Articles by Ian Gormely

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  Tame Impala

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, November 12

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2012

  If Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker really wants to shake the psychedelic tag as much as he claims, he's going to have to ditch the morphi...

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  Queen

  Greatest Video Hits

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2012

  Few '70s hard rock bands weathered the onslaught of MTV as well as Queen. Of course, this coincided with an increasingly pop-oriented sound...

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  Vinyl Williams

  Lemniscate

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2012

  Experimental pop has become pretty lazy shorthand for artists that aspire to sonic experimentation paired with pop hooks, or the aural desc...

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  Nothing

  Downwards Years to Come

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2012

  Aggressive rockers going shoegaze has officially trumped punks going folk as the most common genre flip, with Philadelphia, PA's Nothing, f...

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  Indian Handcrafts

  Civil Disobedience for Losers

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2012

  Toronto, ON pair Indian Handcrafts continue to pummel listeners with latest effort Civil Disobedience for Losers. The duo, made up of Fox J...

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  The Mohawk Lodge

  Damaged Goods

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2012

  Coming after the brilliant, slow-burning build of Crimes, the Mohawk Lodge's latest, Damaged Goods, feels like a tossed-off afterthought. T...

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  Rain Over St.Ambrose

  Truth for News

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2012

  Coming barely a year after their initial four-track EP, Rain Over St. Ambrose's full-length debut improves on the meat and potatoes modern...

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  Julie Doiron

  So Many Days

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2012

  Julie Doiron has worn many hats over the years — as a founding member of Eric's Trip, she led the Wooden Stars to a Juno and released...