Articles by Ian Gormely

Dirty Projectors Find Hope Again on 'Lamp Lit Prose'

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2018

Dirty Projectors' new album, Lamp Lit Prose, comes just 18 months after their last year's Dirty Projectors. The quick turnaround — a five-y...

Rusty Return with Their First Album in 20 Years

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2018

Nineties CanRock heroes Rusty are back with their first album in 20 years. It's called Dogs of Canada, and it's out now. Dogs of Canada wa...

Shine: How a MuchMusic Compilation Came to Define Canadian Alternative Music and Sell a Zillion Copies

By Mark Teo

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2018

When confronted with the existence of a book about Big Shiny Tunes, the first thing most people will ask is obvious: Who would want to read...

Surf Dads

Long Weekend EP

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2018

There's no shortage of bands claiming affinity with Weezer's '90s heyday, but few can match the veteran power-poppers' knack for pairing cr...

Chvrches Explored All Their Options Before Making 'Love Is Dead'

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2018

"Can I call you on your bullshit?"   It's evening in New York and Lauren Mayberry, lead singer for Scottish synth-pop act Chvrches, is sett...

Kylie Minogue Is the Soccer of Pop Artists: Huge Worldwide, Never Caught On in North America

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2018

Kylie Minogue doesn't make trends so much as ride them. Like fellow cultural icon Madonna (forever the female pop singer ideal), the pint-s...

Natalie Prass Had Her New Record Done — Then Trump Got Elected, Changing 'The Future and the Past'

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2018

It's been three years since Natalie Prass dropped her gorgeous, self-titled debut, and six years since she recorded it. The first thing tha...

Natalie Prass

The Future and the Past

PUBLISHED May 31, 2018

Some would say love and politics are incongruous concepts. Natalie Prass says that's rubbish.   In late 2016, the Richmond, VA artist was p...