Happy New Year dudes and dudettes. We’re going to try something different this year: keep our New Year’s Resolutions Post a playlist for the 1st and 2nd half of each month. We’ll also have one master playlist in Spotify that...
When I first heard Go Outside by Cults, I was hooked instantly. I dove into the album by Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion and liked it so much, it landed at the number 1 slot on our Best Albums of...
One of our more popular posts every year is our list of indie songs that deal with breakups, heartbreak, and rejection. Perhaps I should include a link to some therapy sites at the bottom of the page (or if you’re...
Last night Cults, a band literally with a cult-following (sorry, had to be done), played the Toronto leg of their Static album tour. Their first album was our favourite album of 2011, while you’ll have to wait until next month...
Cults have dropped a couple of tracks off of their upcoming sophomore album, Static. Now we can see a video for cool new track, High Road. We get a video in which the cinematographer had their finger stuck on the...
When a band releases a debut album that you like so much that you name it the album of 2011, the personal expectations are pretty huge for the follow up. This band is Cults, and the follow up is Static,...
When it comes to Cults from New York, Pete has joined many of them is definitely ‘drinking the Kool-Aid’ (sweet Jonestown reference, Anthony Jeselnik would be proud). I’m of course talking about the indie-rock duo Cults whose self-titled debut was...
Well, this is exciting. Cults made my favourite album of 2011, with their instantly accessible album of pop ditties. Most impressive is that it was their debut album. They are following it up with Static, out on October 15. If...
Hurricane Sandy Benefit Parts 2 and 3: Grizzly Bear, Cults, The Antlers, More December 12 might have it’s fancy, big name artists at their Hurricane Sandy benefit, but there’s another benefit that might be more your style. On December 14,...
Yup, I stole the G.O.O.D. Friday pun from Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music Fridays, but today is actually Good Friday, so I’m forgiven, right? Wrong. Listen to new Kanye West track, Mercy, featuring Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz Kanye...
Cults had a good year in 2011. Without a doubt, their highlight must’ve been landing the number 1 album on the PeteHatesMusic Albums of 2011. To celebrate, the band have a new video for the slow, dreamy You Know What...
Yesterday, we listed our top songs of 2011. Amazingly, the Jingle Cats missed out on the top honour. But they have a chance to redeem themselves in today’s post – PeteHatesMusic’s Albums of 2011 (spoiler alert: they do not redeem...
As 2011 draws to a close, it’s time to join the other media outlets and make some lists, so that readers can a) validate their opinion on songs or b) criticize those who do not share the same opinion as...
Indie-pop band, Cults – straight outta Manhattan – recently released their self-titled debut album. This two-piece band just released a video for the song Go Outside. You can check it out below. The director’s statement for the video, via Boing...
Lollapalooza has announced their schedule for this year. Friday night features the quadruple conflict of Coldplay/Muse/Ratatat/Girl Talk. It is moments like these that make me wish I didn’t lose the keys to my cloning machine. City and Colour, who played...
