Day 3: Conflicting interests – British banjos vs. British dance music Be sure to check out our cover of Friday (Day 1) and Saturday (Day 2) to see our thoughts, which are not really important, but might help you kill...
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...
More stuff from Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard. He follows up his track She Burns (featuring Mara Carlyle) with a new track featuring Boris Dlugosch. The track is off of his upcoming Taking Over EP. The upbeat and dancey track is...
Didn’t get a chance to post this yesterday due to the ongoing webhost stuff happening here at PeteHatesMusic, but I did tweet it. Now that I can post again, here is said post. UK dance wizards (my words, not theirs)...
Joe Goddard is from Hot Chip and Two Bears. Joe Goddard also has a new solo album coming out. Joe (I think I can call him Joe by sentence #3) is releasing a new EP later this year called Taking...
Osheaga Announces 2013 Line Up, Didn’t Invite “Pete Sings in the Shower” Act It’s one of the best times of the year – shower time. Summer is almost here, which means summer festivals. That means right now is the time...
The Brit Awards Wrap Up My coverage and interest in the 2013 Brit Awards highly differed from 2012, when I lived 3 Tube stops away from the O2 Arena in London. Speaking of the Tube, Muse’s Matt Bellamy took the...
Lots of new albums coming out and lots of release news, so don’t mind us as we power through them all. Oh, and some Coachella Festival announced it’s line up. Coachella Announces 2013 Line Up The famous festival in the...
Yesterday, we listed the PeteHatesMusic Top Songs of 2012, and we had a tough time narrowing it down to just 25. A slightly easier task is listing the top albums, as good songs far outnumber good, complete, top to bottom...
2012 is almost done, and I’m still debating my song list from 2011. There are 2 problems – one is that it’s time for this year’s top songs list, and the other problem is there were a lot of bloody...
The 2013 Grammy Nominations Are Out Who’s happy and who’s sad? The Grammy nominations were announced last night, and they’ve gone a little less mainstream. Some of the nominees include year-end list topper Frank Ocean, Jack White, The Black Keys,...
Hot Chip have a cool new video for Don’t Deny Your Heart. The video shows the band playing a football (read: soccer) video game between City and United. And it’s definitely not your ordinary football video game – it’s actually...
British Bands Are Number 1 and 2 in America For the first time since May 1992, British bands occupy the number 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard 200 (via Hollywood Reporter). Muse might have hit number 1 in the...
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...
Jerry Seinfeld has Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the Black Cab Sessions have musicians in cabs playing acoustically. That is to say, Hot Chip played their In Our Heads track, Now There is Nothing, acoustically, in the back of a...
