Day 8: Great Big Sea day. The crowd on Friday night was decidedly older than most nights, as Great Big Sea brings out the 40+ crowd in droves. The Gaff: Started the day watching The Gaff tweak and scratch his...
Midland is a producer and DJ from London UK… of all places… who will be officially releasing this amazing new bassline next week. So, get to whatever stereo system has the most powerful bass near you and pump this up.
Day 7. The day the heat broke. Tragically Hip Night. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Don’t be fooled by their name. The Blues Explosion is ‘blues’ like The Jesus Lizard is ‘rock’. You’re not going to hear these guys play ‘Sweet...
Day 6 – Weezer Wednesday. Killer Mike: Sometimes, technical difficulties actually make a show amazing. This has happened twice in my life: Coldplay @ Bell Centre in Montreal (guitar broke – had to re-start their biggest hit twice) and yesterday...
Day 5 – Neil Peart drum solo night. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: On Friday, I mentioned that music ‘fans’ who categorically reject country music are more or less idiots. They just haven’t heard the right country music yet. Grace...
Sunday night @ottawabluesfest. Fun. headlining. The Joy Formidable: The show of the festival thus far. I liked this band before the day started, and now I love them. The Welsh threesome brought some serious power, noise, and beauty in a...
Day 3 – another hot one. Amadou & Mariam: The legendary blind husband and wife team were amazing. Funky west-african rhythms that have an amazing club sense… buildups, drops and continuous grooves. Pretty much the perfect band to see in...
Day 2. Friday night on Lebreton Flats. Camera Obscura: Holy crap – is this band good! Admittedly, I only caught 3 songs of this set to open the night – but they were all amazing – pitch perfect and surprisingly...
Gesaffelstein is a French producer from Lyon, who produced Black Skinhead and Send It Up on Kanye West’s Yeezus – notably the 2 heaviest tracks on the album. His solo efforts are no less heavy, and provide further evidence that...
Rolling Stones plant trees and plants for Hyde Park show: Yes, friends, it is a tremendously slow day in music news. They want it to look more like their 1969 show, or something… (Via NME) More Music News: Find out how...
Day 1 of RBC Bluesfest is over. It was awesome. Here are our thoughts about what we saw on day 1 in easy-to-read executive summary format. There will be a quiz at the end. The Split: This band does not...
Festival 1 on the docket for PeteHatesMusic.com this summer is Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest. Hardly a festival for just blues, the strength of this festival is the wide array of different acts music nerds like us get to experience. Check back...
The recently flooded grounds of the Calgary Stampede are set to stage one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Less than a month after bible-grade flooding in Calgary’s downtown, the Stampede track has been re-built, and is currently a...
Glastonbury came and went. Sadly, we weren’t there – so we don’t have anything clever to say about it this morning. But, thankfully, a rag-tag bunch of major media brands were there to cover the festival, and they’ve got lots...
There are alot of things to like about Simian Mobile Disco. Their music seems just a tad more clever than everyone else’s; their ludicrously complex live performance stageis inspiringly simple; they produce/perform music that sounds digital on entirely analogue instruments; and...
