Clubs :: Feature 02 Dec 2008
Chris Duncan: The Dear Green Place sees its already busy club night calendar become positively rammed towards the end of December, with all manner of Christmas and New Year debauchery taking place across the city. In the seasonal spirit of goodwill, Chakra (11pm-3am...
Music :: Feature 28 Nov 2008
Johnny Lynch: Without even the faintest silhouette of a doubt, my top album of 2008 is Hot Chip's Made In The Dark. Sure, there's been some other great albums out this year but this is the one I keep going back to. There are times when I think it pretty much accomp...
Music :: Heads Up :: News 09 Sep 2008
Dave Kerr: Following the recent announcement of warm up gigs to be headlined by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy in mid-September, further details of The Tennent's Mutual's forthcoming 'Season One' live music programme have been revealed. Set to take place across ...
Music :: Feature 10 Jul 2008
Nick Mitchell: Magazine interviews with Hot Chip often begin with the writer grappling with the futile task of defining this most indefinable of bands. They will often indulge in a stream of made-up micro-genres: 'lo-fi disco', 'future-pop', 'Fisher Price funk', even...
Music :: Live Review 01 Apr 2008
Nick Mitchell: It's not hard to see why Hot Chip chose Matthew Dear as support for their UK tour. The synth-prodding, cowbell-clutching Texan, along with his buddies on guitar and drums, treads the same not-quite-dance, not-quite-indie path as tonight's headliners. B...
Records :: Album Review 05 Feb 2008
Nick Mitchell: Describe Hot Chip to an indifferent friend in as few words as you can and you'll struggle, because all the usual tick-box tags fade as sharply as a goldfish's attention span when faced with a band as wilfully divergent as this one. Their first album, 2...
Records :: Single Review 09 Aug 2007
Natalie Doyle: Darlings of the Mercury Music Prize, Hot Chop return with My Piano, the first single to be released since the band's million selling album The Warning. The song is taken from Hot Chip's compilation release on !K7 entitled DJ Kicks. The band are renown...
Records :: Album Review 10 Jun 2007
Lara Moloney: The first DJ Kicks album from Hot Chip eases you in with Grovesnor's Nitemoves, a soulful and sublime tune with a low beat tempo sliding into hip-hop classic I Got a Man, and soon jump-starts the belief that this is going to be oh so good! But the feel...
Records :: Single Review 16 May 2006
Dave Reid: Hot Chip's new single Boy from School is a fabulous slice of electro funk, which tells a tale of struggling to fit in. The infectious disco groove would be enough in itself to have you jigging about like a Morris dancer on May Day, but it is the alchem...
Records :: Album Review 16 May 2006
Andrew Monroe: In these post-everything, ProTools-enabled times, pastiche seems to be the order of the day. There aren't many bands out there, though, that can pull off the everything-at-once approach as beautifully, or as effortlessly, as Hot Chip do on their new LP...
