Greetings PHM readers! The word on the Toronto streets is Pete may be without internet for a few hours and therefor unable to stop another Millar-led invasion of mainstream, commercial music. So please indie folk, don’t hate Pete for this,...
Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band and if you live in Canada, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of them (unless you are smart and check out PeteHatesMusic.com). Toronto is the only place I’ve ever heard them on radio...
It’s Canadian Music Week in Toronto which means there’s six days of music-related events, booze-filled events, and expos “dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries” (via indies.ca). One of those events is the...
Deftones are a hard-rock band out of Sacramento, California. Their sound is hard to define. Some hipsters might call them ‘alternative metal’ or something like that. They are heavy (and loud), but the songs also take quieter turns at times...
People just love to sing their own versions of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Whether it’s Wayne and Garth in the back of the Mirthmobile, drunk guys under arrest, or The Flaming Lips, everyone seems to wanna sing this song. Can you...
Passion Pit‘s new album Gossamer will be out next week. The band has been pretty good about releasing material prior to the album dropping. We’ve seen the cool video for Take a Walk, and heard the song Constant Conversations. Another...
We recently told you about Canadian band Stars‘ new album, The North, and let you listen to the track The Theory of Relativity. Now, another new Stars song has been released for us to check out (via stereogum.com). It’s called...
Late-1990’s ska-rock darlings No Doubt are back with their first album in 11 years and you know what that means…they really, really need the money bad. Since we last heard from No Doubt, lead singer/fashionista wannabe Gwen Stefani pulled a...
English electronic group Hot Chip just released their new album, In Our Heads, in June. So far here at PHM, we’ve seen/heard the tracks Flutes, Night and Day, and Don’t Deny Your Heart. We now get to see the new...
Noel Gallagher has plans to release a new album sometime in the next year with electronica psychedelic act, Amorphous Androgynous. We’ve already heard one track from this collaboration, Shoot A Hole Into The Sun, which is basically a remix of...
The 2012 London Summer Olympics are fast approaching and legendary UK electronic duo, The Chemical Brothers, have gone and created original music for the cycling venue, the Velodrome (via consequenceofsound.net). How f’n cool is that? I’m pretty sure the velodrome...
We recently told you about the new album Coexist from The xx. It is due out September 10th and the English group has just released the first track off the album, Angels, for us to listen to (via gigwise.com). The...
Sigur Rós have released the next video in their “Mystery Film Experiment” series. This time they are making ANOTHER video for the song Ég Anda (via pitchfork.com). You saw the first video for that song here at PeteHatesMusic back in...
Jack White has released a new video for the song, Freedom At 21, off his new album Blunderbuss (via pitchfork.com). Freedom At 21 sounds like it could be about a retirement-savings plan involving Blackjack. The song itself sounds just like...
Middle of the road, meet Green Day. Green Day, meet the middle of the road. ‘Punk rock’ band Green Day have not one, but three! new albums coming out in the next 7 months. The first album is called ¡Uno!...
