Articles by Ian Gormely

'Topp: Promoter Gary Topp Brought Us the World' Is a Deeply Affecting Tribute to One of Toronto's Unsung Rock Heroes

By David Collier with Gary Topp and Patrick Lee

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2020

Rock history has little love for promoters. Over the genre's 65 years, promoters, the folks who book artists into venues, tend to be portra...

Fontaines D.C. Are as Uncertain as Ever, in a Good Way, on 'A Hero's Death'

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2020

What do you do when all your dreams have come true? This is the question that haunts A Hero's Death, the sophomore album from Dublin post-p...

100 gecs' Star-Studded 'Tree of Clues' Remix Album Proves the Haters Wrong

PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2020

100 gecs tend to elicit a lot of strong opinions, as well as a lot of questions: Are they for real? Did they just call someone a "piss baby...

The Streets Stick to What They're Good at on 'None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive'

PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2020

Few artists have managed to bottle the feeling of being a young, modern English urbanite quite like Mike Skinner. An everyman MC straddling...

With 'Women in Music Pt. III,' HAIM Finally Have an Album That Lives Up to Their Incredible Shows

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2020

There's always been an incongruity between HAIM in the studio and HAIM on stage. Whereas the trio's first two albums were polished and smoo...

Japandroids Prove Themselves Worthy of 'Massey Fucking Hall' on Triumphant Live Album

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2020

Japandroids seem tailored for the live experience – made up of shredding guitar, pounding drums and gang-vocal "whoa-oh" choruses, their mu...

Reunited CanRock Heroes Sleepless Nights Improve Upon Their Legacy with 'Every Word Is a Trap'

PUBLISHED May 29, 2020

Sleepless Nights' star burned bright in the late aughts, before the band's 2009 disillusion. Yet the band's legend – at least on Canada's E...

The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Is Less Navel Gazey Than It Has Any Right to Be

PUBLISHED May 22, 2020

The 1975 have built a career taking familiar sounds and pushing them into unfamiliar places. It's a thread that winds throughout their disc...