Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

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  Indubious

  Wake the Lion

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2013

  The fusion of reggae and electronic is the sound of the moment and it has as many labels (rootstronic, island EDM, to name a few) as interp...

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  Janelle Monáe

  Android Love

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2013

  Janelle Monáe is an android. An extended phone chat with the 27-year-old hinges on the (swiftly grasped) understanding that Monáe is not di...

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  Laura Mvula

  Mod Club, Toronto ON, September 7

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2013

  There were definitely more than "a handful" as Laura Mvula says jokingly the first time she played a Canadian date — I was at that intimate...

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  Janelle Monáe

  Electric Lady

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2013

  Janelle Monae's The Electric Lady arrives fully formed, in a delightfully conceptual way. When someone of Prince's pedigree elects to guest...

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  John Legend

  Love in the Future

  PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2013

  Love in the Future? Speaking of which, any forthcoming John Legend documentary should be titled The Curious Case of John Stephens. For a mu...

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  UB40

  Getting Over the Storm

  PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2013

  Aptly titled, Getting Over the Storm (their 18th studio album) finds UK reggae/pop stalwarts UB40 aiming to prove that not even bankruptcy...

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  The Green

  Hawai’i ’13

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2013

  For their third studio album, the Green come correct; the group rep their Hawaiian roots and heritage hard on Hawai'i '13, and have their e...

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  Andreena

  Naked

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2013

  "Slick"; it's the word that pops to mind when absorbing Toronto, on-based Andreena's new body of work. A fixture on the T.O. R&B/soul scene...