Articles by Tom Beedham
WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN Make the Good Themselves on 'NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER'
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2024
"I never know how I feel on an overcast day when the sun is still bright despite the grayness and the light is very flat"...
Beth Gibbons Looks to a Lost Future on 'Lives Outgrown'
PUBLISHED May 21, 2024
Beth Gibbons is like a ghost. Probing the shadowy spaces of bereavement, her songs are articulated through weary quivers, moans and wails....
Madonna's Celebration Tour Took Toronto Through the Decades and Beyond
Scotiabank Arena, January 11
PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2024
Holding out an open palm bearing a tattooed Om symbol, Madonna emerged onstage for the first of two nights in Toronto with an invitation....
Austra Finds Her "Dream Project" in Rewriting Tchaikovsky
PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2023
Katie Stelmanis was in a rut. In May 2020, the Toronto musician also known by her middle name, Austra, delivered her fourth studio album,...
myst milano. Forges Through the Fakery on 'Beyond the Uncanny Valley'
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2023
"I offer Beyond the Uncanny Valley as a working anthology of Black electronic music across generational, geographical and genre lines," Tor...
aja monet's 'when the poems do what they do' Is a Roadmap to Somewhere Greater
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
In a 2017 interview with gal-dem, aja monet said, "I don't share things for you to understand or feel me, I'm sharing something so that we...
Devours' Glittering 'Homecoming Queen' Welcomes You into Its Complicated Alienation
PUBLISHED May 8, 2023
Homecoming isn't for everyone. A heavily ritualized institutional ceremony loaded with the bombast and myth-building of parades and faux-mi...
Harrison Pushes Beyond the Material World on 'Birds, Bees, the Clouds & the Trees'
PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2023
Harrison's third full length introduces itself with a cloud of vinyl crackle and hiss — a language anyone who's dropped the needle on the o...
