Articles by Ian Gormely

Blood Orange Just Released 'Negro Swan' but a New Album Might Be Just Around the Corner

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2018

Blood Orange, a.k.a. Dev Hynes, just dropped his new album Negro Swan last week, but in a recent interview with Exclaim!, Hynes revealed th...

​Toronto's Root Down Studio and Jam Space, Formerly S.H.I.B.G.B.S., Wants Artists to Thrive

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2018

Building community, connecting dots — that's the mission statement behind the Root Down, a rehearsal and pre-production space on Toronto's...

Blood Orange

Negro Swan

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2018

Ascribing authorship and meaning are music critics' bread and butter, so it's a bit of a stick in the eye when artists go out of their way...

Blood Orange Couldn't Have Made 'Negro Swan' Alone

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2018

"I've always believed that just because someone writes the song, they're not the one who finishes it," says Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, "o...

Smashing Pumpkins

Scotiabank Arena, Toronto ON, August 8

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2018

Nostalgia has never really been Billy Corgan's thing. Even as the Smashing Pumpkins embarked on their "farewell tour" in 2000, the sets hea...

Taylor Swift / Camila Cabello / Charli XCX

Rogers Centre, Toronto ON, Aug 3

PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2018

Few know what it's like to be Taylor Swift. As a young, global female superstar her truth is pretty damn singular. So it's hard to say how...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Dirty Projectors

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2018

Indie rock, R&B, punk, West African music, glitch — no single genre, song or even album can fully encapsulate the totality of stylistic fus...

Dirty Projectors

Lamp Lit Prose

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2018

Dirty Projectors mastermind David Longstreth has cautioned against comparing last year's self-titled record to his latest. Yet, by his own...