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Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem announce joint gigs

This is properly exciting news. You like Hot Chip? You like LCD Soundsystem? You should do because they’ve two of the best dance albums this year so far. Well, they’ve only just gone and announced two joint-headlining gigs this November! The bands will be performing at Alexandra Palace in London (the most hideously difficult venue [...]

Hot Chip – One Life Stand

Hot Chip have spent the last ten years of their career making music to get people moving on the dancefloor, but also injecting a heavy dose of soul into their electropop. With One Life Stand, the band have gone one better, adding aspects that remind you of 90s house (in a good way) and turning [...]

Albums to look out for in 2010

Happy new decade! The Musical Chairs is back, recharged and refreshed for 2010 with lots of exciting things to happen throughout the year. They’ll be known to year when the time is right but for today I want to focus on the albums that I’m looking forward to in 2010. Last year provided us with [...]

Hot Chip reveal One Life Stand tracklist

Following on from last weeks’ news that Hot Chip are to release their fourth album, One Life Stand, next February, the band have now put out a tracklisting for it. It features ten new songs, with the drumming of The Invisible’s Leo Taylor, plus Charles Hayward of ’70s prog-rockers This Heat. The running order is: [...]

Hot Chip to release One Life Stand in February

Hot Chip have announced the details of is fourth album release. One Life Stand will be released on the 8th February next year and is their follow up to the brilliant 2008 effort Made In The Dark. The album will again be released through Parlophone Records and the press release describes it as the band’s [...]