Articles by Ian Gormely

Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2017

In the insular world of celebrity indie rockers, David Longstreth and Amber Coffman were our Brangelina, our Bennifer — a powerhouse couple...

Japandroids / Craig Finn and the Uptown Controllers

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, Feb 17

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2017

Japandroids' second album, Celebration Rock, was written with the express purpose of sustaining the fist-pumping highs of their debut for t...

Five Surprising Facts About the New Japandroids Album 'Near to the Wild Heart of Life'

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2017

There's simplicity to Japandroids' music that belies the Vancouver duo's massive sound. At their core, it's just guitarist Brian King, drum...

Japandroids

Near to the Wild Heart of Life

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

When you've made the aural equivalent of the 100 percent emoji, where is there left to go? If you're Vancouver's Japandroids, you throw out...

Cloud Nothings

Life Without Sound

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2017

On third album Life Without Sound, Cloud Nothing replace the searing guitars, heavy breakdown and howling vocals of their last two albums w...

Uniform

Wake in Fright

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2017

Though it emerged out of singer Michael Berdan's personal struggles, it's hard not to draw a line from the current socio-political climate...

Heat

Overnight

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2017

The sound of Montreal's Heat is a melange of guitar rock influences — '90s lo-fi, shoegaze, NYC punk, UK indie — but following a three-trac...

Mr. Tophat and Robyn

Trust Me

PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2017

After remixing two Robyn tracks, Stockholm producer Mr. Tophat decided to go direct to the source for this trio of nu-disco house floor-fil...