Articles by Ian Gormely

Frankie Rose

Interstellar

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2012

Frankie Rose's first solo effort, credited to Frankie Rose & the Outs, did little to distance the one-time Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts...

Eamon McGrath

Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON February 18

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2012

Playing exclusively new material is a ballsy move, even for the most established artists. So when Toronto-based musician Eamon McGrath anno...

Islands

A Sleep & a Forgetting

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

No matter how much we want them to be, Islands are not the Unicorns. Since Nick Thorburn and Jamie Thompson struck out on their own, the gr...

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III

PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2012

Robot Chicken, like Family Guy, with whom the show shares a number of writers and voice actors, has made a small cottage industry out of mi...

Rococode

Guns, Sex & Glory

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

If Vancouver's indie scene can be said to have a sound, it's a sure bet that Said the Whale, Tegan and Sara and Mother Mother have had a ha...

Lemonheads

Hotel Sessions

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

Evan Dando's reconstituted Lemonheads line-up haven't sparked his creative juices. Instead of new material, this latest release offers a co...

Real Steel [Blu-Ray]

Shawn Levy

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2012

Director Shawn Levy has built a career on not-terrible, light comedies like Date Night and the Night at the Museum franchise. Coupled with...

The Darkness

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON February 1

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2012

Chuck Klosterman once wrote that the Darkness would never truly make it in North America. The U.S., he argued, would never embrace the band...