Articles by Ian Gormely

Surf Dads

Long Weekend EP

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2018

There's no shortage of bands claiming affinity with Weezer's '90s heyday, but few can match the veteran power-poppers' knack for pairing cr...

Chvrches Explored All Their Options Before Making 'Love Is Dead'

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2018

"Can I call you on your bullshit?"   It's evening in New York and Lauren Mayberry, lead singer for Scottish synth-pop act Chvrches, is sett...

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...