Reviews of the latest by Charlie Alex March, Martha and The Muffins, Massive Attack and Vampire Weekend.

Reviews of the latest by Basia Bulat, Beach House, Four Tet and Los Campesinos!

Trevor Risk’s Best of ‘09

Louise Burns’ Best of ‘09

John Mutch’s Best of ‘09

Reviews of the latest from Gift of Gab, Eugene Mirman, RJD2 and Tegan and Sara.

Reviews of the latest by Michael Bublé, Echo & the Bunnymen, El Perro Del Mar and Fuck Buttons.

Reviews of the latest by Apples in Stereo, Felix Da Housecat, Hope Sandoval, Magenta Lane, No Age, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and You Say Party! We Say Die!

Twenty-five-year-old Garret Egles’ posters are disgusting. Not Cannibal Corpse-disgusting, but pretty gross. This style may be considered pretty off-putting when it’s shoved in your face by a crackhead while in the undesirable quadrant of your city, but when it’s used to promote hands-up, wild parties, it proves effective. “Overall I would say it’s generally bloody [...]

Reviews of the latest from The Almighty Defenders, Girls, The Hidden Cameras, The Raveonettes, Taken by Trees, TV Heart Attack and Yo La Tengo.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reviews of the latest by Au Revoir Simone, The Dandy Warhols, Gossip, Hayden, Major Lazer, Minto, Mos Def and Moto Boy after the jump.

Gregg Gordon’s first poster was for Ozzfest, a make-money scheme created by Sharon Osbourne in which she actually charged bands thousands of dollars to open for a tired, water bucket-wielding version of her husband. Still, it’s not a bad project to get thrown your way when you begin making concert merchandise for Sony. As the [...]

Reviews of the latest by Rick Ross, Super Furry Animals, The Venture Bros and Years after the jump.

Reviews of the latest by Camera Obscura, Dirty Projectors, Jeffrey Lewis and Passion Pit.