Listen! CFCF – Beyond Light
Here’s a dazzling – yes, dazzling! – piece of electronic ambient music for you. The track was made by Montreal’s CFCF, who we featured before with his tracks Camera and Jump Out of the Train. These are all from Mike...
Morning Music Notes – Macarena in the Meth Lab
I have very little interest in the Twilight series and the Hunger Games series – except for their official soundtracks. When you rope in Thom Yorke like I do in my dreams Twilight did, you start to pay attention. The...
Listen! Editors – Honesty
More new stuff from UK rockers Editors. The band have released a slew of good tracks from recent album, The Weight of Your Love. The latest one, which once again has Tom Smith’s excellent vocals front and centre, is the...
Morning Music Notes – The Morning After
After jetting to Brooklyn to watch Atoms for Peace, driving to Ottawa for a wedding, and driving to Toronto to watch the Breaking Bad finale, all I want to do is sleep for 16 hours. But I’ll give you some...
Concert Review: Atoms for Peace @ Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York (with full setlist)
Today, the other cofounder of PeteHatesMusic – Rich – is getting married. In Ottawa. Last night, I was with a near sold out crowd at the still newish Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, doing my best to not stress...
The Next Billion Internet Users (Infographic Time!)
Did you know that since 2006, I haven’t had a shower the number of Internet users has doubled? Why aren’t any of these people visiting PeteHatesMusic? Instead of examining that important question, let’s ponder this: what will the next billion...
Listen! Ajnabi- Ajnabi (entire album)
It’s fitting that while I’m in Brooklyn today (and might’ve pre-written this post) that we’re featuring an artist from Brooklyn. Blake Luley aka Ajnabi just released a self-titled album on September 17. All of the tracks are named after key...
Morning Music Notes – The “I Don’t Care” Edition
So I’m off to New York – Brooklyn specifically – to take in the Atoms for Peace concert. Therefore, I have little time for mortals like yourself, when I should be off stalking Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, and did...
Listen! The Field – Cupid’s Head (stream entire album)
The Field is a favourite here at PHM. The Swedish electronic music maker’s last album was one of our favourites in 2011. The label Kompakt decided to not make fans like me suffer another week and have put Cupid’s Head...
Listen! Glass Gang – Waves, Time, The Fall, and Awake (all 4 singles)
Glass Gang are another Internet band, in an age where Internet bands are continuing to make huge waves (see: CHVRCHES, debut album out this week). The band are playing the mysterious angle, with a track called The Fall randomly showing...
Concert Review: Stereophonics @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Ontario (with full setlist)
Question: How many Welsh bands does it take to rock The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto? Answer: Just one – Stereophonics. Wednesday night provided PHM Lord and Overseer Pete and I a chance to see yet another big UK band...
Morning Music Notes – Dr. Phil and the Ruff Ryder Crew
In the latest version of BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, we see California sister trio (a phrase I wish I wrote more often) HAIM cover everyone’s favourite singer, the Twerkacyrus Rex herself – Miley Cyrus. HAIM decided not to cover...
Listen! Those Darlins – Blur the Line (entire album)
Riotous indie country rockers Those Darlins have a new album called Blur the Line. We’ve already heard the excellent storytelling in lead track Oh God. Now the Tennessee band have put the Screws Get Loose follow up album up for...
Listen! Sundays – Forces
More stuff from Vancouver singer Sundays. We’ve had some happy ears because of her elegant, electro pop tunes such as I Hope It’s Enough and World We Own. Now we have a change of pace, with the slow and subtle...
Morning Music Notes – I Ran Over and Beat You Up in Self Defense, Fool
Drake dropped his critically acclaimed new album yesterday, although it’s been on the Net for about 1.5 weeks. From his Nothing Was The Same disc comes a video for the track Hold On, We’re Going Home, recently expertly covered by...
