Articles by Tom Beedham

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  Dirty Frigs

  Making Box Theatre, Guelph ON, July 16

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2015

  Offering listeners a break from the more cacophonous lineup surrounding them and providing a lesson in programming contrast, Toronto's psyc...

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  WTCHS

  Making Box Theatre, Guelph ON, July 16

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2015

  Most of the crowd at the Making Box Theatre had filtered out by the time WTCHS hit the stage, but a dedicated contingent of 20 or so people...

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  JOBS

  Jimmy Jazz, Guelph ON, July 16

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2015

  Closing out the second night of Incline/Decline, as the only band from south of the border on the festival's bill, Brooklyn's JOBS  (former...

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  New Fries

  Making Box Theatre, Guelph ON, July 17

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2015

  Introducing themselves with an instrumental exercise that fed some slinky, all-over-the-fretboard guitar experimentation and plunging key p...

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  Man Made Hill

  Loft, Guelph ON, July 17

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2015

  Three out of four bands playing Incline/Decline's Loft party tended toward the cold and detached, so that made Randy Gagne's "existential d...

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  Blonde Heir

  Loft, Guelph ON, July 17

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2015

  Stationed behind a synth and a microphone at the back of Incline/Decline co-organizer John Pritchard's apartment (inconspicuously labeled "...

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  Blonde Elvis

  42 Jane Street, Guelph ON, July 15

  PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2015

  On a conceptual level, Blonde Elvis serves the dual purpose of critiquing mechanisms of popular rock celebrity while also offering singer/g...

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  Bernice

  42 Jane Street, Guelph ON, July 15

  PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2015

  More people should listen to Bernice. Comprised of some of Toronto's most innovative (and busy) musicians, they sometimes acknowledge what...