Articles by Ian Gormely

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  Hatchie

  Sugar & Spice

  PUBLISHED May 25, 2018

  It's hard to believe Harriett Pillbeam was sitting on most of the songs that make up her debut EP for several years. So sticky-sweet are th...

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  Chvrches

  Love Is Dead

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2018

  Even as their popularity inched ever-closer to mainstream recognition, Chvrches always kept one foot planted firmly in the underground. Tha...

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  Dusted

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 12

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2018

  Tech issues pushed back Dusted's already late start time, so it was a bold move for group mastermind (and Holy Fuck member) Brian Borcherdt...

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  Jo Passed

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 12

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2018

  Jo Passed sprang from the ashes of Sprïng, a weirdo Vancouver art band who never really found their stride. But in Jo Passed, singer-guitar...

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  Deliluh

  Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2018

  West-end Toronto stalwarts Deliluh have been making a bit of a stir in the city's underground for some time now, and an upcoming reissue of...

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  Fucked Up

  Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2018

  Fucked Up play so many gigs in weird spaces around the city, playing in an actual club might be the most the novel thing the Toronto punks...

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  Jaunt

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2018

  Sometime in the last half-decade, Muzak became an acceptable musical influence. Its one-time function as background music has been jettison...

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  Mauno

  The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 10

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2018

  Idiosyncratic is an appropriate, though somewhat unfair, way to describe Halifax's Mauno. Nominally indie rock, it's hard to say who the qu...