Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

Patrick Watson

The Backyardigans

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2012

It's a seeming disconnect when Patrick Watson states that fourth album, Adventures in Your Backyard, functions as both a "back to basics" r...

Estelle

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2012

After the massive success that was 2008's "American Boy" with Kanye West, there was nowhere for singer (and sometime rapper) Estelle to go...

THEESatisfaction

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2012

As a hip-hop-flavoured act on venerable label Sub Pop, you're automatically going to create some type of buzz. Doubly so if you're actually...

THEESatisfaction

awE NaturalE

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2012

As a hip-hop-flavoured act on venerable label Sub Pop, you're automatically going to create some type of buzz. Doubly so if you're actually...

Patrick Watson Talks 'Adventures in Your Backyard,' Rolls Out Canada/U.S. Tour

PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2012

As any self-respecting Patrick Watson fan most definitely knows by now, the Montreal chamber pop unit released their fourth studio album Ad...

SWV

I Missed Us

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2012

Be careful what you wish for. While many might have longed for new material from a unit that easily rank as one of the most prominent R&B g...

Gift of Gab

The Next Logical Progression

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2012

Gift of Gab (aka Timothy Parker) has been through a great deal lately. Best known (and much loved) as a member of Bay Area hip-hop duo Blac...

De La Soul's Plug 1 and Plug 2

Present First Serve

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2012

As tenured members of the hip-hop movement, Plug 1 and Plug 2 ostensibly live in that "nothing to prove" territory. The criminally underrat...