Articles by Ian Gormely

Green Day / Against Me!

FirstOntario Centre, Hamilton ON, March 20

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2017

Green Day's legacy now far outstrips whatever cultural relevancy they currently hold. American Idiot, their most ambitious album, dropped l...

​Dirty Projectors

Modular Mourn

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2017

Following the disillusion of his personal and creative relationship with singer Amber Coffman, few would have guessed that David Longstreth...

After the Breakup: Five Artists Who Shaped 'Dirty Projectors'

PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2017

When Amber Coffman left Dirty Projectors after she and frontman David Longstreth ended their romantic partnership, few guessed that Longstr...

Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2017

In the insular world of celebrity indie rockers, David Longstreth and Amber Coffman were our Brangelina, our Bennifer — a powerhouse couple...

Japandroids / Craig Finn and the Uptown Controllers

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, Feb 17

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2017

Japandroids' second album, Celebration Rock, was written with the express purpose of sustaining the fist-pumping highs of their debut for t...

Five Surprising Facts About the New Japandroids Album 'Near to the Wild Heart of Life'

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2017

There's simplicity to Japandroids' music that belies the Vancouver duo's massive sound. At their core, it's just guitarist Brian King, drum...

Japandroids

Near to the Wild Heart of Life

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

When you've made the aural equivalent of the 100 percent emoji, where is there left to go? If you're Vancouver's Japandroids, you throw out...

Cloud Nothings

Life Without Sound

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

On third album Life Without Sound, Cloud Nothing replace the searing guitars, heavy breakdown and howling vocals of their last two albums w...