Date: September 12-14th Location: Huntsville, ON Featuring: Walk Off The Earth, Mother Mother, The Trews, Serena Ryder, Monster Truck, Hawksley Workman, Buck 65, Shad, and more! More Info You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and tweet the following message: Contest: Win 2 Weekend Tickets to the @MuskokaSound! … Continue reading
By: Josh Friesen – Little known about Kitchener, Waterloo is that the music energy around there is stronger than ever! With the annual weekend-long KOI Music Festival, the energy will be pumping even more. This year, KOI has drawn in some bigger acts such as Protest The Hero, Silverstein, Every Time I Die, Miss May I, … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini (@El_Pollo_Lokito) – The third annual Riot Fest Toronto Music Festival took over Downsview Park yesterday for a day of great bands and lots of mud. Performances included headliners The Cure, who’s last album, 4:13 Dream, was released in 2008 via Suretone/Geffen, along with experimental rock band The Flaming Lips, who will release their fourteenth … Continue reading
Photos by: Fernando Paiz (@capaphotograph1) – In partnership with Pepsi Canada’s ongoing “Pepsi Pop-Up” concert series, Toronto-based alternative dance duo USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker), who released their second album, Advanced Basics, on February 11th, 2014, which was funded through crowdsourcing site PledgeMusic, with the project being titled “#Letsgetweirdtogether”, and Toronto-based surf rock quartet The Elwins, who released their debut album, … Continue reading
By: Krystyn Bristol – With the Boston Calling Music Festival happening this week, fans are sure to witness some fantastic bands over the course of this bi-annual, three-day festival at City Hall Plaza in downtown Boston from September 5 to 7. With an already stacked line-up that includes Lorde, Girl Talk, Spoon, The Replacements, Nas, and more, that are ready … Continue reading
Photos by: André Varty – Leader of newly reformed Toronto-based indie rock band Constantines Bry Webb, who released his second solo album, Free Will, on May 20th, 2014, performed an intimate set last night with Toronto-based folk band The Weather Station, who released their newest album, All Of It Was Mine, on August 11th, 2011 via … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – In partnership with Pepsi Canada’s ongoing “Pepsi Pop-Up” concert series, Toronto-based indie rockers Born Ruffians, who released their third album, Birthmarks, on April 16th, 2013 via Yep Roc/Paper Bag, and Toronto-via-Ottawa indie rock band Hollerado, who released their second album, White Paint, on February 26th, 2013 via Royal Mountain Records, performed an intimate … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – From their origins in the garages of Florida’s Coral Springs, to some of the world’s biggest stages, to pressing their own albums to releases on Epitaph and (most recently) Hopeless Records, New Found Glory are the classic punk rock story. Their new album Resurrection (out October 7th via Hopeless Records) represents a return … Continue reading
The night will feature the music of The Weather Station, presented in partnership with SappyFest, the beloved music festival in Colville’s adopted hometown of Sackville, NB; and headliner Bry Webb, frontman of the newly reunited band The Constantines. Toronto-based artists Alex Beriault and Shannon Lea Doyle will present a three-hour durational performance balancing on a two-sided diving board. Hamilton-based musician and … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Toronto-based indie rock band Zeus celebrated the release of their third album, Classic Zeus, which was released on September 2nd, 2014 via Arts & Crafts, with a back alley garage concert behind June Records last night.