Basia Bulat has just returned with her third album, Tall Tall Shadow, which was out at the beginning of October. In her short career, Basia has already found critical success with her eclectic folk sound, with her first album landing...
Singer Scott Hutchison started performing many years ago, adopting a stage name that was his mom’s nickname for him – Frightened Rabbit – due to his shyness. Based on his hilarious stage banter that we witnessed at Osheaga, he’s either...
Explosions in the Sky are known for several things. They make sweeping and grandiose instrumental rock music. They provided the soundtrack to the TV show and movie Friday Night Lights. They were the first band to play on the moon...
Here is a brief look at the stunning history of Birmingham, UK’s Editors. Album 1 (The Back Room): Mercury Prize nomination. Album 2 (An End Has a Start): Top of the UK charts. Album 3 (In This Light And On...
Gold & Youth are a Vancouver-based band, formed from the ashes of The Racoons, and adding previous Gold & Youth backing vocalist Louise Burns as a full-time fourth member. With a new line up and a female presence, the band...
Sweden. The land of Ikea, ABBA, and the Swedish Chef. Stereotypes aside, Sweden does produce some mighty good music. The latest act from Sweden that you should check out is someone we have already featured a couple of times –...
Daughter are a London trio (albeit with members from France and Switzerland) who have released a few excellent EPs, and at the end of April released their debut album If You Leave. The band started with just singer Elena Tonra...
A quick geography and meteorology lesson for you, since that’s why you come to PeteHatesMusic. The Midlands are in central England. Its largest city is Birmingham, which receives rainfall on average about 180 days a year – basically, every other...
The Mowgli’s describe themselves as “5 childhood friends from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, augmented by 3 mid-western transplants.” I may have needed a calculator, but that means that the southern California band are bursting at the seams...
