Articles by Ian Gormely

David Bowie: the Calm Before the Storm: Under Review 1969 to 1971

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

David Bowie's the type of artist whose career has been examined and dissected ever since the chameleon-like star first set his platform boo...

Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements

Gorman Bechard

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

How do you profile a band without using any of there music? It's not a new dilemma — plenty of el-cheapo, straight-to-DVD docs have d...

Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender

Rhys Thomas

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2012

With the Frankenstein corpse of Queen marching across the globe, in both their Broadway musical and truncated band reunion versions, the ti...

Memory Tapes

Grace/Confusion

PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2012

Dayve Hawk has worn many hats over the years: Hail Social, Memory Cassette and, now, Memory Tapes. But even under his current guise, the Ne...

Juno Concert Series featuring Matt Mays, Kathleen Edwards, July Talk, Jully Black

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON, December 1

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2012

After the success of last year's Juno Decades series, organizers rightly thought another round of Canadian covers was in order. Put togethe...

The Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide:

Artists' Wishlists featuring Jully Black, Rose Cousins, Ivy Mari, Aidan Knight

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2012

By now, the Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide should have given you an idea of what your music fan wants this holiday season (and what they defin...

Mudhoney Live: Berlin 1988

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2012

In the liner notes for this recently unearthed grainy concert footage, music scribe Stevie Chick goes to great lengths to emphasize the sei...

The Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide:

Artists' Best and Worst Gifts Ever featuring Hannah Georgas, Ladyhawk, the Luyas, Austra

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2012

The Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide concludes with input from a host of Canadian musicians about the ups and down of gift-giving. Today, that m...