Articles by Ian Gormely

Jimmy Eat World

Integrity Blues

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2016

In the sonic realm of Jimmy Eat World, change is a subtle thing. Each of their records has its own hallmarks, but they follow a loose scrip...

Touché Amoré / Tiny Moving Parts

Mod Club Theatre, Toronto ON, October 18

PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2016

Catharsis is post-hardcore's stock and trade, and Touché Amoré delivered one of the genre's most heart-wrenching releases this year with St...

NOFX

First Ditch Effort

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2016

If you read NOFX's autobiography from earlier this year, The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, you know that many of the band's most bel...

Green Day

Revolution Radio

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2016

2004's American Idiot marked a major shift for Green Day, but not just for the reasons normally cited. On that album, Billie Joe Armstrong...

​An Essential Guide to Green Day

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2016

When Green Day broke through in 1994, few could have predicted that the Bay Area trio would still be together in 2016, let alone be one of...

Ash

Mod Club, Toronto ON, October 1

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2016

Ash always felt like an outlier among Britpop acts, probably because their music tended to reflect North American tastes as much as UK ones...

How to Dress Well Learns All About Himself Through 'Care'

PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2016

Much ink was spilled earlier this year over Kanye West's real-time tinkering with The Life of Pablo and the idea of a "living" album. And w...

Blood Orange

Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, September 21

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2016

On Freetown Sound, Dev Hynes, performing as Blood Orange, managed something most artists spend their entire careers chasing: he made a deep...