a group of friends in a cozy church for a small holiday show seven years ago, it never crossed the [...]
THE RED MAN FILM REVIEW AND INTERVIEW WITH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN ACQUAVIVA “This film is a surrealist Faustian tale in DJ clothing,” Canadian dance music pioneer and Executive Producer John Acquaviva says, as he unpacks the dense Jungian [...]
EMBRASSER LA MYTHOLOGIE AN INTERVIEW WITH BILL LEEB OF DELERIUM I still remember the night I first heard Delerium’s “Silence (ft. Sarah McLachlan).” It was a snowy evening and I was in the car with my parents and sister. We were returning home [...]
LOWELL INVIGORATES WITH ELECTRIFIED NORTHERN SOUND AN INTERVIEW WITH LOWELL There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding the release of her latest Part 1: Paris YK EP, which brings three new tracks, imbued with reflections on a formative period of [...]
CONJURERS AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK CHADWICK: SINGER/GUITARIST OF THE LEVELLERS Musicians Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham met in The Eagle, a pub in Brighton, in 1988. Discovering that they had a fair bit in common, including a left-wing view [...]
THE ROLLING STONES TOP 10 ALBUMS With The Rolling Stones’ upcoming release Blue & Lonesome, the bands first studio album in over a decade, we’ve decided to celebrate this momentous occasion by ranking the bands’ top ten studio albums. 10. [...]
MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU THINK AN INTERVIEW WITH ROB GARZA OF THIEVERY CORPORATION Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have been making music as Thievery Corporation for over two decades. They’ve done it all while sticking to their influences and what they [...]
POLITICS, LEONARD COHEN & SONG WRITING AN INTERVIEW WITH ANN VRIEND Canadian musician Ann Vriend is on the rise to fame. With a lifelong background in music and a set of lungs to boot, it’s no wonder she’s been earning positive reviews from [...]
THE BLINDING DARK AN INTERVIEW WITH JOAKIM MONTELIUS OF COVENANT Covenant’s ninth album, The Blinding Dark, which came out on November 4, follows the band’s original guiding principle that change must be their only constant. Released on [...]
RESONATING SOLO AN INTERVIEW WITH GLENN HUGHES Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the highly anticipated 12th original Glenn Hughes album Resonate — released on Friday November 4, 2016. The album dovetails Glenn’s U.K. and European [...]
MOTHLIGHT A BAND SHARES THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE MUSIC BUSINESS, CHANGES & HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM I’m in a band. It’s called Mothlight and for the better part of the last year we’ve spent our time and money writing & [...]
RESCUING CHICKENS AN INTERVIEW WITH JORDAN BAGNALL OF MY BODY A youthful female voice spills through my phone. It belongs to Jordan Bagnall, the twenty-something lyricist, singer and producer of electronic, synth-pop duo, My Body. She formed the [...]
GOODNIGHT CITY AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTHA WAINWRIGHT When you hear the name Wainwright, a handful of talented musicians and performers come to mind. Martha’s latest album Goodnight City just raised the Wainwright bar. She began her [...]
BAUHAUS UNDEAD: THE VISUAL HISTORY AND LEGACY OF BAUHAUS AN INTERVIEW WITH BAUHAUS DRUMMER & AUTHOR KEVIN HASKINS Bauhaus were an English Post-Punk band, formed in Northampton, England in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals, [...]
I’M ALONE, NO YOU’RE NOT AN INTERVIEW WITH NATALIE CLOSNER OF JOSEPH Joseph is the #SpotifySpotlightArtist and sister trio from Portland, Oregon. If you haven’t heard its hit anthem, “White Flag,” do yourself a favour and download [...]
ANOTHER SMILING PHASE AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS A tribute to Canada’s most influential songwriters, arranged and performed by one of the greats himself. This is what David Clayton-Thomas, of Blood, Sweat & Tears fame, has [...]
HEADED EAST AN INTERVIEW WITH JUSTIN RUTLEDGE It was an increased sense of disillusionment that plucked Alt-Country singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge from his Toronto residence to the eastern shores of Lake Ontario. Though the Juno Award winner [...]
LONDON TOWN AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR DERRICK BORTE On The Clash as an influence: “within the first few minutes I just had a realization that was the music that I was supposed to listen to” Artists include The Clash, The Stranglers, [...]
A SPILL VIDEO FEATURE – SUCCESSPOOL AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CHRISFORT Hi. My name is Chris and I like guitar and I like comics and I like skateboards. I’m in a band called Treefort- We are part of Trondo’s open-mic scene, and I’d like [...]
HARD-CORE: LIFE OF MY OWN AN INTERVIEW WITH HARLEY FLANAGAN Hardcore Punk and Metal crossover artist and controversial NYC mainstay Harley Flanagan (founder of one of the most influential, cult-followed bands in hard music — Cro Mags) has [...]
POLITICALLY RE-CHARGED AN INTERVIEW WITH JOEY “SHITHEAD” KEITHLEY OF D.O.A. SPILL MAGAZINE: You’ve been friends with Dayglo since 1979 and from what I can see, this is the first tour you’ve done together. JOEY KEITHLEY: Yeah, we [...]
