Articles by Ian Gormely

Ash

Mod Club, Toronto ON, October 1

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2016

Ash always felt like an outlier among Britpop acts, probably because their music tended to reflect North American tastes as much as UK ones...

How to Dress Well Learns All About Himself Through 'Care'

PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2016

Much ink was spilled earlier this year over Kanye West's real-time tinkering with The Life of Pablo and the idea of a "living" album. And w...

Blood Orange

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, September 21

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2016

On Freetown Sound, Dev Hynes, performing as Blood Orange, managed something most artists spend their entire careers chasing: he made a deep...

How to Dress Well

Care

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2016

Tom Krell has spent his entire career singing about togetherness while consciously putting distance between himself and listeners. Though t...

July Talk

Touch

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2016

On their debut, Toronto rockers July Talk laid the bedrock for a sound, a disco-blues groove underlying him vs. her vocals, that catapulted...

​July Talk

In Living Colour

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2016

When Leah Fay is performing, "One of the most grounding things you can do" she says, "is walk out into the crowd and feel someone's hand on...

Dinosaur Jr.

Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2016

With Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, the fourth album recorded by Dinosaur Jr.'s reunited original line-up, the Amherst, MA trio have surpa...

Descendents

Hypercaffium Spazzinate

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2016

Twelve years is a long gap between albums for any band, let alone one made up of middle-aged punks. But on their latest, long-in-the works...