Watch! Best Coast – California Nights
We have an album announcement and a video of the title track for the new Best Coast album. The duo recently signed to a major label – gasp! – and this is their first release. The album and song are...
Category: Album Release News
Listen! Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Peasantry or ‘Light! Inside of Light!
The exclamation marks found in our Listen! or Watch! segments just got quadrupled, and I sure as hell ain’t complaining. Why is that? Oh, because one of my favourite bands of all time, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, just announced a...
Listen! Barbarossa – Imager
Following up his Elevator LP release is Barbarossa (James Mathé to his parents), back with a new album and song called Imager. Imager will find it’s way in stores on May 11. The falsetto-tinged singer continues his foray into electronic...
Watch! Palma Violets – Danger In The Club
Palma Violets have returned to save Brit rock, or something like that. The UK band return with a new album, Danger In The Club, out on May 4/5. Our first listen of their sophomore effort is the self titled track....
Watch! Florence + The Machine – What Kind Of Man
More new stuff from Florence + the Machine, only days after our first listen of How Big How Blue How Beautiful. The video for What Kind of Man starts with a discussion about relationships and suffering (which go hand in...
Watch! Hot Chip – Huarache Lights
Hot Chip topped our list of the best songs of 2012 with Flutes. Today, the UK band returns with another dancey number called Huarache Lights. This tune is off of upcoming new album, Why Make Sense?, out May 18. Huarache...
Listen! Great Lake Swimmers – Zero in the City
New stuff from Canadian indie folk act, Great Lake Swimmers. They have a new album, Forest of Arms, out April 21. They also have a new single called Zero in the City, which is exactly how many friends I have...
Listen! Mikal Cronin – Made Up My Mind
PeteHatesMusic last caught Mikal Cronin on a boat in Lake Ontario as part of NXNE (check out that top photo – I love the ceiling crowd surfing). Today, we bring you new music from the lad, and news of a...
Listen! The Decemberists – Make You Better
Eclectic folk / sea shanty / indie pop band The Decemberists are back. Singer Colin Meloy was busking in the streets of Brooklyn last week to announce a new album from the band, which is called What a Terrible World,...
Listen! Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – In The Heat Of The Moment
It’s Thanksgiving today in Canada. Besides eating disgusting amounts of turkey, I’m gobbling up all of the random, great music that has dropped today. One particular surprise I am exciting about is a new album from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying...
Listen! MONO – Where We Begin
Japanese post-rock band, MONO, have returned with a double whammy of new albums for us fans. It looks like they’ve copied the Guns ‘N Roses template for releasing two albums, as they’ll drop both The Last Dawn and Rays Of...
Listen! Stars – From The Night
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic Good news for lovers of Canadian indie pop band Stars. The Montreal/Toronto band return with their 7th album, No One is Lost, which clearly doesn’t describe my family’s road trips. The band’s first single is a somewhat surprising...
Listen! Pr0files – Luxury
We featured the debut song of duo Pr0files last year, and really dug the vibes of Call Yourself a Lover. After hearing not much for almost a year, much like me on online dating sites, Pr0files have returned with a...
Listen! The Black Fever – My Love, The Sea
More good indie rock out of Toronto – how about that? The band are called The Black Fever, and are playing an EP release show Saturday, August 16 at Rancho Relaxo. The Black Fever, which I imagine is not a...
Listen! Primus – Pure Imagination
Legendary odd-rockers Primus return this fall with their 8th studio album, Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble. The album is “a wall to wall tribute to the 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” (via rollingstone)....
