Red Hot, Pitchfork Crowdfund Arthur Russell Tribute Album
Red Hot, an advocacy group that “fights AIDS through popular culture,” is using the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to produce another in a line of great compilation albums. In 2009, the organization released the critically-acclaimed album, Dark Was the Night, which [...]
Tags: AIDS, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Russell, Blaine Skrainka, cut copy, Dark Was the Night, David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, Haight-Ashbury, HIV, Hot Chip, José González, music, New York City, Pitchfork, Red Hot, Robyn, San Fracisco, Sasha Frere-Jones, Scissor Sisters, The New Yorker, The Wild Magazine, Twin Shadow, Washed Out
Video Premiere – Hot Chip / Look at Where We Are
A Snow White supermodel given life by a lonely Victor Frankenstein character sets the stage for this disjointed plot line colored by abstract visuals. The modern lady-Prometheus is brought to Genesis with toy snake stuffing before – well maybe you [...]
Tags: Blaine Skrainka, Hot Chip, In Our Heads, Look at Where We Are, music, The Wild Magazine, Video Premieres
Hot Chip Spin Our Heads
Hot Chip have done it again. Today sees the release of the group’s fifth LP, cementing their place as a one of the most excellent, albeit underrated, bands of our generation. Straight away, as the intro track “Motion Sickness” fades [...]
Tags: Al Doyle, Alexis Taylor, DFA Records, Felix Martin, Hot Chip, In Our Heads, Joe Goddard, LCD Soundsystem, music, Owen Clarke, The Wild Magazine
The Strange and Futuristic World of Hot Chip
Good news everybody: the world is not going to end, for now at least. Recent news has circulated that the earliest known Mayan calendar was found in an ancient house in Guatemala, offering no hint about that much-hyped doomsday. While [...]
Tags: Diego Martinez, Hot Chip, Lara Stone, Mayan calendar, Night and Day, Peter Serafinowicz, Reggie Watts, Terence Stamp, The Wild Magazine, Yin-Yang
Press Pause Play: The Digital Revolution
This week saw the floatation of Facebook on the stock market after its owners placed a value of more than $100 billion on the social networking business. The historic debut meant over 1,000 investors in the site became instant millionaires [...]
Tags: ART, Bill Drummond, blogger, creative agency, Culture, debate, digital, documentary, Facebook, Film, Hot Chip, House of Radon, Joseph Johnson, MOBY, music, Myspace, photography, physical, Press Play Pause, Robyn, Social Media, Swedish, Technology, The Wild Magazine, Twitter, virtual, YouTube
MUSIC TO START THE WEEK WITH #026
Weather is still messing with our minds, people. NYC has not escaped yet out of this confusing ‘warm winter’ wave and with it, the affluence of early alergies affecting men and women of any age. All while a beeming sun [...]
Tags: Afrojack, Diego Martinez, Electric Guest, Fatility, Flutes, Frank Ocean, Good As New, Gossip, Hot Chip, Jimmy's Gang, Marina And The Diamonds, MUSIC TO START THE WEEK WITH, Novacane, Pale Blue Eyes, Parov Stelar, Perfect World, Primadonna, Stephanie Mills, The Velvet Underground, The Wild Magazine, This Head I Hold, Vacationer, WILD PLAYLIST, You Can't Run From My Love
REMIxx
Jamie Smith, a soft spoken young man from London, could easily disappear into a crowd at a local college pub. Clad in inconspicuous black hoodies and shaggy hair, the remix artist is anything but an average twenty two year old. [...]
Tags: Adele, Blaine Skrainka, Burial, Florence + the Machine, Four Tet, Gil Scott-Heron, Hot Chip, I'm New Here, Jamie xx, music, Remix, Rolling in the Deep, The Wild Magazine, The xx
