Now that your post-Valentine’s Day mood has brightened, let PeteHatesMusic make your ears happy with some new tunes that dropped this week, and over the past several weeks. Cape Cub – Closer Location: The mysterious Northeast of the United Kingdom...
In the height of my illness, English band Elbow dropped a video for a lovely new song called My Sad Captains. As I slowly clear out my bookmarks and return to solid foods, you might even get a post about...
More new stuff from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Following up Simple and Sure, we get Eurydice, somewhat similar to the Arcade Fire song title Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice). Or not. With a blast of indie pop goodness...
Why pay someone to make a music video for you when there are others perfectly willing and capable of doing it for you FOR FREE? The Men did just that, with their fan-selected video for Different Days. The upbeat rocker...
A couple of heavyweights dropped new singles yesterday. First up, Damon Albarn. Yesterday, we learned his album is called Everyday Robots. He also wrote over 60 songs for consideration for the album. How about converting some to Gorillaz tunes? According...
The UK rockers The Vaccines said yesterday that you shouldn’t expect an album from the anytime soon. In lieu of an album, they’ve given us a new, Noisey-made video for a phrase that I’ve never said before: I Wish I...
Bombay Bicycle Club have followed recent interactive video Carry Me with new track and lyric video It’s Alright Now, which is what I tell myself every time a 7 year old beats me up for my lunch money. The track...
Franz Ferdinand dropped two singles on us on the same now. Right Action has already seen a video. Next up is Love Illumination, which is yet another eccentric video from the Scots. The band play in a small, black and...
No Parole for Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Last night at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary film festival, I saw Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. Since I read music news pretty much all day, I knew a decent amount about the Russian...
Margaret Thatcher’s Death Might Shake Up the Music Charts Britain’s one and only female prime minister has passed away. A large number of people didn’t like Margaret Thatcher’s policies, often calling her Iron Lady or a witch. People are celebrating...
Jay-Z and Beyonce Go to Cuba, Forget That Americans Hate Cuba “Welcome to Havana; Smoking cubanos with Castro in cabanas” is a line that probably endured Jay-Z to Cubans, and it might also describe how he spent his weekend. Jay-Z...
The Best Album Ever According to BBC Radio 2 is Made by Coldplay Nothing like a poll to cause some rigging controversy. Coldplay are either really this well loved or they know someone at the BBC. Their album, A Rush...
Unknown New Act David Bowie Tops UK Charts The fastest selling album of 2013 in the UK thus far now belongs to me!!! David Bowie. Bowie sold 94,000 copies of his first album since 2003, and outsold celebrated lyricist Bon...
Beyonce is pretty. Very pretty. She is talented and successful. Because of these reasons, we (meaning society) like to take these people down a peg, because they are doing things we even can’t do or have been rejected trying to...
Beyonce Knocks Power Out at Super Bowl, or Something Like That A couple of surprises at yesterday’s rousing football game between San Francisco and Baltimore. Beyonce played the halftime show at the Super Bowl, as expected. As rumoured, Destiny’s Child...
