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We’re giving away two (2) pairs of GA wristbands to NXNE Port Lands 2017! Buy tickets here. Date: June 23-25 Venue: Port Lands Featuring: Performances by Post Malone, Tyler The Creator, Passion Pit, Sleigh Bells, Bleachers, + more! You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and tweet the following message: Contest: … Continue reading
By: Staff – North By Northeast (NXNE) has unveiled its first round of performers to kick off the summer at its second annual NXNE Port Lands festival taking place June 23 to June 25 in Toronto. Headliners for the three-day festival include chart-topping indietronica act Passion Pit, the multi-talented rapper and producer Tyler, the Creator and genre-bending hip hop artist … Continue reading
By: Curtis Sindrey – W hen the animated band Prozzak arrived on the scene in 1998, a Canadian musical phenomenon was born. Comprised of the cartoon duo Simon and Milo, their debut album, Hotshow, full of infectious dance/pop tunes, followed Simon’s constant and largely unsuccessful search for love. It was a commercial and critical blockbuster going four … Continue reading
By: Staff – North By Northeast (NXNE), taking place June 15-19, 2016, is adding a major outdoor festival experience at the Port Lands, a new Interactive, Music and Gaming Conference at the Ted Rogers School of Management with location sponsor Ryerson University, and a new format for the NXNE Yonge-Dundas Square take-over to the 2016 Festival. … Continue reading
By: Curtis Sindrey (@SindreyCurtis) – Following social media outrage and an online petition that received over 7,000 signatures to remove him from the line-up, NXNE has canceled New York-based rapper Action Bronson’s performance, who was set to perform at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto on June 21 as part of the annual music festival. In a statement, North … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – Right now, scores of Canadians are discovering The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores (The OBGMs) for themselves in a very non-traditional way. Not through club crawls or on the festival scene, but through a new Budweiser ad that entirely flips the tables of the rock and roll narrative. Thinking they were part of an indie documentary, the … Continue reading
By: Maria Sokulsky-Dolnycky (@marisodo) – In July, Toronto typically becomes engulfed in humidity, and a halo of haze distorts and softens our surroundings. It is serendipitous, then, that this month will see the release of Alvvays, the much-anticipated sun-soaked debut LP by the band of the same name. Alvvays (pronounced “Always”) is comprised of Molly Rankin (whose forebears comprised the celebrated … Continue reading
Photos by: Steve Danyleyko – Remember K.C. Accidental? The Toronto-based post-rock band that featured Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin as members and was the inception for what would become Broken Social Scene? They played a rare show, this time with Metric’s Jimmy Shaw on guitar, during NXNE 2014 on June 20th as part of M for … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephen McGill (@steve_mcgill) – Toronto-based indie rock duo Army Girls, who are Carmen Elle (DIANA) and Andy Smith (Doldrums), and who released their debut EP, Close to the Bone, via Blocks Recording Club (Owen Pallette/Final Fantasy), which was produced by Ben Cook (Fucked Up) in late 2012, headlined a NXNE showcase at The Garrison in Toronto … Continue reading
Photos by: Neil Van – The fifth and final day of NXNE brought us Los Angeles-based noise rock trio Nightmare Air, which consists of Dave Dupuis (ex- Film School), Swaan Miller, and Jimmy Lucido, and whose debut LP, High In The Lasers, was released in May, and Copenhagen punk band Lower, who are apart of Copenhagen’s budding underground … Continue reading
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