Photos by: Jason Hodgins – Grammy Award-winning experimental rock band The Flaming Lips, who released their fourteenth album, With a Little Help from My Fwends, which serves as a track-for-track tribute to The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, on October 28th, 2014 via Warner Bros., performed at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on last night as part of the Panamania 2015 … Continue reading
We’re giving away 2 tickets to see Radiohead drummer Philip Selway in Toronto! Date: August 4th – 8pm Venue: The Mod Club You can enter only once via one of the following entry methods: Follow Aesthetic Magazine on Twitter and tweet the following message: (19+) Win 2 tix to @philipselway (of @radiohead) in #Toronto! | Follow @Aesthetic_Mag + … Continue reading
Photos by: Theo Rallis – Toronto-based Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Party-Punk-Super band Lemon Bucket Orkestra, who released their newest album, Moorka, on March 24th, 2015, which follows up their 2012 album, Lume, Lume, performed at Lee’s Palace in Toronto last night with Montreal-based gypsy punk band Tintamare, who released their newest EP, Petit éloge de l’amitié à l’ère d’la marde, on … Continue reading
Photos by: Justin Roth – Acclaimed Nova Scotia-based pop-rock artist Joel Plaskett, who released his new album, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test, on March 17th, 2015 via Pheromone Recordings, which follows up his 2012 album, Scrappy Happiness, performed at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on July 14th as part of the Panamania 2015 concert series celebrating the 2015 Pan Am … Continue reading
Photos by: Theo Rallis – New York City-based alt rock band Interpol, who released their fifth album, El Pintor, on September 8th, 2014, which features guest appearances by Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines, Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. and Rob Moose of Bon Iver, and which was engineered by James Brown (Foo Fighters), and mixed by Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine), performed … Continue reading
By: Laura Beaulne-Stuebing – T oronto-based punk trio METZ hit the Canadian music scene with their self-titled debut album in 2012, and carved out a successful space for themselves making noisy, abrasive and entirely impressive punk music. AlexEdkins, Chris Slorach and Hayden Menzies returned last year with the appropriately named METZ II and, like with METZ, are earning critical praise for their work and have once … Continue reading
Photos by: Theo Rallis – Japanese indie rock band Toe, who will release their third album, Hear You, on August 7th via Topshelf Records, which follows up their 2012 EP, The Future Is Now, performed at The Mod Club in Toronto last night with Los Angeles-based downtempo-folktronica-hip-hop artist Shinya Mizoguchi (aka StarRo), who released his newest single, “I Will”, on … Continue reading
Photos by: Justin Roth – Atlanta-based psychedelic rock quartet The Black Lips, who released their first album since 2011’s Arabia Mountain, called Underneath the Rainbow, on March 18th, 2014 via Vice Records, performed at The Horseshoe Tavern on July 9th with Toronto-based punk band Teenanger, who released their newest album, E P L P, on September 7th, 2014, and Toronto-based garage … Continue reading
Photos by: Fernando Paiz (@capaphotograph1) – Reformed Toronto-based dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979, who released a documentary called “Life After Death From Above 1979″, on October 7th, 2014, and who released their second album, The Physical World, on September 9th via Last Gang Records, which features the single “Trainwreck 1979″, performed at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto … Continue reading
Photos by: Justin Roth – Toronto-based pop-rock singer-songwriter Taylor Knox, who released his debut EP, Lines, earlier this year, and who has played drums for the likes of Sloan, Jason Collett, Hayden, Zeus, and The Golden Dogs, performed at The Drake Hotel in Toronto on July 10th with Toronto-based indie rock band Sam Cash and The Romantic Dogs, who released … Continue reading