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The organizers of Toronto’s North By Northeast Festival have decided to bill the event as something between a local Indie showcase and an A-list moneymaker. This year, ION made certain treks (some country-wide, some not) to get tits-deep into this confusing, but altogether not-unpleasant summer scene of parties, lectures, bands and handshakes. Here [...]

Warning, this interview may contain spoilers!
Screw objectivity. Eli Roth is awesome. He’s almost singlehandedly responsible for reinvigorating the horror genre back in 2002 with Cabin Fever. Yes, his directorial debut was an entertaining, low-budget, gore and boobiefest. More importantly though, Cabin Fever was wickedly successful and let Hollywood studios know it was okay to make [...]

Youtube, Twitter, Facebook
By now you know probably know about our Twitter and Facebook accounts. But did you know we now have a Youtube channel? Yes, it’s ridiculous. We are masters of all social media. Check out our Youtube channel to see a behind the scenes look of our cover shoot with Patrick Wolf. Sadly, [...]

At first glance, Sarah Joncas’ paintings of pouty, buxom damsels in distress seem like intense glimpses into the mysterious mind of a tortured Robert Smith-infatuated artist. But the reality is quite the opposite: Sarah’s artwork really reflects her love of pop surrealism, dichotomy and subjects that provoke a second look. Whatever her inspiration may be, [...]

The music industry, more than any other, is known for its constantly changing astrology. There are those few stars that have found a permanent home in the shifting constellations of music history—indelible pinpricks in the sky, whose perfectly coiffed and carefully managed images take years to arrive down on Earth. And even after they die, [...]

There is something of the Old World in Montreal artist Heidi Taillefer’s work, a reminiscent and romantic air. So it was no surprise when she disclosed that just the other day, as she was walking through the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, she found herself daydreaming about being a member of the Medici family during [...]

If you haven’t yet heard of The Juan MacLean you’ve probably been sitting in a nuclear bunker waiting for shit to hit the fan or eroding in Middle America. With their latest effort, The Future Will Come, released in April on the acclaimed DFA records, The Juan MacLean are now touring, leaving kids from city [...]

Mike Davis is part of a graphic design/screenprinting collective (group? troupe? I dunno…) called Burlesque of North America, and is a self-proclaimed lover of Canada. BoNA are a neat-o assortment of young men who appear to rival the ION staff for the title of having the most fun at their jobs. Here’s the creation story [...]

Get acquainted with some of our wonderful contributors, INTERN [DANIEL JOHN HARDY] and PHOTOGRAPHER [NORMAN WONG]

Never meet your idols. Something that’s been said by me (or to me) so many times in my urban second life that it’s beginning to sound like a bile-producing cliché. I’ve listened to local, professional defencemen crassly put down the quality of women in my city, I’ve nearly got in a fist fight with a [...]

August. What does this mean? Heat. Boiling hot weather that seams to never end. It may be absolutely gorgeous outside, but the downside is we all have to resort to the basic cotton t-shirt and shorts. If you try accessorizing with something that will remotely add to the heat of the summer, you’ll be sweating [...]

Get acquainted with some of our wonderful contributors, PHOTOGRAPHER [JEREMY R. JANSEN] and MAKEUP ARTIST [JON HENNESSEY]

Summer is in full force. This means nothing but reruns on TV and soulless films that will make you stupider by merely thinking about them. This also means “A hotdog from 7-11 and a tallboy of Budweiser” is an acceptable answer to the question “What did you have for breakfast?” After you load up that [...]

Go back to school being the most stylish one in your class courtesy of Lady Dutch. With fashion denim at its core, the collection is ready to go from runway, to everyday. So join the club and be that urban diva that will conquer the world, even if you’re just starting with your school. With [...]

On the cover this month is Patrick Wolf. Hailing from London, Patrick is as charming and friendly as he is talented. This is saying a lot because he can play about 30 instruments and puts on an amazing live show. It’s impossible to pigeonhole Patrick to a single style of music as he plays as [...]