Another new video from Toronto’s Austra, off of their excellent second album, Olympia. The video for Painful Like follows that of Home, which took place in a single room. The video showcases the ill-advised hobby of night time rollerblading. On...
Day 9 – Bjork day. Austra: A band we’ve seen and loved before – they didn’t disappoint on a hot Saturday afternoon. Equal parts Vangelis and Florence Welch, Austra is haunting, yet catchy as hell. This wasn’t the tightest set...
Austra’s debut album was one of our favourite albums from 2011. Austra’s follow up album, Olympia, is out now. Will it meet my lofty expectations, or let me down like this ironless shirt that I always have to iron? We...
The excellent Toronto synth pop band Austra are readying their new album, Olympia, for a June 17/18 release. PeteHatesMusic saw them recently in Toronto as they played new track, Home. They now have a simple yet somewhat hypnotic new video...
Time for you to sit back and listen to some awesome songs that debuted over the past month while I go look for a hot air balloon so I can enter a race around the world. These balloons ain’t easy...
Toronto’s very own Austra headlined Saturday night at Danforth Music Hall. PeteHatesMusic was there for our continued coverage of Canadian Music Week. Below is our review of the show, which seems to be a contest to see how many times...
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...
Toronto’s Austra, who had one of the top songs and albums on PeteHatesMusic’s Best of 2011 list, are back! Fantastic news – I’ve listened to their debut album a hundred times and am itching for new music from them. Apparently...
Love Me Do Turns 50 It was 50 years ago today Sgt Pepper taught the band to play that the Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do (via Guardian). Sadly they were never heard from again. Well, the single...
Austra blew my mind with their debut album, Feel It Break, cracking our 2011 Albums of the Year. They are just beginning the follow up to that album, and had time to record a live studio for the Scion Sessions....
I’ve been to hundreds of shows. I’ve been to festivals, such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Reading/Leeds, V Festival (in England and Canada), dozens of times. After Zulu Winter spoke highly of Field Day and reading other good things,...
Osheaga 2012 Line Up Announced for Montreal Festival Osheaga, also known as “The festival with the exact same dates as Chicago’s Lollapalooza”, has announced their line up for this August 3-5. Taking place in Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, the line...
Austra, recently named on the PeteHatesMusic Albums of 2011, have a new video for Spellwork, from their debut album Feel It Break. The video takes place in the woods, where no good things come about. It’s a mix of Little...
Yesterday, we listed our top songs of 2011. Amazingly, the Jingle Cats missed out on the top honour. But they have a chance to redeem themselves in today’s post – PeteHatesMusic’s Albums of 2011 (spoiler alert: they do not redeem...
As 2011 draws to a close, it’s time to join the other media outlets and make some lists, so that readers can a) validate their opinion on songs or b) criticize those who do not share the same opinion as...
