It’s Monday, so we’re going to go a little off course today. While it’s clear we love instrumental music, we’re going to feature a couple of different instrumental tracks for you today. These tracks will differ somewhat from the Godspeed...
Festival d’été de Québec – Mon Dieu! I have no clue what I just wrote. But if you somehow do, you might have gathered that Quebec City is hosting the aptly named Quebec City Summer Festival this summer. It runs...
We recently told you about the new album Coexist from The xx. It is due out September 10th and the English group has just released the first track off the album, Angels, for us to listen to (via gigwise.com). The...
October is shaping up to be a good month for music for me (and for all of us). We heard yesterday about the new Stereophonics album due that month. Now we find out that Sacramento hard rock band Deftones also...
Welsh rock band Stereophonics have two new albums set to be released (via nme.com). A film by lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Kelly Jones is also on the way. The first of the two albums is out this October. It doesn’t have a...
Twin Shadow‘s new record Confess will be out next week. In case you can’t wait that long, we now have the entire new album to stream in full (via pitchfork.com) Hurray for technology! We’ve seen the video for the song...
Back in April, PeteHatesMusic told you about the new EP, Julian Plenti Lives…, from Interpol’s Paul Banks. That EP is out today on Matador Records (ole!) and to celebrate we get a listen of a new track off it called...
Japanese instrumental band MONO will release a new album September 4th called, For My Parents (via pitchfork.com). That’s a very touching album title. MONO’s last album, Hymn to the Immortal Wind, had the stunning opening track Ashes in the Snow,...
UK rock band Zulu Winter released their debut album, Language, today. If you recall, back in February Pete himself interviewed the drummer from the band, Guy Henderson, by email to discuss all things Zulu Winter-related. To coincide with the new...
When trying to figure out what to post, I sometimes have to consult the boss for his opinion. Pete says “Bon Iver is cool”, so I’m going to let you listen to a track from the band’s newly-released iTunes session....
Noel Gallagher to Delay His Amorphous Androgynous Probably Until 2013 Noel Gallagher is riding high with his current Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds outfit. So much so that he is delaying his already announced experimental follow up album with Amorphous...
Was Neil Young Working on a new iPod with Steve Jobs? Neil Young notorious liar claims he was working on a new iPod with Apple co-founder, the late Steve Jobs (via Guardian). “Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music,...
Nickelback Chosen For Detroit Lions Halftime Show, Fans are PISSED Poor Nickelback. They play to sellout arenas and sell thousands of albums, they are millionaires, yet paradoxically, no one seems to like them. In Canada, my theory is that only...
Pitchfork has news about Chromeo’s fall tour, AND a new remix EP featuring When the Night Falls. The Montreal duo, P-Thugg and Dave 1, will bring their electrofunk sounds to a number of cities, which are outlined below. In what...
Beyoncé – 4: Is there anything Beyoncé can’t do? Number 1 albums, worldwide tours, including being the first woman to headline the legendary Glastonbury, and meal-cooker to Jay-Z. Limp Bizkit – Gold Cobra: On the same day we learn that...
