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Contest: Win 2 Tickets to The Drums in Toronto!

  Date: September 25th at 7pm Venue: The Danforth Music Hall    You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and RT the following message: Contest: Win 2 Tickets to @thedrumsforever at @TheDanforthMH in #Toronto! Follow @Aesthetic_Mag + RT. | http://t.co/wgy9tno13K — Aesthetic Magazine (@Aesthetic_Mag) July 21, 2014 LIKE our “The Drums” post and … Continue reading →

Photos: Edgefest 2014 – USS, MS MR, Said The Whale, + More

Photos by: Krystle Merrow –  The second of three shows for the Edgefest Summer Concert Series took place on July 18th, and featured performances from Toronto-based alternative dance duo USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker), who released their second album, Advanced Basics, on February 11th, 2014, New York-based indie pop duo MS MR, who released their debut album, Secondhand Rapture, … Continue reading →

Photos: Pitchfork Festival (Day 2) – St. Vincent, Kelela, tUnE-yArDs, + More

Photos by: Katie Kuropas –  Day two of the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival featured performances by New York City-based noise pop artist St. Vincent, who released her eponymous fifth studio album (and fourth solo album) on February 24th, 2014 via Loma Vista/Republic, D.C-born and L.A.-based experimental R&B singer Kelela, experimental pop band tUnE-yArDs, who released their third album, Nikki Nack, on … Continue reading →

Photos: TIME Festival (Grimes, Flume, Action Bronson, + More)

Photos by: Geoff Fitzgerald – Despite Toronto’s ever-increasing summer music festival schedule, a new festival has popped up in the form of TIME Festival. The festival, which took place yesterday at Fort York, featured performances by Vancouver-based art pop artist Grimes, who released her third album, Visions, on January 31st, 2012 via Artbutus, Australian DJ Flume, who … Continue reading →

Photos: Pitchfork Festival (Day 1) – Beck, Giorgio Moroder, Sun Kil Moon, + More

Photos by: Katie Kuropas –  Day one of the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival featured performances by LA-based rock artist Beck, who released his twelfth album, Morning Phase, on February 21st, 2014 via Capitol, which spawned two singles including, “Blue Moon” and “Waking Light”, iconic Italian DJ Giorgio Moroder, who collaborated with Daft Punk on the track … Continue reading →

Photos: Basement Jaxx, HolloH, Kings of the North @ The Hoxton

Photos by: Morgan Hotston –  Acclaimed UK EDM group Basement Jaxx, who will release their seventh album, Junto, on August 25th via Atlantic Jaxx/PIAS Recordings, which has been preceded by four singles including, “Back 2 the Wild”, “Unicorn”, and “Never Say Never”, played a rare Canadian show at The Hoxton in Toronto last night with Toronto-based electronic … Continue reading →

Contest: (19+) Win 2 Tickets to The Wytches & Pet Sun in Toronto!

  Date: July 21 at 8:30pm Venue: The Drake Hotel    You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and RT the following message: Contest: (19+) Win 2 Tickets to @TheWytches & Pet Sun at @thedrakehotel in #Toronto! Follow @Aesthetic_Mag + RT. | http://t.co/TUi0DZj49y — Aesthetic Magazine (@Aesthetic_Mag) July 18, … Continue reading →

Interview: Shad and Polaris Music Prize Founder Steve Jordan on the Spirit of Canadian Music

By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) –   Since 2006, the Polaris Music Prize and the cash, “congrats”, or controversy attached to it, have remained worthy of a fight. Canadian artists have made creative and commercial strides over the years, and the Polaris Prize  serves a fundamental purpose in this business sometimes best equated with UK’s Mercury prize. The prize … Continue reading →

Photos: Matt Nathanson, Gavin DeGraw @ Sound Academy

Photos by: Morgan Hotston –  Folk-rock singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson, who released his eighth album, Last of the Great Pretenders, on July 16th, 2013 via Vanguard Records, which spawned the singles “Kinks Shirt”, and “Mission Bells”, performed at Sound Academy in Toronto last night with New York-based pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw, who released his fifth album, Make a … Continue reading →

Photos: Ottawa Bluesfest 2014 (Day 10) – Collective Soul, Sam Roberts Band, + More

Photos by: Scott Penner – The 10th and final day of Ottawa Bluesfest 2014 featured performances by Atlanta-based hard rock band Collective Soul, who will release their ninth album, See What You Started by Continuing, this August or September, JUNO Award-winning Montreal-based alternative rock group Sam Roberts Band, who released their fifth album, Lo-Fantasy, on February 11th, 2014 … Continue reading →