Articles by Ian Gormely

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  The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

  Jessica Hopper

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2015

  In one of the many essays from her new book, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, Jessica Hopper recounts hang...

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  Rich Aucoin

  The Great Hall, Toronto ON, May 9

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2015

  By now, Rich Aucoin's live show should be old hat. The constant road warrior hits Toronto alone three or four times every year, yet people...

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  Bo Ningen

  Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, May 8

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2015

  Throw pretty much any genre tag at Bo Ningen and you're likely to hit the mark. Though nominally acid rock, the London-via-Tokyo quartet ha...

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  King Tuff

  Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, May 8

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2015

  King Tuff gets the short end of the garage rock stick. Though Kyle Thomas is one of modern garage rock's most hooky and infectious songwrit...

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  Palma Violets

  Danger in the Club

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2015

  Palma Violets stood out from the rest of the Libertines and early Arctic Monkeys mimics due to their ramshackle swagger and infectious albu...

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  Best Coast

  California Nights

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2015

  Calling out Bethany Cosentino, a 20-something, vaguely famous woman, for chronicling the trials and tribulations of 20-something, vaguely f...

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  Speedy Ortiz

  Foil Deer

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2015

  Critics like to peg Speedy Ortiz as heirs to the Pavement throne. But while there is a fair bit of slack in the band's playing that, in the...

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  Brian Wilson

  No Pier Pressure

  PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2015

  Since his creative re-emergence with the Wondermints in 1999, Brian Wilson has been a steady presence both in the studio and on the road, p...