We suspected that Atoms for Peace were calling their new album Amok. We also read the album is out on January 28. Now we have confirmation that it’s out on February 25 in the UK, February 26 in North America...
We’re very proud to announce that PeteHatesMusic has been named the Best Music Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards! Thanks to you and your ability to follow my strict orders, your votes helped us capture 65% of the vote! We...
We have a plethora – yes, a plethora – of random 2012 information, such as money makers, album sales stats, and music streaming info. You might have heard that Adele’s album 21 has rolled past the 10 million sales mark...
City and Colour (read: Dallas Green) has announced a new EP, and it’s out really soon. It’s called Covers, Pt. 2, and is a 2-song EP out on December 4 – JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. It was only last...
Although it’s not truly fan-made, the Beastie Boys concert film “Awesome; I Fucking Shot That” is one of my favourite concert films. The band gave 50 concert goers at Madison Square Gardens a camcorder, and told them to let the...
TIME magazine does this thing where it picks the most influential person of the year for its Person of the Year. Last year it was “The Protester”, which isn’t technically a person. The shortlist of 38 people has been released,...
Some interesting stuff from Digital Music News. They received a rather lengthy comment from Grammy nominated songwriter, Ellen Shipley. She co-wrote the track Heaven is a Place on Earth. This track has received a massive 3.1 million plays on Pandora...
Not quite sure how this happened – it sort of sounds like a heist movie. 3,600 iPad Minis were stolen from JFK airport in New York City. Street value: a cool $1.5 million (via Tech Crunch). The location where the...
This story is about a week old, but I was too busy playing with my new Nexus 7 to get around to writing about the iPad. On a related note, expect Android/Nexus related posts to increase in relation to iPad...
A big day for Sigur Rós – they hit puberty, too! dropped a new video in their ongoing Valtari Mystery Film Experiment series. I’m guessing people are either really into this series or really don’t give a shit about it...
Remember that sort of cryptic, uninformative trailer for Kanye West’s follow up to Cruel Summer? The Cruel Winter trailer was full of arty shots, a George Bush speech, and was copyright to Kanye’s Donda production outfit. Well, it turns out...
You might have noticed a myriad of colour changes, logo updates, shifting of the menu, and various other things when trying to view PeteHatesMusic on both your desktop and your mobile device of choice. It is likely just the drugs...
Last month, we were shortlisted for Best Music Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards. While no ‘official’ Canadian Blog Awards exist, this is the sixth straight year these particular awards have been running. The Best Music Blog category has been...
Alt-J have beaten out tough competition in Django Django, Jessie Ware, Richard Hawley, to name a few, to win their first Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Best British or Irish album at the awards. Their album, An Awesome Wave, featured great...
There’s been a lot of people hinting about a follow up album to the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album, Cruel Summer. You wouldn’t know it by watching it, but this minute long trailer is either a graduate film making project, or...
