Mon, 01/16/2017 - 11:09 by karyn
“We are actual lumberjacks,” Darren Hudson, co-owner of Halifax’s Timber Lounge says. We’re on a tour of his facility. There’s a ruggedness in the air. It smells of pine and spruce. There’s flannel and tuques and most importantly, people have a good time. Scratch that, a great time.
Mon, 01/16/2017 - 10:47 by karyn
"There's no time like the present."
Fri, 01/13/2017 - 11:23 by karyn
Station 16 Gallery is celebrating the New Year with its Annual Archive Sale! For the past five years, Station 16's print shop has produced hundreds of silkscreen prints. This Saturday, they're opening their archives to give you the opportunity to purchase prints that have long since been sold out.
Stop by tomorrow, Saturday, January 14th, from 12pm-5pm at 3523 Boul Saint-Laurent in Montreal for an exclusive look at some of their favourite prints from the past!
Fri, 01/13/2017 - 10:58 by karyn
Shanda Leer is your favourite tipsy aunt at a wedding. Besides making every pizza personal-sized, her three talents are hosting, toasting and ghosting.
Capricorn
Find a party you’re not invited to and make a splash. Enter gracefully with a gift and find the third-most popular person in the room. Then talk to the person next to them. Gatekeepers are the end goal but don’t devalue the Key-master. Put the “ME!” in boisterous.
Aquarius
Thu, 01/12/2017 - 14:22 by karyn
Here’s the Mini Kane from State. It’s shiny, it’s pretty and it’ll hold your stuff. For each Mini Kane sold, State hand-delivers a bag full of essential tools for success to a child in need. What are essential tools? What do kids need these days to succeed? Pokémon cards? Nintendo 64 cartridges? Whatever children need to get by today, let’s hope they get it. They will get it if you buy the Mini Kane. So, do that, k?
Thu, 01/12/2017 - 14:13 by karyn
Vancouver’s Little Destroyer are a singular entity. A young band with a firm grasp on exactly who they are, a pop band with bite that has style AND substance. In advance of their upcoming EP, Strange Fruit, they’ve released the video for the single “Rattlesnakes” and it showcases a band that has something to say and know perfectly how to say it.
Wed, 01/11/2017 - 13:11 by karyn
About an hour ahead of ION's phone call with Cate Le Bon, the artist unveiled a video for "Rock Pool," the title track from her soon-to-be-released new EP for Drag City. Saturated in reality-distorting washes of Technicolor aquamarine and magenta, the short film finds Le Bon exploring the sand and pebble beachscape of Wales' Southerndown beach while wearing a towering, construction paper top hat.
Tue, 01/10/2017 - 11:56 by karyn
New York City. On of the most famous cities in the world and one unlike any other place you'll visit. Full of contrasts and contradictions, the city screams busy yet remains a dream location. For his upcoming exhibition "SymphoNY" at ViewPoint Gallery in Halifax, Stephen Brake uses some of his 10-year-old blurred images of people and things in movement with Manhattan. "There is a sense of a shared joke about the whole mess that there is nothing that can be done about the anarchy, so you might as well become one with it," the artist explains.
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Tue, 01/10/2017 - 10:44 by karyn
We’ve all been there. You’re a 56-year-old punk pioneer harbouring fears of losing his edge. Your upcoming album, Skull Ring, boasts an admittedly bad ass title, yet something isn’t quite right. Although in 2003 the name Iggy Pop might still resonate with those eggheads down at Amoeba Records, the real question is whether the kids are coming along for the ride. Later, while shopping with your son at a Hot Topic in Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Briarwood Mall, the answer suddenly hits you.
Fri, 01/06/2017 - 14:23 by karyn
Since last September, Dirty Projectors have been teasing new material and a new album for 2017, and today Dave Longstreth and company delivered the new song and video for “Little Bubble”. There is no other info known as of yet about the forthcoming LP, but if this track is any indication it’s going to be a wonderful personal affair. The past few years have seen the band slowly breaking out of their damaged, tropical-tinged art pop and quietly embracing a more mature and weary R&B side.
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