The world is a particularly crazy place at present. Here are 5 tracks to turn up loud for a well deserved Friday night moment of Zen. 1. NYC’s Lion Babe. 2. First of 2 tracks from Pennsylvania’s Headphone Activist....
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...
We have some lovely stuff from English trio The Staves. Bonus points for being sisters, too. The band released an EP last year with production work from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. He’s also produced upcoming album, If I Was. Our...
There was a period of my life where I was obsessed with The Go! Team. I would listen to Thunder, Lightning, Strike all the time, applying the songs as theme songs to various parts of my life, working the song...
Do you remember that London, UK duo Oh Wonder, who have promised to release a new song every month? We caught up with their December release All We Do. Their January contribution is The Rain (an aptly named song for...
Life is busy. I get easily distracted by hilarious cat videos on YouTube. I start eating gummi bears and wake up in a food coma days later, still somehow watching cat videos on YouTube. Where am I going with this?...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic Lists! Rankings! Validation! All of these year end lists everywhere ultimately don’t mean much, because – NEWSFLASH – music can be pretty subjective. But you don’t read this blog to be told lists are meaningless – you want...
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...
Listomania continues. PHM contributor Danny Boy provides 2 cracking lists for you. The first one plays off one of his specialties – being creepy around women his love of hip hop – while the other explores his dance/EDM side. Sit...
These are the top 10 tracks that ended our weekly grind for the year 2014. Hope you enjoy listening to ’em as much as I did. 1. Alesia vs M.I.A – Pull Up the People Listen if you like: to be...
We here at PeteHatesMusic are lucky enough to have the talented Martin Bazyl from Martin Bazyl Photography shooting most of the shows we attend. He’s been there for several CMW and NXNE festivals, as well as weekend benders like Field...
What’s in a name? It’s December and we have more new stuff from the Decemberists, and some might call that fitting. The quirky folk pop rockers are readying new album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (out January...
UK indie act Thumpers have shown up on the pages of PHM before, with great tunes such as Unkinder (A Tougher Love) and Galore (and then the entire album stream). Heck, we even featured the audio in October for the...
We haven’t featured PHM favourite STACEY since we caught her live earlier this year (and posted her excellent debut EP). She has combined forces with Alissa Ricci of ON AN ON and John Mullane from In-Flight Safety for a song...
Some more slick beats and production work from Harrison, who previously featured with his Maybe Next Time track. And who doesn’t like the Toronto skyline in some retro yet awesome artwork?! His effort on Comfort Cruise is fantastic. It is...
