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Ian Gormely

@gormely.bsky.social
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Music dork, freelance writer, indoor kid. Subscribe to the Kool Kids Music Club newsletter ⬇️⬇️⬇️ kkmc.substack.com

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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Saw "Shania Fucking Twain" last night at the Great Canadian Casino Toronto (which is actually in Etobicoke) and wrote about the experience for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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"Shania Fucking Twain" Came to Impress in Toronto │ Exclaim!
The Theatre at Great Canadian Toronto, July 15
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Colleagues and friends @bobkin.bsky.social and ‪@adamfeibel.com wrote a book about Canadian pop-punk. It's great! The confluence of "Genre I love" + "people I know" + "good book" = I interviewed them about it for the kind folks @exclaimdotca.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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"That's Punk as Hell": How Canada's Pop-Punks Defined a Generation, Critics Be Damned │ Exclaim!
Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel take a deep dive into the genre's Canuck boom in 'In Too Deep'
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Wrote about the awesome new album from Toronto noise-rock band Gloin for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social . Excellent industrial-tinged post-punk FFO Metz, Uniform, early The Men, etc. exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Gloin Break the Feedback Loop on 'All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)' │ Exclaim!
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Caught #WolfParade last night at the Concert Hall in Toronto for Night 1 of their Apologies to the Queen Mary 20th anniversary tour. Wrote about it for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Wolf Parade's 'Apologies to the Queen Mary' Toronto Anniversary Show Was a Coronation │ Exclaim!
March 11, 2025
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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Toronto pals—the Broken Social Scene documentary 'It's All Gonna Break' is screening tonight + tomorrow at the Yonge-Dundas Cineplex! www.cineplex.com/movie/its-al...
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Cineplex.com | IT’S ALL GONNA BREAK
In the early 2000’s in Toronto , a group of young creative musicians collectively known as, Broken Social Scene, got together and soon became a worldwide phenomenon.
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I wrote my very first Exclaim! cover story about Two Hours Traffic wayyyyy back in 2009 where I called them "the best thing to come out of P.E.I. since Confederation." I stand by that.
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Talked the one and only #PandaBear for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social about his new record, Sinister Grift, and how working with other musicians keeps pushing him in new and unexpected directions (also, it's good for social interaction). exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Panda Bear Embraces "Forced Interaction" to Open a Collaborative New Chapter │ Exclaim!
Noah Lennox weighs in on his new collaborations with Cindy Lee and his Animal Collective bandmates
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If Doug Ford really wanted to win this election he’d be personally digging our cars out of the snow.
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It's All Gonna Break, a great new documentary about Broken Social Scene's early years, shows how it was the friendships of its sprawling membership — the literal social scene — that have always been the Toronto collective's foundation. Via @exclaimdotca.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Broken Social Scene Doc 'It's All Gonna Break' Remembers It in People │ Exclaim!
Directed by Stephen Chung
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Where Preacher's Daughter was warm and wide open, Perverts is cold and claustrophobic, full of extended drone sequences, doomy folk dirges and lyrics spoken in a hushed whisper. My review of the new Ethel Cain "EP" Perverts for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Ethel Cain Steps Further from the Light on 'Perverts' │ Exclaim!
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Wrote about the new doc Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social It's about @themarsvolta.bsky.social and #AtTheDriveIn members Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala and their decades-long friendship. Lots of BTS ATDI/MV footage. exclaim.ca/film/article...
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'Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird' Humanizes Two of the Era's Greatest Rock Outsiders │ Exclaim!
Starring Omar Rodríguez-López, Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Currently rewatching NavySeals For the first time in 30 years. I remember none of the middle third of this movie despite seeing it numerous times when I was 12 Sidebar: it is not good at all.
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Polaris Music Prize @polarismusicprize.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Juror Gormely's #topalbums of 2024, including... 5) Ducks Ltd 9) Cindy Lee 29) Corridor Plus: Cadence Weapon, Rich Aucoin, Kaytranada, Ombiigizi
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Did the World Famous @exclaimdotca.bsky.social Questionnaire with Hollerado's Menno Versteeg. "I'm an awful singer. But I've not only supported myself, but also helped many other people pay their bills, too, based on my singing. That's absurd." exclaim.ca/music/articl...
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Menno Versteeg on Hollerado's Mistakes and Getting Choked Out by Paul McCartney's Bodyguard │ Exclaim!
"I would just get stoned and wear this sandwich board. Kids threw rocks at me," says the songwriter as he prepares to release 'Why We Run'
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Counted down my 40 favourite albums of the year. Check 'er out here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ kkmc.substack.com/p/no-56-best...
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No. 56 - Best albums of 2024 edition
40 records worthy of your precious time and attention
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Exclaim! @exclaimdotca.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Joseph Shabason, Chris A. Cummings and Thom Gill Annouce Debut Album as Cici Arthur, 'Way Through'
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Joseph Shabason, Chris A. Cummings and Thom Gill Annouce Debut Album as Cici Arthur, 'Way Through'
Toronto's Joseph Shabason, Chris A. Cummings (a.k.a. Marker Starling) and Thom Gill have joined forces, announcing their debut album
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Wrote about the one and mk.only mk.gee for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social year end albums list
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“We’re not hated because we never got really big” - Bruce McCulloch from last night’s show (I wrote this) ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Drake on “Not Like Us”: I’m fine with the content, it’s the chart placement that’s got me vexed.
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Dig Me Out Podcast @digmeoutpodcast.com · 22/11/2024
New music out 11/22 (1/2): Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom - A Peace of Us Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More Body Count - Merciless Boys Life - Home Is A Highway (Box Set) The Coward Brothers - The Coward Brothers Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City B-Sides
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Ian Gormely @gormely.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New platform, old content. In honor of #TaylorSwift being back in Toronto this weekend, an explainer for all those who "just don't get it" from last week's @torontostar.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Don’t get all the Taylor Swift hype? Get in line. But she’s famous for the reasons many great artists are
As someone with a knee-jerk skepticism of mainstream pop culture, I get it. Swift doesn’t do many interviews these days, leaving a big gap in information. Swifties fill it with
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