Paying Attention To The Details: An Interview With Jacob Palahnuk Of Young Empires The road to building a kingdom can be a long and patient road. While speaking with Jacob Palahnuk currently on the road in Montreal, the bassist of this Canadian [...]
Secrets Revealed: An Interview With Ian Fletcher Thornley His first solo album Secrets has provided a wonderful opportunity for Spill Magazine to enter into conversation with Canada’s own Ian Fletcher Thornley. This humble and talented [...]
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In A Flash: An Interview With Jon Fratelli Of The Fratellis Jon Fratelli, despite all efforts, is not a man with a plan. And for him, it’s better that way. When asked about any particular processes he uses to create the sounds of The Fratellis, [...]
Aftermath 2015: Aftermath’s 2nd Edition To Be Held In August If you didn’t have already a summer music festival to attend this year in Toronto, get ready to finish August with a high, dark note. Toronto will be once again the lair of [...]
Secret Broadcast Gets Lucky With Traffic Stop While Filming New Video – Wait…What???: An Interview With Matt Lightstone Of Secret Broadcast Toronto-based band Secret Broadcast have gained a reputation for their creative, yet low [...]
Field Trip 2015: A Look At What’s Happening At The Fort York Music Festival Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7, 2015 Toronto’s Historic Fort York & Garrison Common will once again be hosting the annual Arts And Crafts Field [...]
Bestival 2015: The UK Fest Hits Toronto On June 12 and 13th, one of the UK’s largest music fests will be heading to Canada for the first time ever. Bestival will be taking over Toronto Islands’ Hanlan Point, for two days of music and [...]
Polaris 2015: Here’s The Long And Short Of It It’s that time of year again! The Polaris Music Prize is getting set to announce their 2015 Long List Nominees. Having brought the long list reveal in past years to Vancouver, Montreal [...]
Embracing One’s Second Sight: An Interview With Tim Baker Of Hey Rosetta! Bless the broken bowl Make it whole; make it better than it was before Make it better than it was before! – Hey Rosetta!, “Kintsukuroi,” from the album Second [...]
A FLASH OF LIGHTNING: AN INTERVIEW WITH ADAM PAQUETTE & CHRIS HUOT OF THE GLORIOUS SONS On a cold Wednesday evening in late January, I had the opportunity on behalf of Spill Magazine, to observe the filming of The Glorious Sons’ newest [...]
How In 40 Minutes, Joshua Radin Just Ruined Every Man in The World’s Valentine’s Day Plans: An Interview With Joshua Radin Whoever said “romance is dead” has obviously never experienced Joshua Radin. Radin’s latest album Onward and Sideways, [...]
Enter To Exit: An Interview With Daniel Tortoledo Of The Highway Some would say that the psychedelic rock sound is dead, but Daniel Tortoledo, singer and bassist of The Highway, says his band is bringing it back. The Highway, a Brooklyn based [...]
Chemistry Between Elephants: An Interview With Rishi Dihr Of Elephant Stone Introduction The last time we caught up with Rishi Dhir of Elephant Stone, he was on tour with The Black Angels, supporting his band’s first, full-length, [...]
No Fame – No Fortune – Just Music: An Interview With Nick Sewell Of Biblical When the band name BIBLICAL is mentioned, there’s only a select few that know them despite having an enviable resume on the Canadian music scene since 2010. [...]
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS – WHAT’S BEHINDTHE POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE GRAND JURY Each year, the Polaris Music Prize is awarded to the artist whose album has been chosen as the best album of the year, based on artistic merit and creativity. The [...]
RIOT FEST 2014 Downsview Park, Toronto September 6-7th, 2014 After a long night of thunderstorms and torrential downpour across the GTA, thousands of eager fans shuffled into Downsview Park for this summer’s last big festival. Celebrating their [...]
OTTAWA BLUESFEST 2014 Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 The rain started off light, as it usually does; floating almost as gently as a butterfly before bursting into a million little pieces alongside the apartment complex. The storm had positioned itself [...]
DAVID BOWIE IS… AT THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO September 24, 2013 David Bowie Is, an exhibition featuring an immense backlog of the musical icon’s memorabilia, officially opens its doors on September 25th at Toronto’s Art [...]
THE MAP OF THOMAS DOLBY A CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS DOLBY Thomas Dolby is a unique kind of celebrity. Massively famous in the 1980’s with his smash hit “She Blinded Me With Science,” the man with the unusual techno-geek persona managed to [...]
LETTING THINGS GO A CONVERSATION WITH CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD After two well-received EPs, It’s Like That Here and Collage Light, Montreal’s Charlotte Cornfield has just released her debut full-length album, Two Horses. Inspired by the Folk-styling [...]
