During Canadian Music Week back in March (aka the week where I did not sleep), the Blackberry Z10 launched in the Unites States. After a successful launch earlier in Canada, Blackberry continued their push to try and be a leader...
During the whirlwind Canadian Music Week, in which we covered shows all 6 nights, we managed to interview the very friendly and very talented band, CHVRCHES. As you may know, we’ve done many interviews before, but this was our first...
I have to admit something – I often have low expectations for opening bands. I try my best to have an open ear mind, but sometimes I will “accidentally” delete a review for an opening band if I can’t find...
Obvious fact alert: writing good, compelling music is hard. Perhaps not-so-obvious fact: writing instrumental music, in which one cannot focus or fall back on the lyrics but only have the music to focus on, might be even harder. Doing it...
A quick geography and meteorology lesson for you, since that’s why you come to PeteHatesMusic. The Midlands are in central England. Its largest city is Birmingham, which receives rainfall on average about 180 days a year – basically, every other...
The Mowgli’s describe themselves as “5 childhood friends from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, augmented by 3 mid-western transplants.” I may have needed a calculator, but that means that the southern California band are bursting at the seams...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic Childhood friends often dream of being in bands, but those lofty dreams barely make it out of the basement. I always wanted to invent a time machine, but my future self advised me there’s no money in it....
It takes some talent to write a catchy chorus. It perhaps takes even more talent to write a catchy chorus that uses a 5 syllable word as the crux of this chorus. This is just what The Zolas did with...
Meet Django Django. Maybe you are already well acquainted with the band. If you were, you wouldn’t forget it. The band, with roots in Scotland and London, feature an explosion of different sounds and genres, often all on one song....
Earlier this month, Canadian indie pop band Stars unleashed their sixth studio album, The North. What followed were good reviews, and a debut week that found them at the number 5 spot on the Canadian Album charts, the number 3...
A burst of guitars. A slice of pop rock. Lyrics about the times, as well as good times with mates. All of this combines to equal the fantastic Leeds band, China Rats, the latest buzz band from the UK. The...
The musical landscape of Canada shifts every so often. East coast, west coast, Toronto, Montreal. Saskatchewan is trying to throw it’s hat into the ring, and one of the bands leading the charge are Regina’s Rah Rah. The 6-piece band...
With spring in full swing and winter behind us, I’m having a hard time not writing a lazy pun involving the subject of today’s interview, the awesome Halifax indie group, Wintersleep. But here at PeteHatesMusic we strive to write better...
This past Tuesday, the first EP from Fixers was released in America. Called Pop Meat/Your Corruptor, the EP features 5 songs, and had the band pop over to New York (where they spotted Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, no less)....
With their fourth album, Lost Channels, Toronto folk rock band, Great Lake Swimmers continued to find critical success. What they might not have expected to find was they would still have to do interviews for terrible blogs a nomination for...
