When Laura Marling is not busy being nominated for the Mercury Prize, she’s busy making music that gets nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her latest contender will be her new album, Short Movie, out on March 23/24. In the video...
Palma Violets have returned to save Brit rock, or something like that. The UK band return with a new album, Danger In The Club, out on May 4/5. Our first listen of their sophomore effort is the self titled track....
More new stuff from Florence + the Machine, only days after our first listen of How Big How Blue How Beautiful. The video for What Kind of Man starts with a discussion about relationships and suffering (which go hand in...
Alabama Shakes will try to um, shake the sophomore slump when they follow up their solid debut effort this year. The band have announced an April 20/21 release for their second album, Sound & Color. Sound & Color yields its...
PeteHatesMusic last caught Mikal Cronin on a boat in Lake Ontario as part of NXNE (check out that top photo – I love the ceiling crowd surfing). Today, we bring you new music from the lad, and news of a...
There’s just something about playing in a church that makes for great sound and atmosphere. Now imagine how I would feel if I were religious! Newfoundland’s Hey Rosetta! took to a church in Seldom Come By, which is actually a...
We have a lovely, gentle ditty by Scottish indie act The Twilight Sad. Amazingly, the song is only a B-Side. It’s called the Airport, and is found alongside I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want. The Airport has...
English rockers The Vaccines return with a new album announcement and a new video to boot. The album shockingly doesn’t contain the band’s name in the title (like their first 2 albums), and is called English Graffiti. Our first listen...
Like Django Django, Noel Gallagher must’ve also heard it was my birthday on Monday, and dropped a new song to celebrate. Following up on In The Heat of The Moment, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are back with a video...
I like how the band name and song title could sort of be some weird thought process or discussion. “Chastity Belt? Time to go home!” Oh man, how many dates have I said that one? Trick question – I don’t...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic I always have a love/hate relationship with hot dogs our Top Songs lists. Narrowing down dozens and dozens of awesome tracks is tough. Ranking them is REALLY tough. A song I listened to a thousand times in January...
Some raw weekend music listening for you. 1. Although this is actually pretty old (2012), it’s new to us… and it’s Something Is Raw, from Germany’s STL. 2. Deep, dark, mysterious. No clue where this comes from, but it’s called...
I received an email from an artist from the North East of England. He goes by the name Cape Cub, which I really hope is his real name (assuming I ignore the “Chad” he closed the email with). Cape Cub...
As the snow starts falling on Toronto, and has been covering the rest of the country since about August, Canadian indie rock band Rah Rah have just the aptly named song for you. Thankfully, the song isn’t as wordy as...
We have a cool new video for a great track by Rural Alberta Advantage. The track is called Vulcan, AB (that’s Alberta, for those who are poor at Canadian geography). Is this a real town? You bet your Spock action...
