Electric Island Festival 2017 @ 50 Commissioners’ Street, Toronto July 1, 2017 The upside of throwing an electronic music festival in a parking lot is the acoustics. While the #150 Canada Day Electric Island moved to 50 Commissioner’s [...]
NXNE 2017 @ Port Lands, Toronto June 23-25, 2017 Were you at NXNE this year? Nope? That’s OK, because nobody else was either. Toronto’s annual music and arts festival, North by Northeast, might need to re-evaluate their festival, as attendance [...]
Ever After Music Festival 2017 @ 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener June 2-4, 2017 This weekend was filled with bass, sweat and broken necks at Ever After Music Festival in Kitchener. This year was the festivals third installment, with the [...]
CBC Music Festival | #CBCMusicFest @ RBC Echo Beach, Toronto May 27, 2017 Going into the festival, I didn’t know what to expect, other than mediocre weather. Turns out, I was ready to discover new music and kickstart the festival season. The 5th [...]
Movement Electronic Music Festival 2017 @ Philip A. Hart Plaza, Detroit May 27-29, 2017 Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom. A cacophony of thunderous techno and hip hop ricochets off the concrete structures throughout Hart Plaza. People of all ages, dressed as [...]
Canadian Music Week 2017 – Phase 2 Toronto, Ontario April 18-22, 2017 Keeping the CMW momentum going, Toronto! There was so much to see and do this week we had to designate a second CMW post! Here’s Phase 2 of the Spill Magazine [...]
Canadian Music Week 2017 Toronto, Ontario April 18-22, 2017 Here we go again, Toronto! Presenting the Spill Magazine extended coverage of the 2017 Canadian Music Week mayhem! Zoobombs w/ MunizO, Little Boxer and KNIFEY @ The Silver Dollar [...]
SXM Festival 2017 @ St. Martin-Sint Maarten March 15-19, 2017 Scintillating SXM Festival delivers a stunning second year in St Martin. What’s better than hearing you’re favourite DJ among beautiful, music-loving souls in a tropical [...]
Wavelength Music Festival 2017 – #WL17 @ The Garrison, Toronto February 17, 2017 On the night of February 17th, Wavelength started off the 17th iteration of its annual festival at the Garrison in Toronto. The Wavelength Festival is one of [...]
TURF – Toronto Urban Roots Fest @ Fort York Garrison Common, Toronto September 16-18, 2016 Day One Modern Space Fun, fun, fun. That was the order of the day for Toronto’s newcomer Modern Space. As a selected participant in [...]
in/future Festival 2016 @ Ontario Place, Toronto September 15-25, 2016 In/future, dubbed “A Festival of Art & Music at Ontario Place,” premiered September 15-25, 2016 at the abandoned Ontario Place grounds. Presented and overseen by Art [...]
Electric Island Festival 2016 @ Toronto Island, Toronto September 4th & 5th, 2016 Electric Island hosted its first two-day finale this past Labour Day weekend on Toronto Island. Event organizers Embrace, Coda, and Platform brought a [...]
The Joy Formidable Wednesday June 15, 2016 The Mod Club Welsh power trio The Joy Formidable hit the Mod Club for NXNE and to support their latest album Hitch. Even the fact that the album has been released everywhere but Canada couldn’t damper [...]
Keeping Jazz Vibrant In Canada An Interview With Peter Shea: Artistic Director & Co-Creator Of The Festival Peter Shea, artistic director of the Third Annual TD Niagara Jazz Festival, had a chance to sit down with Spill Magazine to fill us [...]
Bestival 2016 @ Woodbine Park, Toronto June 11-12, 2016 Saturday Elliott Vincent Jones: Newcomer Elliott Vincent Jones got things started Saturday afternoon with his quirky brand of Synth Pop. His combination of awkward dancing and a Jim [...]
SATE | YARDLETS | THE WORRIERS | TOWERS | FIRST GHOST | MARDEEN | BIG EYES | SHAWNEE | FULL OF HELL ARTIST NAME: SATE 1. What’s your favourite thing about a festival like NXNE? Seeing my friends play, discovering new bands and being [...]
CBC Music Festival 2016 | #CBCMusicFest @ TD Echo Beach, Toronto May 28, 2016 Thirty degrees, hotter still with the humidex. Every inch of shady real estate, from the VIP platform’s interstices of deck-overhang, to the audio engineer’s steely [...]
Canadian Music Week 2016 Toronto, Ontario May 2-8, 2016 Now in its 34th year, Canadian Music Week is recognized as one of the premier entertainment events in North America focusing on the business of music. The Canadian Music Week festival spans [...]
ICELAND’S SECRET SOLSTICE FESTIVAL ADDS DIE ANTWOORD, ART DEPARTMENT, AND MORE TO 4TH PHASE LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRA 4TH DAY ADDED TO THE FESTIVAL AND 3RD GLACIER PARTY ADDED BY DEMAND Set at a time when the sun never fully sets in the world’s [...]
FIELD TRIP ANNOUNCES 2016 LINEUP & ON SALE FEATURING HEADLINERS THE NATIONAL & ROBYN AS WELL AS JULY TALK, CHARLES BRADLEY, SANTIGOLD, of MONTREAL, BOY & BEAR, DIIV, JAZZ CARTIER & MANY MORE TORONTO’S DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY [...]
RADIOHEAD TO HEADLINE ICELAND’S SECRET SOLSTICE FESTIVAL ADDS 32 NEW ACTS + MIDNIGHT SUN BOAT PARTY Iceland’s Secret Solstice festival has unveiled its third phase lineup announcement for 2016, which organizers say is the biggest in the [...]
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 [...]
BEACHES JAZZ FESTIVAL – 2014 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL CONFERENCE @ Woodbine Park, Toronto July 18 – 27, 2014 When July approaches in Toronto, it is a sign that the Beaches International Jazz Festival is quickly approaching and on [...]
