Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic Lists! Rankings! Validation! All of these year end lists everywhere ultimately don’t mean much, because – NEWSFLASH – music can be pretty subjective. But you don’t read this blog to be told lists are meaningless – you want...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic I always have a love/hate relationship with hot dogs our Top Songs lists. Narrowing down dozens and dozens of awesome tracks is tough. Ranking them is REALLY tough. A song I listened to a thousand times in January...
Listomania continues. PHM contributor Danny Boy provides 2 cracking lists for you. The first one plays off one of his specialties – being creepy around women his love of hip hop – while the other explores his dance/EDM side. Sit...
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...
What’s in a name? It’s December and we have more new stuff from the Decemberists, and some might call that fitting. The quirky folk pop rockers are readying new album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (out January...
UK indie act Thumpers have shown up on the pages of PHM before, with great tunes such as Unkinder (A Tougher Love) and Galore (and then the entire album stream). Heck, we even featured the audio in October for the...
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...
Some more slick beats and production work from Harrison, who previously featured with his Maybe Next Time track. And who doesn’t like the Toronto skyline in some retro yet awesome artwork?! His effort on Comfort Cruise is fantastic. It is...
We’ve heard some great songs from UK duo Aquilo this year. Human and I Gave It All are outstanding tracks, with the latter also having a heartbreaking video. With their new EP now out, the band have dropped another video,...
We have some electronic soundscapes from Cologne, Germany for you. The band are VIMES and they have a new track called Entail. The duo throw a variety of sounds at us in Entail, with the sound slowly morphing yet maintaining...
Purity Ring are helping close out 2012 by dropping a new tune. It is called push pull, showing the band truly do not care about caPiTaL letters. The track is similar to efforts off of 2012’s Shrines, in that it...
More new stuff from The Decemberists! The Colin Meloy-led outfit are following up Make You Better with a lyric video (which actually shows the band playing, and would pass for a proper video) for Lake Song. The track is a...
A duo from London called Oh Wonder emailed me to let me know they are dropping songs at the start of every month leading up to their September debut album. It might have taken 1 million total listens, but I’ve...
Some impressive new stuff by Domino signee Petite Noir. While the video has an intentionally dated feel (right??), the song is anything but. Petite Noir is from Cape Town, South Africa (one of the most beautiful cities I have ever...
I received an email from an artist from the North East of England. He goes by the name Cape Cub, which I really hope is his real name (assuming I ignore the “Chad” he closed the email with). Cape Cub...
