Articles by Ian Gormely

Pkew Pkew Pkew

Pkew Pkew Pkew

PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2016

When the band's name is a child's onomatopoeia for gunfire, it's a safe bet that their music won't be winning any awards for artful wordpla...

Holy Fuck

​Where I Play

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016

Brian Borcherdt's basement studio in the west end of Toronto is just a ten-minute walk away from Graham Walsh's similar recording setup. Bu...

Holy Fuck

Congrats

PUBLISHED May 27, 2016

Holy Fuck are about the closest thing Canadians have to an electronic noise-rock jam band. That the quartet have managed to forge a career...

Aanthems

Die Every Night

PUBLISHED May 27, 2016

The press release for Vancouver duo Aanthems claims Fugazi as the members' favourite band — "but we still love Bryan Adams."   While you wo...

Holy Fuck on How They Pulled Themselves Apart and Put Themselves Back Together Again for 'Congrats'

PUBLISHED May 26, 2016

Six years is a long time in music. "A lifetime," confirms Holy Fuck's Brian Borcherdt. Yet a half-dozen years between albums was welcome an...

Modern Baseball Get Serious for 'Holy Ghost'

PUBLISHED May 18, 2016

Modern Baseball's 2014 record, You're Gonna Miss It All, gave credence to their semi-official motto, "whatever, forever." But that lax atti...

Modern Baseball

Holy Ghost

PUBLISHED May 11, 2016

"I hate worrying about the future."   So sang Brendan Lukens on Modern Baseball's last record, You're Gonna Miss it All, a record that serv...

White Lung

Paradise

PUBLISHED May 5, 2016

About 20 seconds into "Narcoleptic," the second song on White Lung's latest, Paradise, Kenneth William's guitar drops out of the mix, leavi...