The Hot Chippers' new clip for the bliptastic track takes it back to the old school DOS days, with 1s and 0s, commas and apostrophes, pulled together to make a mosaic of the geeky electro-dance crew. This is modern technology... CONTINUE READING NEW HOT CHIP VIDEO - "ARREST YOURSELF"»
Posted on January 4, 2007 in (3 comments)
Tags: Hot Chip
While we're almost done with thinking about the year that was, we can't let it go by without recapping the year in our favorite concerts. Most of the shows we saw were in the LES ('cause it's closer than say... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S FAVORITE LIVE SHOWS OF THE YEAR»
Posted on December 27, 2006 in (77 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | ¡Forward Russia! | Beach House | Broken Social Scene | Editors | Grizzly Bear | Hot Chip | Kevin Federline | Lollapalooza | Love Is All | Ryan Adams | Spank Rock | Sufjan Stevens | Sunset Rubdown | The Cardigans | The Hold Steady | The Strokes
With all of the lists coming at ya this time of year, it's tempting to fuck selective attenuation and just ignore 'em all -- but today Pitchfork published their top tracks list and, naturally, we were down to take a... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK'S TOP TRACKS OF THE YEAR»
Posted on December 18, 2006 (78 comments)
Tags: Beach House | Clipse | Hot Chip | Justin Timberlake | The Knife | TV On The Radio
Do albums matter as much as singles anymore? We like to think so. But 2006 was a great year for indie acts representing with a hot track. We wanted to figure a way to celebrate the year in music with... CONTINUE READING MYSPLICE.06 - THE YEAR IN MASH-UPS»
Posted on December 13, 2006 in (36 comments)
Tags: Clipse | Cold War Kids | CSS | Diana Ross | Gnarls Barkley | Green Day | Hot Chip | Junior Boys | Lily Allen | Lupe Fiasco | Midlake | Peter Bjorn And John | Spank Rock | team9 | The Beatles | The Cure | The Flaming Lips | The Knife | Thom Yorke | U2 | Wolfmother | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
'Tis the season for music journos and bloggers to rank and rate their favorite musical discoveries of the year. And thanks to a fine transcribing soul at ILM, we have NME's rankings right here. By their lists, this was the... CONTINUE READING NME'S ALBUMS AND SINGLES OF '06»
Posted on December 6, 2006 in , , (83 comments)
Tags: Arctic Monkeys | CSS | Gnarls Barkley | Hot Chip | Muse | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
One thing to know about Oslo: Most people are honest (except cabbies), friendly (except customs agents), extremely beautiful (no exceptions), and obsessed with the export of their arts. So Øya is ostensibly an international festival, drawing on credible, on-the-rise indie... CONTINUE READING NOR-WAVE GOODBYE TO OSLO: STEREOGUM @ ØYA 2006»
Posted on August 15, 2006 (27 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Beck | Cold War Kids | Doveman | Hot Chip | Les Savy Fav | Liars | Love Is All | Midlake | Morrissey | Snow Patrol | Spank Rock | The Smiths | The Twilight Singers | The Whitest Boy Alive | The Wrens | Yoko Ono
We’re still recovering from our sojourn to the self-described "musical center of the universe" this weekend, and a little worse for the wear. But the last days of Lolla gave us the festival's most unforgettable moments, amazing weather and... CONTINUE READING ADIOS, ILLINOISE»
Posted on August 7, 2006 in , (33 comments)
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Cold War Kids | Death Cab For Cutie | Gnarls Barkley | Hot Chip | My Morning Jacket | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Ryan Adams | The Flaming Lips | The Hold Steady
Watching four perfectly average, somewhat awkward white boys sidle up to a buffet of vintage synthesizers, I questioned coming to a place like Bowery for a band like Hot Chip. Though a devotee of the Brits' laptop squirgle pop, I... CONTINUE READING HOT CHIP/GRAND NATIONAL/THE PRESETS @ BOWERY BALLROOM 3/11/06»
Posted on March 13, 2006 in (28 comments)
Tags: Grand National | Hot Chip | The Presets