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Ian Gormely

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Growing up in Vancouver, Ian always feared he'd die buried under a pile of his own CDs, records and music magazines. Now based in Toronto, he still believes that this is how he'll die, only now he rests easy knowing he got paid to listen to all those albums.

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The Walkmen, Heaven: Fleet Foxes Connection Prevents Helplessness Blues
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The Walkmen, Heaven: Fleet Foxes Connection Prevents Helplessness Blues

Jason Merritt, FilmMagic When discussing Heaven, the seventh full-length from New York rockers The Walkmen, it's difficult to ignore the ever-present influence of indie-folk rockers Fleet Foxes. Prior to even meeting the Foxes, Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser was a fan. Then The Walkmen opened for Fleet Foxes in 2011, playing cushy ...

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YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN Create Video Game to Showcase Rock Opera

YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN Toronto-and-Montreal noh-rock collective YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN have just a half-dozen southern Ontario dates on their current tour to promote last year's re-release of their debut album, YT//ST, by Paper Bag Records. But it's with good reason. On top of working on that album's much anticipated follow up, the band are ...

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Soundgarden, Kim Thayil: Guitarist Avoided 'B-Grade' Acts During Hiatus

Cindy Ord, Getty Even during their 13-year long hiatus, the members of Soundgarden were busy dudes. Chris Cornell launched a solo career before delivering three records with Audioslave and an ill-conceived collaboration with producer Timbaland. Bass player Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron played in Wellwater Conspiracy and Hater ...

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Interpol's Paul Banks Revisits 'Turn on the Bright Lights' 10 Years After

Paul Banks Facebook It's hard to believe it's been a decade since Interpol released their debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights. The group have since weathered band-member departures, major label deals and a thousand imitators, but to many their debut is still the quartet's moody, unimpeachable peak. It turns out their former label ...

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Never Mind 'Nevermind': 10 Underrated '90s Alternative Albums

Getty Once upon a time, music fans had to actually pay for all their music, a phenomenon that peaked in the 1990s. The explosion of alt-rock left major labels awash in cash and on the hunt for "the next Nirvana." A ton of terrible music was released in the process, much of which sold by the bucket load thanks to the labels tendency to bury ...

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Ben Gibbard on Postal Service: 'People Shouldn't Hold Their Breath' Hoping For Another Album

Sub Pop Ben Gibbard has made it pretty clear that he and producer Jimmy Tamborello, a.k.a. DNTL, have no intentions of making a follow up to their much beloved one-off collaboration as the Postal Service. "There are no plans to make a second record," Gibbard told Spinner in a recent interview. "I can't say that enough." It turns out ...

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Hannah Georgas Gets Help From Holy Fuck Member to Go More Electronic

Vanessa Heins Hannah Georgas sits sprawled in a booth in the upstairs of Toronto's Rivoli club, sick as dog. "It's the worse timing," she tells Spinner. "But what can you do?" Georgas isn't kidding. With her self-titled sophomore album barely a week old, and an ensuing tour looming, it's hard to imagine a more inconvenient time for the ...

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