Articles by Tom Beedham
Burial
Tunes 2011-2019
PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2019
Two-and-a-half-hour compilation Tunes 2011-2019 works its way backwards through the last decade of Burial's output, but like many of the pr...
Doon Kanda
Labyrinth
PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2019
Better known as a visual artist who's worked with Björk, Arca and FKA twigs, Jesse Kanda has established himself as a go-to hand behind som...
Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Rihanna
PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2019
With fewer than 14 years in the game, and enough chart clout to hang with the legacy artists she looked up to before entering it, Robyn Fen...
Everything in Its Right Place: Inside David Psutka's Home Studio
PUBLISHED Nov 18, 2019
David Psutka has just delivered a walk-through of all the synths adorning the wall of his Etobicoke, ON studio when things take an abrupt t...
Gong Gong Gong
Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2019
It starts with an ending. Simultaneously signalling the end of guitarist Tom Ng's former Hong Kong-based trio Offset:Spectacles and the...
Meet Gong Gong Gong, the Restless Beijing-Montreal Art-Punk Duo Channelling the Concept of 'Phantom Rhythm'
PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2019
After an apologetic preamble about VPNs and time zone differences, Gong Gong Gong bassist Joshua Frank brushes away any half-baked "made in...
Mt. Rave
Fifth World
PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2019
Directly recalling avant-garde composer Jon Hassell's fourth world music, an aesthetic he described as "a unified primitive/futuristic soun...
MattyFest: Wu-Tang Clan / Descendents / Jennifer Castle / METZ
Echo Beach, Toronto ON, September 7
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2019
"This festival's brought to you by the nothingness inside of you." One hand on a mic and the other resting on his stomach, Matty Matheson...