One festival I’ve not heard of until I moved to the not-so-sunny shores of the UK is Portugal’s Optimus Alive. In Europe, the festival carries a good reputation, landing on NME’s top 12 European festivals back in 2009. The sixth...
I would really hate to have been in a coma the past 10 years. Not only would I have missed the show finale of Sex and the City, but I would’ve missed out on the explosion of social media and...
As we found out at the end of 2011, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is not an immortal robot. After he died, he was replaced by the handsome devil of a dictator, Kim Jong Un. Every great leader needs a...
Good news: When Radiohead hinted during their Bonnaroo set that they recorded at Jack White’s Third Man Records studio in Nashville, they weren’t lying. Bad news: The rumoured collaboration with Jack White isn’t happening (via Pitchfork). Viagra won’t save my...
Thom Yorke from Radiohead is a known advocate of climate change and global warming, having gone to conferences and the like. He has even had lyrics in Radiohead songs that could be interpreted as climate warning lyrics (especially the “climate...
A lot has happened in the past 365 days. Amy Winehouse suddenly died (well, her and millions of others). The Stone Roses are playing music together again. Coachella is now 2 weekends long. Tom Gabel from Against Me! wants to...
Dirty Projectors have a new album, Swing Lo Magellan, out in July. So far PHM has let you see/listen to two of the songs off that album, Gun Has No Trigger and Dance For You. Now we have info on...
Tonight’s Radiohead concert at Downsview Park in Toronto has been cancelled after the stage collapsed this afternoon, killing one person and injuring at least three others (via CBC.ca). This is very sad news and our thoughts here at PHM go...
Bonnaroo has kicked off, and as we mentioned the other day, you can watch select acts (such as Radiohead! The Shins, Bon Iver, etc.) over at the Bonnaroo YouTube channel. However, if you’re AT the festival, you can still have...
The last musical output from Silverchair singer/songwriter Daniel Johns was the Australian band’s 2007 album Young Modern. When Silverchair was put into “indefinite hibernation” in May of 2011, the talented Johns was free to pursue other projects. It was announced...
Drake has announced the acts for his third annual OVO Fest. Rapping at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre on August 5 will be another Toronto artist, The Weeknd, as well as A$AP Rocky, and 2 Chainz (via Pitchfork). How’s that for a...
Awesome news from The XX! They will be releasing a new album on September 10 called COEXIST.Get all the dirt at THEXX.info.
Metric are about to drop Synthetica on us next month. They’ve been peppering us with previews, from Youth Without Youth to Speed the Collapse. Next, they will be peppering us with clues, for your very own scavenger hunt! From Metric’s...
It’s amazing how fast technology speeds by. The Internet became popular in the mid 90s. MP3s showed up around then, and then began trading like wild fire in the late 90s, helped by programs like Napster. YouTube came around in...
The Killers will name their 4th studio album Battle Born, which is where the band recorded the album (via Consequence of Sound). It doesn’t quite have the same ring as “Abbey Road”. Brandon Flowers said to Rolling Stone, “In a...
