Who knew that a bunch of ridiculous sports such as running and jumping with different legs three times, dancing horses, or throwing a pole would be SO popular? YouTube has released some numbers of its streaming partnership with NBC in...
Russian band Pussy Riot, who did a political protest against the Russian Orthodox Church leader’s support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, have been found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” (via BBC). Musicians have spoken out worldwide about free...
Adrian Bayford is one lucky son of a bitch. He played Euromillions on Friday, and won….£148 million (about $233 million CDN, and American nowadays). What is he doing with this money? Whores, cocaine, vacations? Perhaps yes to all three, but...
In the UK, music festivals have seen poor attendance and the “economy” cancel a few fan favourites. In the USA, lucky fans not only get Virgin Festival, but they get free admission once again (via Consequence of Sound). And this...
Remember when PeteHatesMusic was featured in the Guardian’s Blog Jam section? Well, after some more blackmailing success, we’ve been featured again. The Guardian is running an interesting new series called Six Songs of Me. Even you can pick your Six...
Are you one of the 15 million people who use the Pulse mobile app? I use it daily to check out news from their ‘official’ sources, like ESPN, Gawker, Tech Crunch, and other websites (hilarious cat video sites are notably...
Two pieces of Radiohead news for you today. The first is that the excellent song, The Daily Mail, which couldn’t crack The King of Limbs but was released as a post-album single, has an unofficial live video. The video is...
Good news for me and bad news for my lawyer – if you embed a copyright-infringing video, or if you watch it, it is not illegal (via Tech Dirt). This is huge news for music websites and blogs like this...
When will people learn to stop what they are doing to text. I’m not saying I’m not guilty of walking and texting – I try and do it less now – but I’ve never fallen off of a pier, fallen...
Do you remember that brilliant, excellent, fantastic blog series (that just happened to be written by PeteHatesMusic) that dealt with intro music for WWF wrestlers? Well, now we have a related news story – Papa Berg (who wins bonus points...
Only from the mind of Stephen Colbert would we get not only this ridiculously named festival, but also him going through with it. What we get is StePhest Colbchella 2012 – RocktAugustfest (via Consequence of Sound). You might have read...
A pretty cool idea in the music world is to have a music festival for people who are under 19. This is just what London’s Underage Festival does keeping all the twerps away from me. Because of the London 2012...
Have you seen The Dark Knight Rises yet? Did you download it? Be honest (but don’t post incriminating evidence on this site). Well, you might get all of your illegal music and movies online, but would you believe that an...
Remember that classic Simpsons episode, where the Red Hot Chili Peppers play at Moe’s Tavern, and he asks them to change their lyrics? For some bands, changing lyrics for radio or promotion is sacred territory. For country star (who I’ve...
For some reason, there’s going to be a LOT of people in London for the next 2.5 or 3 weeks. A lot of these people will want Internet – data roaming fees aren’t what they’re cracked up to be. UK...
