Articles by Ian Gormely

July Talk

WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 26

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2015

The onstage interplay between Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay has been the stuff of Canadian music-fest legend in recent years; what's more im...

Run the Jewels

WayHome Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 25

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2015

Anyone still wondering how Run the Jewels climbed the mountain to become one of hip-hop's most respected and talked-about acts need only se...

Danny Brown

WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 25

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2015

Hyping the crowd with tracks like Waka Flocka Flame's "Hard in da Paint" and A$AP Ferg's "Shabba Ranks," it was a full ten minutes before D...

Alvvays

WayBright Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 25

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2015

Alvvays' early daytime slot felt like a scheduling oversight by festival organizers. But then, few could have predicted the band's meteoric...

The Gaslight Anthem

WayBold Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 24

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2015

Their fires were dimmed slightly by the lukewarm reception to last year's Get Hurt, suggesting the Gaslight Anthem had written themselves i...

Neil Young + Promise of the Real

WayHome Stage, Oro-Medonte ON, July 24

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2015

After a pair of farm girls sowed the stage with seeds, Neil Young appeared with little fanfare, a dark hat perking out from behind a piano...

Conor Oberst

Folk In Many Guises

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2015

Conor Oberst is many things to many people. Emo wunderkind, folk troubadour, rock'n'roll saviour — he's been called it all. Yet for s...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Conor Oberst

PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2015

Few artists have charted a career path like Conor Oberst. The Omaha, NE musician got his start when he was barely a teenager, and in the en...