Articles by Ian Gormely

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...

Deftones

Beauty and Brutality

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2016

Deftones always buck expectations. Perpetually lumped in with the nü-metal scene that briefly captured mainstream attention at the end of t...

NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

By NOFX with Jeff Alulis

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2016

Like all good punks, NOFX enjoy subverting the norm. That was their modus operandi when the band formed in the mid-'80s (and purposefully o...

Black Mountain

An Uncertain Future

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2016

Don't believe a word Stephen McBean says.   Speaking about IV, the new record from his Vancouver-based band Black Mountain, the singer-guit...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Deftones

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2016

Deftones often confound expectations. Although many wrote them off along with their so-called nu-metal peers, the Sacramento band weathered...