Editor

Cassius Crieghtney

Cassius Crieghtney is the founder of Spacedread and the editor of Spacedread Stories. He's a musician, writer and creative technologist in Toronto: more than 200 songs over a decade, and a co-writer of SOLO TÚ, the Papi AQ and Spacedread single that reached #1 on Apple Music Canada's Latin chart.

For about ten years he has run a weekly creative room, the Creators Incubator, with Amanda Andress. Most of what this site is came out of it, including the software this publication runs on.

He writes the culture desk's pieces about the business of making things, and The Frequency's stories about the people he makes things with. When he's the narrator with a conflict of interest, the stamp says so.

7 stories

The Gorilla Flow #1 cover: a roaring gorilla in a diamond grill and a Papi AQ chain, an eagle diving out of a lightning sky, the Toronto skyline and the CN Tower behind them, all in black and white.

THE FREQUENCYREPORTED

The Gorilla Is Loose Again: Papi AQ Drops Gorilla Flow #1

His first single since he got married. Two minutes and twenty seconds, out now on his own label.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 24, 20261 MIN

THE FREQUENCYREPORTED

Kyle DaSilva Is the Engineer You've Been Hearing Without Knowing It

He engineered a #1 Latin record and mastered the crew's videos. The least visible person on the team, finally in the frame.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 24, 20263 MIN

Dizzle BK in a black leather jacket in front of a graffiti wall.

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Dizzle BK Cuts Hair and Makes Records in the Same Week

One chair pays for the other. Four years into the crew, the barber and the artist are still the same guy, and one of his songs became a mountain.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 21, 20263 MIN

MANGO JOURNALREPORTED

Every Artist You Know Also Cuts Hair, Drives, or Teaches.

Seventy-one per cent of Canadian artists hold more than one job. This is about what the second one does to the first.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 20, 20264 MIN

Sylus Rose in round gold sunglasses and a patterned jacket of cream, emerald, indigo and burgundy panels, looking up at the camera.

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Sylus Rose Has the Room

The DJ for the Mango Mixer, on the day of the Mixer. What we know about the person responsible for the next five hours of your night.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 19, 20262 MIN

Amanda Andress sitting on a rock at the edge of the water, one foot in the lake, smiling at the camera.

FRIDAY DROP

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How Manda Pants Quietly Painted an Entire Universe Into Existence

Eight paintings, four pairs, one digital world dragged out of a screen and onto canvas by hand. A walk through every panel, up close.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 18, 20265 MIN

MANGO JOURNALREPORTED

Toronto Doesn't Have an Artist Problem. It Has a Space Problem.

The city says it will build a million square feet of culture by 2035. Here is the arithmetic on what it already lost.

Cassius CrieghtneySEPT 17, 20266 MIN