Articles by Ian Gormely

Snail Mail / Lomelda

Smiling Buddha, Toronto ON, January 23

PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2018

Lindsey Jordan has been blessed with prolonged buzz around Snail Mail's 2016 EP Habit, and their forthcoming debut for Matador Records. Yet...

Fall Out Boy

M A N I A

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2018

Maximalism has been Fall Out Boy's stock-in-trade since day one. Even when they were just a pop punk band from Chicago, they were aiming fo...

Charli XCX

Pop 2

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2017

2017 was a disappointment for poptimists on multiple fronts. But on her second mixtape of the year, Charli XCX, aka Charlotte Aitchison, re...

Lemuria

Recreational Hate

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2017

Lemuria have always been something of an aberration: too punk for indie, too indie for punk. In many ways, they were the forbearers of the...

Lemuria Drop Surprise Album 'Recreational Hate,' Their First in Four Years

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2017

Ultra-keen Lemuria fans have a holiday surprise on the way to their mailboxes: the band's brand new LP, Recreational Hate.   Earlier this y...

U2

Songs of Experience

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2017

Following the relative disappointment of No Line on the Horizon, Songs of Innocence seemed intended as an All That You Can't Leave Behind-e...

An Essential Guide to U2

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2017

It's not easy being a U2 fan these days.   The band's massive popularity and scale, coupled with their populous rhetoric, makes it kind of...

Meligrove Band

Planets Conspire (Reissue)

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2017

The early 2000s was a heady time in indie rock. The genre's Brooklynization was in full swing; north of the border, Toronto and Montreal we...