More new stuff from Purity Ring. Following up on push pull is their new track begin again. The track is as straight forward a song that I’ve heard from the Canadians. No distorted and bizarrely appealing vocals, weird yet melodic...
Previous PHM interviewee Mark T Smith of Explosions in the Sky teamed with Eluvium (aka Matthew Cooper) and previously formed the lovely outfit Inventions. The ambient instrumental duo produced tracks like Entity and Peaceable Child. They have bashed out another...
Django Django was our favourite album of 2012. With my birthday being today (thanks for the presents, NO ONE), Django Django decided to give me the gift of a song. Well, me and the entire Internet. We get a funky...
Hailing from Edmonton is Cecil Frena, or as he likes to be called Born Gold (sounds powerful). Born Gold has a single series called No Sorrow, dropping tracks like how I drop my exercise plans – on a consistent basis....
I like how the band name and song title could sort of be some weird thought process or discussion. “Chastity Belt? Time to go home!” Oh man, how many dates have I said that one? Trick question – I don’t...
There was a period of my life where I was obsessed with The Go! Team. I would listen to Thunder, Lightning, Strike all the time, applying the songs as theme songs to various parts of my life, working the song...
Do you remember that London, UK duo Oh Wonder, who have promised to release a new song every month? We caught up with their December release All We Do. Their January contribution is The Rain (an aptly named song for...
Life is busy. I get easily distracted by hilarious cat videos on YouTube. I start eating gummi bears and wake up in a food coma days later, still somehow watching cat videos on YouTube. Where am I going with this?...
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...
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,...
