Daily Newsletter, May 9, 2025

I’M WITH HER WILD AND CLEAR AND BLUE ROUNDER RECORDS When great vocal harmonies align, magic sparks fly through aural space, and it doesn’t matter what genre of music is involved, although, very often, those harmonies are rooted in more traditional music forms like folk, that, at the same time, make you forget about tradition […]

ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE OUTSIDE MUSIC If you are a close follower of Spill Magazine you’ve surely noticed that there are quite a few reviews of Abigail Lapell’s albums around here, and there is quite a number of reasons for that. Lapell seems to keep coming UP with some substantial music […]

BUILDINGS AND FOOD PROVINCIAL PARK INDEPENDENT Can you make a direct connection with nature through electronic music (ambient or otherwise)? Well, Jen K. Wilson, aka Buildings and Food, thinks that is possible and she keeps on making that connection with quite some ease with her music. She did it with her previous album Echo The […]

Woodstock is a moment where all the best of the 1960s gathered - but the reality was different. Here are the bands that turned the festival down.

Sure the idea of the Buttholes as the penis surgery band who might shoot you is exciting but this live LP reminds you how great they were

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 8/5/24 Part One – The Best New Releases Photo: ALAN DWECK Today we bring to you our hottest finds of the week. We have curated a list of the best releases from our musical travels this week and are putting them all in one place for your listing pleasure! […]

Home » Music Blogs » Hot Picks 8/5/24 Part Two – The Best New Releases Photo: The Crystal Bullets Today we bring to you our hottest finds of the week. We have curated a list of the best releases from our musical travels this week and are putting them all in one place for your listing […]

I first started listening to folk music in my late teens. Before that, I was only really familiar with Irish rebel songs, sung by my family on whiskey-fueled evenings at home. But English folksongs…

Counting down five of the most unjustly overlooked, forgotten, and underrated tracks released by Berry Gordy's Motown Records during the Detroit label's heyday.

Hear new songs by Motörhead, Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams, Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Mike Polizze (Purling Hiss), Erika de Casier, Activity, and more.