HMV Goes into Administration in the UK Music retailer HMV, with 239 stores in the UK and Ireland, has gone bankrupt (aka ‘entered administration’ in the UK) after one final push to secure funding did not work (via Yahoo). Accounting...
A new video from Trent Reznor’s How to destroy angels_, which means I need to carefully examine my upper and lower cases, as well as my underscores_. The video is for The loop closes, which is one of the tracks...
Some new stuff from Low, off of upcoming TENTH album, The Invisible Way. The song is called Just Make It Stop, which is what I’ve been trying to do to my weird rashes. They never stop moving and changing. The...
More Coachella Headliners Revealed? Daft Punk, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Rumoured Technology might yet again be ruining surprises. First, my beeping Christmas present in 1989 that turned out NOT to be a GameBoy but was a Speak and Spell, and...
Some more great stuff out of Birmingham, England for you. We have Troumaca, who have a warm, electronic blip filled track in Lady Colour. The video has some slow motion, underwater, colour-filled people doing their thing. The song is better...
Hurricane Sandy Concerts Blows Everyone Away….is an Example of an Inappropriate Headline The rumours were true – I am the world’s greatest lover we got to see a “Nirvana reunion” with Paul McCartney subbing in for Kurt Cobain. After tweeting...
We suspected that Atoms for Peace were calling their new album Amok. We also read the album is out on January 28. Now we have confirmation that it’s out on February 25 in the UK, February 26 in North America...
City and Colour (read: Dallas Green) has announced a new EP, and it’s out really soon. It’s called Covers, Pt. 2, and is a 2-song EP out on December 4 – JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. It was only last...
Some more great stuff out of Sweden. The Mary Onettes have a throwback, dreamy pop sound on the sad sounding Evil Coast. But which coast is the Evil Coast – should we ask Best Coast, and pick the opposite? The...
Paul McCartney to Guest Star on Hillsborough Charity Single In England, the Hillsborough football disaster has been a pretty big deal for a couple of decades. This year, the truth behind the police’s falsification of many of the day’s reports...
Kodaline have followed up their selection on PeteHatesMusic’s Good Bets for Breaking Out in 2013 by releasing a video. Likely unrelated events, but I write this blog so I can write what I want. Oh, it’s illegal to make up...
MySpace Has Lost Over $40 Million This Year; Plow Ahead with Streaming Service It seems pretty amazing to think that MySpace was sold for $580 million in 2005. The buyer, News Corp, ended up flipping it for a mere $35...
Guards have released their first official video for their track, Silver Lining. Is that about the inside of coats or something? The three piece band (ignore the other 2 in the video I guess?) are releasing In Guards We Trust...
Former guitarist of The Smiths (and Modest Mouse and The Cribs) – Mr. Johnny Marr – has a new track from his proper solo debut, The Messenger. Marr’s album will be out February 26, and will have 12 tracks (via...
A big day for Sigur Rós – they hit puberty, too! dropped a new video in their ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment series. I’m guessing people are either really into this series or really don’t give a shit about it...
