Articles by Ian Gormely

The Mars Volta Throw Away Their Own Rulebook on Self-Titled Album

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2022

Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez have always been iconoclasts. From the antipathy that imploded At the Drive-In, to the apathy...

Luna Li Popped Even More Outside of the Bedroom in Toronto

The Axis Club, April 29

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2022

Luna Li might be the bedroom pop torch singer no one knew we needed. Drawing a straight line between bedroom pop's pillowy intimacy and the...

Nine '00s Canadian Artists You May Have Forgotten

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2022

Canadian music journalist, author and former Exclaim! associate editor Michael Barclay covers a lot of ground in his new book Hearts on Fir...

Rising Alt-Rockers PACKS Had a Heroic Toronto Homecoming

The Baby G, March 5

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2022

This night was something of a homecoming for PACKS singer-guitarist Madeline Link. Pushed out of Toronto due to the rising cost of living,...

Softcult Reject a Sexist Industry and Sharpen Their Songcraft

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2022

Courage My Love ended not with a bang but a whimper.  For over a decade, the Kitchener, ON, trio — founded by twin sisters Mercedes and Ph...

Moist Keep Their Legacy Afloat on 'End of the Ocean'

PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2022

The knock on so many Canadian '90s alt-rock bands was that they couldn't make it in the States. Try as they might, Our Lady Peace, Matthew...

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Finds His Voice in Other Artists' Words

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2021

Dave Gahan was spent. Having travelled the globe for 15 months with Depeche Mode for the English synthpop pioneers' Global Spirit Tour, th...

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Stay True to Themselves on 'When God Was Great'

PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2021

Ska, if you haven't heard, is having a moment. After two decades as the butt of many, many jokes, the genre unexpectedly found itself on a...