Articles by Ian Gormely

An Essential Guide to R.E.M.

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2017

R.E.M. are indie rock's Beatles.   Like the Fab Four, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry codified the genre, then laid ou...

Paramore / Best Coast

Massey Hall, Toronto ON, October 13

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2017

"Where were you in 2007?"   That's the question Paramore's Hayley Williams asked toward the end of the band's recent Toronto stop. She want...

​The Killers' Brandon Flowers

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2017

The road to Wonderful Wonderful, the first new album from the Killers in five years, was long and winding. In the years since Battle Born,...

Pinegrove

The Velvet Underground, Toronto ON, September 22

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2017

Pinegrove's word-of-mouth ascent over the past year has been astounding; the New Jersey quartet have gone from the bottom of multi-band bil...

The Killers

Wonderful Wonderful

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2017

"Have All the Songs Been Written" caps off the Killers' latest album, Wonderful Wonderful, and fans could be forgiven if they'd thought tha...

Conor Oberst / Phoebe Bridgers

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, September 13

PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2017

Though just 37, Conor Oberst's career reads like that of a grizzled veteran twice his age. Starting out as a lo-fi bedroom curio, he became...

An Essential Guide to Julie Doiron

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2017

From her humble beginnings to her prolific solo career (not to mention a diverse array of collaborations), Julie Doiron's music is woven in...

Julie & the Wrong Guys

Julie & the Wrong Guys

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2017

Julie Doiron fronting a hard rock quartet rounded out by Eamon McGrath and members of Cancer Bats sounds like a no brainer, the kind of col...