The Mantles | Piece By Piece

Oakland based indie pop band The Mantles have a sweet yet gritty sound seemingly dedicated to both 1960’s garage rock and Paisley Underground. Jemayel Khawaja spoke with front man Michael Olivares and bassist Matt Roberts (with a cameo from drummer Virginia Weatherby) on behalf of ION about the perils of partying in their thirties, unlikely touring habits and their evolving sound.

Superchunk | I Hate Music [ALBUM REVIEW]

You love music. That’s why you’re reading the reviews section of this magazine.  It’s why you spend hours on YouTube navigating through live performances and full album uploads by your favorite artists, and why you put painstaking effort into creating iTunes playlists for a plane ride to tropical somewhere or your road trip through the Rockies. If you need some new road trip jams for your summer soundtrack, look no further than the latest offering by North Carolina indie rock vets Superchunk!

Hills Like Elephants | "Fall Through" EXCLUSIVE [audio]

San Diego quintet Hills Like Elephants return with the moody and introverted new single "Fall Through". The sound is a departure from their known brand of indie white-boy soul. After their ill-fated sophomore LP, they fell out with their previous record label which lead them into what they are now referring to as The Bedroom Sessions, which will be followed up by their 3rd LP which is being recorded at Lost Ark Studios.

In a World... [REVIEW]

I was once cast to voice a thirteen-year-old Korean boy (for the record, I am a Chinese Canadian female, and was twenty-three at the time) for an anime series. It was nice to know that I had "the voice" for this particular role, especially since I had always thought of my voice as sounding like a "sexy baby." Lake Bell is all too familiar with this, and, in her directorial debut, challenges this male dominated voice-over industry with In a World... 

Lovelace

Lovelace is a true story of fame, abuse and betrayal set against the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Starring Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace—who does a brilliant job, by the waythe film tells the story of Linda's life from living at home with a domineering religious mother (Sharon Stone); then breaking away from her by falling into the hands of charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor, played by Peter Sarsgaard. 

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