Articles by Ian Gormely

Japanese Breakfast

Soft Sounds from Another Planet

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2017

The first Japanese Breakfast album, Psychopomp, was an anomaly, a necessary funnel for Michelle Zauner's emotions as she tended to her aili...

Allie X

Being Allie X

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2017

"Identity is something that I explore in all my work," says L.A.-based Canadian pop singer Allie X. "This project is a way for me to naviga...

A Distorted Revolution: How Eric's Trip Changed Moncton, Music and Me

By Jason Murray

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2017

"Cult heroes" isn't the aspiration for most bands, but looking back at the short, inspirational life of Eric's Trip, it's hard to view the...

​At the Drive-In

Interpolating Relations of Complexity

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2017

From their inception, At the Drive-In were never a band built to last. Formed by singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Jim Ward in 1993...

Allie X Quits Writing Hits For Others and Charts Her Own Path on 'CollXtion II'

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2017

"Identity is something that I explore in all my work," says Allie X, explaining the concept behind her full-length debut, CollXtion II (out...

An Essential Guide to Chris Cornell

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2017

Chris Cornell contained multitudes. A wailing banshee who would transform into soulful crooner — sometimes across just a few bars of music...

The Avalanches

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, June 8

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2017

Sample-based music was on the outs even when the Avalanches dropped their stunning debut, Since I Left You, back in 2000, yet at the time,...

​Perfume Genius

Discomfort Zone

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2017

Mike Hadreas was frustrated.   As work began on the followup to Too Bright, his 2014 breakthrough as Perfume Genius, he found himself sitti...