Morning Music Notes – Doomed to Repeat It
The ink is barely dry, but Lyla Foy has just signed to Sub Pop. The Londoner will drop her debut album in 2014, but first – she will strip naked and run through Buckingham Palace release the Easy / Head...
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Morning Music Notes – Looooooooow Sales
Eminem played Saturday Night Live on, um, Saturday. He’s come under fire for terribly lip syncing his performance, although some have argued it’s a backing track he’s layering behind his live vocals. He’s redeemed himself with an incredible show at...
Morning Music Notes – Twitter and their Silent #music
Childish Gambino, when not pouring his heart out over soul-bearing open letters, makes some pretty good rap music. Oh, he’s also Troy on Community – yup, it’s Donald Glover (for those uninformed peeps). He’s dropped a new track called 3005,...
Morning Music Notes – No Way for Christopher Wallace Way
The Growlers return with the awesomely named album No. Psych!. The band also have a track for us to hear called Dogheart II. The track has the usual 60s and 70s throwback sound that The Growlers do so well. Dogheart...
Morning Music Notes – Spotify This, Spotify That
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...
Morning Music Notes – Down with Record Labels
PeteHatesMusic favourites London Grammar are barrelling towards the release date of their debut album. We’ve featured a ton of their songs (such as recent track Strong) so get listening! The band stopped by BBC Studios the other day to do...
Morning Music Notes – The Most Super of Them All
What Might’ve Been: The Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis Supergroup This is what was sent to Paul McCartney from Jimi Hendrix on October 21, 1969 by telegram (it had some minor spelling errors), “We are recording and LP together...
Morning Music Notes – Only Serious News Today
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...
Morning Music Notes – A Video Giant Might Become a Music Streaming Service, Too
Snoop Dogg to Star in New Video Game, Of Course Snoop Dogg is not afraid of people getting sick of him. Whether he’s acting in lame TV commercial remixes of his songs, doing Adidas cartoon commercials, talking about buying Celtic...
Morning Music Notes – The Happy Workaholic
Hiatus? What hiatus?! Foo Fighters Recording New Album Dave Grohl must hate his family. What other excuse can he have when he tours relentlessly with the Foo Fighters, drums on anyone’s album who asks him, makes a documentary about Sound...
Morning Music Notes – Why Does the Internet Keep Changing?
Phoenix to Release New Album in April Phoenix’s last album was the career-defining Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – the album name doesn’t get any better over time. They are following this up with a new album next April (via Pitchfork). The...
Morning Music Notes – Disasters of a Different Kind
Two Bestival Disasters – One Serious, One Artificial The Isle of Wight’s Bestival was this past weekend, with headliners such as The xx, Sigur Rós, Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, and loads more. Sadly, a bus carrying Bestival passengers crashed late...
Watch! Elsie – London Town
I’ve never heard of pop singer Elsie before I did a post on her previous video, How to Handle A Sex Pest. This video was sort of cool, as it was a choose your own adventure video on YouTube (much...
From YouTube to London’s Royal Albert Hall – The Journey of Ukraine’s Valentina Lisitsa
It’s amazing how fast technology speeds by. The Internet became popular in the mid 90s. MP3s showed up around then, and then began trading like wild fire in the late 90s, helped by programs like Napster. YouTube came around in...
Morning Music Notes – UK Citizens Get No More Pirate Bay, And Get Duran Duran – Double Whammy?
A Little More Info on Info on Dave Grohl’s Sound City Documentary We’ve known that Dave Grohl is doing a documentary on Sound City, the record studios in Van Nuys, California. Now the man himself has spoken out about it...
