Archive for April, 2011

Kisses »

SITTING IN A TREE
Sometimes there can be nothing more earnest than a kiss. No, not a sloppy, whisky-induced dance floor make out, but a real kiss; that one between two people who care about each other, and know each other’s last names.
Los Angeles’ Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson make up the disco-esque duo Kisses. [...]

ION THE WEB – Issue 71 »

9 EYES
In May, 2007, Google mounted a black cylinder outfitted with nine cameras on top of a van and began trawling the streets of major urban centres. Anything and everything that lay within the vehicle’s wake was captured in 360 degrees, the resultant images stitched together in an infinite panoramic mobius strip to create what [...]

Louise Burns »

LET IT BURN
Everything about Louise Burns is polarizing. Despite never meeting her before our conversation, I was shocked how much she revealed to me, while also displaying a side so mysterious that even her revelations are a wonder unto themselves. Sure, she comes off extremely well-read, but Burns’ fascinations reveal a more childlike nature – [...]

SELECT[ION] »

Every summer we’re cursed with the constant declarations of our hip, music obsessed friends about what the “summer jam” is. By the time the sun has come and gone and all the beach road rockets are put away you’ve sadly realized that the song that’s been rattling Toyota doors more than any other all summer [...]

Horoscopes – Issue 71 »

THIS MONTH: MAXWELL MAXWELL
Maxwell Maxwell makes silly, electronic beep-boop music and sometimes he DJs at shirts-off sparkle parties around Canada and the States. He also makes songs for his friend Peter Breeze to sing, some of which are played by other DJs at shirts-off sparkle parties around the world. He likes burritos, Ace of Base, [...]

Ion The Prize »

TRETORN
Spring is here and so is the crazy spring weather. You know what I am talking about, sun one minute, rain the next. To help you navigate the changes in weather the kind folks over at Tretorn have given us two pairs of Wellies, one for guys and one for girls. Want to win? Go [...]

Ion Style »

The Raveonettes »

RAVE ON… AND ON… AND ON
True innovators are never in style. To carry culture’s musical flag it’s important to be just ahead of the double helix that is popularity versus critical adoration. The Ravonettes have made rock and roll when guitars were scarce; mysterious ballads when ecstasy-soaked house beats were the rage, [...]