Weekend Music: Major Lazer & Pharrell Williams – Aerosol Can
Don’t need to say much about this one. 2 of the biggest artists on the planets, joining forces for a monster hip hop track.
Tagged: Major Lazer
Morning Music Notes – Boston Keeps Calling
Time for Americans and Brits to rub in it my face that today is a holiday for them, after all the bragging that I did last Monday when I was drunk and yelling at the mail man for not showing...
Morning Music Notes: Drunk With Power Edition!
While the brains of this operation is off prancing around Canadian Music Week, the wang of this operation is taking over for Morning Music Notes. You should “buckle up” … or something. CHVRCHES Review Pete and resident photog Martin Bazyl...
Leeds and Reading Festivals Announce Bank Holiday Weekend Line Ups for 2013
The twin August Bank Holiday weekend festival that is UK’s Leeds and Reading Festivals have announced their line up for August 23-25. The headliners are Green Day (Friday Reading / Saturday Leeds), Eminem (Saturday Reading / Sunday Leeds) and Biffy...
Watch! Snoop Lion – Lighters Up ft. Mavado, Popcaan
As you know, Snoop Dogg is now Snoop Lion, reggae master. Not everyone is a big fan of this – just ask drummer Bunny Wailer (formerly of The Wailers), who thinks Snoop is a “fraudulently” appropriating Rastafari culture. Controversy aside,...
Morning Music Notes – End of Days Edition
With the holidays (and that apocalypse) upon us, things are winding down here at PeteHatesMusic. We’re making today our last Morning Music Notes of the year. We’ll follow up with our Top Tracks of 2012 today, our Top Albums of...
Watch! Major Lazer – Jah No Partial (feat. Flux Pavilion)
We have some music that we typically reserve for our Weekend Music segment. The act is Major Lazer – aka Diplo, and now DJ/Producer Jillionaire and Walshy Fire (and formerly Switch) – and they have some serious dubstep for you....
Morning Music Notes – iTunes Has 1 Million Apps, Less than 1% Are Useful
MySpace Has Lost Over $40 Million This Year; Plow Ahead with Streaming Service It seems pretty amazing to think that MySpace was sold for $580 million in 2005. The buyer, News Corp, ended up flipping it for a mere $35...
Morning Music Notes – Lion To Yourself
Crystal Castles Don’t Care Much for Katy Perry Hopefully you heard the new Crystal Castles song, Affection, yesterday. They band are back in the news, after slamming Katy Perry and her sexualization of young children. Singer Alice Glass said, “I...
Watch! Major Lazer – Get Free
Major Lazer has teamed up with Amber Coffman from the Dirty Projectors for his lead single, Get Free. The video features the police ending the fun at a club, lots of random dance routines, and everyone having a jolly good...
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,...
Morning Music Notes – From a Dogg to a Lion
Snoop Dogg to Release Reggae Album as Snoop Lion Everyone’s favourite pot smoking rapper is becoming a lion – Snoop Dogg will dip into the reggae world and release an album called Reincarnated (via Pitchfork). For lovers of Diplo and...
Sunday Morning Coming Down with Major Lazer
Major Lazer is a group from Kingston, Jamaica that typically releases music that is seemingly engineered to force humans dance and party. And so it is surprising that they would release something soft, subtle, and beautiful; but that is exactly...
