Toronto’s version of Austin’s SXSW – North By Northeast – is finally about to kick off. I know Canada gets mocked for being cold, but I think Austin in March is going to be warmer than June in Toronto, based...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have banned smartphone photos and recording at their shows. Everyone hates people who record at shows, yet everyone does it. How do we stop this? Soundhalo thinks they know (via Guardian). Soundhalo launched an app that debuted...
In case you missed it last week, Toronto indie label Arts & Crafts have released the tracklist for their 10th anniversary compilation album, Arts & Crafts: X. Check it out below. 1 Broken Social Scene x Years: “Day of the...
Osheaga is the same weekend as Lollapalooza, which is both a gift and a curse (like my superior intelligence over you dumb readers. Wait, come back!). They managed to etch out a pretty good initial line up. But wait –...
Temple of the Dog are one of those 1990s acts that we wish could’ve gone on forever like Spice Girls. The band combined members of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, including Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, and Mike McCready, to name a...
Glastonbury aka England’s contribution to kick ass festivals (of which they have many) have revealed parts of their 2013 line up. They took 2012 off (the damn year I lived there!) – did they return with a bang? Um, yes!...
City and Colour dropped the gorgeous new track, Of Space and Time, from an unknown, upcoming album. The album now has a name (unlike my bastard children). As posted on Facebook (whatever that is), Dallas Green has named the album...
Sunday night saw the close to Canadian Music Week. It also saw the awarding of the inaugural Prism Prize for the Best Canadian Music Video in 2012. I was on this inaugural jury and watched over 100 videos as part...
It’s Canadian Music Week in Toronto which means there’s six days of music-related events, booze-filled events, and expos “dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries” (via indies.ca). One of those events is the...
Canadian Music Week kicks off tomorrow, ending on Sunday, and guaranteed to be a blast (especially if I pull off the impossible and win the Music Journalist / Blogger of the Year award I’m nominated for). Like leather bondage, I’ve...
Musicmetric has crunched the numbers behind South By Southwest, so people like me don’t have to. And wouldn’t you know it – the Austin, Texas event is pretty popular. The 1,547 bands playing SXSW this year have a cumulative 367,072,417...
The twin August Bank Holiday weekend festival that is UK’s Leeds and Reading Festivals have announced their line up for August 23-25. The headliners are Green Day (Friday Reading / Saturday Leeds), Eminem (Saturday Reading / Sunday Leeds) and Biffy...
Last year, PeteHatesMusic took in many, many days of the always excellent Ottawa Bluesfest (final thoughts here). Today, the line up was announced for this July’s edition of the RBC Royal Bank Ottawa Bluesfest. Before some readers are turned off,...
Canadian Music Week (March 19-24, which is NOT a full week by my calendar) kicks off in three short weeks, with a whole whack of events, such as the Canadian Music Fest, a film festival, a comedy festival, a massive...
He’s baaaaaaaaaaack! Well, Trent Reznor really never left us (“us” somehow being the music scene). He formed another project (How to destroy angels_) with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross. However, he has re-branded Nine Inch Nails, and now...
