Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic You can’t have a Top Songs of 2017 list without a Top Albums of 2017 list, right? Assuming you are all nodding along in agreement, you’re in luck and you’ve clicked the right post. Rather than wax poetically...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic New Year’s Resolution for 2018: Blog at least twice a month. Life gets busy, and travelling for the past 2 months has meant 0 blog posts (ignore the months before that please…). I’ll make it up to you...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic I’ve been a bit of an absentee father from the blog the past few months (depending on how generous your definition of “few” is). Excuses include travelling to Iceland, travelling to New York (and seeing CHVRCHES at Radio...
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic As the year winds to an end, we beat Santa to the gift giving and present you our Top Songs of 2015 list. Like all lists, it’s subjective as hell, but objectively we are awesome, so maybe that...
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,...
Beck’s Morning Phase phase is over. Welcome back ‘Party Beck’. After teasing some artwork and a song snippet, genre-hopping artist (and recent Album of the Year Grammy winner) artist Beck has returned with a dreamy, dancey new song called Dreams....
Glastonbury took place over the weekend. A bunch of stuff happened there, including Jack White covering Metallica (@ the 45 minute mark). Morning Music Notes: The Libertines re-united over the weekend in Glasgow. Read more via Spin… Beck played a...
California sister trio – a phrase I never get tired of writing – HAIM are back with a dancey new video and tune. The song is called If I Could Change Your Mind, which is what the waiter asked me...
London Grammar announced their entrance to the music world with their stunning debut Hey Now back in December 2012. Since then, they have released a fistful of great tracks, and their debut album If You Wait. They now, over a...
On Valentine’s Day, which was Friday if you forgot and have had a grumpy partner for the past few days, The National released their latest video from their recent album Trouble Will Find Me. The track is called I Need...
Beck, who looks eerily like Michael Cera with short hair, is back with a brand new tune. The track is Waking Light, which is off of upcoming new album Morning Phase. It must be a Morning Phase given all of...
A couple of heavyweights dropped new singles yesterday. First up, Damon Albarn. Yesterday, we learned his album is called Everyday Robots. He also wrote over 60 songs for consideration for the album. How about converting some to Gorillaz tunes? According...
More stuff from the youngin’ from the UK known as King Krule. You’ve seen videos from the 19 year old, such as Easy Easy, Octopus, and Rock Bottom. His latest cut from 6 Feet Beneath the Moon is A Lizard...
Unlike me, who ran naked across my school’s basketball court, Sam Smith first got some notice by appearing with Disclosure and their track Latch. The UK singer is now goin’ it alone, and is dropping an album in 2014. Ahead...
First of all, if you live in Toronto, you have until 9:30AM today to try and win Broken Bells tickets before they go on sale today. Find out how to enter here. To further entice you to enter, the band...
