Articles by Ian Gormely

black midi

Schlagenheim

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2019

What are black midi? Post-punk, noise rock, funk? Another over-hyped UK buzz band? A mirror for our collective anxiety?   They are all this...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Sum 41

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2019

Amidst the pop-punk boom of the early aughts, Ajax, ON outfit Sum 41 stood out for their huge hooks, hair metal homages and bratty antics —...

Rising UK Rockers black midi Bring the Noise on Debut 'Schlagenheim'

PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2019

"All he said before the gig was, 'I'm going to jump up in the air and when I land, just go into noise and we'll see what happens.'"   These...

An Artist-First Mentality Is Key to Taurus Recording

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2019

"Not even joking," Thomas D'Arcy says, looking at all the knobs and dials on his mixing board, "I would say five percent of why I became a...

black midi's Debut LP 'Schlagenheim' Is Part Talking Heads, Part Noise, All Consuming

PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2019

"All he said before the gig was, 'I'm going to jump up in the air and when I land, just go into noise and we'll see what happens."   These...

​Perry Farrell's Got a New Album, a New Band and, He Says, a Lot of Plans

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2019

Whether he was fronting Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros or conceiving groundbreaking touring behemoth Lollapalooza, throughout the '90...

The 1975

Budweiser Stage, Toronto ON, June 3

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2019

Calling the 1975 "an internet band" is so common it's become a cliché. But what that not-untrue characterization of the UK quartet misses i...

'Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind' Is a Familiar Tale Well Told

Directed by Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe

PUBLISHED May 23, 2019

Rock docs rarely offer contrition from their subjects. Yet it's the first things we see in the opening scene of the new Gordon Lightfoot do...