Stone Temple Pilots (Finally) Fire Scott Weiland Yesterday, 90s Alt Rock giants, Stone Temple Pilots fired troubled singer Scott Weiland (via MTV). Their publicist apparently is short on words, and merely emailed around “Stone Temple Pilots have announced they have...
Giving the Fans What They Want – A Marcus Mumford and Justin Timberlake Collaboration? Mumford & Sons frontman, Marcus Mumford, has recorded a song with pop singer, Justin Timberlake (via NME). I’ve always thought that pop music needed more banjos....
The National Are Playing a Free Show in Toronto As part of NXNE As I tweeted yesterday, The National have announced a new album due for release in May. This is great news, since their last album (High Violet) was...
Oscar Wrap Up on a Music Site The Oscars were last night, and doesn’t my bookie know it, as I locked down on Christoph Waltz at 21:1 odds back in December, Argo at 5:1, and Ang Lee at 5:1 –...
Hiatus? What hiatus?! Foo Fighters Recording New Album Dave Grohl must hate his family. What other excuse can he have when he tours relentlessly with the Foo Fighters, drums on anyone’s album who asks him, makes a documentary about Sound...
The Brit Awards Wrap Up My coverage and interest in the 2013 Brit Awards highly differed from 2012, when I lived 3 Tube stops away from the O2 Arena in London. Speaking of the Tube, Muse’s Matt Bellamy took the...
Alt-J to Score British Indie Film, Leave To Remain Mercury Prize winners Alt-J will be composing the soundtrack to Leave to Remain, a new British movie by Bruce Goodison (via NME). The film stars Toby Jones and is about teenagers...
Cue the Endless Led Zeppelin Reunion Interview Questions Led Zeppelin reformed (sans John Bonham, of course – but with his son) for a one-off epic show in London in 2007. The demand for tickets was outrageous, and so was the...
Monday is a holiday in Ontario, so I took today off to have an extra long weekend, and have a bunch of scheduled posts running to give the illusion I’m blogging. As such, this news is not morning fresh. So...
Radiohead to Start Work on New Album in Fall, PeteHatesMusic Runs Around House in Excitement Radiohead, aka the best band making music these days, will return to the studios this fall (or is it autumn?) to begin work on their...
At Last – Sigur Rós Candles! If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for me, look no further than a candle from Icelandic band, Sigur Rós. That’s right, Sigur Rós have moved into the lucrative and untapped music market...
Grammy Awards Had 28 Million Viewers, Needed Someone Famous to Die Right Before Show Again The Grammy Awards had massive viewership in 2012, thanks in part to Whitney Houston dying the weekend of the show. Sunday night’s show was down...
So the Grammys Were Last Night… The Grammy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles. There were lots of performances, a few stand out moments, and even time for a few awards. I won’t rehash all of the winners...
Warner Music Acquires Parlophone from Universal Music Time to pack your bags, Parlophone artists – you’re moving to Warner Music. Since Universal acquired EMI in September, it was required to sell off some of its assets (via Gigwise). The deal...
Yet Again, Tom Morello Denies Rage Against the Machine Album Rumours Clearly Tom Morello doesn’t watch the news. Lance Armstrong was accused of using performance enhancing drugs for all of his Tour de France victories, yet he denied it and...
