Given all of the bad things to happen in 2020, PeteHatesMusic emerging from its year-plus slumber is just another lump of coal in the 2020 stocking. Besides endless meetings consisting of “You’re on mute!”, “Can you see my screen?”, and...
School is back in, people are back to work, so I guess that means I gotta blog again, right? Instead of “working” this summer, I was cheering England onto the World Cup semi finals, and singing about Football Coming Home...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic New Year’s Resolution for 2018: Blog at least twice a month. Life gets busy, and travelling for the past 2 months has meant 0 blog posts (ignore the months before that please…). I’ll make it up to you...
It’s been awhile, and I’m not quoting the ‘great’ 90s band Staind. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and since we haven’t given you a playlist of late, you get a monster playlist. This playlist, of course, has indie bands...
Happy March, or as you might be forgiven for thinking by being outside in Toronto the past few weeks, Happy May. We have a boatload (well, a small paddleboat load) of new songs. We have stuff from far and wide,...
We here at PeteHatesMusic are lucky enough to have the talented Martin Bazyl from Martin Bazyl Photography shooting most of the shows we attend. He’s been there for several CMW and NXNE festivals, as well as weekend benders like Field...
We haven’t featured PHM favourite STACEY since we caught her live earlier this year (and posted her excellent debut EP). She has combined forces with Alissa Ricci of ON AN ON and John Mullane from In-Flight Safety for a song...
Here is a beautiful, delicate song to kick start your week. The track is by Nate Eiesland, from the band ON AN ON. As a bonus, there are co-writing credits for PHM favourite STACEY. Premiered on the Music Ninja, the...
The final night of Canadian Music Week, and PeteHatesMusic ended up at The Gladstone. The first act we saw was the very act we told you to check out – STACEY. Venue: The Gladstone Hotel First Impressions: I’ve never seen...
Toronto artist STACEY has a new video from her lovely debut EP. The track is Sleep Alone, something I never have to do thanks to my army of teddy bears. The track is another piano track that hits all the...
It’s May and Canadian Music Week is about to kick off – what kind of bizarro world are we living in? After 31 years in March, CMW has decided to relocate its week-long event to May for primarily “better weather”....
One of our more popular posts every year is our list of indie songs that deal with breakups, heartbreak, and rejection. Perhaps I should include a link to some therapy sites at the bottom of the page (or if you’re...
One of the better emails we’ve been sent of late is from talented piano player and singer STACEY. It was a good email because it contained not only the stunning song Worst Part, but NO VIRUSES also a private download...
One song that I have been listening to a LOT since I was first sent it (and posted it) is Worst Part by STACEY. It’s a stunning and sparse piano ballad, which shows beauty in its restraint (unlike me at...
As I completed the PeteHatesMusic Monthly Mix for November, it reminded me that it’s now December and I need to start buying presents so that I don’t make certain people cry. We’ll ignore the tears for now, and focus on...
