Articles by Ian Gormely

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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...

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  Tweak Bird

  Undercover Crops

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2012

  It's easy to see how brothers Caleb and Ashton Bird fell in with the Melvins ― the Carbondale, IL based-duo, who perform under the na...

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  Peace

  The World Is Too Much With Us

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2012

  "Angular" is a descriptor that gets tossed around a great deal when describing modern post-punk. Yet it's hardly an inherent characteristic...

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  Ladyhawk

  No Can Do

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2012

  Given the long gap between 2008's Shots, and this, Ladyhawk's third record, you could be excused for heightened expectations. The band have...

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  METZ

  METZ

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2012

  It took them a couple of years, but Toronto's METZ have finally followed up on the scorched earth path blazed by their trio of promising se...

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  Flowers of Hell

  Odes

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2012

  Talk about an about-face. Trans-Atlantic orchestra the Flowers of Hell's last album was a sprawling single-track opus called O. It's tough...