Some lovely west coast Canadiana for your Wednesday (and hopefully the days to follow). The band are from Victoria and are called Towers and Trees, coincidentally two of my favourite things to climb. The band fittingly have a song called...
We last caught up with English sister trio The Staves when they dropped Steady. Like my pimples, they’re baaaaaaaaaack! Unlike my pimples, this is good news. The video is for lead single Black & White (should I continue the pimple-themed...
More great stuff from Petite Noir. We heard debut track Chess, and now he follows it up with Shadows. As a bonus, we have another track with Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def). Shadows shows off his vocal range,...
Good band name? Check. Good song? Check. Based on this, you should check out Pearl and the Beard, and their track You. You features three vocalists throughout the song, all coming together for the soothing chorus harmony. If you want...
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...
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....
We have some lovely stuff from English trio The Staves. Bonus points for being sisters, too. The band released an EP last year with production work from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. He’s also produced upcoming album, If I Was. Our...
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...
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...
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,...
