Articles by Tom Beedham

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  Aquakultre Is More Than Just Halifax's Hottest R&B Star — He's a Community

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2022

  It's the July long weekend and Lance Sampson is working. A union plumber by trade and still a few weeks away from releasing his latest albu...

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  Kazoo! Fest Makes Its "Long-Overdue Goodbye" by Doing What It's Always Done

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2022

  It's the beginning of the end of Kazoo! Fest, and shn shn is seated cross-legged on the floor of the stage at Royal City Mission, an assort...

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  Joel Eel's Heart Works Harder Than Most on 'Love Infinity'

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2022

  Late capitalism permeates all: work days stretching into unnecessary commutes; the market invading private moments and commodifying attenti...

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  Damon Albarn Blurs Past and Present on 'The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows'

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2021

  What's Damon Albarn to do with a pandemic? Blur hasn't performed since a one-off gig for one of Albarn's Africa Express events in London in...

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  Grouper's Latest Brings Every 'Shade' of Liz Harris into Focus

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2021

  Over the past two decades, Liz Harris has embarked on a series of northward moves up the Pacific — Los Angeles, Portland and then further n...

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  Mas Aya's 'Máscaras' Is a Rewarding Sonic Revolution

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2021

  How do you touch the present? That might have been the single question guiding Brandon Valdivia's newest Mas Aya record, Máscaras ("Masks")...

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  Breeze Unites Toronto's Shattered Music Scene on 'Only Up'

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2021

  Only Up starts with a statement of disbelief and ends with a sense of direction. Rallying a score of local friends and collaborators, Josh...

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  The Halluci Nation Turn Anti-Colonialism into a Celebratory Dance Party for 'One More Saturday Night'

  PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2021

  Formalizing the declaration of A Tribe Called Red's 2016 album We Are the Halluci Nation by adopting it as their new name, the Halluci Nati...