Monday is a holiday in Ontario, so I took today off to have an extra long weekend, and have a bunch of scheduled posts running to give the illusion I’m blogging. As such, this news is not morning fresh. So...
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...
Last night was quite the indie rock double bill at the Air Canada Centre last night in Toronto. We got MC Hammer AND Psy! indie poppers Stars opening for Metric, who have risen from the club scene to play at...
Metric have a new video off of Synthetica for track Breathing Underwater. How literal did they get with the video? Not literal at all actually, like The Antlers or Azealia Banks thought to do recently with their water-themed track titles....
Could Apple Be Making an Online Music Streaming Service? In the past 10 years, “computer” company Apple have transformed themselves and the music and phone markets, too. There are now rumours that Apple is prepping a Pandora-esque music streaming service...
Half Moon Run are from the music hotbed, Montreal. They released their debut album, Dark Eyes, to general critical acclaim, and it’s finally reached the ears of PeteHatesMusic. Half Moon Run also caught the eyes, and perhaps more importantly –...
Main stage headliner: Metric – lots of Canadian content today! 1st cloud coverage of the week: Also, the first precipitation Ottawa has seen since June… all 10 minutes of it. Remarkable weather for the entire festival. Band 1: Today, the first band we...
Diamond Jubilee Concert Roundup As you might’ve seen with our earlier Coldplay review, we missed the Diamond Jubilee soiree. It seems Prince Philip also missed it, but he had a bladder infection, which is slightly less fun than a Coldplay...
So is the scavenger hunt over? As I understood it, the point of the Metric Synthetica scavenger hunt was to unlock an album stream of Synthetica 2 weeks in advance. Either someone unlocked it or I misunderstood or Metric like...
Metric are about to drop Synthetica on us next month. They’ve been peppering us with previews, from Youth Without Youth to Speed the Collapse. Next, they will be peppering us with clues, for your very own scavenger hunt! From Metric’s...
Metric are about to release the cleverly named Synthetica on June 12. We first heard Youth Without Youth. The next nibble from the album comes in the form of Speed the Collapse. Poking around on Metric’s SoundCloud page, I discovered...
RHCP, The Black Keys, Jack White, Neil Young Heading to Austin City Limits The Austin, Texas festival that isn’t SXSW is Austin City Limits, and it takes place October 12-14 this year at Zilker Park. Playing this year will be...
Hopefully you’ve listened to the new Metric song, Youth Without Youth, off of the upcoming Synthetica album. Even if you don’t know it, you can acquaint yourself with the acoustic version, as Emily Haines and James Shaw did an acoustic*...
Canadian indie darlings, Metric, are about to release the great named Synthetica on June 12. The first track we get to hear is Youth Without Youth, which you can listen to below. Synthetica follows up the highly successful previous album,...
