Bon Iver Wins Best New Artist, Snub Grammys, Should Rename Himself Bonnie Bear Last night, the 2012 Grammys took place. Like Bon Iver, I held out watching from watching them. Unlike Bon Iver, I did not win a Grammy. Bon...
Singer Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48 (via Associated Press). No cause of death has been revealed, but idiot bloggers like myself will jump to the obvious drug abuse history and draw our own conclusions. Perhaps file...
The Black Keys are about to kick off their first night of three sold out nights in London, England, at the Alexandra Palace. PeteHatesMusic will be at the Ally Pally for their 3rd and final show – save the best...
Now that is a headline that would’ve made NO sense about 5 years ago. United States of America President Barack Obama uses the online streaming service, Spotify. He decided to Tweet what he is listening to for his 2012 Campaign....
The Grammys are all about a) increasing album sales and b) television audience. Don’t kid yourself to thinking the actual awards amount to any critical or musical merit – they don’t. The Grammys are also about “show stopping” duets. Anyone...
With all of this talk about the Grammys and people shunning and ignoring the Grammys, us Canadians can turn our focus to something equally cool (or perhaps cooler) – the 2012 Juno Awards. The Juno Awards will take place on...
A new tour film called Big Easy Express is out soon, and you can watch a trailer for it below. It looks like one giant train party between the bands, who had exclusive use of the train. Definitely beats a...
English actor Stephen Fry might have changed a young guitarist’s life. And by might, I mean definitely did. For those who don’t know Stephen Fry, shame on you he has been in numerous TV shows and movies, including Blackadder, V...
Tonight at 8:15pm GMT / 3:15pm EST / do your own math for other timezones, the Arctic Monkeys will broadcast their show in Paris at the Olympia venue tonight (February 3) on their website. If you’re craving a live gig...
Ah, twitter. A self indulgent social media program in which you document the uselessness of your life in 140 characters or less. Twitter quickly gained popularity with celebrities, who gave insights to slices of their life that we’ll never get...
As regular readers of PeteHatesMusic should know, I am a terrible writer Kickstarter features some pretty cool products, even music related ones. Hypebot has pointed out that a cool sounding documentary about the revival of cassette tapes is nearing it’s...
If you like indie music, chances of you’ve heard of Pitchfork. They are a huge indie website that posts 5 album reviews every day, have spawned their own weekend festival in Chicago, and can make a band’s career. I started...
Good news: There will be a new soundtrack comprised of Radiohead songs! Bad (if you can call it bad) news: You’ve heard all of the songs before. Well, assuming you’re a super fan like PeteHatesMusic. The songs are all from...
Follow us on Twitter @PeteHatesMusic Painting things on the hoods of cars can be funny, if it’s meant to be funny. A classic example would be when Tom Green turned his parents’ car into the Slut Mobile. Sometimes, people paint...
You have no-doubt heard that this week’s SOPA protests postponed the bill. Score one for reason! House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith then said his panel would not consider the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) until a compromise was reached....
