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THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: MÖTLEY CRÜE Mötley Crüe is The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Vince Neil (vocals), Mick Mars (guitar), Nikki Sixx (bass) and Tommy Lee (drums) laid the foundation for their inimitable…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: GROUNDERS Grounders’ home base is an overflowing garage in Toronto’s West End, but the roots of their new album Coffee & Jam stretch much farther west. Since releasing their debut…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: FEVER RAY The solo project of the Knife’s Karin Dreijer, Fever Rayshares some of that group’s icy electronic atmospheres, but takes a slightly more organic-sounding approach. Fever Ray began after the Knife finished their promotional duties…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: BJÖRK A visionary artist who effortlessly blends avant-garde and pop elements, Björk soon eclipsed the popularity of her former group the Sugarcubes when she launched her solo career after the…

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 R&B, jazz,…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: STEVE EARLE If you ever had any doubt about where Steve Earle’s musical roots are planted, his new collection, So You Wannabe an Outlaw, makes it perfectly plain.  “There’s nothing ‘retro’ about this record,”…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: SHERYL CROW Sheryl Crow’s fresh, updated spin on classic roots rock made her one of the most popular mainstream rockers of the ’90s. Her albums were loose and eclectic on…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LIVING COLOUR Living Colour reformed on December 21, 2000, at CBGB as a gig billed “Head>>Fake w/ special guests”. Head>>Fake was the current drum and bass project headed by Calhoun and Wimbish. Glover was…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: GARY NUMAN About 2017’s Savage (Songs From A Broken World) Coming almost four years after his album Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) earned the best reviews of his career and his highest…

THE SPILL MAGAZINE ARTIST PORTRAIT: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LCD Soundsystem debuted with “Losing My Edge,” a single that became one of the most talked-about indie releases of 2002. A self-effacing spoof of the outrageous pissing contests…