Tag Archives: Hot Chip

Album Review: Hot Chip - In Our Heads

By Gerrit Feenstra | Published: June 13, 2012

With every album, Hot Chip continue to defy the odds and amaze us. From a distance, their vibe seems limiting. They dig disco, soul, and electro and season everything they do with a vintage nuance that borders on geek chic. They debuted this sound with Coming On Strong in 2004 and perfected it on TheRead more...

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Out This Week 6/12

By Jim Beckmann | Published: June 12, 2012

Following an 18-year hiatus, soul singer Bobby Womack returns to top this week’s list of new releases with The Bravest Man In The Universe, which easily ranks among the legendary singer’s best albums to date. Following the approach he took with the late Gil Scott-Heron’s excellent final record, producer and XL Recordings head Richard Russell,Read more...

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Monday Music News

By Jacob Webb | Published: June 4, 2012

R&B party-starters Fitz and the Tantrums have been touring pretty much non-stop since the release of their 2010 debut, Pickin’ Up the Pieces, but this fall, they’ll have a new album, and subsequently, a new reason to relentlessly tour. On October 9th, the band will release their currently-untitled sophomore effort via Dangerbird Records. To celebrate,Read more...

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Music News: 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival lineup announcement

By Jim Beckmann | Published: February 28, 2012

The initial lineup of the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival has just been announced! On Friday, July 13 through Sunday, July 15, a whole host of indie bands take to the field of Chicago’s Union Park. Among those announced are KEXP favorites Vampire Weekend, Grimes, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, and Cloud Nothings. NoRead more...

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Sound and Vision: A video roundup - March Madness!

By DJ Sharlese | Published: April 13, 2010

Hello! I have friends who like basketball and their teams lost those basketball games that happened over the month of March. I know nothing about basketball and March Madness makes me think of someone going crazy in the month of March, so dedicate this month’s Sound & Vision post to everyone who likes basketball andRead more...

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Out This Week 2/8

By Christy Thacker | Published: February 9, 2010

This week features a gold mine of amazing new releases hailing from legendary musicians to up-and-coming, best new artists of the year contenders. Brooklyn band Yeasayer released their second album, Odd Blood, the followup to their breakthrough debut, All Hour Cymbals. While the hallucinatory pop maestros still remain within the mish mash realm of Eastern-flavoredRead more...

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Monday News Mash-Up

By Justin Spicer | Published: February 1, 2010

Congrats to Phoenix, this year’s Grammy winners for Alternative Music Album with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The French quartet, who were live on KEXP just over a week ago, beat out stiff competition of David Byrne and Brian Eno‘s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today and Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ It’s Blitz!, among others. Most of theRead more...

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Monday News Mash-Up

By Justin Spicer | Published: December 14, 2009

It’s been a few weeks since anyone’s heard a sound from Jack White, so when we sent someone to rouse him, we weren’t shocked to find that The White Stripes are about to unleash the much-ballyhooed Under Great White Northern Lights tour documentary in March. You could be a normal fan and just nab theRead more...

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