Articles by Ian Gormely

Joyce Manor

Million Dollars to Kill Me

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2018

Joyce Manor sit at a bizarre musical nexus. Fans of hardcore, pop punk, indie rock and even power-pop can all find something to love in the...

Pale Waves

My Mind Makes Noises

PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2018

Young love is pop culture's lifeblood; the amount of art that's been made in its name is staggering. Yet somehow artists keep finding fresh...

Dirty Projectors Through the Years: A Spectrum of Sound, But a Singular Vision

PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2018

There's no easy way to describe Dirty Projectors. Indie rock, R&B, punk, West African music, glitch — no single genre, song or even album c...

Blood Orange Just Released 'Negro Swan' but a New Album Might Be Just Around the Corner

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2018

Blood Orange, a.k.a. Dev Hynes, just dropped his new album Negro Swan last week, but in a recent interview with Exclaim!, Hynes revealed th...

​Toronto's Root Down Studio and Jam Space, Formerly S.H.I.B.G.B.S., Wants Artists to Thrive

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2018

Building community, connecting dots — that's the mission statement behind the Root Down, a rehearsal and pre-production space on Toronto's...

Blood Orange

Negro Swan

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2018

Ascribing authorship and meaning are music critics' bread and butter, so it's a bit of a stick in the eye when artists go out of their way...

Blood Orange Couldn't Have Made 'Negro Swan' Alone

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2018

"I've always believed that just because someone writes the song, they're not the one who finishes it," says Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, "o...

Smashing Pumpkins

Scotiabank Arena, Toronto ON, August 8

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2018

Nostalgia has never really been Billy Corgan's thing. Even as the Smashing Pumpkins embarked on their "farewell tour" in 2000, the sets hea...