Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

God Made Me Funky

Enter the Beat

PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2008

The funk fusion experiment that are Toronto, ON-based God Made Me Funky (GMMF) are no doubt best experienced live. While their debut projec...

Kidz in the Hall

The In Crowd

PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

Backpackers? Neo-Native Tongues? Post-Pete Rock & CL Smooth? At this stage in the game, Kidz in the Hall aren’t in the least bit concerned...

The Roots' ?uestlove

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2008

Speaking to ?uestlove (government name Ahmir Thompson) on location just a couple of hours before the recent Toronto concert, one gets the f...

Guilty Simpson

Ode to the Ghetto

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2008

"For fans of D12, Eminem, J Dilla, Madlib, Nas” boasts the text on my promo copy of Guilty Simpson’s Ode to the Ghetto. And when one gets t...

DL Incognito’s Urban Zen

PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2008

With the spring release of A Captured Moment in Time, DL Incognito can boast that he ranks among the few Canadian hip-hop artists to have f...

Kayte Burgess

Checked Baggage

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2008

In a perfect world, Toronto R&B singer Kayte Burgess would have released her sophomore album, Checked Baggage, to much wider fanfare. A wel...

Jully Black

Revival

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

Given the decidedly vanilla Canadian music landscape, one wouldn’t fault Toronto’s Jully Black for packing her sassy self to the States for...

GreenTaRA

Global Baby

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

"My genealogy reflects my fate,” sings Vancouver-born artist GreenTaRA (aka Tara Donald) on her latest album,Global Baby. Those lyrics (and...