On night 3 of Canadian Music Week, Pete Hates Music caught up with Stone River for some rock n’ roll goodness. Venue: Cherry Cola’s First Impressions: Although I’ve listened to a fair bit of Stone River, nothing could have prepared...
Day 3 of Canadian Music Week kicked off at the famed Lee’s Palace to see the trio known as BASECAMP. Check out our thoughts below. Venue: Lee’s Palace (not sure why I needed to spell this out again) First Impressions:...
The second band of the night was The Almighty Rhombus. This geometry loving band from Sudbury has a sound that’s made for a good time. Venue: Rancho Relaxo First Impressions: My first impression would be stronger if it weren’t for...
Night 2 of CMW for PeteHatesMusic was spent at Velvet Underground (and later Rancho Relaxo) checking some small bands with big sound. Up first were Toronto indie band PAPERMAPS. Venue: Velvet Underground First Impressions: Immediately you notice Betty Dimo, whose...
Band number 2 on night number 1 was Hamilton act The Reason. Below are the CMW Critical Conclusions for The Reason. Venue: Tattoo First Impressions: Is it wrong that I didn’t want the pre-set music of Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm...
Canadian Music Week 2014 kicked off for Team PeteHatesMusic at Tattoo Rock Parlour to see a couple of bands. Read on to discover our CMW Critical Conclusions for The Dirty Nil. Venue: Tattoo First Impressions: The bassist looked like he...
It’s May and Canadian Music Week is about to kick off – what kind of bizarro world are we living in? After 31 years in March, CMW has decided to relocate its week-long event to May for primarily “better weather”....
If you like Godspeed You! Black Emperor (and my 2012 year end list says that I do), then chances are you’ll like offshoot band Hiss Tracts. Hiss Tracts pairs David Bryant and Kevin Doria, who have been collecting some recordings...
You’ve already heard the catchy as hell new track by rising Danish star MØ. You can now see if the imaginary video that you made up in your head matches what she came up with, as we have a video...
During the whirlwind Canadian Music Week, in which we covered shows all 6 nights, we managed to interview the very friendly and very talented band, CHVRCHES. As you may know, we’ve done many interviews before, but this was our first...
While I was busy partying at the Prism Prize gala, photographer Martin was trying his hands at the reviewing side of things. He found out that it actually is as easy as it looks. Check out his thoughts on the...
Toronto’s very own Austra headlined Saturday night at Danforth Music Hall. PeteHatesMusic was there for our continued coverage of Canadian Music Week. Below is our review of the show, which seems to be a contest to see how many times...
Day 5 of CMW continued at Danforth Music Hall, with the refreshing and surprising Toronto act, Blood Ceremony. Venue: Danforth Music Hall First Impressions: They dressed exactly like a band called Blood Ceremony would. They also played metal, but with...
Kicking off our coverage of Day 5 of Canadian Music Week is..Yacht Club. Venue: Danforth Music Hall First Impressions: I really dug the first track. Hello 80s! From afar, Yacht Club’s singer looks like Peter from Peter Bjorn and John...
Pete is still frolicking through Canadian Music Week. In between drinking as many free beers as possible, he’s working on a lot of stuff from some killer Canadian bands this week – so stay tuned for a few very cool exclusives...
