Make Your Ears Happy – Jan and Feb 2019
Happy New Year! Like some critters, I’ve emerged from my winter hibernation. It looks like I left the oven on, so I’m dreading to see my hydro bill. What I also did was listen to a whack of music these...
Tagged: Beirut
PeteHatesMusic’s Top Songs of 2015
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...
Watch! Beirut – Gibraltar
Brand new stuff from Beirut. Following their other new track, No No No, the band have given us a video for Gibraltar. Gibraltar finds the band resting their horn sound a little, and amping it up with a killer piano...
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! Beirut – No No No
We haven’t heard too much from horn-filled band Beirut lately. We saw them at Field Day in London in 2012, and a couple of videos from their excellent last album, and that’s the last of it. Good news – the...
RBC Royal Bank Ottawa Bluesfest – Day 11 by the numbers
Mainstage headliner: Skrillex! Headliner on the Full Flex Express tour Party factor: 10. Every year, one night gets to 10 – and this year, it was Saturday the 14th 1st band: Gainsville FL’s Hundred Waters played to the first few...
Watch! Beirut – The Rip Tide
Santa Fe band Beirut released the album The Rip Tide last year. To promote it, they have already released a video for the song Vagabond, and now bring us a video for the title track, The Rip Tide (via pitchfork.com)....
Field Day Festival Fiasco – Why It Was The Worst Festival I Have Attended
I’ve been to hundreds of shows. I’ve been to festivals, such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Reading/Leeds, V Festival (in England and Canada), dozens of times. After Zulu Winter spoke highly of Field Day and reading other good things,...
Morning Music Notes – I Gotta Feeling This Song is Overplayed At Weddings
Check Out The Ottawa Bluesfest Lineup July 4-15 will see blues fans (and mainly NON-blues fans) descend on Canada’s capital for the Ottawa Bluesfest (I don’t get paid to report it as the RBC Royal Bank Bluefest, and no one...
Watch! Beirut – Vagabond
Beirut have a new video for their song Vagabond, and I’m honoured to have a song about me. Sadly, the song from 2011’s The Rip Tide is not about me. I also do not star in the black and white...
