Articles by Ian Gormely

No Flash Please!: Underground Music in Toronto 1987-92

By Derek von Essen and Phil Saunders

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2016

No Flash Please! chronicles an important half-decade in Canadian music and underground music in general. This is the buildup to "the year p...

Hot Hot Heat Talk Their Final Goodbye and Lasting Legacy

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2016

Hot Hot Heat should be well into the reunion phase of their career. Instead, though, the Vancouver quartet emerged from hibernation to anno...

Modern Baseball / Joyce Manor

The Opera House, Toronto ON, June 19

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2016

Modern Baseball's latest, Holy Ghost, showcased the dichotomy at the heart of the Philly band's songwriting. On one side is Jake Ewald's lo...

​Pkew Pkew Pkew on How They Just Wanted to Do Something Different on Album No. 2

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2016

Alcohol looms large in the legend of Pkew Pkew Pkew.   "When we started it, the band was an excuse to do something productive while we were...

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...