Articles by Ian Gormely
Rich Aucoin
The Great Hall, Toronto ON, May 9
PUBLISHED May 10, 2015
By now, Rich Aucoin's live show should be old hat. The constant road warrior hits Toronto alone three or four times every year, yet people...
Bo Ningen
Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, May 8
PUBLISHED May 9, 2015
Throw pretty much any genre tag at Bo Ningen and you're likely to hit the mark. Though nominally acid rock, the London-via-Tokyo quartet ha...
King Tuff
Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, May 8
PUBLISHED May 9, 2015
King Tuff gets the short end of the garage rock stick. Though Kyle Thomas is one of modern garage rock's most hooky and infectious songwrit...
Palma Violets
Danger in the Club
PUBLISHED May 5, 2015
Palma Violets stood out from the rest of the Libertines and early Arctic Monkeys mimics due to their ramshackle swagger and infectious albu...
Best Coast
California Nights
PUBLISHED May 4, 2015
Calling out Bethany Cosentino, a 20-something, vaguely famous woman, for chronicling the trials and tribulations of 20-something, vaguely f...
Speedy Ortiz
Foil Deer
PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2015
Critics like to peg Speedy Ortiz as heirs to the Pavement throne. But while there is a fair bit of slack in the band's playing that, in the...
Brian Wilson
No Pier Pressure
PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2015
Since his creative re-emergence with the Wondermints in 1999, Brian Wilson has been a steady presence both in the studio and on the road, p...
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
James Keach
PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2015
With the exception of Metallica's Some Kind of Monster, no music doc exposes the person behind the artist like I'll Be Me. Following countr...