Articles by Ian Gormely
HEALTH
Death Magic
PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2015
Rhythm was always at the heart of Los Angeles noiseniks HEALTH's music. Their previous two LPs — not to mention their companion remix...
Sloan
WayHome Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 26
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2015
Leave it to Sloan to let the drummer sing the first song of the day. Given the thankless task of opening the main stage on the final day of...
Chad VanGaalen
WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 26
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2015
That he'd rather be at home drawing than performing is a common assertion from Chad VanGaalen. That sentiment was backed up by much of his...
July Talk
WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 26
PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2015
The onstage interplay between Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay has been the stuff of Canadian music-fest legend in recent years; what's more im...
Run the Jewels
WayHome Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 25
PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2015
Anyone still wondering how Run the Jewels climbed the mountain to become one of hip-hop's most respected and talked-about acts need only se...
Danny Brown
WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 25
PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2015
Hyping the crowd with tracks like Waka Flocka Flame's "Hard in da Paint" and A$AP Ferg's "Shabba Ranks," it was a full ten minutes before D...
Alvvays
WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 25
PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2015
Alvvays' early daytime slot felt like a scheduling oversight by festival organizers. But then, few could have predicted the band's meteoric...
The Gaslight Anthem
WayBold Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 24
PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2015
Their fires were dimmed slightly by the lukewarm reception to last year's Get Hurt, suggesting the Gaslight Anthem had written themselves i...