Let us kick off your morning with a 7 minute track from Swedish band Holograms. The track is called Lay Us Down, off of recent release Forever. The black and white video is in an interesting portrayal of an interesting...
The Beatles have been in the news a lot lately. Yesterday marked their 50th anniversary from when the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Theatre, changing the lives of themselves and all future musicians after them. To celebrate, we got a...
Morning Music Notes Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic While the Super Bowl might’ve been over within minutes last night, all the buzz is about all of the music-related things that happened at the sporting event. Let’s kick things off by looking at U2....
Bombay Bicycle Club have followed recent interactive video Carry Me with new track and lyric video It’s Alright Now, which is what I tell myself every time a 7 year old beats me up for my lunch money. The track...
Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys have shifted from a North American tour to the UK leg of things. Before doing so, they found some time in New York’s Avatar Studios to record an acoustic version of Why’d You Only Call Me When...
Although skeptical when reading the PR email saying this artist’s style “has been compared to Prince, with musical similarities of a Daft Punk live set crossed with Modest Mouse”, I decided to listen to the track. While not reaching the...
One of my favourite songs of late has been by Gambles and his track So I Cry Out. The rawness in his voice – and his lyrics – transports me (unfortunately not literally). The video stars Gambles (aka Matthew Daniel...
Paul McCartney has a new track called New, which sadly doesn’t describe this piece of cake I’m about to eat for breakfast. New is produced by Amy Winehouse hit maker, Mark Ronson. Let me go out on a limb and...
Two artists previously featured on PeteHatesMusic collide (not literally) on the song featured this morning. We have Montreal’s CFCF and Majical Cloudz, which the former remixing the latter. It’s not easy to remix one of the stand out tracks of...
Justin Vernon is all over the place when he’s not in Bon Iver. Besides helping Kanye West on a couple of albums, he has a side project called Volcano Choir. They release their second album on September 3, and you...
Anti Records released this track 2 weeks ago – and it’s one of the most important singers in music covering one of the most important bands in music. The song: Can You Get To That – originally released in July...
YouTube Set to Close, Thus Ending the 8 Year Competition Put your video cameras away and stop training your cat to do tricks that makes my cat jealous – YouTube is no longer accepting “entries”. Sure, you might have thought...
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...
The Strokes to Release Fifth Album This Year There was a lot of buzz that was floating around yesterday that might’ve been fake. No, I did not marry Natalie Portman – all fake. Seattle radio station 107.7 The End posted...
George Harrison’s Widow Olivia Stops Tribute Statue of the Beatle A campaign to erect a statue in the town where George Harrison died, Hanley-on-Thames, has been stopped due to lack of support from widow Olivia Harrison (via Guardian). 2,000 people,...
