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And The Best-of-2010s Keep Coming:
Midlake – The Courage Of Others
Hot Chip – One Life Stand

February 24, 2010

Jeez, if I don’t stay on top of putting albums over there on the 2010 faves list, they’re just going to pile up. So with no further ado, the new albums from Midlake and Hot Chip are great. Midlake – The Courage Of Others I know you got sweet on the thick 70s-FM sound Midlake [...]

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Today’s Vegetable (Covers Week!):
We Try, But We Don’t Belong

January 25, 2010

I’ve heard a couple of great covers lately, which is a plenty good excuse to have another Covers Week, a feature I run like clockwork here every 16 months. And what better tune for a melancholy Monday morning than Grizzly Bear doing Hot Chip’s most heart-wrenching song? Grizzly Bear – And I Was A Boy [...]

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Tell Me Do You Stand By Yo-hore Ma-a-n? [video]

January 19, 2010

Hot Chip: still masters of the chorus, still sweet. “One Life Stand” (their album One Life Stand comes out Feb. 9) They’re playing the Fox in Oakland on April 16. With the xx — y’all betta reckanize!

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Shake It

June 29, 2009

After last week’s pretty much bummer news, I’m sure we could all use a little rump-shakin’, sexy-slither, bounce-me up today. That’ll come courtesy of Hot Chip’s new double-length mix in the Bugged Out series. Disc one is a techno & house affair, in the vein of their DJ-Kicks installment from 2007. I like it and [...]

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It’s All Flailing Limbs At The Front Line

March 5, 2008

I’m going away again for a bit, and will be back on Monday. Here are a couple of ear hugs to last you until then. First up is a song from the new Hot Chip album. They’re mostly known for dance-floor grooves, but they also have a serious knack for the slower, soulful stuff. Here’s [...]

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