Articles by Ian Gormely

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Shake the Shudder

PUBLISHED May 19, 2017

All the attention that is currently being paid to the early aughts New York rock scene has largely ignored !!!. The punctuation-obsessed ba...

Dirty Windshields: The Best and Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries

By Grant Lawrence

PUBLISHED May 19, 2017

Late in his new tour diary of his time with punk-rock party band the Smugglers, Grant Lawrence sums up their career thusly: "The Smugglers...

"My Version of a Stadium Anthem": Perfume Genius Pushes His Comfort Zone on 'No Shape'

PUBLISHED May 16, 2017

No Shape, the new album from Mike Hadreas's Perfume Genius (out now on Matador) is the most accessible and pop-friendly release from the pr...

At the Drive-In

In•ter A•li•a

PUBLISHED May 5, 2017

Relationship of Command, El Paso, TX post-hardcore vets At the Drive-In's explosive 2000 swan song, was a once in-a-career record. Even at...

Berlin-Warszawa Express

By Eamon McGrath

PUBLISHED May 5, 2017

Suffering for ones art is a well-trodden trope. Yet punk rock troubadour Eamon McGrath manages to breath new life into the subject, as well...

Perfume Genius

No Shape

PUBLISHED May 5, 2017

Mike Hadreas has never been one to mince words. So, in naming the first track on his latest album as Perfume Genius, "Otherside," he's lett...

At the Drive-In Go Deep on the Departure of Jim Ward

PUBLISHED May 4, 2017

It took At the Drive-In 17 years, but the El Paso, TX band have finally followed up their acclaimed 2000 effort — and until recently, their...

METZ / Fake Palms / New Fries

Silver Dollar Room, Toronto ON, April 30

PUBLISHED May 1, 2017

The Silver Dollar Room was not a pretty place, but it was always a vibrant one. The latest victim of Toronto's booming downtown real estate...