Tag Archives: Hot Chip
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Portola Festival: Eric Prydz and Nelly Furtado star on day 1
Nelly Furtado performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sept. 30, 2023. Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Portola Festival returned to Pier 80 near the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood on Saturday. The two-day fest included headliner Eric Prydz on the first day, along with pop singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado and…
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Rachel Goodman’s 30 best alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2022
Rachel Goodman’s top alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2022. L to R; Row 1: Fontaines D.C., Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Julia Jacklin, GIFT, The Linda Lindas. Row 2: Automatic, The Eaves, The National Parks, Ron Gallo, Love’n’Joy, Blitz Vega. Row 3: Bellows, Heart Racer, Oliver Marson, CVC, The Steens,…
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Tuesday Tracks: New music discovery – Sept. 6
Fujiya & Miyagi, courtesy. I was clearly in a cinematic mood this week. Unloved has the soundtrack of our lives, while Tim Sheinman has the perfect soundscape of a song. Tripping Jupiter literally created a film in its video with a story of a song. And of course, we…
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Rachel Goodman’s top 30 alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2020
Rachel Goodman’s top alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2020. L to R; Row 1: Tame Impala, Caribou, Washed Out, Trace Mountains, The Big Moon, Future Islands. Row 2: Strfkr, Surfer Blood, Surf Rock Is Dead, Of Montreal, Hazel English, Suburban Living. Row 3: Jack River, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever,…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip updates Britpop with Beautiful Thing
Hot Chip member Alexis Taylor stretches his instrumental stylings across indietronica through that band and his improvisational rock through About Group. But with his new solo album, Beautiful Thing, Taylor makes quite the impression in the synth-pop space. Beautiful Thing Alexis Taylor April 20 Beautiful Thing opens with a song that pays homage to Phil…
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs to headline TX’s Sound on Sound Fest
A year after organizers connected rock and Renaissance, Sound on Sound Fest will return to Sherwood Forest, just east of Austin, Texas. The second-annual event is scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 10-12. Coming off a four-year hiatus of touring and recording, NYC indie rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs will…
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Q&A: Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard grows as a songwriter on solo record
When Joe Goddard hits the stage at Public Works next week, Hot Chip fans can expect a wholly different show. The band’s longtime frontman just released his solo album, Electric Lines, which we called “dance music from his heart.” As high energy as ever, Goddard’s solo show focuses more on…
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Quick Takes: Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard makes dance music from his heart with Electric Lines
Joe Goddard created a solo album to express everything he couldn’t with Hot Chip. Every emotion, every risk and every last drop of musical talent in Goddard’s bones has been poured into this album and the finished product is nothing short of incredible. With Electric Lines, Goddard creates a…
