Concerts

We asked a couple of guys, Geordie MacDonald and Shayd Johnson to check out the Sasquatch! Music Festival at The Gorge—an internationally acclaimed concert venue carved in the basalt cliffs high above the Columbia River in Quincy, WA. Read about their 4-day festival journey; including what they consumed (pretty much just a bunch of beers), what musical acts they saw, and who they thought was the best show of Sasquatch! 2013.

We're giving away 30 sets of tickets (pair per set) to our 10N 10th Anniversary parties with Robert DeLong over the next 10 days. All you have to do it retweet us over at @ionmagazine to win! 10 sets of tickets per each city—so Montreal/Toronto/Vancouver, on your mark, get set, tweet!

On January 17th some of Vancouver’s biggest musicians came together to perform Beck’s songbook, Song Reader  - released by the publishing house McSweeney's in December of 2012. The twenty songs have never been released or recorded by Beck, and the only way to hear them is to read and perform the sheet music.

Music festivals are overwhelming. So many great acts, so much going on, all at the same time. All you can really do is make educated guesses and hope what you chose is worth it, and cooler than the thing going on down the street. With so much at this year’s POP Montreal, it was a safe to say that wherever you were, it would be worth it.

As soon as Humans took the stage to close out ION's Showcase at POP Montreal,with Boompa and Hybridity, people couldn’t stop moving. The music, so direct, so instantly gratifying, so much fun, jumped, leapt and then took off, almost seeming to be dancing itself, to be leading the way in a procession.