Articles by Ian Gormely

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  Soundgarden

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, November 16

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2012

  One of the many things Audioslave got wrong was not utilizing Chris Cornell's dynamic voice to its full potential. Whether that was by choi...

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  Slam Dunk

  Welcome to Miami

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2012

  Transferring a rollicking live show onto record fails more often than it succeeds, so it's a testament to scrappy Victoria, BC crew Slam Du...

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  The Babies

  Our House on the Hill

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2012

  Despite their hectic day job schedules, Vivian Girls' Cassie Ramone and Woods' Kevin Morby found time to once again knock out a second albu...

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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...