Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

Slakah the Beatchild

Soul Movement Vol. 1

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2009

This long gestating offering from the uber talented (and bombastically monikered) Slakah the Beatchild is a cool thing to experience. The S...

One-76

ONEdependent and Taki76 Present: Radio Recession

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2009

No doubt, Philly duo ONE-76 revel in dissonantly pleasing sounds. By way of Buffalo and Montreal, ONEdependent and Taki76 stay heavy on the...

Dru

The One

PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2009

With this new album, R&B singer Dru represents an anomaly in Canadian music: a Canadian R&B singer with a new album. As the front-man for R...

Raphael Saadiq

The Way I See It

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2008

Whether you know him best as the front-man of ’90s R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné, as a part of the R&B super-group mash-up that was Lucy Pearl...

Michael Franti and Spearhead

All Rebel Rockers

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008

Michael Franti has seemingly always been on the outside looking in when it comes to the lumbering behemoth we call the music industry. Whic...

Elzhi

The Preface

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

With an album title like The Preface, it’s as if Elzhi is promising that the best is yet to come. And what the criminally underrated MC del...

Dwele

PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2008

At what point does one stop being defined as a "rising artist on the verge?" And is there a limit to the underground support and critical a...

Circle Research

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008

After years of assembling fresh beats and funky breaks at their old Astro’s Turf studio in Toronto’s Little Italy, the production/DJ duo kn...