Watch! Jamie xx – Loud Places (featuring Romy)
He’s a few months early, but Jamie xx has made his case for summer jam. The producer and member of The xx has announced a solo album, In Colours. From this album comes a video for the jam I am...
Listen! Ghost Loft – Overflow
A couple of summers ago, we posted a dreamy, minimalist track by an artist out of Los Angeles called Ghost Loft. Good news for fans of that first track – we have some more new stuff. By we, I mean...
Listen! Waters – What’s Real
What’s Real? That’s a question I ask my robot girlfriend every morning as I look at her. It’s also the name of the new song by Waters. The band note that the song is “about ditching your fake friends and...
Listen! FEMME – S.O.S.
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted some stuff from FEMME (aka Laura Bettinson). The pink haired singer, also a member alongside Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich in Ultraista, has dropped some gems on us, such as Fever Boy, Educated, and my...
Listen! Solomon Grey – Choir To The Wild
Remember Solomon Grey and their lovely, oft-falsetto vocals from the songs Last Century Man and Glas/Green? If you don’t – give them a listen (yes, that is an order), and keep reading. The band have a new mini-LP called Selected...
Listen! Django Django – Reflections
Pardon my excitement but – NEW DJANGO DJANGO. The UK act topped our 2012 album of the year list with their debut effort. They have dropped First Light from upcoming album Born Under Saturn. We can now have a happy...
Canadian Music Week 2015
Canadian Music Week is back, and once again in its new found May slot. This year’s edition is May 1-10, and promises to be another good one. Following our coverage in 2013 (where we interviewed CHVRCHES and attended tons of...
Listen! Death Cab for Cutie – Little Wanderer (plus The Ghosts of Beverly Drive)
We have a double dose of Death Cab for Cutie for you on St. Patrick’s Day. The band are all set to GET HAMMERED TODAY release Kintsugi on March 31. Why make us wait until then when we have the...
Listen! Pearl and the Beard – Again Animal
Some nice, thrashing and uplifting stuff from Pearl and the Beard. You’ve heard the band on these pages before, with their track You. They return with Again Animal, which sounds like some kind of spell from Harry Potter. The NYC...
Weekend Music: Friday the 13th
Here are 10 new tracks to turn up loud this weekend. 1. Four Tet originally made this remix of Coldplay’s Fix You for the 2005 album release of X&Y. Wherever this has been hiding, we’re very glad it found the...
Listen! White Shadows – Give Up Give Out Give In
The Vines were hailed by the British press (well, NME) as “Nirvana meets the Beatles”. Oh you know, just the most revered bands of the 1990s and 1960s, respectively. The crazy thing? They DO sound like these bands in some...
Listen! Villagers – Hot Scary Summer
Villagers, not the small minded yokels that I grew up with but the band, have a new song for us. That means more lovely folk-esque acoustic stuff from Conor O’Brien. Following up on Courage is new track Hot Scary Summer,...
Listen! Mikal Cronin – ii) Gold
Mikal Cronin is drip feeding us some songs from his upcoming album MCIII. Following up Made Up My Mind from late January comes new fuzzy rock track ii) Gold. We have a typical rock/pop song, which then gives way to...
Listen! Mt. Wolf – Hamburg
PHM first discovered Mt. Wolf in London, England at one of their first shows ever nearly 3 years ago. After garnering a shitload of buzz by dropping great tracks like Hypolight and Midnight Shallows, singer Katie Sproule and the 3...
Listen! Woodkid featuring Lykke Li – Never Let You Down
Woodkid is known for his songs, sure, but he is more known (to me at least) for his mind blowing videos, such as Run Boy Run or I Love You. He has now roped in Lykke Li for a new...
