I dressed as Chad Kroeger from Nickelback for Halloween, and had fiancée Avril Lavigne as my handy sidekick. You make no friends by playing and singing Nickelback songs at parties. It turns out that I wasn’t the only one dressing...
If you want one more chick to have your name or initials on her body, here is your chance. But it’ll cost you a cool $150,000. The Canadian electro hip-hop/experimental artist, Esthero, releases her new album tomorrow. She was trying...
Canada is the forgotten child in the world of music streaming services. Sure, we have Rdio. We don’t have Spotify. We’re getting Xbox Music, however good that will be. But in the past 70-odd days, one music app has been...
Alanis Morissette was wildly popular in the 90s, then sort of disappeared, only to re-emerge with hunky boyfriend (her words, not mine, even though I’m typing this) Ryan Reynolds and a great guest spot on the show Weeds. Ryan Reynolds...
Apple might have just had an event, where they announced the iPhone 5, iOS 6 and other stuff, but they aren’t done. Call it the Steve Jobs “And one more thing” trick. The event has been set for Tuesday, October...
Cleveland has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and um, nothing else of note. London has everything else of note and um, the British Music Experience. That is not to say that the British Music Experience is the Cleveland...
PeteHatesMusic has been nominated for Best Music Blog for the Canadian Blog Awards! Round 1 of the voting has begun, and if we get enough votes, we’ll make it to Round 2 or possibly declared the outright winner if we...
It is pretty childish to post this, but “artists who we don’t feature who puke” should be a new regular segment of ours. First up was Justin Bieber, and now Lady Gaga has joined the ranks. She hurled on stage...
Everything thought Blur’s Hyde Park show might be the final bow from the long-running English band. Well, everyone – you’re wrong! Blur have confirmed that they are playing the Primavera festival in both Barcelona, Spain on May 24, Porto, Portugal...
Jay-Z’s favourite number must be 8. Is that an Illuminati thing? He just played 8 sold out shows at the new Brooklyn Barclay’s Center, home to the Brooklyn Nets NBA team. He has now announced that there will be a...
We all know rock and roll and alcohol go together. The Barenaked Ladies are taking it one step further, by joining forces with beer makers The Flying Monkeys to make their own beer (via Toronto Star). Former BNL singer, Stephen...
Atoms for Peace is one of those super groups that doesn’t suck. Containing Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Radiohead producer / Ultraista member Nigel Godrich, and fellow Ultraista member Joey Waronker, the band dropped the fantastic Default...
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Former social media giant, Myspace, became irrelevant faster than PeteHatesMusic a Geocities website from the 90s. However, bands still update their Myspace pages, since it’s still often the top result when people search for...
I’m not disturbed or troubled enough to take anyone hostage – at least not at this point in my life. If I was though, I don’t think I would go on Facebook and provide updates or comments to people about...
There’s been a lot of moaning about the removal of the Google Maps app from Apple’s iOS6 platform, which is the default for the new iPhone 5. This groaning happened even before people had a chance to put their hands...
