By: Staff – Governors Ball has announced its 2018 lineup. The eighth annual edition of New York City’s very own homegrown fest will take place from Friday, June 1st through Sunday, June 3rd on Randall’s Island Park. Featuring performances from Eminem (his first headline show in NYC since 2010), Jack White, Travis Scott, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, … Continue reading
By: Staff – Third Man Records has announced the release of The White Stripes’ first three albums — The White Stripes (1999), De Stijl (2000) and White Blood Cells (2001) — on white cassettes exclusively for Cassette Store Day 2017, coinciding with the band’s 20th anniversary. Black cassettes will be released in the future. This is the first-ever authorized cassette release of these now-classic albums, and … Continue reading
By: Lucy Sky – Brian Fallon is back with his new solo album, Painkillers. Produced by superstar producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Frank Turner, Keith Urban), Fallon recorded the album earlier this year at Nashville’s Taxidermy Studios with Fallon fronting a band that included Walker, bassist Catherine Popper (Jack White, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Willie Nelson) and drummer … Continue reading
By: Staff – Rock supergroup The Dead Weather (composed of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (ex-White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs,The Greenhornes and City and Colour), will release their new album, Dodge & Burn, in September 2015 via Third Man Records, and will feature eight brand new songs, along with four previously released tracks … Continue reading
Photos by: Krystle Merrow – New Orleans-based folk-punk-blues singer-songwriter Benjamin Booker, who released his self-titled debut album on August 19th, 2014 via ATO Records, which was produced by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff), performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto on March 31st with garage rock singer-songwriter Olivia Jean, who is best known as a … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – T he past few years have been good for Athens, AL’s Alabama Shakes, a band whose members are all in their early-20’s. Their album Boys & Girls received universal acclaim, Grammy, Q, and BRIT award nominations, and winning an Americana Music Honors award, meanwhile the band are world-renowned for their absolutely smoking … Continue reading
We’re giving away one (1) vinyl copy of Jack White’s new album “Lazaretto”, which will be released on June 10th via Third Man Records. You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and RT the following message: Contest: (Canada Only) Win a #Vinyl Copy of #JackWhite‘s New LP … Continue reading
By: Elaisha Green (@elaishajade) – From June 6 to 8 thousands of avid music fans will be shuttled by ferry to The Governor’s Ball on New York City’s Randall’s Island. The sold out music festival, celebrating its fourth year, features a roster of major headliners, art installations and hipster food. Radio-favourites Outkast and Bastille are performing on … Continue reading
By: Shelby Monita (@shelbymonita) – Every country music loving soul who has never set foot in Toronto’s Legendary Horseshoe Tavern filled the space on Saturday night for the South Carolina natives and alternative country duo, Shovels & Rope, who released their most recent album, O’ Be Joyful, last July via Dualtone Records, and their first headlining tour. … Continue reading
In this edition of Aesthetic Week in Review podcast, we review budding Canadian electro-pop star Lights’ show at Mississauga’s Celebration Square on New Year’s Eve, L.A. punk band FIDLAR’s debut self-titled album, Jack White’s newest accolade and Irving Azoff’s departure from Live Nation.