Articles by Ian Gormely

Death From Above

Outrage! Is Now

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2017

What's a band to do after it's split-up, gotten back together and dropped a comeback record? That's the dilemma facing Death From Above who...

Ted Leo Uses Hardship as Fuel for 'The Hanged Man'

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2017

The past seven years haven't been easy for Ted Leo. After releasing The Brutalist Bricks in 2010 with his band the Pharmacists, the singer...

Ted Leo

The Hanged Man

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2017

Once a prolific writer and road warrior, it's now been seven long years since Ted Leo's last album, The Brutalist Bricks. Not that the sing...

​Ted Leo

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2017

The past seven years haven't been easy for Ted Leo. Since releasing The Brutalist Bricks in 2010, the singer and guitarist suffered a serie...

Brand New

Science Fiction

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2017

Catharsis is Brand New's stock and trade, but they've never let that emotional release come easy. Over the course of their career, the merc...

Elvis Costello and the Imposters

Sony Centre, Toronto ON, July 20

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2017

"Masterpiece" is how Rolling Stone described Imperial Bedroom when it was first released in 1982. Yet, in the years since, critical consens...

Metallica

Rogers Centre, Toronto ON, July 16

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2017

"Metallica does not give a fuck," announced James Hetfield two songs into the Toronto stop on Metallica's current 'WorldWired' Tour. Regard...

Japanese Breakfast

Soft Sounds from Another Planet

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2017

The first Japanese Breakfast album, Psychopomp, was an anomaly, a necessary funnel for Michelle Zauner's emotions as she tended to her aili...