Canadian Music Week ended with a huge bang from mainstay of the post-rock movement, Explosions in the Sky, at The Rebel, aka swankier Sound Academy. The new roof really makes the venue look “classy”. They closed things out this past...
Canadian Music Week is back, and has moved from its May slot back a few weeks into April. This year’s edition is April 18 to 23, and promises to be another good one. Following our coverage in 2013 (where we...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic Hot on the heels of our Top Songs of 2016 list comes our Top Albums of 2016. Sadly, the Jingle Cats failed to release an album this year, so they are not featured. We’ll keep it short and...
In this edition of Make Your Ears Happy, we bring you new stuff from some instrumental / post-rock giants, with new tracks from Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. Toronto indie darling Basia Bulat has another new tune, too. Listen...
Hopefully you’ve been paying attention to the music being dropped by Eluvium’s Matthew T. Cooper and Explosions In The Sky’s Mark T. Smith (himself being a past interviewee on PHM). The duo are known as Inventions, and have a new...
Previous PHM interviewee Mark T Smith of Explosions in the Sky teamed with Eluvium (aka Matthew Cooper) and previously formed the lovely outfit Inventions. The ambient instrumental duo produced tracks like Entity and Peaceable Child. They have bashed out another...
More goodness in the form of ambient and electronic instrumental music for you. We’ve featured the Eluvium-Explosions in the Sky group Inventions before, with their tracks Peaceable Child and Entity. We (or rather, record label Temporary Residence) has launched the...
Two of my favourite ambient instrumental post-rock call-it-something-else-pretentious-genre of music are Explosions in the Sky (who we interviewed last year) and Eluvium. Mark T. Smith and Matthew “Eluvium” Cooper combined as Inventions, and dropped the lovely track Entity. Guess what?...
Sometimes you put things together and make other awesome things. Homer Simpson did it with Skittlebräu. I did it with – actually, I won’t finish, since I can’t top Skittlebräu. The latest combination of awesomeness comes to us courtesy of...
PeteHatesMusic had many interesting interviews this year – unfortunately none of the bands we talked to felt this way. After painfully revisting these interviews, we’ve highlighted the best bits. Check out last year’s best quotes, too. Below are some of...
Not many things are better than a Friday night except maybe free candy. A Friday night with a concert by Nine Inch Nails and openers Explosions in the Sky? Well, cancel my obviously amazing plans (clearly doing this) because this...
Day 2: Canadian indie pop, 90s legends, and an instrumental rock band highlight day 2 at Osheaga. Follow us on Twitter for Osheaga thoughts, and check out our Day 1 coverage here. Stars: The first act I caught today were...
Explosions in the Sky are known for several things. They make sweeping and grandiose instrumental rock music. They provided the soundtrack to the TV show and movie Friday Night Lights. They were the first band to play on the moon...
As I went to update my June playlist to July, I realized I did not make a playlist for June! I blame the fact that I was hiking a mountain in Jasper at the end of June. Alas, forget June...
Despite living a (mere) 5 hour drive away from Montreal, I have never been to the August weekend long festival that is Osheaga. Part of this is because I’ve been to Lollapalooza 4 times over the past several years, and...
