Articles by Ian Gormely

U2

Songs of Experience

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2017

Following the relative disappointment of No Line on the Horizon, Songs of Innocence seemed intended as an All That You Can't Leave Behind-e...

An Essential Guide to U2

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2017

It's not easy being a U2 fan these days.   The band's massive popularity and scale, coupled with their populous rhetoric, makes it kind of...

Meligrove Band

Planets Conspire (Reissue)

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2017

The early 2000s was a heady time in indie rock. The genre's Brooklynization was in full swing; north of the border, Toronto and Montreal we...

An Essential Guide to R.E.M.

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2017

R.E.M. are indie rock's Beatles.   Like the Fab Four, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry codified the genre, then laid ou...

Paramore / Best Coast

Massey Hall, Toronto ON, October 13

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2017

"Where were you in 2007?"   That's the question Paramore's Hayley Williams asked toward the end of the band's recent Toronto stop. She want...

​The Killers' Brandon Flowers

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2017

The road to Wonderful Wonderful, the first new album from the Killers in five years, was long and winding. In the years since Battle Born,...

Pinegrove

The Velvet Underground, Toronto ON, September 22

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2017

Pinegrove's word-of-mouth ascent over the past year has been astounding; the New Jersey quartet have gone from the bottom of multi-band bil...

The Killers

Wonderful Wonderful

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2017

"Have All the Songs Been Written" caps off the Killers' latest album, Wonderful Wonderful, and fans could be forgiven if they'd thought tha...