Daily Newsletter, May 11, 2024

SEASONAL FALLS HAPPY DAYS INDEPENDENT If the name of the band, the album title, and the album’s cover lead you towards for many dreaded new age category, you would most probably be quite off the mark. That ‘most probably’ caution (if it is so), relates to the fact that the Swiss duo of songwriter Roman […]

Nubiyan Twist take their soul-jazz excellence a step further on their lates album 'Find your Flame.'

ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNIVERSARY OUTSIDE MUSIC Spill readers are by now probably aware of Abigail Lapell and her recent series of atmospheric, slow-burning music that at no point stands still or tries to fit within any specific genre or subgenre. On her new offering, Anniversary, Lapell explores how it feels to reach that ideal in any […]

JACKIE WEST CLOSE TO THE MYSTERY RUINATION RECORD CO. Walking the trails that can fall under the category of ‘singer-songwriter music’ can be quite a tricky one, particularly if you concentrate too much on yourself and your ‘pains’. That doesn’t seem to be a problem for Brooklyn-based Jackie West and her latest album, aptly titled […]

BUILDINGS AND FOOD ECHO THE FIELD INDEPENDENT Strictly defining certain body of music and trying to fit it snugly within a certain genre, can be a tricky process, particularly with artists that don’t care much about where their music fits, just as long as it sounds good to their ears and those of their audience. […]

A brief guide to the late engineering icon’s most definitive classics.

Cambridgeshire rockers go full giallo – with a little help from genre stars Franco Nero and Edwige Fenech. Photo by Karin Hunt

With the digital age dawning, Kraftwerk’s ‘Computer World’ album offered an uncanny foresight into the anxieties of the present day.

The Peppermint Lounge in New York was the hot spot for the twist dance craze in the early '60s. House band Joey Dee and the Starliters was the home to legends.

How a Kremlin-funded film of The Master and Margarita came under attack for being anti-regime – and went on to become a box-office hit in Russia.

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