Articles by Ian Gormely

Kylie Minogue Is the Soccer of Pop Artists: Huge Worldwide, Never Caught On in North America

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2018

Kylie Minogue doesn't make trends so much as ride them. Like fellow cultural icon Madonna (forever the female pop singer ideal), the pint-s...

Natalie Prass Had Her New Record Done — Then Trump Got Elected, Changing 'The Future and the Past'

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2018

It's been three years since Natalie Prass dropped her gorgeous, self-titled debut, and six years since she recorded it. The first thing tha...

Natalie Prass

The Future and the Past

PUBLISHED May 31, 2018

Some would say love and politics are incongruous concepts. Natalie Prass says that's rubbish.   In late 2016, the Richmond, VA artist was p...

Hatchie

Sugar & Spice

PUBLISHED May 25, 2018

It's hard to believe Harriett Pillbeam was sitting on most of the songs that make up her debut EP for several years. So sticky-sweet are th...

Chvrches

Love Is Dead

PUBLISHED May 24, 2018

Even as their popularity inched ever-closer to mainstream recognition, Chvrches always kept one foot planted firmly in the underground. Tha...

Dusted

The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 12

PUBLISHED May 13, 2018

Tech issues pushed back Dusted's already late start time, so it was a bold move for group mastermind (and Holy Fuck member) Brian Borcherdt...

Jo Passed

The Garrison, Toronto ON, May 12

PUBLISHED May 13, 2018

Jo Passed sprang from the ashes of Sprïng, a weirdo Vancouver art band who never really found their stride. But in Jo Passed, singer-guitar...

Deliluh

Lower Bay Station, Toronto ON, May 11

PUBLISHED May 12, 2018

West-end Toronto stalwarts Deliluh have been making a bit of a stir in the city's underground for some time now, and an upcoming reissue of...