Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Bilal

Enwave Theatre, Toronto ON June 25

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2012

Robert Glasper's music is ostensibly jazz, except when it's not. In incorporating elements of hip-hop, soul and R&B, the sound that is the...

Michael Kiwanuka / Bahamas

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON June 19

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2012

Michael Kiwanuka brings such a quiet confidence and gentle assuredness to the stage that the hype the British/Ugandan soul artist has garne...

Muneshine

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2012

Toronto by way of Saskatoon beatsmith/MC Muneshine (real name Rob Bakker) is probably more known for producing for the likes of artists suc...

Muneshine Talks 'There Is Only Today,' Reveals Supergroup with D-Sisive, Ghettosocks, Timbuktu

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2012

When the producer behind the beats decides to step in front of them, there typically tends to be a lot more scrutiny. This fact isn't lost...

JD Era

PUBLISHED May 31, 2012

If JD ERA is getting weary of answering questions about Raekwon, it's not evident today. Rather, in speaking with him in the new ICE H20 Ca...

TALWST

PUBLISHED May 31, 2012

Alien Tentacle Sex is situated in the unique mind-space where visual and aural arts worlds of Talwst ("tall waist") collide. The seven-trac...

Muneshine

There Is Only Today

PUBLISHED May 28, 2012

Toronto by way of Saskatoon beatsmith/MC Muneshine (aka Rob Bakker) is more known for producing the likes of D-Sisive than being in front o...

Wordburglar

3rdBurglar

PUBLISHED May 28, 2012

Using the comic book parlance that Wordburglar leverages in his lyrics, somewhere in an alternate reality, classic era hip-hop never went p...