Articles by Ian Gormely

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  Belle and Sebastian

  Massey Hall, Toronto ON, April 1

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2015

  Belle and Sebastian occupy a rare musical space. Though the band lack "hits" in the traditional sense, they boast a robust back catalogue w...

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  Young Guv

  Mednick Mansion

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015

  "Musical A.D.D." That's how musician, producer and label head Ben Cook characterizes his prodigious output.   It also explains how someone...

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  The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

  Peter Jackson

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015

  Anne McCaffrey would be very upset. In Smaug, Peter Jackson has one of the most intriguing dragons in fantasy history. And yet within 10 mi...

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  Drake's Homecoming: The Lost Footage

  Evan Kosiner

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2015

  Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Drake's career knows that no, Aubrey Graham did not actually start from the bottom. By all accounts...

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  Purity Ring

  Come Together

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2015

  "Begin again, begin again, begin again."   Megan James's words float overtop brooding washes of synths crafted by her musical partner Corin...

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  Twin Shadow

  Eclipse

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2015

  George Lewis Jr.'s Twin Shadow project exists in a careful balance between style and substance, with '80s pop and R&B tropes and tones punc...

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  JEFF the Brotherhood

  Wasted on the Dream

  PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2015

  The Orrall brothers' relative careerism was always at odds with their fell-out-of-a Salvation-Army-donation-bin aesthetic. So it wasn't sur...

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  Chappie

  Neill Blomkamp

  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2015

  Trailers for District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's latest moralizing sci-fi epic, Chappie, told two very different stories. The first painte...