Articles by Ian Gormely

Heavy Cream

Super Treatment

PUBLISHED May 8, 2012

The thin line between metal and punk is a hard one to walk. Even at their height, bands like the Runaways and Girl School struggled to sust...

The Cribs

In the Belly of the Brazen Bull

PUBLISHED May 7, 2012

After taking a battering from critics early in their career, the Cribs' decision (dumb luck?) to nab former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr fo...

Eamon McGrath

Young Canadians

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2012

On his third album proper, Eamon McGrath blazes a jingoistic path in an attempt to capture what defines Canada and its music. And while it'...

Eamon McGrath

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2012

On his third album proper, Eamon McGrath blazes a jingoistic path in an attempt to capture what defines Canada and its music. And while it'...

Dead Man

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2012

It's fitting that Jim Jarmusch's most commercial, on the surface, film – a western starring Johnny Depp, with music by Neil Young – is also...

Upside Down

Danny O'Connor

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2012

It's fitting that Alan McGee and Bobby Gillespie first bonded at a Thin Lizzy concert; despite its cache as one of the UK's most respected...

Echotone

Nathan Christ

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2012

There's a moment in Nathan Christs' new documentary of the Austin, TX music scene, Echotone, where A/V Club city editor Sean O'Neal throws...

Public Image Ltd. Live at Rockpalast 1983

Christian Wagner

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2012

Recorded between 1981's The Flowers of Romance and 1984's This is What You Want… This What You Get (on the same tour that yielded 198...