Florence Welch from Florence + the Machine walks into a South London bar. No jokes ensue, but she does join the band Sourberry as they’re warming up, and does a random cover of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky. We’ll blame the...
Although Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky are vying for song of the summer, I haven’t heard many covers of Blurred Lines. Vampire Weekend stopped by BBC Radio 1’s always great Live Lounge for an attempt at...
London duo Summer Camp have the perfect disco-esque tune for your summer camp or whatever it’s called that you’re doing around all those young children. The song is fresh and it’s called, um, Fresh. It’s a lyric video that looks...
After a great show at NXNE in Toronto, BRAIDS return with a new video for a track off of Flourish // Perish (which is what I sadistically yell to all my plants). The album is out on August 20. In...
Do you remember Mazzy Star? Despite their one-off singles in 2011, they haven’t recorded anything since 1996. They will release Seasons of Your Day on September 23/24. They release the dreamy California to get us excited. Check it out below....
Valentine’s Day comes early (or really late) for lovers of David Bowie. The legend is back with a new song from his surprise 2013 release, The Next Day. Bowie doesn’t roll out the guest stars for this video. Instead, we...
Kick off your morning and your week with some straight forward rock from J. Roddy Walston & The Business, and their new track Heavy Bells. The track is lifted from their upcoming third album, Essential Tremors (which is only the...
We have a video for the 3rd single from Laura Mvula’s Sing to the Moon album. We had the clap-happy If That’s Alright (and its remix), as well as Green Garden. The latest video is for She. She (the song,...
In May, we posted a track by Manchester female rock band PINS and their track Stay True. The band have another rock song with some attitude, in their track called Get With Me. I love it when girls tell me...
Last year, the winner of BBC’s Sound of 2013 poll was California trio HAIM. The British poll attempts to name the biggest new talents emerging in music. Scottish synth poppers CHVRCHES landed in 5th. It was somewhat fitting when CHVRCHES...
Jay-Z took to this thing called the Information Super Highway Internet and had a chat with some fans on Twitter. Someone wisely asked what the heck is going on with his unreleased track, Dead Presidents 3. He replied “Just [Blaze]...
Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand dropped two lyric videos for new singles Right Action and also Love Illumination. We have the first official video for one of those tracks, Right Action. The video is quirky and features colourful animations alongside...
Rolling Stones plant trees and plants for Hyde Park show: Yes, friends, it is a tremendously slow day in music news. They want it to look more like their 1969 show, or something… (Via NME) More Music News: Find out how...
Festival 1 on the docket for PeteHatesMusic.com this summer is Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest. Hardly a festival for just blues, the strength of this festival is the wide array of different acts music nerds like us get to experience. Check back...
The recently flooded grounds of the Calgary Stampede are set to stage one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Less than a month after bible-grade flooding in Calgary’s downtown, the Stampede track has been re-built, and is currently a...
