Weekend Music – the 10 best of 2014 (and a bunch more)
These are the top 10 tracks that ended our weekly grind for the year 2014. Hope you enjoy listening to ’em as much as I did. 1. Alesia vs M.I.A – Pull Up the People Listen if you like: to be...
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Morning Music Notes – One Word Rumour Mill
After a stunning debut by Vaults and their track Cry No More, the band have returned with another song, and another good one at that. The track is Premonitions – I had a feeling they would call it that. Full...
Weekend Music: Alesia vs M.I.A – Pull Up the People
This is a complete re-work of M.I.A’s 2005 release Pull Up the People (here’s the original) by Paris producer Alesia. But don’t be confused that this is simply a lame remix with a bigger kick drum added… it is a...
Morning Music Notes – Courtney Love is Thinking Outside of the Box
Some more new stuff from Calgary’s Reuben and the Dark, following up that of Rolling Stone. The band are readying their Arts & Crafts release of Funeral Sky and have a good little track in Bow and Arrow. The track...
Morning Music Notes – 2014 Edition
We’re baaaaaaaaaaaack! After a nice little holiday in which I froze my ass off outside at the NHL Winter Classic, I’ve finished stuffing myself with turkey and homemade (well, Dad-made) sausage rolls and I’m ready to chat music again. So...
Weekend Music: M.I.A – Y.A.L.A
Awesome new music from M.I.A. has been leaking and bubbling out over the past few months from her new album Matangi. I don’t love all of M.I.A’s tracks, but every one of her albums has at least 2 or 3...
Morning Music Notes – Allelujah! We Have a Polaris Prize Winner
Fresh off supporting Ellie Goulding at the iTunes Festival in London is young indie pop starlet Laura Welsh. I said it before, but the track Undiscovered is a little poppier than the music I typically listen to, but I was...
Morning Music Notes – The King of Statues
Something new from Justin Timberlake, and he’s roped in Timbaland for another 7 minute number. The track is TKO, which uses a boxing analogy to talk about a relationship, and not about Mike Tyson (which I was hoping). The track...
Anatomy of an Album Leak – How They Happen, the Impacts, and What Should Be Done About Leaks
PeteHatesMusic on Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic You’re a musician. You work hard on an album. It leaks to the Internet ahead of its scheduled release. Do you cancel your celebrations and go ballistic, or simply shrug? If you’re Simon Cowell, you call...
Morning Music Notes – How Not to Use Twitter
Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand dropped two lyric videos for new singles Right Action and also Love Illumination. We have the first official video for one of those tracks, Right Action. The video is quirky and features colourful animations alongside...
Morning Music Notes – The Homer Shake? Bring Back The Bartman
Follow us on Twitter @PeteHatesMusic to get a new song and morning news every weekday (not even subject to my wicked hangovers). Adele to Write Another Bond Song? The success of Skyfall ensured that they would inevitably be another movie...
Morning Music Notes – When Bad Press is Bad Press
Azealia Banks Flies Off the Handle, Possibly Loses Record Contract Azealia Banks is a hot young rapper from New York – we tipped her for a big breakout in 2013. The last few days have been easy to fill for...
Watch! M.I.A. – atTENTion
A flurry of new music coming your way this Wednesday afternoon (or morning, or Thursday, depending where you live – time zones are one fucking confusing concept). We kick things off with M.I.A., who self-leaked her own song, according to...
Morning Music Notes – New M.I.A. coming soon!
M.I.A. to release her new album in December: It’s a Christmas MIRACLE! Yesterday, M.I.A. announced that new material will be released in December 2012. Not much is known about the new disc, but if you have any questions about it,...
Listen! M.I.A. – Baby
Today is the day that new music won’t stop flowing. We had the new Killers single. We just had the new Bloc Party video. Now we get the latest offering from Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A. The song is...
