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Coachella Round-Up: Day 2
Sun Apr 18 2010 by Becky Bain
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival started out with a bang—and yes, Beyonce's bangin' bod in her hipster desert-wear. Could Day 2 of the music fest, featuring giant acts like Muse and MGMT, keep the party going? Well, yes and no. Find out which band's performance bummed us out the most, which artist proved unexpectedly patriotic, and who did Madonna proud in Idolator's daily Coachella round-up below: More »
There’s A “She Wolf” In Hot Chip’s Closet, Should We Let It Out?
Wed Apr 14 2010 by Erika Brooks Adickman
While we've thoroughly enjoyed the music video parodies of Shakira's ode to lycanthropy, "She Wolf", we felt it was high time someone stepped up to the challenge of covering her killer dance track. Thankfully, British electro-pop outfit Hot Chip has decided to try, and the result is howling fun. Hot Chip's version has less of a disco feel, and actually sounds more reminiscent of the Pet Shop Boys. (That's a good thing, obviously.) Check out the cover after the jump, complete with a few curious lyrical revisions and Hot Chip singer Alexis Taylor's interpretation of Shakira's howl. Awooooooooooh!
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Hot Chip Jam With The Homeless
Fri Apr 24 2009 by Dan Gibson
Some people seem to really dislike Hot Chip, but since around 2006, I think they’ve been one of my favorite acts as far as single releases go. Since the band is playing some sort of benefit for the homeless in London soon, they remade part of the “Over and Over” video with actual homeless people. It’s a joyous mini-reminder of a miserable situation, but it helped cheer my foul post-Doves/last day mood a bit, so why not share it? [NME] More »
What Was Your Most Disappointing Purchase of 2008?
Fri Jan 2 2009 by Dan Gibson
I hate going back to the 2008 well (especially after Skillz has wrapped everything up), but until 2009 coughs up some more news, this is what we’re stuck with… looking back on 2008 and thinking about what music didn’t live up to our possibly inflated expectations.
Hot Chip And Robert Wyatt Are Free
Thu Dec 11 2008 by Lucas Jensen
If you go to this site and give Parlaphone your… More »
Paul McCartney Is Being Very Charitable To Duffy
Mon Sep 22 2008 by Maura
Come November, the UK charity War Child will… More »
Hot Chip To Rock For Zune, Play iTunes Festival
Wed Apr 16 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Man, those Hot Chip guys sure love irony. They’re in the middle off a month-long tour promoting Zune (remember Zune?) that will take them to Coachella–and then they’re headed to Berlin to do their post-modern thing at the iTunes Festival! So whether you prefer AAC or WMA, you can easily get your hands on the best album of 2008. But which company does the band have more love for?
Would Rock Bands Be Better If They Had Their Own “Crank That”s?
Mon Feb 11 2008 by Jess Harvell
Soulja Boy! He’s popular. Well, he sells singles. Not so much albums. But a lot of singles! So many singles. And YouTube hits. He attracts the YouTube hits. All related to a dance. A dance you may have heard, seen, or tried to do yourself! You’d think at this point there’s not a single thing left to be said about Soulja Boy and the mini-trend of choreographed toe-tapping that he’s sparked among aspiring popular musicians, one that’s profitable for labels for the moment but not a particularly safe long term bet for reversing dipping sales. And you’d be right! Yet that fact has not stopped the Wall Street Journal from devoting many hundreds of words to recapping the tale of Soulja Boy. He’s divisive! He’s reopened the generation gap! He’s given MC Hammer a reason to go on! And yet despite its rehashery, the WSJ’s story does raise one important, semi-new, mostly implied question: Would rock bands be improved by their own dance routines? Is there room in indie for cranking that James Murphy?
Hot Chip Dance With The Devil By The Pale Bloglight
Thu Dec 6 2007 by jharv
I’m still not 100% sold on Hot Chip’s (a little too) winsomely goofy wuss disco despite the fact that the U.K. group has grown on me (a little), but any regular Idolator reader should know that I am all about the Pet Shop Boys and the 1989 Batman flick. More »
Leak Of The Day: Hot Chip Tickles The Ivories
Mon Apr 2 2007 by Brian Raftery
Hot Chip’s appropriately titled “My Piano” plinked onto the Internet over the weekend. It’s the first track to emerge from DJ-Kicks, the forthcoming !K7 compilation that finds the British electro-poppers compiling some of the favorite songs, including tracks from This Heat, Young Leek, and Joe… More »
