Articles by Ian Gormely

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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...

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  Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

  James Keach

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2015

  With the exception of Metallica's Some Kind of Monster, no music doc exposes the person behind the artist like I'll Be Me. Following countr...

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  Belle and Sebastian

  Massey Hall, Toronto ON, April 1

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2015

  Belle and Sebastian occupy a rare musical space. Though the band lack "hits" in the traditional sense, they boast a robust back catalogue w...

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  Young Guv

  Mednick Mansion

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015

  "Musical A.D.D." That's how musician, producer and label head Ben Cook characterizes his prodigious output.   It also explains how someone...

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  The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

  Peter Jackson

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015

  Anne McCaffrey would be very upset. In Smaug, Peter Jackson has one of the most intriguing dragons in fantasy history. And yet within 10 mi...