Articles by Tom Beedham

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  Jessy Lanza

  Mitchell Hall, Guelph ON, April 7

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2017

  Just days ahead of a Red Bull Music Academy gig in Dubai that she'll chase with a spat of touring through Western Canada and the United Sta...

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  U.S. Girls

  eBar, Guelph ON, April 6

  PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2017

  Meg Remy's work in U.S. Girls is a product of constant revolution both spiritually and practically, her unceasing experimentation with genr...

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  OBUXUM

  eBar, Guelph ON, April 6

  PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2017

  Between the night's two rock bands, Toronto-via-Somalia producer OBUXUM worked the crowd into a frenzy. Working with a laptop and sampler c...

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  Cold on Pluto

  eBar, Guelph ON, April 6

  PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2017

  "This song's about death, like all the songs," Rigel Rozanski declared partway through Cold on Pluto's opening set.   All clothed in reflec...

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  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

  Silence, Guelph ON, April 5

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2017

  Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "story-songs" aren't built for or interested in rowdy bars. Channelling Simps...

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  Klarka Weinwurm

  eBar, Guelph ON, April 5

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2017

  On her pair of EPs, Sackville-via-Toronto singer/guitarist Klarka Weinwurm's music registers as a kind of off-kilter, bedroom-forged indie...

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  Richard Laviolette

  eBar, Guelph ON, April 5

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2017

  Richard Laviolette's compass always points home. Across the songwriter's work, it's a returning theme and a radiant, emotional centre from...

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  Saltland

  A Common Truth

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2017

  When loud, angry, "alternative facts" are consistently demonstrated to trump objectively known realities and threaten the very natural make...