Tonight at Sounds Good in Toronto! UK garage, breakbeat, jungle, drum and bass, grime and more from the hardcore continuum 📡 🎟️: ra.co/events/2177261

Wrote a primer on the UK hardcore continuum, a group of connected British music genres including UK garage, jungle and grime. I will be celebrating these sounds this Saturday June 28th at Sounds Good in Toronto 📡

In his latest Mind in Bloom column, @cadenceweapon.bsky.social writes about Playboi Carti: hazlitt.net/feature/part...

What does music say about who we are? @spaikin.bsky.social talks politics, power, and protest with musicians @sarahharmer.bsky.social, Tom Wilson, and @cadenceweapon.bsky.social at TVO Today Live from Hamilton’s Music Hall.

"The thing I would tell artists in Canada is just be yourself and don't rely on the States." — @cadenceweapon.bsky.social in conversation with @spaikin.bsky.social on TVO Today Live: Why Music Matters, tonight at 9pm with @sarahharmer.bsky.social and Tom Wilson www.tvo.org/tvo-today-live

I'm currently listening to songs that users have made with Suno AI as part of my research for a book I'm writing. This has been by far the hardest part of the whole project. Woof.

Wow, what an honour! Couldn't be happier to be nominated for a Digital Publishing Award for my @hazlitt.bsky.social column

From anthems to protest songs, music captures the spirit of the times. We're coming to Hamilton on Sat. May 10, at 7pm for a conversation with @sarahharmer.bsky.social, @cadenceweapon.bsky.social & Tom Wilson. Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/tvo-today-...

Decided to put out some autographed green Rollercoaster vinyl today. Each record comes with a lyric sheet from the album handwritten, signed and dated by me ✍🏽 Only 30 available and then they're gone 🟢 cadenceweapon.bandcamp.com/album/rollercoaster

IMO, both acts released what I think is their best project so far. One is @cadenceweapon.bsky.social's Rollercoaster and another is Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn's Quiet in a World Full of Noise. Both released their first solo project 20 years ago.

Hey #Hamilton & everybody else too! Steeltown's own @spaikin.bsky.social will be in town May 10, 7pm for a live event talking music & democracy with stellar musicians @sarahharmer.bsky.social, @cadenceweapon.bsky.social weapon and Tom Wilson tehohåhake. Get comp tickets here:

I’m mostly happy about the election results but I’m sad that instead of Matthew Green, a tireless community advocate who cared deeply about Hamilton, people have elected Aslam Rana, a TMU professor who lives in Mississauga and plans to move here “first thing.”

DJing today for the final day of ISO Radio before they close forever! End of an era. Tune in at iso.fm at 1 pm ET

Hey, petitions work! Councillor Moise moves to WITHDRAW his motion requesting a change to the AGCO process for issuing non-profit special occasion permits. The withdrawal carries. No change will be requested. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

For all the rhetoric about Toronto trying to be a world class city, I couldn’t think of a more destructive motion for that goal than the one Chris Moise is planning to bring to City Council on April 23rd. Please sign the Save Our Raves TO petition: forms.gle/XQLai5qfQXuK...

Tonight!!! Starts at 8

Pictured: Therme showing Doug Ford where their other spas are located

Come out and dance Thursday night. Friday is a holiday. One of the great artists in this country is playing a DJ set. It's a free show. Don't say I don't love you; come out!!

Staggering reporting by @saramojtehedz.bsky.social

HARD TO SAY out now on all platforms 🌺

I’m starting a DJ residency in Hamilton at Mills Hardware. I wrote a bit about the concept of the event and where it comes from in my newsletter. The first edition is Thursday April 17 at 8 pm and I’m playing all ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s bangers 🪩

As a regular Newshour viewer it was very cool to see my guy @cadenceweapon.bsky.social on there spitting facts about the harm streaming is doing to musicians. As he says at the end, divest from these streaming platforms and buy artists’ records and attend their shows youtu.be/hk0A_ZWGVew?...

cameoed on @pbs.org @pbsnews.org last night in support of @umaw.bsky.social living wage for musicians act & to back up brilliant comrades/colleagues @dadadrummer.bsky.social @lizpelly.bsky.social & @cadenceweapon.bsky.social in their research & revelations against spotify

If you catch pbs newshour tonight you’ll see me & @lizpelly.bsky.social & @sad13.horse & @cadenceweapon.bsky.social giving Spotify the business @umaw.bsky.social

Montreal tonight at Casa Del Popolo, I’m on at 9 pm 🏔️

@cadenceweapon.bsky.social at NAC Fourth Stage #ottawa #photography #music #canada #bluesky photogmusic.com/cadenceweapo...

I’ve deleted the other app so let’s see if I can talk about music on here: I’m going on tour tomorrow and I hope that you’ll join me. It all starts in Halifax. I’m doing a talk about unlocking creativity at 5 pm at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and then the show is at the Seahorse Tavern 🦭

I covered “Ungirthed” by Purity Ring for the 20th anniversary of Last Gang Records with the homie Dan Only ✨ Out now on all platforms 💫 lg20.ffm.to/ungirthed

My Super Bowl halftime predictions: Kendrick will perform “Not Like Us” with a New Orleans second line brass band. Funeral march. He will also perform an excerpt of “Poetic Justice,” bringing out Janet Jackson to sing the sample.

If you’re in Toronto and you’re looking for plans tonight, I’m playing at the Garrison with myst milano and Breeze. My last show of the year, should be an absolute blast!

On @hazlitt.bsky.social, I wrote about Tyler, The Creator's Chromakopia, an album-length mea culpa to those who haven’t let go of the boy who ate the roach.

Hey new followers! Not sure where y’all came from but welcome, I’m enjoying it here and hope you are too. Might I interest you in my new playlist? It’s all new rap tracks that have piqued my interest, updated every week. Save it, play at your holiday party, do ya thing

I contain multitudes

Someone on Spotify has been putting my music on bot playlists against my will, messing up my related artists algorithm in the process. I wrote about my attempts to fix it and what this kind of thing can do to your music career in my newsletter.

My new webstore is now live! cadenceweapononlinemerch.myshopify.com 25% off everything until Tuesday with the code CWBF24 Every purchase also comes with a free SENNA t-shirt, just add it to cart with everything else

Today in enshittification news, c/o @cadenceweapon.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/cadencew...

I talked to Larry June about touchscreen toasters, beverages and the importance of keeping it organic for @crackmagazine.bsky.social crackmagazine.net/article/prof...

They're playing "tv off" at the coffee shop I'm working in, I just heard the faint strains of "Mustaaaaaaaard" in the background

Hilarious to watch the same people who obsess over chart placements and first week numbers magically transform into anti-capitalists now that a certain artist appears to be raging against the machine. I wonder what they will believe next week

A great playlist by one of my favourite Edmontonians ❤️

People ask me all the time what rap I’m listening to so here ya go… Some Rap Songs: A Playlist bit.ly/somerapsongs Featuring tracks I've liked over the last few years, updated weekly 🖊️

Quick thoughts on GNX / Kendrick Lamar: This album is unsurprisingly quite layered, working on a few levels. Following “Not Like Us,” it’s the LA album that we always wondered if Kenny would ever make. On the other hand, Jack Antonoff’s presence makes it one of his more accessible releases.

This was so worth the wait youtu.be/NYH6Oa4PXlY?...

You: “Hey, do you like karaoke?” Me:

This week on the CABBAGES Hip-Hop Podcast, we got the great @cadenceweapon.bsky.social to discuss the 1995 Hughes Brothers film DEAD PRESIDENTS. youtu.be/7MhCibmxgFk?...

Come see me on tour this fall with Super Duty Tough Work 🎢 Get your tix here: cadenceweapon.net/shows-1

The video for my song “Sting” is out now!

I wrote about André 3000’s new album, how we perceive the output of our favourite musicians and how to react when it’s not what we’ve come to expect from them.

Wrote about Ralphie Choo’s incredible genre-bending album, Danny Brown’s new single with the Alchemist, Olof Dreijer’s dazzling new EP and more stuff I enjoyed over the past month.

Wrote about how bad it feels to be online these days.