Make Your Ears Happy – Jan and Feb 2019
Happy New Year! Like some critters, I’ve emerged from my winter hibernation. It looks like I left the oven on, so I’m dreading to see my hydro bill. What I also did was listen to a whack of music these...
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PeteHatesMusic’s Top Songs of 2013
Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic We’re nearing the end of our Best Of 2013 week. We’ve now arrived at one of the most anticipated categories – the PeteHatesMusic Top Songs of 2013. After keeping a list all year, both Rich and I have...
Osheaga 2013 – Day 1 Executive Summary (Friday)
Day 1: Side by side show stealers (Vampire Weekend and Phoenix), and a one song disappointment (k-os) Osheaga had 5 stages set up in their 2013 edition, which was their first ever complete sell-out. Two of the stages are side...
Morning Music Notes – The One Person You Want to Return to Star Wars
Atoms for Peace wrapped up three days at the Roundhouse in Camden, London. They used the music streaming app Soundhalo to allow fans to purchase audio and video of their performance for one of the nights in hopes that they...
Morning Music Notes – Stamp Collections Just Got Cooler
Although Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky are vying for song of the summer, I haven’t heard many covers of Blurred Lines. Vampire Weekend stopped by BBC Radio 1’s always great Live Lounge for an attempt at...
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 – Just What We All Need: A Paris Hilton Record Deal
Daft Punk Ready Random Access Memories Remix Album Although they’ve just released their new album, Random Access Memories, Daft Punk have plans to release a remix of all of the tracks on the album (via Gigwise). The band have a...
Morning Music Notes – At Least We Got a Song Out of Her Before Jail
Austin City Limits Announces 2013 Line Up The other Austin, Texas festival – Austin City Limits – has announced the line up for their Coachella-inspired double festival weekend, kicking off October 4-6 and October 11-13 at Zilker Park. The headliners...
Watch! Vampire Weekend – Ya Hey
Vampire Weekend have a lyric video for a track name that sounds a bizarro version of an Outkast song – Ya Hey. The track is lifted off of upcoming album, Modern Vampires Of The City. Is it just me, or...
Listen to the PeteHatesMusic Monthly Mix – March 2013
Time for you to sit back and listen to some awesome songs that debuted over the past month while I go look for a hot air balloon so I can enter a race around the world. These balloons ain’t easy...
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...
Morning Music Notes – Turbo Edition
I probably should’ve gotten Rich to cover these for me, as I’m drowning in Canadian Music Week coverage. Instead, you get the speed round from me. Lollapalooza Headliners Look to Be Phoenix, Mumford & Sons, The Killers, and Vampire Weekend...
Listen to 2 New Vampire Weekend tracks – Diane Young and Step
Why release one new song when you can release two in one afternoon? Vampire Weekend want to help you beat the Monday blues (or Tuesday morning if you’re in time travelling Australia). The first track is the hyper-drummed, scattered track...
Morning Music Notes – Weezer Continue to Play Lucrative Cruise Circuit
Osheaga Announces 2013 Line Up, Didn’t Invite “Pete Sings in the Shower” Act It’s one of the best times of the year – shower time. Summer is almost here, which means summer festivals. That means right now is the time...
Morning Music Notes – Gentlemen of Simcoe, Ontario
No New Tool Album in 2013, and It’s Not Scooter-Accident Related If you didn’t hear the scooter accident news, you’re forgiven for thinking my headline is moronic. A couple of members of Tool were in minor Scooter accidents, which apparently...
