The whole Crouching Tiger Art-Fu thing was cool for a while, but when it comes down to it, it’s kind of stupid that people are flying. I also don’t care about character development or cheesy love stories. If I’m watching a martial arts film, I just want to see a lot of people get their [...]

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“Good bands will find a way to make it work,” says an excited Kip Berman on the telephone from his self-proclaimed “dirty” home in Brooklyn. Kip is the kind of young man you would dream about as a teenager in the Nineties who would swoop into your town with his collection of Sonic Youth cassettes [...]

Reviews of the latest by Animal Collective, Circlesquare, Cut Off Your Hands, Faunts, Guns N’ Roses, Love is All, Mr. Oizo and A.C. Newman after the jump.

First issue of the most exciting year for ION yet! We have some awesome new staff. We have an awesome new look. We have an awesome new office. We have some awesome new mobile technology that’ll enhance your experience with the magazine. And now we have an awesome new website as well. Guess how this [...]

[1] We Have A New Address
Hello people who send us creepy letters and promotional companies that send us crappy CDs. Over the holidays ION has relocated to a lovely new office in a charmingly cruddy area of town. Our new address is Suite 303, 505 Hamilton Street. Vancouver, BC V6B 2R1. Update your mailing list [...]

During my first year of university my dorm room looked like an Ikea catalogue photo, complete with the framed print of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night.” At three feet by four feet, it was the largest and most impressive piece of “art” I had ever owned, and I figured it would give my [...]

Camilla d’Errico is an art factory. This girl’s got an output like Andy, minus the minions. Think wide-eyed girls in futuristic cephalopod headgear, instead of Ms. Monroe and Campbell’s soup. This prolific Vancouver-based artist spends practically every moment of every day creating, or thinking about creating. Her body of work spans many genres and mediums, [...]

These eclectic and gorgeous hand-crafted rosaries are made from Swarovski crystals and glass beads custom made to your liking. All come with a double-sided religious center, a mini bible locket and the world’s smallest harmonica in the key of C. No two rosaries are alike just like you. So hop, skip and jump your way [...]

Pip Brown is sitting in her hotel room in Melbourne, waiting for another call. Today the girl known as Ladyhawke is more like Rapunzel. She waits for the phone to ring, and for a voice to appear on the other end of the line, from the other end of the world, and for it to [...]

Holy moly we’ve found such a gem in Lil Tuffy this issue. Montreal has a reputation (mostly due to Leonard Cohen stories) of being more stylish than the rest of the country and we will now solidify that idea. If there were a Billboard chart for poster artistry, Lil Tuffy would be the equivalent of [...]

The Band Name Book by Noel Hudson is exactly what it sounds like. The book breaks its self up into several categories like, “animals” or “death stuff”* and then lists the bands that the author found relevant in that category with a short blurb. I found that if I scanned for a band I wanted [...]

Who said that Canada doesn’t have an emerging streetwear offering? Millburn by Owen Milburn is set to change that notion. Owen brings garments to life with hand printed graphics, paint-splattered effects, vibrant colours, an abundance of personality… oh, and an owl.

Pisces
Everything is about to go batshit crazy, Pisces. Tomorrow morning, a section of your torso will be missing and gravity will have no effect on your body between 3:30 and 5pm. This week you will witness the seas part and there on the exposed ocean floor will be the original cast members of Saved By [...]

On our cover this month is Circlesquare. Currently a resident of Berlin by way of Vancouver, he made time for us while in town shooting a music video for his latest album Songs About Dancing and Drugs. He certainly knows about dancing. Circlesquare produces ethereal electronic soundscapes that are enjoyed on dancefloors around the world [...]