Articles by Tom Beedham

Sleep

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, July 30

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2018

Dropping surprise albums on 4/20 and trading in album-length tracks that preach "Drop out of life with bong in hand / Follow the smoke towa...

Chastity Seek Sanctuary Within and From Their Whitby Hometown on 'Death Lust'

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2018

Leaning over a cluttered desk in the office loft above Royal Mountain Records' studio space, Brandon Williams reflexively rolls his eyes wh...

Femi Kuti & the Positive Force

Opera House, Toronto ON, July 11

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2018

Waist deep in an extended take on "Corruption Na Stealing," Femi Kuti hushed his backing band's bombast to the meditative rumble of the dow...

Chastity

Death Lust

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2018

Channelling suburban angst through a kaleidoscopic pastiche of late '80s/early '90s guitar influences, on paper, the debut full-length from...

ACT!

Universalist

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2018

Retiring his Egyptrixx moniker and erecting new alias ACT! in its place, the latest entry in David Psutka's (aka Ceramic TL) ever-transform...

The Orb

No Sounds Are Out of Bounds

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2018

After a pair of meandering techno-influenced ambient albums on Wolfgang Voigt's Kompakt label, Dr. Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann's late...

Efrim Manuel Menuck / FET.NAT / Fresh Snow / Scattered Clouds

Jam Factory, Toronto ON, June 15

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2018

"This next song concerns itself with the reality that we currently live in and the urgent question of our time, which is 'What does it mean...

Telephone Explosion Year Ten with Odonis Odonis, Freak Heat Waves, New Fries, Teenanger, Andre Ethier

Lee's Palace, Toronto ON, June 8

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2018

In 2008, Toronto record label Telephone Explosion Records quietly emerged as a vital outpost for underground culture, its steadily expandin...