Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

Ben Stevenson

Dirty Laundry

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2014

Right from the jump, Ben Stevenson's Dirty Laundry displays its reverence for the electronic R&B-pop sounds of singer-performer Miguel's mo...

Dawn Pemberton

Say Somethin'

PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2014

Dawn Pemberton has a smooth and powerful voice. The Vancouver-based singer's debut, Say Somethin', is solid from the production up to the l...

Pierre Kwenders Discusses 'Le Dernier Empereur Bantou' and His Afro-electro Aesthetic

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2014

When you call yourself "the spokesman of modern Africa," it is a lot to live up to. For Pierre Kwenders, it's a challenge he's more than wi...

Pierre Kwenders

Le Dernier Empereur Bantou

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2014

While you could argue that Pierre Kwenders isn't doing anything revolutionary, debut album Le Dernier Empereur Bantou orbits a pleasing pos...

Kiran Ahluwalia

Sanata: Stillness

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2014

At this point in her musical career, Kiran Ahluwalia is a known commodity in the Canadian music landscape. But that doesn't mean that you k...

Macy Gray

The Way

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2014

Despite being an artist most likely to elicit responses like "She's still around?" Macy Gray is still creating music and still delivering b...

Prince

Art Official Age

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2014

The trouble with being a musical genius — which Prince truly is — is that in order to avoid becoming bored repeating yourself,...

The Touré-Raichel Collective

The Paris Session

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2014

Building off the artistic and critical fulfillment that was 2012's The Tel Aviv Session, the duo known as the Touré-Raichel Collective cont...