The xx have another new video off of their excellent sophomore album, Coexist. The track is the second song on the album – are they lazily making videos based on the tracklisting? The band notes on Facebook, “Spending 2 days...
This post combines two things we are very fond of – beer and free candy The xx and Four Tet. The xx song Angels has been remixed by Four Tet (who knows a thing or two about remixes), and debuted...
Two Bestival Disasters – One Serious, One Artificial The Isle of Wight’s Bestival was this past weekend, with headliners such as The xx, Sigur Rós, Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, and loads more. Sadly, a bus carrying Bestival passengers crashed late...
Monday night was the first day the sun hasn’t shone brightly in London in over a week. Fittingly, the darkness coincided with the UK release date of The xx’s excellent sophomore album, Coexist, and the band’s album release gig in...
Is PeteHatesMusic.com a bunch of dirty linkbaiters? Well, that depends on who you talk to. Why am I pondering this? Well – I’m responding to a recent rant made by Drowned in Sound editor Sean Adams (@seaninsound). Let me explain…...
Great news for those Tuesday blues (Tuesday being a Monday because of the long weekend, doncha know?) – The xx have put their new album, Coexist, online for us to listen to. I’ve been listening via another site for the...
Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival Pulls Out All the Stops The inaugural Made In America festival, curated and topped by Jay-Z, certainly had a lot of surprises. Sadly, free beer was not upon the surprises. To some it all up...
A new song by the xx has made its way to the world wide web. This is the third song from upcoming album, Coexist, that we’ve heard and enjoyed. The song has all the usual makings of an xx song...
Hooray – a new song by The xx! Jamie xx and his beats are the subtle unsung heroes on this track, which features the usual back and forth singing from Romy and Oliver. The song is called Chained and is...
Just What We Need: Another Beatles Compilation For those who grew up after the Beatles broke up (read: me), it was hard not to consume them through compilation albums. We had the double red and blue albums, the Anthologies series,...
We recently told you about the new album Coexist from The xx. It is due out September 10th and the English group has just released the first track off the album, Angels, for us to listen to (via gigwise.com). The...
Awesome news from The XX! They will be releasing a new album on September 10 called COEXIST.Get all the dirt at THEXX.info.
The xx stunned a lot of people with their Mercury Award winning debut album, xx. The near-flawless album won fans worldwide and heck, Intro is still used as my ringtone. The band have been locked inside the studio, posting snippets...
Granted, this one might be better to end a night than to start one, this is a very heavy track from Angular Recordings’ Fresh Touch, and was apparently a spin-off from Damon Albarn’s Kinshasa-One-Two project – and is loaded up...
Twitter @PeteHatesMusic Valentine’s Day is tomorrow – do you have someone to give a Valentine to? If not, then this playlist is for you! Whether you have had a recent breakup, rejection, or things aren’t going too well in your...
