Watch! Bloc Party – Ratchet
Bloc Party just hit up Toronto a few weeks ago to help out with the Arts & Crafts Field Trip Festival. What they didn’t reveal then was that they LOVE PeteHatesMusic have a little surprise up their sleeve in the...
Category: Album Release News
Watch! CHVRCHES – Gun (plus album announcement)
It only took a day, but we have another post about CHVRCHES. We just saw them in Toronto on Wednesday night. Weirdly, I ran into singer Lauren Mayberry last night on Queen St West right across from the Rivoli, where...
Morning Music Notes – Came Back Awesome
Nine Inch Nails Drop New Song, Name Album, Announce Tour with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Solve World’s Financial Problems Well, go big or go home I guess. Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails have thrown fuckin’ everything at us over the...
Listen! THUMPERS – Unkinder (A Tougher Love)
Here is something new and upbeat out of London. The group are a duo called THUMPERS, and the just dropped a new EP called Unkinder. You can stream their 4 track EP over on Soundcloud, and we’re giving you a...
New Albums Due from Franz Ferdinand, Fuck Buttons
Good news for fans of Franz Ferdinand and/or Fuck Buttons. Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand will drop their fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, on August 26. This follows years of debuting live music, including at last year’s...
Watch! The Lonely Island – Spring Break (plus Zack Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns)
We have a double dose of comedy for you. The Lonely Island, who have made a few killer videos, have announced a new album called The Wack Album. Their first video debuted on a segment of Zach Galifianakis’ Between Two...
Watch! Editors – A Ton of Love
Editors are back with a new track and a new album. After an excellent debut with The Back Room, the back shifted directions, most recently trying out electronic music on In This Light and On This Evening. The band return...
Watch! Wild Nothing – A Dancing Shell
Wild Nothing have a catchy, if not a little erratic, new track called A Dancing Shell. The track is from their upcoming EP, Empty Estate. The track bubbles along with rolling synth lines, dreamy vocals, and some weirdness to break...
Listen! Young Fathers – I Heard
How is this for timing? We just ran the CHVRCHES interview we did with them, and one of the band recommendations that Martin Doherty gave was Young Fathers. And now we have a new track from them called I Heard,...
CSS Anounce New Album Planta, Debut New Song Hangover
If there was ever an appropriately titled song for, um, a Tuesday afternoon, it would be Hangover. This is the name of the latest song from Brazil’s CSS. I was blown away by the freshness of CSS’ first album, Cansei...
City and Colour Name New Album The Hurry and The Harm (out June 4)
City and Colour dropped the gorgeous new track, Of Space and Time, from an unknown, upcoming album. The album now has a name (unlike my bastard children). As posted on Facebook (whatever that is), Dallas Green has named the album...
Listen! Swim Deep – She Changes the Weather
Swim Deep just stormed SXSW in Austin a couple of weeks ago, and now have a new single to celebrate the occasion (although I think the celebration is actually their interview with PeteHatesMusic). The track is off of new album,...
Watch! Koko Blue – Anchor and Swim
Koko Blue is a musical endeavour from Koko Bonaparte (“Koko”) and Evan Gordon (presumably “Blue”?). The Guelph-based band release their debut album called Crosses and Planks on June 11. Before that, we get a sampling of it with the track...
Listen to 2 New Vampire Weekend tracks – Diane Young and Step
Why release one new song when you can release two in one afternoon? Vampire Weekend want to help you beat the Monday blues (or Tuesday morning if you’re in time travelling Australia). The first track is the hyper-drummed, scattered track...
Listen! City and Colour – Of Space and Time
Good news Dallas Green fans – the man with the insanely great angelic voice has a brand new song with his City and Colour outfit. This is coupled with the news that there is a new City and Colour album...
