Category: STREET EDITION

Issue #75 on Issuu

Tim Heidecker

RHODES WARRIOR

Tim Heidecker is more awesome than his television program with Eric Wareheim could even suggest. In between production of the last season of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! and the Tim and Eric movie, he’s just released an album with his musical partner Davin Wood. Play Heidecker and Wood’s Starting From Nowhere for your dad and he’ll probably nod his head and quip something like “Ah, I remember these guys. Your mother and I used to just get in our Buick Skylark, put on this record and drive for days. Of course that was before you were born.” Starting From Nowhere although comedic, rides the wild line between dry and blatant humour both musically and lyrically. The album is proof that if artists from the late seventies released these records today, we would play them only ironically.

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Salem

DARK KNIGHTS

You’re finally releasing a full-length album after a handful of limited run EPs and 7” records. Is releasing an album a momentous thing or is it just another step?
Jack: I think it’s exciting. It’s a good step, but I don’t think any of us will feel like we can rest on our laurels or anything. It was just something that had to be done. I’m more excited about making more music and being able to do an all new full-length album. This was wrapping up three years, you know what I mean?
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Issue #69 Featuring Das Racist

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On the cover of this issue are Victor Vazquez, Ashok Kondabolu (Dapwell) and Himanshu Suri (Heems) from Das Racist. People are having a tough time putting their finger on this Brooklyn-based rap trio. The New Yorker calls them art rap, The New York Times calls them joke rap and the internet is calling them a clever and self-aware take on hip hop. Regardless of what you want to label them, they’re injecting some good times into hip hop and their sound is simultaneously being embraced by Hot 97 and Pitchfork. Their breakout track “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” is a sign of the times anthem that reached meme status last year. They followed that up this fall with “Who’s That? Brooown!,” a Tribe Called Quest-sampled burner who’s video is an 8-bit arcade game flashback (it was accompanied with a playable video game that will have you thinking of Frogger for days). With two free mixtapes under their belt—Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man—a busy touring schedule and a slew of other projects they’re working on, you better keep your eyes on these dudes because they’re poised to paint the world brown.
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Issue #67 featuring Chromeo

Dave 1 and P-Thugg

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On the cover of this issue is Dave 1 and P-Thugg from Chromeo. Being retro in the Western world ain’t easy. Having busted through the plexiglass window of sophomore slumpery with the hit LP Fancy Footwork, Chromeo are sticking to their guns—not re-inventing themselves, but rather sticking with the sound that they hold so dear. The new record, Business Casual, is a classic Chromeo record (yes, by the third record a band’s sound can be classic) that will delight both fans of their earlier work and fans of electro funk pop from decades past. ION was lucky enough to have Love & Electrik, a young and popular act of a similar genre, interview Dave1 and P-Thugg. Never again shall these two bands be in the same room, as any catastrophe would drain the Canadian funk pool down to zero.
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Chromeo On The Cover Of Issue #67

Dave 1 and P-Thugg

Here’s a sneak peek of the cover of our Fall Fashion issue. It’s features Dave 1 and P-Thugg from Chromeo. It’s printing right now so stay tuned!

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Issue #66 Featuring Die Antwoord

Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Ninja

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On the cover this month are Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord. This high energy, rave rap outfit from South Africa caused the internet to explode back in February when two videos they made, “Zef Side” and “Enter The Ninja,” spread like tuberculosis. The virus analogies can’t stop there as everything about Die Antwoord is totally infectious, be it the music, the tattoos, the hair, the Zef style, or the Afrikaans slang. Given that Die Antwoord translates from Afrikaans to The Answer, it begs one to ask: what’s the question? Probably something along the lines of, “Are these two for fokken real?” After photographing and talking to them as well as seeing their ridiculously awesome live show (their first ever in Canada), we’d have to emphatically say yes!
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Issue #65 featuring Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello

Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello

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This month’s cover features Eugene Hütz—actor, DJ, and front man for the gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello. Originally hailing from a small town near Kiev, Eugene fled Ukraine after learning of the Chernobyl disaster just up river from his home. After six years spent in refugee camps throughout Eastern Europe, he arrived in the U.S. as a political refugee. He has since released six albums with Gogol Bordello and one with his experimental side project J.U.F., been the subject of two documentaries, acted in three films, and had one film based on him. He has performed on stages ranging from the Tate Modern in London, to Lollapalooza and has dabbled briefly as a model in New York’s fashion world. He’s befriended and collaborated with the likes of Madonna, Elijah Wood, and Russian Gypsy guitar sensation Sasha Kolpakov. He also has a very nice moustache. Blessed with equal parts talent, charisma, luck, and affable insanity, Eugene continues along his wandering road to success. Gogol Bordello just made their major label debut with the Rick Rubin-helmed Trans-Continental Hustle.
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Issue #64 featuring Diplo

Dipo

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This month’s cover features Philly-native, DJ, producer, filmmaker, and manatee enthusiast, Wesley Pentz aka Diplo. If you’ve been to a club in the past four years you’ve probably heard something he’s had his hands on. You may have heard his name as one of the guys behind the infamous Hollertronix parties or as MIA’s producer. He now makes up half of Major Lazer, a guerilla fighter with a prosthetic laser arm and a penchant for being a celebrity magnet. Major Lazer’s album, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do, sounds like being daggered by a massive bass line all while being too freaked out to yell “Rasclot”… but in a good way. Along with Major Lazer, Diplo’s label Mad Decent is home to a cornucopia of artists including dubstep superstar Rusko and Po Po, a Pakistani garage punk band. When Diplo isn’t running his record label, or producing for a large number of artists he spends time touring as a DJ bringing world influences to the dance floor. If you haven’t heard of the guy, get familiar.
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Issue #63 featuring She & Him

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward

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This month’s cover features the collaborative project She & Him which consists of Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward, otherwise known as M.Ward. Now, we didn’t put Zooey and Matt on the cover just because they’re easy on the eyes, they’re easy on the ears too. After much success with their first album, Volume One, Zooey and Matt have stepped back up to the plate with their aptly named follow up, Volume Two. Volume Two is what a luau in the countryside would sound like with its twang-ridden, emotionally evocative vocals and fluid, gentle instrumentals. These are the perfect tunes for a rural bike ride along a smooth, sun bathed street—the best way to combat, yet take advantage of global warming. So start polishing your fenders and pumping up your tires because Volume Two is out on March 23.

Check out our interview and photoshoot with Zooey and Matt after the jump
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