Articles by Ian Gormely

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  Broken Bells

  After the Disco

  PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2014

  Its name suggests a post party come-down but Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton) and James Mercer's second album as Broken Bells opens with...

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  The Lawrence Arms

  Metropole

  PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2014

  The return of the Lawrence Arms couldn't be better timed. The Chicago band hit the studio just as dozens of the groups they've influenced a...

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  Darkside

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON, January 15

  PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2014

  Given the current "just press play" trend amongst maximalist EDM DJs, it's not only refreshing to watch an electronic artist actually play...

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  Big Ups

  Eighteen Hours of Static

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2014

  If ever there was a case for musicians living a life at odds with the music they create, Big Ups is it. These four grads from NYU's Music T...

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  Exclaim!'s 2013 in Lists:

  5 Albums Heralding the Return of Pop Punk

  PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2013

  Pop punk's been a dirty word since Blink-182 dropped trou and went running around Los Angeles back in 1999. But while the version of the ge...

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  Saving Mr. Banks

  John Lee Hancock

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2013

  No one is as aware of Disney's history in Western Culture as the studio itself. That's why you see the company backing films like Who Frame...

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  The Lone Ranger [Blu-Ray]

  Gore Verbinski

  PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2013

  So much racism, so little space. Disney's stab at the Lone Ranger will go down as the summer of 2013's John Carter/Cutthroat Island/Heave...

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  Sebastien Grainger

  The Exclaim! Questionnaire

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2013

  While Death From Above 1979's reunion has taken up the lion's share of Sebastien Grainger's time of late, the musician still found time to...