Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco You’Re Driving Me Crazy Sony Music/Legacy Recordings Van Morrison fans are having a good year. You’re Driving me Crazy is Van Morrison’s third album since September, 2017. Quite a remarkable feat by [...]
Manic Street Preachers Resistance Is Futile Sony Music Deviating ever so slightly from their signature sound, Manic Street Preacher’s release of their 13th studio album, Resistance is Futile, is a decent collection of courageous lyricism and [...]
John Prine The Tree Of Forgiveness Oh Boy/Sony Music A new album from John Prine is always reason to celebrate, but an album in which he wrote or co-wrote all the songs is an even bigger reason to rejoice. The Tree of Forgiveness is the first [...]
The Vaccines Combat Sports Sony Music With punchy melodies on top of their signature sound, The Vaccines fourth full length album Combat Sports gives new meaning to the phrase if it isn’t broken, don’t bother fixing it. The 5-man indie rock [...]
THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: VAN MORRISON Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music’s true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of [...]
MGMT Little Dark Age Sony Music After meeting at Wesleyan University in the early 2000s, Brooklyn-based MGMT has returned with their fourth album, Little Dark Age, with highly-mixed results. Following their breakout debut, 2007’s [...]
N.E.R.D No_One Ever Really Dies Sony Music It’s been seven years but N.E.R.D is back at last with their first album release since 2010’s Nothing. Since the band’s hiatus, the alternative pop band consisting of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and [...]
Juicy J Rubba Band Business Kemosabe/Taylor Gang/Sony Music Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Juicy J, the rap veteran who dropped his first solo album in 2002, while he was still a member of Three 6 Mafia, the group he founded in 1991 – [...]
ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TURNTABLE! A SPILL MAGAZINE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE TOP 2017 CHRISTMAS RELEASES You can blame Bing Crosby, or thank him, it all depends on how much you like Christmas music. In 1928 Bing Crosby provided the [...]
Van Morrison Versatile Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Versatile is Van Morrison’s 38th studio album, and his second album this year. In September Roll With The Punches was released, and now in December Morrison has yet another release. Who would [...]
Jeff Lynne’s ELO Wembley Or Bust Sony Music Formed in 1970, and seemingly as popular as ever, Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra have always been known for their epic live shows, that bring together pop, rock and classical music [...]
21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin Without Warning Epic/Sony Music Released the day before Halloween, Metro Boomin’s collaboration album with Migo’s Offset and 21 Savage is a delight to fans of any of the three. Metro Boomin is a name stable [...]
Dolly Parton I Believe In You Sony Music It’s been 50 years since Dolly Parton released her first album. Since then, she has gone through many incarnations. I am not just referring to innumerable changes in wigs and rhinestone-clad dresses, or [...]
Various Artists SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical (Original Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway/Sony Music Canada Where to even begin with this? The first thing to note is that SpongeBob SquarePants is a very funny show. As a father with [...]
The Isley Brothers & Santana Power Of Peace Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Carlos Santana collaborating with other artists is not news. He has had an entire career where he has collaborated with many different artists, usually to great [...]
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit The Nashville Sound Southeastern Records/Sony Music “The past is never dead.It’s not even past.”…William Faulkner Writers from the American south have always had a special voice, and a special [...]
ARCADE FIRE RELEASE NEW SINGLE “EVERYTHING NOW” TITLE TRACK FROM FORTHCOMING FIFTH ALBUM NEW ALBUM OUT JULY 28 Having performed the song live for the first time at a surprise show in Barcelona on 1st June, Arcade Fire has now [...]
Bleachers Gone Now Sony Music Stop for a second, and you might miss Jack Antonoff’s next move. His career started in a small band called Outline, but really gained traction with Steel Train. The band would go on to record three albums from 2005 [...]
Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Sony Music Roger Waters, one of the most consistently strong songwriters to emerge from the booming 1960s British invasion rock scene, has returned with Is This The Life We Really Want?, his first [...]
Various Artists Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded & Remastered Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition) Sony Music Talk about a throwback Thursday! The soundtrack for Singles, the 1992 Cameron Crowe film which sought to look [...]
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth Sony Music To be a candidate for worst album of all time, the collection of songs needs to go beyond having lousy music. Anyone can put clashing noises together and make awful tunes, but to be in the running for worst [...]
Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers – 10 Year Collector’s Edition Sony Music It is hard to believe that Send Away The Tigers is now ten years old. This album, the eighth in their catalog, was seen as their return to form. [...]
Old Crow Medicine Show 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde Sony Music I love Old Crow Medicine Show, love them. They have put out some of the finest country/roots album over the past decade. And I love Bob Dylan, and like most people, recognize [...]
Dave Davies & Russ Davies Open Road Sony Music The Kinks called it a day in 1994, following the release of their much overlooked, but brilliant, album To The Bone. Who would have predicted that Dave Davies, co-founder and the revolutionary [...]
