Myles Goodwyn Myles Goodwyn And Friends Of The Blues Universal Music You have to give Myles Goodwyn a great deal of credit. He is known for his work with April Wine, and April Wine have never been known as a blues band. A talented band, led by [...]
UB40 Featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey A Real Labour Of Love Universal Music UB40 formed in 1978, with their name coming from the British Unemployment benefit form, number 40. Unemployment Benefit gave them the UB and the 40 was the form number, [...]
IAMX Alive In New Light Caroline/Universal Music IAMX is really Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps. He has been recording and performing under the name IAMX since 2004 and Alive In New Light is IAMX’s eighth studio album. This is also being [...]
BØRNS Blue Madonna Universal Music/Interscope Records For a young man of 26, BØRNS sure knows how to make a dynamic album. Blue Madonna is his second record since 2015. Compared to his 2015 record Dopamine, Blue Madonna sounds more colourful and [...]
PEARL JAM SUMMER 2018 EUROPEAN TOUR ANNOUNCED BAND TO PLAY TWO LONDON O2 ARENA SHOWS JUNE 18th + 19th Pearl Jam will embark on a fourteen-date European tour in June and July of 2018 including two shows at the O2 Arena June 18th and 19th. October [...]
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 [...]
CANADA’S TRIPLE THREAT A CONVERSATION WITH ALAN DOYLE It is hard to know where to start when writing an article about Alan Doyle. Everything this man touches seems to turn to gold. He helped form Great Big Sea in 1993, who made their debut [...]
Lil Yachty @ Rebel, Toronto November 5, 2017 2017 has been a crazy year for the city of Atlanta and its associated hip-hop acts. Everyone from Future to Migos and 6lack have made waves in mainstream media and will continue to do so as 2018 soon [...]
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Who Built The Moon? Universal Music Following a two-year collaboration with renowned producer, DJ and composer David Holmes in both his Belfast and London studios, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [...]
Banners Empires On Fire Island Records/Universal Music Liverpool UK singer/songwriter Banners is fascinated by dreams, life, death, hope and despair. Following his single “Start A Riot” in 2015, which has over 50 million global Spotify streams, [...]
Alan Doyle A Week At The Warehouse Skinner’s Hill Music Ltd./Universal Music This is solo album number three from Alan Doyle, of Great Big Sea fame. The band called it a day in 2015 (or retired they called it) and Doyle has been very busy [...]
St. Vincent Masseduction Loma Vista Recordings/Universal Music St. Vincent (Annie Clark), originally from Dallas, Texas, has teamed up with producer Jack Antonoff for an interesting follow up to her 2014 Grammy Award winning Alternative Album of [...]
The Pack A.D. Dollhouse Cadence Music Strange and eerie is the overall feel of The Pack A.D.’s latest album Dollhouse. This should be no surprise as it provides comments on our current political, violent state of living. Dropping on October [...]
FASTER, WEIRDER AND EXCELLENT A CONVERSATION WITH BECKY BLACK OF THE PACK A.D. For Becky Black, the Pack A.D.’s latest album, Dollhouse (dropping October 13th) is part statement on the unnerving world around us and part strange experimentation. [...]
IAMX Unfall Caroline International/Universal Music At the heart of all revolutions is a seed of madness, a frustrated intelligence that cries for transformation. In a time when electronic music was just entering the mainstream, Chris Corner was [...]
Van Morrison Roll With The Punches Universal Music It is hard to believe that Roll With The Punches is Van Morrison’s 37th studio album. The 72 year old singer is one of rock’s most prolific artists in rock today. His last album was 2016’s Keep [...]
Prophets Of Rage Prophets Of Rage Universal Music It’s 2017 and our neighbors down south are under the reign of what can only accurately be described as a tyrannical fool with an atrocious hair piece who only seems to benefit the upper elite and [...]
Jack Johnson All The Light Above It Too Universal Music After releasing his number one 2013 album, From Here To Now To You and the subsequent tour which led into the following year, things have been relatively quiet from Jack Johnson. 2013 was [...]
WOLF PARADE TO RELEASE CRY CRY CRY – THE GROUP’S THUNDEROUS FOURTH ALBUM – WORLDWIDE ON OCTOBER 6th AVAILABLE VIA SUB POP/UNIVERSAL MUSIC Wolf Parade will release the thunderous Cry Cry Cry, the band’s first new album in seven years [...]
Capital Cities Swimming Pool Summer Universal Music The new EP Swimming Pool Summer by the LA-based duo Capital Cities, comprised of Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian, delivers a hook-laden summer single on the title track, and is a worthy [...]
Imagine Dragons Pop-Up Arcade @ Shed Creative Agency, Toronto June 17, 2017 The Imagine Dragons opened their own Arcade in Toronto on June 17 and 18. While their hits played, you could play Frogger, Ms. Pacman, Pacman, The Simpsons and other [...]
U2 The Joshua Tree (30th Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Music feeds nostalgia, it places moments in time, and for a certain generation, few records documented a time and place more precisely than U2’s fifth record, The Joshua Tree, in [...]
Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions Universal Music Canada At a time when rap seems sometimes to be drifting aimlessly, lingering in the doldrums, along comes Atlanta, Georgia’s Lil Yachty. Without going overboard about his flow, it is fair to say that [...]
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Anniversary Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band may not be the best album ever made, may not even be the best Beatle album ever made (my nod goes [...]
