Articles by Ian Gormely

Taking Back Sunday

Twenty

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2019

Taking Back Sunday were always a fan's band, a pivotal part of Long Island's turn-of-the-millennium punk scene who mostly confused critics....

Maggie Rogers

Heard It in a Past Life

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2019

There's a brief moment in the middle of Maggie Rogers' full-length debut where she brings things to a screeching halt. Up until piano balla...

Troye Sivan, SOPHIE, Tirzah and Empress Of Represent the Future of Pop

Best of 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2018

While a whiff of nostalgia hung across the 2018 pop landscape, the past 12 months were nevertheless a banner year for forward-thinking pop...

The 1975 on Living on the Internet, New Album 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships,' and Why Another One's Coming Soon

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2018

A lot of artists can thank the internet for their career, but few embrace it as wholeheartedly as a total aesthetic as the 1975. From lead...

The 1975

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

Audacity is the 1975's bread and butter — no idea is too bold, no question too messy. So when word came that the English quartet were plann...

Microphones, Mount Eerie and Melancholy: The Career of Phil Elverum

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2018

In another life, Phil Elverum could have had Conor Oberst's career. A wunderkind recording wiz who made beguiling DIY recordings in the lat...

R.E.M.

R.E.M. at the BBC

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2018

By the early '90s, R.E.M. were one of the biggest bands in the world. Yet, even as 1991's Out of Time and 1992's Automatic For the People r...

Mitski

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, October 22

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2018

It was halfway through Mitski Miyawaki's sold out Toronto show that it happened — during "Townie," the rousing second track from her 2014 b...