Hot Chip

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/6/13

Here's your carefully crafted guide to blowing your paycheck this week.

Daughter -- Bowery Ballroom -- April 30, 2013

Better Than: The last asshole who broke your heart. Elena Tonra stood sheepishly, having just returned to the stage of the Bowery Ballroom with the rest of her trio--the English indie folk band Daughter--for an encore. The previous hour was filled with her emotionally poignant and aggressive music, ... More >>

Little Boots

Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... More >>

Hot Chip - Roseland Ballroom - 4/9/13

Hot Chip Roseland Ballroom 4/9/13 Better Than: About 90% of whatever's usually going on at Roseland Ballroom. Like, what was the last show you've been to there? I've been to two in four years. In 2013, most people making dance music in the mainstream don't really look like Hot Chip. Avicii's blon ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/8/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

READY FOR THE FLOOR

London’s Hot Chip move 
up in New York

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 3/18/13

Here are the10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

Sibling Rivalry

Help Disclosure get the Music Hall of Williamsburg dancing

READY FOR THE FLOOR

Hot Chip comes to Terminal 5

Live: Kwes Steps Into The Spotlight At Cameo Gallery

Kwes w/CHLLNGR, Beacon Cameo Gallery Monday, March 19 Better than: A four-day SXSW hangover. Making the transition from remixer and producer to full-fledged solo artist usually takes a career worth of self-doubt, external prodding and personal development. Just a couple years after reaching promin ... More >>

Al Doyle Of Hot Chip And New Build Picks Three Noteworthy Spin-Offs

New Build will appeal to fans of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem, if only because it's made up of members of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. The trio—which will expand to a seven-piece (!!!) live band for its two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge on Tuesday and Wednesday—counts among its membe ... More >>

Live: Theophilus London Performs A Wedding Onstage At New Astor Place Joint Dominion NY

"Kiss the fuckin' bride, man!" Pics by Chris.​Theophilus London/DJ Complex Dominion NY Tuesday, January 25 Better Than: A regular Tuesday night elsewhere. Not enough new venues are opening up in New York these days, so tonight's grand opening of Dominion NY near Astor Place is a happening, a ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Stats II: Calculating Enthuasiasm, Hipness, Metalism, And, Uh, Kvltosis

Time to learn about this album​Pazz & Jop's album chart is officially ranked by points: Each voter has 100 to hand out, with no album receiving more than 30 or less than 5. There are, of course, a bunch of ways to turn that mass of music data into revealing lists. Here are four of them.

Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys

​"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>

Hot Chip+Hercules & Love Affair

Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg

Norman Wong​Take a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

Gang Gang Dance

THIEVES IN THE NIGHT

Hot Chip leave the lasers at home

LIAR, LIAR

Liars and Fol Chen in NYC

Lollapalooza Lineup Announced in Full

​Featuring the odd return of 1995, in the persons of Soundgarden and Green Day, modern arena-rock surrogates the Strokes, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Phoenix, the National, and the Black Keys, and who else but Lady Gaga? Music is a befuddling tapestry in which Cypress Hill will always have a home. Comp ... More >>

Tonight! Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Holiday Shores, Japandroids, Best Coast, Golden Girls, Soft Pack, Calvin Harris, And The Walkmen

After a bold display of self-sexing irony (he recently covered a Hot Chip song and renamed it "I Feel Bonnie"), woodsy folksman Bonnie "Prince" Billy is hitting Monster Island for two shows in one night. Catch the late show at 10:15 to make room for the prickly, reverb-soaked dance ditties of Holi ... More >>

CHICK FACTOR

The guys of Girls play with actual girls

Hot Chip Finally Reveal That They Are, In Fact, A Boy Band

Oh, hey, look, Hot Chip outed themselves as a boy band. The video for their new single, "I Feel Better," stars the infinitely more macho Kyng, Mar'Vaine, Octavian, and Popeye, all of whom, based solely on spelling, have better names than yours and dance moves straight from the Backstreet Boys, cir ... More >>

Little Boots

Week in Review: Fist Fight in the Parking Lot

In the week a chipped tooth kept Lil Wayne out of jail and a secretive, proprietary Billboard chart made a success out of his new, abysmal Rebirth, we pulled our Paul Wall grills out of the closet, just in case. You never know when your hood pass might get pulled, you know? Care for a Sightings p ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Former NYFD Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta was deeply involved in the Deutsche Bank debacle that cost two firefighters their lives. Now a change has come: Salvatore Cassano is commissioner. And he, says Wayne Barrett, is even more deeply involved. The posters for Gary Marshall's new film ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Yeasayer, Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Hot Chip, Speak Onion, and More

Yeasayer' Chris Keating, looking sharp. Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla recounts the charms of Odd Blood, Yeasayer's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party, Stacey Anderson watches Obama's State of the Union with Gil Scott-Heron, Drew Hinshaw on the retu ... More >>

Q&A: Hot Chip on One Life Stand, Recording With Peter Gabriel, and How Kebab Fat Ruined Their Studio

Ever since Hot Chip got home from its seemingly never-ending world tours in support of Made in the Dark, the English quintet has been laying groundwork for their next five years. Guitarist Al Doyle and synth player Felix Martin built their own recording studio. Vocalist and synth player Joe Goddar ... More >>

Hot Chip Love You Back

Sweet nothings and Xbox shout-outs lively up One Life Stand

Hot Chip And Free Energy Are Doing A Free Show At Highline Ballroom Friday Night

​Courtesy of MySpace, but of course. Free Energy are SOTC-approved party-starters ("The most fun I'll see a room have all week," Zach once averred, and that was CMJ week, and Hot Chip's imminent One Night Stand is reliably excellent "Flight of the Conchords but (kind of) serious" electro-pop. ... More >>

Lissy Trullie

Micachu & the Shapes

PARTY ANIMALS

DJs roam free at the Electric Zoo

C'mon, Flight of the Conchords, There's Still Time to Salvage This

The highlight of the new Flight of the Conchords season thus far, provided above, is a song about their testicles, i.e. "Sugar Lumps," which is both the good and the bad news. (The Voice food brigade is enraptured with this clip as well.) I will admit to liking this a lot more than I feel that I ... More >>

Lissy Trullie EP Gets A Release Date

After playing the same lovely set of songs at a various spots in downtown NYC for the last handful of years, sometime-model and fashion plate Lissy Trullie finally has a record label, a studio EP, and a release date. Her Self-Taught Learner, named for the dreamily calm track that remains her best ... More >>

Live: Hot Chip at Terminal 5

The Quarterly Report: Best Albums of 2008 Thus Far

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks' Real Emotional Trash

Yet more mellow gold

Sensitive-Whiteboy Robo-Soul Will Own 2008

Full Nelson, Half Nelson, Willie Nelson

On the warm, wobbly, witty charms of Hot Chip

Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 18 & 19

The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Singles

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 17

Breihan vs. Harvilla: Does Indie-Rock Need Rhythm?

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 6

Live: Hot Chip's Robo-Soul Delirium

Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2006

Arty Electro White Boys Redefine "Safe Sex"