Date: September 6-7 Venue: Downsview Park, Toronto, ON Featuring: The Cure, City And Colour, Metric, The National, Billy Talent, Rise Against, The Flaming Lips, Social Distortion, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, and more! You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and RT the following message: Contest: … Continue reading
Photos by: Scott Penner (Unless Otherwise Noted) – Day 1 of Heavy Montreal 2014 featured performances by metal giants Metallica, who performed an all-request set that included tracks like “Seek & Destroy”, “The Four Horsemen”, “Enter Sandman”, and more, New York-based thrash metal band Anthrax, who are expected to release their eleventh album in 2015, … Continue reading
Photos by: Krystle Merrow – California-based punk rock band The Offspring, who released their ninth album, Days Go By, on June 26th, 2012 via Columbia, performed at Echo Beach in Toronto on August 7th as part of their “Summer Nationals Tour”, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the band’s third album, Smash, with punk rock legends Bad Religion, … Continue reading
Photos by: Luis Wolf Rodriguez – UK grunge brother duo Drenge, who released their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album on August 19th, 2013, performed at Bootleg Bar in Los Angeles last night with Brooklyn-based pop-punk band Wax Witches, which is Bleeding Knees Club frontman Alex Wall’s solo project, who released their debut album, Celebrity Beatings, on March … Continue reading
Photos by: Angelo Marchini – Eight-time Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos, who released her fourteenth album, Unrepentant Geraldines, on May 13th, 2014 via Mercury Classics, which spawned the single “Trouble’s Lament”, performed at Massey Hall in Toronto last night in support of the album.
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – The second and final day of JAMBANA 2014, Toronto’s premiere reggae festival, featured performances by Jamaican reggae/dancehall singer Cocoa Tea, who is best known for his 2008 song “Barack Obama”, JUNO Award-nominated reggae/R&B/soul artist Steele, reggae/dancehall artist Akoustix, whose influences range from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh to Phil Collins, Rick James and James … Continue reading
By: Patrick Topping (@ptopp_ing) – Everything Under the Sunday is a Sunday afternoon affair celebrating music & culture through a sunsetter frame-of-mind at the Pacific Junction Hotel in Toronto. The Everything Under the Sunday podcast is an eclectic mix of music, live performances, guest DJ sessions and interviews with emerging artists, recording live on Girth Radio … Continue reading
By: Luke Ottenhof – The Gaslight Anthem seem to have two types of fans: regular fans, who carry a respect and an appreciation for the band and their catalogue, and those who doggedly compare singer Brian Fallon’s every lyric and each of guitarist Alex Rosamilia’s melodies on the fretboard to the twangy, vintage Americana-punk nostalgia sound … Continue reading
Photos by: Amanda-Susan Carson (@xoAmandaCarson) – Las Vegas-based pop-punk trio Panic! At The Disco, who released their fourth album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, on October 8th, 2013 via Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen, which includes the lead single “Miss Jackson”, and “This Is Gospel”, performed at Echo Beach in Toronto last night with Ohio-based indie rock band … Continue reading
By: Gavin Clark – Toronto-based rapper k-os, who released his fifth album, Black on Blonde, on April 23rd, 2013 via Crown Loyalist/EMI, and who is expected to release his sixth album, Can’t Fly Without Gravity, in 2015, celebrated the release of his new music video for his new single “WiLD4TheNight (EgoLand)” with a release party at Bloke and 4th, which … Continue reading