The Wa Magazine

06/03/2013

We're relaunching the website in April. Also, Ryan Hemsworth is in Vogue.

http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/ryan-hemsworth-is-the-man-behind-the-mix/ #1

Audio production equipment has become so widespread, and the art of remixing so democratized, that often young beatmakers aren’t worth the ink. But 22-year-old producer Ryan Hemsworth has dropped so many important tracks in recent months that he’s bec

11/02/2013

Our latest issue -- The Energy Issue -- is on sale now at The Mascot, Rotate This!, and Nomad in Toronto.

24/01/2013

Here's a quick preview of the awesome content we have in store for our Energy Issue. It drops tonight at our launch party at The Mascot, and join us after that for our party at Wrongbar with Ryan Hemsworth ^____**

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-adventures-of-first-world-ferret

It's time to check in with First World Problems Ferret on his thankless task to power laptops and iPods worldwide.

21/11/2012

Update! Look for the new issue/launch party in mid-January. We figured we'd wait and see if the world ended before committing to a magazine launch. You understand, right?

Send any last-minute pitches to jordan@thewamagazine or [email protected] ASAP. Deadline is November 29th

THX

23/10/2012

The Wa Magazine is ready to close out 2012 with an issue dedicated to energy. Many people think that the Mayans' prediction of the apocalypse, set to occur this December, is not really about the end of the world, but rather a major global change. Energy is the driving force behind any seismic shift. Obv.

Selected stories that cover: green energy, cosmic energy, positive energy, negative energy, and energy music will be published.

If you would like to contribute to this issue, please email your idea to [email protected]. The deadline for pitches is November 5th and the final deadline for finished work is November 15th.

15/08/2012

Website update! Party photos, a full PDF of issue 6.2 and new articles featuring writing by Kenny Hotz, interviews with Tavi Gevinson and Marc Maron, + How to Survive Life in a Cast.

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/

24/07/2012

Hey Toronto, our newest issue is on sale at Nomad, The Mascot & Rotate This.

09/07/2012

If you weren't able to grab a copy of Issue 6.2 at our release party on Friday, Rotate This has the issue in stock right now. More vendors to come next week // party photos & a video online soon. Thanks!

01/06/2012

With our new issue around the corner... how about you spend the next few minutes with one of our favourite articles? An interview with Diamond Dallas Page.

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/ddp.htm

had all but given up on getting Diamond Dallas Page into this issue. His manager and I had gone back and forth for about a month until we got to the point where he told me the interview wasn’t going to happen. Then, one afternoon while I was stoned and hanging out with a friend who had disappeared i...

24/04/2012

Heya, we're accepting pitches for Issue 6.2 - due out in late June.

09/04/2012

Issue 6.2 - Late June.

http://alexsheriff.tumblr.com/post/14365869520/i-have-always-wanted-to-roll-one-on-a-cover-that-i

i have always wanted to roll one on a cover that i illustrated. shouts to pat mcguire and a bunch of other people for putting this together. more issues and ting: www.thewamagazine.com

16/02/2012

Listen to Kontravoid.

http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/16/stream-kontravoids-self-titled-lp/

The name Kontravoid belongs on a limited run cassette circa 1980-something, the type of tape buried in lost upstate dustbins of pre-MIDI analog electronics, wedged between Cabaret Voltaire and Das Ding. The dark industrial and new wave influences are strong on ex-Crystal Castles drummer Cam Findlay’...

02/02/2012

Oh, Cadence Weapon will be playing our SXSW showcase too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbTac4UTWc

from Afterparty Babies

30/01/2012

We're throwing an official showcase at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas this March. Our friends in BadBadNotGood are playing. You should uhhh get a plane ticket or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYZIMIhdd0

http://www.badbadnotgood.com http://badbadnotgood.bandcamp.com/ http://twitter.com/ #!/badbadnotgood [email protected] Tyler, The Creator Matt Tava...

27/01/2012

As Soon As Possible Rodrigo in Toronto tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob3ktDxAjWI

Director: Abteen Bagheri // Co-Director: ASAP Rocky // DP: Isaac Bauman // Producer: Chris Black //

21/01/2012

Oh cool, you can find our book at Art Metropole in Toronto.

http://www.artmetropole.com/

Art Metropole is an artist-run contemporary art center for artists books, video, audio, multiples, and other multiple-media artworks. We carry over 3500 titles by international artists. We also have an exhibition and publishing program.

19/01/2012

A follow-up to our Megaupload piece from December.

http://www.torontostandard.com/business/megaupload-doesnt-exist-anymore/

After the temporary celebration of Obama halting SOPA legislation yesterday afternoon, the biggest fish in the filesharing pond has been put out of its misery suddenly and without trial.

18/01/2012

With all this SOPA hysteria, maybe you should read our 2009 interview with one of the admins at Demonoid (one of the web's largest portals for "piracy").

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/demonoid.htm

f you’ve ever taken the time to “illegally” download a movie, album, game, or copy of Microsoft Office, you might wonder who it is out there that makes it so easy to rip off artists and software companies. As the network of pirated communication gets more and more complicated, law enforcement and in...

18/01/2012

Our friends in Teenanger made this weird one-shot music video featuring a laser machine and some bearded guys. What more do you need?! Directed by Scott Cudmore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLSWOqqXYI

Teenanger "Bank Account" from "Frights" LP Telephone Explosion 2012 Directed by: Scott Cudmore scottcudmorefilm.com

15/01/2012

You can grab a copy of our book at Rotate This! in Toronto.

10/01/2012

Our interview with Tom Green.

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/tgreen.htm

t was hard to figure out how I would approach my interview with Tom Green. Would I speak to him as the fan that I am? Would I speak to him as a fellow comedian? Would I use the friends I have in common with him to ask him more personal questions? I decided on the latter, and contacted Neil Hamburger...

10/01/2012

If you weren't able to get a print copy of issue 6.1, featuring interviews with Kenny Hotz, Tom Green, an essay on Megaupload and new photos from Petra Collins & Carl Heindl (+++MORE) you can download the PDF here.

http://thewamagazine.com/read/

06/01/2012

2012

*WSHH EXCLUSIVE* Rick Ross |Stay Schemin| music video featuring Drake & French Montana Off Rick Ross' Rich Forever mixtape out now Directed by

23/12/2011

We wrote about Kim Kimble, the owner of Megaupload.

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/megaupload.htm

im Kimble is standing in the middle of a field in Monaco. He's wearing a black blazer, a black turtleneck, black pants and black sunglasses. He yells something excitedly in German at a man in uniform. He looks like he's about 6’6” and 300 pounds. Beside him, three or four brightly coloured exotic sp...

22/12/2011

Read our interview with Kenny Hotz online now from Issue 6.1

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/kenny.htm

21/12/2011

Buy someone our book for Christmas why not they're available at RUINS & The Bait Shop ^_____^

21/12/2011

More roof lyfe - DOPES.

http://youtu.be/5uptRENhvis

Josh Reichmann and his new band, DOPES performed their single, "Wildly Waiting" on a roof in Downtown Toronto as the sun was setting.

20/12/2011

Wa-affiliates play songs on a roof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgjRVfU1aQ

In this web exclusive, Toronto based post-punkers Little Girls invited us out to a rooftop downtown to shoot a web exclusive. Check out the product as the ba...

19/12/2011

Check out the photos from our party on Friday.

http://thewamagazine.com/read/photos/issue-61--book-1-launch--goodfellas-gallery/

16/12/2011

A very kind writeup about us and our party in Toronto tonight by The A.V. Club Toronto.

http://www.avclub.com/toronto/articles/the-wa-launches-new-issue-best-of-collection,66651/

Local ’zine celebrates five years of weirdness, quality.

15/12/2011

Have you read our interview with Nardwuar?

http://thewamagazine.com/read/articles/nardwuar.htm

Doing the Real Estate Weekly, which was a paper in Vancouver that nobody really cared about, but they still wanted it distributed to all these houses and I would deliver it every Friday for about ten years, and I saved up the money from that to put out the first record I released in 1989 called Oh G...

12/12/2011

We've edited our Megaupload article once before going to print but it looks like this story will just keep going.

https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-to-sue-universal-joins-fight-against-sopa-111212/

File-hosting service Megaupload has told TorrentFreak that it will sue Universal for wrongfully taking down its content from YouTube. Universal took action Friday to remove a Megaupload-produced pop video which featured leading artists singing the cyberlocker service's praises. The move has also pro...