Ian Gormely

"Shania Fucking Twain" Came to Impress in Toronto │ Exclaim! The Theatre at Great Canadian Toronto, July 15

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

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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'

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

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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! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

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.

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Wolf Parade's 'Apologies to the Queen Mary' Toronto Anniversary Show Was a Coronation │ Exclaim! March 11, 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

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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.

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...

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.

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

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).

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If Doug Ford really wanted to win this election he’d be personally digging our cars out of the snow.

Broken Social Scene Doc 'It's All Gonna Break' Remembers It in People │ Exclaim! Directed by Stephen Chung

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

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Ethel Cain Steps Further from the Light on 'Perverts' │ Exclaim! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

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

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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

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.

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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.

Juror Gormely's #topalbums of 2024, including...
5) Ducks Ltd
9) Cindy Lee
29) Corridor
Plus: Cadence Weapon, Rich Aucoin, Kaytranada, Ombiigizi

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'

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."

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No. 56 - Best albums of 2024 edition 40 records worthy of your precious time and attention

Counted down my 40 favourite albums of the year. Check 'er out here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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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

Joseph Shabason, Chris A. Cummings and Thom Gill Annouce Debut Album as Cici Arthur, 'Way Through'

Wrote about the one and mk.only mk.gee for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social year end albums list

“We’re not hated because we never got really big” - Bruce McCulloch from last night’s show (I wrote this) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Drake on “Not Like Us”: I’m fine with the content, it’s the chart placement that’s got me vexed.

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

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

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

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