Listen! MS MR – Criminals
It’s summertime, which means great songs are coming out, competing for that summer jam. It also means I am trying to get that rare Canadian sun to get the pale English skin my parents gave me to turn golden brown....
Interview with Torquil Campbell from Stars (PANAMANIA / Pan Am Games series)
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic We have another interview in our PANAMANIA music series. What the heck is PANAMANIA you ask? It’s the best free summer concert series around in Toronto. As part of the Pan / Parapan Am Games, we’ll see acts...
Interview with Rich Aucoin (PANAMANIA / Pan Am Games series)
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic The Pan / Parapan Am Games in Toronto (and surrounding cities) kick off this Friday, with a Cirque du Soleil Opening Ceremonies performance at the Skydome Pan Am Dome. For music fans, there is an incredible number of...
Weekend Music – It’s July!
Hope you’re enjoying summer. Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere – suckers! Here are 10 new tracks that have one thing in common – they are to be listened to LOUDLY over your weekend. 1. The entire Chance The Rapper...
Listen to the PeteHatesMusic Monthly Mix – June 2015
The year is halfway over! Not sure if that is a cause for celebration, or just a fact, but exclamation marks are always welcomed in my writing (by me, at least). Anyway, hope you Canadians enjoyed your Canada Day. Now,...
Listen! Glass Gang – Believe
The often featured and somewhat mysterious Brooklyn band Glass Gang have a new track for your listening pleasure. You might have heard (or should make an effort to hear) tracks The Fall, Set It All, and Broken. We now have...
Listen! The Arcs – Outta My Mind
Dan Auerbach’s non-Black Keys project, The Arcs, have dropped another new song off of their September 4 album. The album is called Yours, Dreamily (how I end all of my emails) and the song is called Outta My Mind (the...
Watch! Vaults – Cry No More
We’ve been hyping Vaults since 2013, when they first dropped Cry No More on us. After a series of other great songs, such as Vultures and Poison, the band have come full circle with the release of their Cry No...
Watch! Petite Noir – Down
We’ve featured Cape Town, South Africa’s Petite Noir (his parents call him Yannick Ilunga) a couple of times, and not just because Cape Town is one of the best cities I have ever been to. His tracks Chess and Shadows...
Listen! God is An Astronaut – Helios Erebus
Irish rock instrumentalists, God Is An Astronaut, return with a new album and a new song for us to lose our thoughts in. Both the song and album are called Helios Erebus, which just rolls off the tongue. New track...
Watch! Editors – Marching Orders
Brand new stuff from past PHM interviewees, Editors. The band continue their slight rock departure, with another track in similar mood and instrumentation to that as In This Light and On This Evening. The new track is called Marching Orders...
The Back Catalogue: Get to Know The Band
Hey there, it’s Millar here again to dip into music’s great past and give you all another classic album/group to check out. This time around it’s The Band. Yes, the band’s name is “The Band”. Got that? Ok. It always...
Watch! Foals – What Went Down
Foals have our number. Now they have our attention, with a new album announcement for What Went Down. Now I wanna know – what DID go down? They also dropped the title track for What Went Down. What DID go...
Listen! Vaults – Losing Game
The oft-featured indie band Vaults have a new EP and a new song from the Cry No More EP. You’ve already heard Cry No More (like, back in 2013); time to sink your ears (which isn’t an expression) into Losing...
Watch! Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
One of the best albums of 2015 is by Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty. Today, he drops a new video for the title track from this album, I Love You Honeybear. Perhaps not the video you would expect from...
