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Hot Chip
One Life Stand new album 1 February 2010
Hot Chip return with a considered ten track electro pop masterpiece. 'One Life Stand' has ten individually charactered tracks not least the floorfilling title track. Since 'Over & Over' first captured dancefloors and Hot Chip created a demand for their re-mixing abilities they've developed into the direct descendents of eighties electro masters Erasure. Top album .. top ten for months.

Here's the 'One Life Stand' tracklisting:- 1 Thieves in the Night 2 Hand Me Down Your Love 3 I Feel Better 4 One Life Stand 5 Brothers 6 Slush 7 Alley Cats 8 We Have Love 9 Keep Quiet 10 Take It In

Hot Chip Tour Dates
Glasgow - Academy - Fri 12 February
Edinburgh - Picture House - Sat 13 February
Nottingham - Rock City - Mon 15 February
Leeds - Academy - Tues 16 February
Newcastle - 02 Academy - Thurs 18 February
Manchester - Academy - Fri 19 February
Birmingham - 02 Academy - Sat 20 February
Bournemouth - 02 Academy - Mon 22 February
Bristol - 02 Academy - Tue 23 February
Norwich - 02 Academy - Weds 24 February
London - 02 Brixton Academy - Fri 26 February
London - 02 Brixton Academy - Sat 27 February
HOLLAND (AMSTERDAM) - Five Days Off Festival - Saturday 6th March
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) - AB Club - Sun 7th March
PARIS (FRANCE) - Bataclan - Monday 8th March
COLOGNE (GERMANY) - Live Music Hall - Wednesday 10th March
HAMBURG (GERMANY) - Uebel & Gefaehrlich - Thursday 11th March
BERLIN (GERMANY) - Astra - Friday 12th March
FRANKFURT (GERMANY) - Mousonturm - Sunday 14th March
LYON (FRANCE) - Le Ninkasi Kao - Monday 15th March
TOULOUSE (FRANCE) - Bikini - Tuesday 16th March
MILAN (ITALY) - Magazzini Generali - Thursday 18th March
OAKLAND, CA (uSA) -Fox Theatre- 16th April
CHICAGO, IL (USA) - Riviera Theatre - 19th April
TORONTO (CANADA) - Koolhaus - 20th April
NEW YORK (USA) - Terminal 5 - 22nd April
WASHINGTON DC (USA) - 9:30 Club - 24th April

Gaggle
I Hear Flies new single 8 March 2010
This is a quite bizarre sonic experience which must be somewhat accurately descriptive of the bulk of weekend revellers "GAGGLE – the 20 strong all female choir - release their debut single ‘I Hear Flies’ on March 8th through Transgressive Records. Led by Deborah Coughlin, the girls unleash chaotic chants of “I’m a Drunk” over dark, dubby beats. Backed by the equally arresting ‘I Like Cigarettes’, GAGGLE have brought us the first truly original single of 2010." So different this could catch on big.

These New Puritans
We Want War new single 18 January 2010
Here's 'We Want War', a seven minute declaration from These New Puritans marking the first next step since ‘Beat Pyramid’ infiltrated the minds and hearts of people yearning to find a band who would 'challenge, perplex and mesmerise in equal measure'. More subtle than Arcade Fire and produced by These New Puritans's Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis, Boymerang) and mixed by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, MF DOOM) their new album 'Hidden' draws equally on on the rhythmic lexicons of dancehall and 20th century post-minimalism, with instrumentation redolent of both the oceanic brass of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and the plastic textures of modern U.S. pop. It is sometimes brutal, sometimes melancholy, and sounds like nothing else. 'Hidden' features six-foot Japanese Taiko drums, a thirteen piece brass and woodwind ensemble, sub-heavy beats, prepared piano, a children's choir, Foley recording techniques (including a melon with cream crackers attached struck by a hammer, used to simulate the sound of a human head being smashed), and the ethereal voice of Heather Marlatt from dream-pop group Salem.
Live dates:
1/2 Brighton Audio
2/2 Birmingham Hare and Hounds
3/2 Manchester Deaf Institute
4/2 Glasgow Captains Rest
5/2 Newcastle Jukebox
6/2 Leeds Brudnell Social Club

This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 24 Jan 10 Owl City does the Transatlantic double topping the UK Top 40 as he did America's Hot 100 last November, and it's good to see 'Fireflies' a good old fashioned pop song at the pinnacle. Florence & The Machine's 'Lungs' tops the UK Album Chart while Ke$ha gets a fourth week on top of the US Hot 100. New entries from Example, Girls Can't Catch, Jay Sean, Pitbull and another comedy nugget from the Glee Cast, the Rihanna song 'Take A Bow'. 5 new entries - 9 up, 24 down, 2 non-movers This Week ... Last Wk ... Wks In ... Artist ... Title ... Origin 1 2 2 OWL CITY Fireflies US 2 1 3 IYAZ Replay US 3 5 2 GLEE CAST Don' Stop Believing US 4 4 5 3OH!3 & KATY PERRY Starstrukk US 5 3 3 SIDNEY SAMSON Riverside NE 6 new EXAMPLE Won't Go Quietly UK 7 6 9 JOURNEY Don't Stop Believing US 8 10 6 ALEXANDRA BURKE Broken Heels UK 9 7 13 LADY GAGA Bad Romance US 10 32 2 JLS One Shot US   11 14 7 SATURDAYS Ego UK 12 11 3 JUSTIN BIEBER One Time US 13 13 8 JAY-Z & Mr HUDSON Young Forever US / UK 14 12 12 KE$HA Tik Tok US 15 23 3 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US 16 15 8 N-DUBZ & Mr HUDSON Playing With Fire UK 17 8 13 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE You've Got The Love UK 18 9 2 PLAN B Stay Too Long UK 19 new GIRLS CAN'T CATCH Echo UK 20 38 2 BIFFY CLYRO Many Of Horror UK   21 20 19 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind US 22 16 9 CHIPMUNK & TALAY RILEY Look For Me UK 23 new JAY SEAN, SEAN PAUL, LIL JOHN Do You Remember UK / US 24 17 16 BLACK EYED PEAS Meet Me Halfway US 25 19 9 RIHANNA Russian Roulette US 26 30 2 ONE REPUBLIC All The Right Moves US 27 29 11 PIXIE LOTT Cry Me Out UK 28 21 8 TIMBALAND & NELLY FURTADO Morning US / Canada 29 18 11 CHERYL COLE & WILL I AM Three Words UK / US 30 22 10 JASON DeRULO Whatcha Say US   31 28 29 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling US 32 27 8 8 ALICIA KEYS Doesn't Mean Anything US 33 24 3 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over UK 34 26 4 WILEY & CHEW FU Take That UK 35 34 15 ALEXANDRA BURKE Bad Boys UK 36 new GLEE CAST Take A Bow US 37 33 14 CHERYL COLE Fight For This Love UK 38 25 6 JOE McELDERRY The Climb UK 39 31 11 ROBBIE WILLIAMS You Know Me UK 40 new PITBULL Shut It Down US America's Hot 100 This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title 1 1 15 KE$HA Tik Tok 2 2 12 LADY GAGA Bad Romance 3 3 19 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind 4 8 8 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD BedRock 5 4 22 IYAZ Replay 6 6 24 DAVID GUETTA & AKON Sexy Chick 7 23 16 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister 8 9 9 RIHANNA Hard 9 5 23 OWL CITY Fireflies 10 14 6 LUDACRIS How Low

Posted Sunday 17 January 2010 Hot Chip are back with an excellent new album to be released on Monday 1st February 2010. The superbly titled 'One Life Stand' is packed full of electro nuggets and the title track will be available as a single a week earlier. We'll be helping launch the album at Ten Feet Tall on Saturday 30th January so if you're a Hot Chip fan come on down, we may have some freebies for ya... Here's the 'One Life Stand' tracklisting:- 1 Thieves in the Night 2 Hand Me Down Your Love 3 I Feel Better 4 One Life Stand 5 Brothers 6 Slush 7 Alley Cats 8 We Have Love 9 Keep Quiet 10 Take It In. Pix A Lot Posted Sunday 24 January 2010 Ta to James Da Kemist on da pix again ...