Articles by Ian Gormely

Neil Young + Promise of the Real

WayHome Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 24

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2015

After a pair of farm girls sowed the stage with seeds, Neil Young appeared with little fanfare, a dark hat perking out from behind a piano...

Conor Oberst

Folk In Many Guises

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2015

Conor Oberst is many things to many people. Emo wunderkind, folk troubadour, rock'n'roll saviour — he's been called it all. Yet for s...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Conor Oberst

PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2015

Few artists have charted a career path like Conor Oberst. The Omaha, NE musician got his start when he was barely a teenager, and in the en...

The Decline of Western Civilization Collection

Penelope Spheeris

PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2015

"This movie is about groups, metal, guitars, girls, all that stuff," says Gene Simmons at the beginning of the Decline of Western Civilizat...

Desaparecidos

Payola

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2015

Conor Oberst never needed a separate vehicle for his politics — leftist strains run throughout his deep discography. Yet Desaparecido...

Deafheaven

Adelaide Hall, Toronto ON, June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2015

There are many ways to describe Deafheaven — both their music and the band themselves — but intense does it quite succinctly. Singer George...

Angel Olsen

The Mod Club, Toronto ON, June 20

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2015

It takes a special artist to recover from forgetting their own lyrics, especially from a song that documents the disintegration of its prot...

Warpaint

Adelaide Hall, Toronto ON, June 19

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2015

Warpaint are a band set apart by subtleties; though rooted in '80s indie and post-punk, their minimalist approach leaves room for small ges...