Articles by Ian Gormely

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Korn

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2016

Derided as much as they are celebrated, Korn are — inarguably and for better or worse — one of the most influential metal acts of the last...

Korn

The Serenity of Suffering

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2016

"Things keep ending up this way," growls Jonathan Davis, kicking off Korn's 12th studio album, a line that could sum up Korn's postmillenni...

Jimmy Eat World Leave Their Musical Comfort Zone for 'Integrity Blues'

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2016

When it came time for Jimmy Eat World to begin work on their ninth full-length, Integrity Blues, the Arizona quartet opted to do something...

Jimmy Eat World

Integrity Blues

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2016

In the sonic realm of Jimmy Eat World, change is a subtle thing. Each of their records has its own hallmarks, but they follow a loose scrip...

Touché Amoré / Tiny Moving Parts

Mod Club Theatre, Toronto ON, October 18

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2016

Catharsis is post-hardcore's stock and trade, and Touché Amoré delivered one of the genre's most heart-wrenching releases this year with St...

NOFX

First Ditch Effort

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2016

If you read NOFX's autobiography from earlier this year, The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, you know that many of the band's most bel...

Green Day

Revolution Radio

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2016

2004's American Idiot marked a major shift for Green Day, but not just for the reasons normally cited. On that album, Billie Joe Armstrong...

​An Essential Guide to Green Day

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2016

When Green Day broke through in 1994, few could have predicted that the Bay Area trio would still be together in 2016, let alone be one of...