Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic It’s the beginning of a new month. And hey – PeteHatesMusic has a new look that you hopefully don’t think is terrible. If you don’t know the drill, we pick some awesome songs from February, you listen to...
Toronto rockers The Darcys have been plowing us with videos from their recent release, Warring. And why not, it’s an excellent album. Following in the footsteps of Horses Fell, Itchy Blood, and Muzzle Blast, the Arts & Crafts-signed band have...
U2 – heard of them? They’re afraid they are slipping into irrelevance, and are making a statement album. Super producer? Check – Danger Mouse. Good new tunes? So far, so good. One such tune is Invisible, which has a brand...
Morning Music Notes Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic While the Super Bowl might’ve been over within minutes last night, all the buzz is about all of the music-related things that happened at the sporting event. Let’s kick things off by looking at U2....
Some new stuff from the Strumbellas, who will be hanging out at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto every week in February. The track is Sailing, which the band won’t be doing every week in February. The track has a poppy...
Another new video from Toronto electro-pop band Austra. Being named one of PeteHatesMusic’s Top Albums of 2013 wasn’t enough – the band haven’t given up, and are still releasing new videos. The one below is for single Hurt Me Now....
We’ve been prepping you for awhile, with tracks like Waste of Time, XXX 88, and Never Wanna Know, but one of the acts to watch out for in 2014 is Denmark’s MØ. BBC Radio’s Zane Lowe picked her new track,...
In the summer of 2012, we featured a band from Echo Park in Los Angeles. They are called NO, which is damn near impossible to Google. The band have signed to Toronto label Arts & Crafts and are dropping their...
U2 – ever heard of them? They did a new song for the Nelson Mandela biopic, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. We already heard a snippet, then the track sort of leaked. Well, now we have the official lyric video...
I will totally admit that I never bought into the huge amount of buzz behind UK band Savages. We’ve never featured them before, despite them being touted as the next big thing. However, their latest single will have me revisit...
We’ve featured a couple of tracks from Drop Electric – Little Sister and Blue Dream. Here’s the hat trick video for you – Higgs Boson. Tomorrow, the band release the album Waking Up to Fire, which is what a few...
PeteHatesMusic on Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic You’re a musician. You work hard on an album. It leaks to the Internet ahead of its scheduled release. Do you cancel your celebrations and go ballistic, or simply shrug? If you’re Simon Cowell, you call...
Hopefully you’ve been able to manage the hours of free time that you suddenly had since PeteHatesMusic was down while we switched web hosts this weekend (and Monday). Things still aren’t 100% re-arranged, but it’s good enough for us to...
U2 Possibly Name Album, Phoenix Does Name New Album Bands U2 and Phoenix are from Ireland and France, which Google Maps tells me are very far away. U2 have been messing about in the studio, scrapping and re-recording new music...
We have a plethora – yes, a plethora – of random 2012 information, such as money makers, album sales stats, and music streaming info. You might have heard that Adele’s album 21 has rolled past the 10 million sales mark...
