Here is an interesting find – I was conceived on the moon the reason the Olympics switched from the classic starting pistol to beeps in speakers of individual athlete’s blocks is because it negatively impacted the athlete that was the...
My laundry machine is a newer one and all of its buttons make quirky noises. You can even pick from 2 tones that play when the laundry is done, celebrating the upcoming folding that you need to get your girlfriend...
The London 2012 Olympic Games have been going for about a week, and like any major event, there is controversy abound. Two of the major ones have spawned their own Twitter accounts, both of which are quite hilarious. The first...
Have you tried to recruit a band member through Kijiji or Craigslist, only to have the person not show up, or if they DO show up, they are drunk and abusive to your cat? No one wants that guy in...
Are you old enough to remember making mixtapes with cassette tapes? You could put CDs in your stereo or wait for the song on the radio to play (yup, it was as archaic as it sounds) and then hit record...
Every week, a couple of media stats make for a few news stories and analysis. One is the weekend movie box office, noting how many millions the latest Harry Potter or Twilight movie brought in. The other stat is the...
I love how when talking about Batman, the adjective “bat” is applied to everything involving him (even his name). Batmobile. Batarang (seriously?). Batcopter. Batbike. But we love Batman too much, so we’ll let it slide. We also love gadgets (note...
In the UK, it was June 16. In North America, July 1. And since I was on vacation, this post is a tad delayed. But…June 16/July 1 marks a very special day for me in music history – the first...
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...
And now the exciting conclusion of the PeteHatesMusic search engine madness. In case you haven’t been following the past 2 days, we have been highlighting some of our favourite search words from the first half of 2012 that landed people...
Yesterday, we outlined some of the best search words people used in Google and, um, are there other search engines still around? Alta Vista? Anyway, we dug into Google Analytics to find what words people were using to land on...
There’s a program called Google Analytics that bloggers and other websites use to track their web traffic. Sadly, I am still the only visitor to PeteHatesMusic. Actually, that joke renders this whole post useless so ignore it. One cool feature...
When it comes to beer drinkers there are two types: 1) thirsty 2) thirsty, but not so thirsty that I don’t have 30 minutes to kill, designing some elaborate way to get my beer The guys in this next video...
When thinking of the great Blues artists of all-time, one thinks of people such as Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf…and Conan O’Brien??? On a recent stop in Chicago (a city with...
Some of you may remember the 1992 song If I Had $1000000 by the Canadian group, Barenaked Ladies. Most likely, some of you won’t remember 1992 because you weren’t born yet. It was a song about what it would be...
