Make Your Ears Happy! March 9, 2016 Edition
It’s week 2 of March, and it is once again time to make your ears happy (so stopping stabbing them with Q-tips). We have a playlist of 5 tracks for you to test drive. The new Frightened Rabbit tune is...
Category: Indie Pop
Make Your Ears Happy! March 1, 2016 Edition
It’s March! New music keeps coming out! We keep posting the good stuff. Come and make your ears happy with 5 new tunes, including stuff from Tim Hecker, Mt. Wolf, and Gold Panda, to name a few. 5 acts, and...
Make Your Ears Happy! February 19, 2016 Edition
So many good songs, so little time. Check out new stuff from Frightened Rabbit and Weezer, plus a Kanye West cover by Stars. Come make your ears happy on this lovely Friday.
Make Your Ears Happy! February 16, 2016 Edition
Now that your post-Valentine’s Day mood has brightened, let PeteHatesMusic make your ears happy with some new tunes that dropped this week, and over the past several weeks. Cape Cub – Closer Location: The mysterious Northeast of the United Kingdom...
Make Your Ears Happy! January 17, 2016 Edition
In this edition of Make Your Ears Happy, we bring you new stuff from some instrumental / post-rock giants, with new tracks from Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. Toronto indie darling Basia Bulat has another new tune, too. Listen...
Make Your Ears Happy! January 11, 2015 Edition
If you’re somehow finding out on PeteHatesMusic that David Bowie died, then either you need to change your homepage (Dad), or my SEO tactics are marvelous. Either way, a massive loss for the music industry (as well as the fashion,...
Make Your Ears Happy! November 25, 2015 Edition
Time to make your ears happy. That’s right – it’s more of our new format – short blasts of playlists. We bring you a mix of great new indie tracks, like the latest from UK band Editors, as well as...
Make Your Ears Happy! November 20, 2015 Edition
We are trying out a new format at PHM. We have so many good songs to post – mainly new ones, but a few older or missed gems – that you need to hear (and by older, we mean a...
Listen! Mt. Wolf – Hex
We’ve posted countless songs by Mt. Wolf, including great tunes like Midnight Shallows (when former singer Kate Sproule was in the band) and Red or Hamburg (post-Kate Sproule). The London, UK band have a new tune called Hex. Hex is...
Watch! Pixel Fix – I Want You the Same
We have some new stuff from Oxford, UK band Pixel Fix. We’ve featured their cool sound a few times before, with the tunes Overflow, Lungs, and their Fall EP. The latest tune from the band is called I Want You...
Listen! Basia Bulat – Infamous
New stuff from Toronto indie singer (and Polaris Prize nominee and PHM interviewee) Basia Bulat. The talented singer and multi-instrumentalist will release Good Advice on February 12. Instead of keeping us waiting until the new year, she has given us...
Watch! Grimes – Flesh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream
Grimes has been teasing a ‘surprise’ album release for sometime. We knew that the name of the new album would be Art Angels, and it will be out on November 6. What we didn’t know was that we’d be getting...
Listen! Pr0files – Empty Hands
We’ve been featuring the duo of Pr0files pretty much since day 1. Hopefully you’ve caught tracks like Call Yourself a Lover, Luxury, and Forgive from Danny Sternbaum (from Baby Monster) and Lauren Pardini. If not – well, you’re here for...
Listen! Junior Boys – Big Black Coat
Hamilton’s Junior Boys are back. The electronic duo have been mostly silent since 2011’s It’s All True, and have returned to please our ears with their new track Big Black Coat – a wise purchase for looking stylish this winter....
Listen! GEMS – w/o u
Indie duo GEMS have used some shorthand for their new song. Following up Tangled Memories (and our interview) comes new track w/o u. The slow burning track features lovely vocals, in GEMS-branded dark pop format. Out on the ‘new’ Friday...
