More solo stuff from Hot Chip singer Alexis Taylor. His 2nd solo album will be called Await Barbarians, and we’ve already heard Elvis Has Left The Building. Our latest taste is Without A Crutch. Putting aside the dancey rhythms of...
Festival 1 on the docket for PeteHatesMusic.com this summer is Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest. Hardly a festival for just blues, the strength of this festival is the wide array of different acts music nerds like us get to experience. Check back...
The Mars Volta are No More Given that At The Drive-In recently reunited for a few shows, and the fact that Omar Rodríguez-López is in a new band called Bosnian Rainbows, people might have wondered what is happening to the...
If Detox Finally Appears, It Might Only Be an EP Hip hop’s version of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy album would clearly be Dr. Dre’s Detox. This is not in terms of quality, but the fact that the albums were...
It’s Labour (or Labor, for you Americans) Day long weekend in North America, which means NO ONE IS READING THIS. And if you’re in the UK, you can’t read this because the site is inaccessible for some unknown reason. In...
Post-Olympic Opening Ceremony Sales Boost So who here watched the Queen jump out of a helicopter with James Bond on Friday night? If you have no clue what I’m talking about, you were either as drunk as I was, or...
Guns N’ Roses Movie Coming? Plus Axl Rose Apologies to Cleveland. No one should apologize to Cleveland! G’N’R drummer Matt Sorum has said he is in discussions about a Guns N’ Roses biopic (via Gigwise). He failed to note that...
Apologies for the sporadic posts last week – I was chasing leprechauns (and women) in Ireland, and thought drinking top notch Guinness was more important than giving you music news. I don’t regret the decision, and only slightly regret the...
Riding The Wave of Success As reported last night on PHM, Pajama PJ Harvey won her second Mercury Prize, winning for her recent album Let England Shake. And because of all the media and hoopla surrounding the award, people who...
U2 Documentary To Debut at TIFF It looks like love U2 will be rolling into town; that town being Toronto. This September, when you are planning your Halloween costume, U2 will be in Toronto, according to Rolling Stone, debuting their...
Jay-Z retired. And unretired. 50 Cent vowed to retire if his album was outsold by Kanye West. Kanye destroyed 50 Cent in first week sales, and well, 50 Cent did not retire. He should have, as he has turned out...
Clarence Clemons passed away at the age of 69. The saxophonist from Bruce Sprucesteen’s E Street Band had a stroke from which he never recovered. Springsteen has stated “With Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to...
Rebecca Black’s Friday video has been taken down from YouTube. This is unrelated to recent possibly related riots in cities such as Vancouver, but it is because of legal disputes. Amazingly, it is NOT a copyright issue, with regards to...
