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Hot Chip Leave No Ass Unshaken

By Aisha Khan (CHARTattack) April 25, 2008 1:00 pm

If you frequently read music magazines, Hot Chip are one those bands who have become very hard to miss. When I recently stood in front of a magazine rack I saw the electro-punks on at least six covers. Hot Chip were in Toronto last week to support their latest album Made In The Dark and it was little wonder The Phoenix was packed to the rafters...

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Hot Chip — Made In The Dark

By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) February 5, 2008 2:57 pm

I used to think Hot Chip were one of the most overrated electronic acts of the past five years when The Warning hit dance floors and hipster headphones worldwide. It turns out their appeal, melodies and simplistic take on electro-pop had a lasting effect and the band have now established themselves as a smart, relevant and oftentimes...

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By Kevin Ritchie (CHARTattack) May 15, 2007 2:10 pm

Now that every musician is also a DJ, it's inevitable that every musician will do a DJ mix. Hot Chip's effort arrives on the prestigious DJ Kicks imprint, placing them alongside turntable tastemakers like Carl Craig, Chicken Lips and Tiga. Much like the band's gleefully scatterbrained pop, the emphasis in this mix is on "no format"...

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Hot Chip Suck Spontaneity Out Of Dance Party

By Leah Collins (CHARTattack) November 8, 2006 5:00 pm

Hot Chip describe their biggest club hit, "Over And Over," as a song about the joy of repetition. But that theme could have applied to any of the hooky dance-pop numbers during their Monday night set. It's a good kind of repetition, though — the kind you can hear in the dot-matrix disco beat of every Hot Chip song. And it was hypnotic...

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Hot Chip — The Warning

By David McDougall (CHARTattack) July 18, 2006 12:20 pm

Hot Chip's 2005 debut received attention mostly for the band's soft-spoken, Brit-accented, faux-gangsta rhymes (think The Streets on sedatives) laid out over simplistic beats. Basically, it was a novelty act. Speedy follow-up The Warning ditches the goofy fake hip-hop, for the most part, and shows a heck of a learning curve on the musical side....

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Hot Chip — Coming On Strong

By Caitlin Hotchkiss (CHARTattack) January 10, 2006 8:56 am

Hot Chip are an oddity. For one, they have song titles like "Crap Kraft Dinner" and "Hittin Skittles;" second, their music is all laid-back grooves and spacey trip-hop laptop effects; third, their name alone is pretty weird. Still, there's a skilled touch to their rhythms, with no sense of any rough edges or unplanned chaos....

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Video Of The Day: Shit Robot's "Losing My Patience"

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 26, 2011 3:37 pm

Shit Robot's clip for "Losing My Patience" was already hallucinogenic enough. But then Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor shows up on a TV, looking like some Big Brother talking head, sporting mind-warping glasses. The entire thing's enough to warp your mind, maaaaaaaaan."Losing My Patience" appears on From The Cradle To The Rave.

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I Read The News Today... For April 18, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 18, 2011 4:26 pm

The Trews, David Myles, Rose Cousins and Chris Colepaugh & The Crew were among the artists who won multiple East Coast Music Awards this weekend in Charlottetown. —ecma.ca Hey Rosetta!, In-Flight Safety and Glory Glory have been added to the lineup for this year's M Fest, which will take place at Halifax's Alderney Landing on Aug. 7. Broken...

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Song Of The Day: Shit Robot's "Losing My Patience" (Featuring Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor)

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 7, 2011 12:34 pm

Shit Robot recently opened for LCD Soundsystem at some of their last ever gigs in New York City. Now the Irish DJ whose real name is Marcus Lambkin is set to release a new single from last year's From The Cradle To The Rave album. "Losing My Patience" features the vocal talents of Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor, and it's coming out as a single on...

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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 15, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 15, 2010 3:03 pm

The Besnard Lakes, Misteur Valaire, Fred Fortin, Random Recipe, Poirier, We Are Wolves, Radio Radio, and Brains won GAMIQ Awards last night. Arkells, Karkwa, The Sadies, Radio Radio, Sarah Harmer, Aidan Knight, Silly Kissers, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, The Pack A.D. and Hollerado have made this year's CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards short list....

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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 6, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 6, 2010 1:13 pm

Regina Spektor's first ever live CD/DVD, Live In London, is out Nov. 22. —Warner Music CanadaGwar's Oderus Urungus will be the grand marshall for this year's Toronto Zombie Walk, which starts Oct. 23 at Trinity Bellwoods Park. The bar has now been set (and raised impossibly high) for costumes. —Metal BladeA bunch of angry Weezer fans are saying...

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